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JANUARY 13, 2015

Chill was founded by Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, and was venture backed by William Morris Endeavor (WME), Kleiner, 500 Startups, Redpoint Ventures, Crunchfund, Science Media, Troy Carter and Atlas Venture. Norgard and Gould rejoin Sean Rad, who the two had worked with on founding Ad.ly back in 2009.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based Chill , the social video sharing and chat site led by Brian Norgard, has raised another $8M in funding, the firm said today. The firm's other investors include Troy Carter, 500 Startups, Science Media, CrunchFund, Mike Jones and Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , which develops charity-focused, brand web sites and social media applications, said this morning that it has launched a new effort to help charities raise money on Halloween. SocialVibe is backed by Redpoint Ventures and JAFCO Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

SVnetwork operates a brand advertising network, with its core site being SocialVibe, an online site which allows consumers to support their favorite charities by viewing sponsored brand messages. SVnetwork is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures. The company is headed by Jay Samit.

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MARCH 4, 2011

CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. Clicker was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO, Redpoint Ventures, and Blake Krikorian, and had raised around $21M in funding.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , a provider of an online programming guide to Internet television, said today that it is publicly launching its site, Clicker.com today. The firm's site had not yet gone live as of the announcement. Clicker.com is headed by Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask.com.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the online video guide service funded by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said that it has linked with the University of California, Los Angeles, with a branded version of the service specifically for UCLA students.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. Was Fouad with Redpoint at the time?

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding, for the firm's social media and brand charity site. According to the firm, the funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included Series A investor Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Hollywood-based Buzznet, an online site focused on entertainment and pop culture, has linked up with entertainment site The Superficial, the firm said today. Buzznet said that The Superficial will become part of Celebuzz.com, the firm's entertainment focused and social media website. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the firm developing online video programming guides for the Internet, said today that it has raised $11M more in a Series B investment round. The new funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Series A funding round, in September.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie. corp.mail.com). Did we miss your favorite, Southern California blog empire?

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MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , which operates a network of web sites focused on celebrities and pop culture, announced this morning that it has raised $12.5M and will rename itself Buzz Media. Buzz Media said it now has more than 40 million people visiting its web sites every month. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

Hollywood-based Buzznet, an online social media and networking site focused on music, said Wednesday that it has hired two editors to bolster its music editorial team. Leeds will head up expansion of Buzznet's editorial efforts, providing original news, commentary, and photos; Simon will work on day-to-day editorial for the site.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , the venture-backed operator of a network of entertainment-focused social media sites, is making the rounds with a new feature on its Celebuzz celebrity web site this week. The firm rolled out a "zoom" feature that allows users on the site to magnify celebrity photos on the site.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Buzznet operates an online social networking and social media site focused on music and bands, and is backed by Anthem Ventures, Interscope, Redpoint Ventures, and others. According to the publication, citing a representative of the firm, Buzznet has eliminated 10 employees, from a total of 89 staff.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Topspin is looking to combine features to help artists combine marketing, asset management, distribution, and lots of tools for creating widgets, connect with e-commerce sites like YouTube, Amazon, and iLike, as well as analytics behind those tools. Tags: marketing content topspin artists sxsw music media. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Topspin is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? They're still important, but they're decreasing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference). David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The firm was was formerly known as SocialVibe, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures. But, as we see across the Internet, there are other motivations besides charity, and people who we can reach using network on social media. What social media sites do you connect with? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. The conversion rates go up, when e-commerce sites deploy instant search.

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MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). Time will tell. Go Boulder!

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . OTHER DEALS.

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