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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

San Diego-based venture capital investor Mission Ventures has re-upped its investment in San Francisco-based Alpine Data Labs , a developer of Hadoop software for the big data market. Alpine Data Labs'' was founded by the founders of Greenplum (Metapa), which had been backed by Mission Ventures and originally been based in Sherman Oaks.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Sherman Oaks-based Ebyline , a startup developing an online marketplace to connect professional journalists with online publishers, has raised $5.0M in a new equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, a single investor participated in the funding.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

According to reports today, Amazon is looking to ramp its efforts in Los Angeles to develop original programming through its Amazon Studios initiatives. According to reports , and are expected to generate content for both online and traditional distribution. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2010

Greenplum , a software firm developing database clustering software used for the data warehousing business, has been acquired by EMC. The acquisition is the end of a long road for Greenplum--originally based in Sherman Oaks--and its investors, which includes San Diego's Mission Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The firms were ranked by how fundable they are, with the top 20 appearing to have a better shot at raising capital after interviews with Forbes.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Channel M is a producer of content for in-store TV networks; PlayNetwork is a developer and distributor of entertainment to retails. The firm will continue to maintain offices in Sherman Oaks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Sherman Oaks-based GoTV Networks, a venture-backed developer of mobile new media, said this week that it has inked three partnerships with mobile advertising firms. According to GoTV Networks, it has teamed with Millennial Media, digital SIDEBAR and Ad Infuse to provide mobile ads alongside its content. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Sherman Oaks-based GoTV Networks , which develops original programming for the mobile market, said today that the firm has launched a number of music channels on the T-Mobile G1 handset.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian is CEO and founder of Sherman Oaks-based Scour (www.scour.com), a meta-search engine which adds social features such as voting and comments to Internet search. Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan.

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