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Gravity Gets $10.6M More For Real Time Personalization

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The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages. READ MORE>>.

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SocialVibe Ties Into Facebook Credits

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Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the social advertising firm headed by Jay Samit, said Thursday afternoon that it has linked into the Facebook platform, and will allow people to earn Facebook Credits through engaging with its video engagements. READ MORE>>.

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SVnetwork Reaches 30 Million Users On SocialVibe via Causes

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Los Angeles-based SVnetwork said today that it now has over 30 million monthly users using its cause-marketing platform SocialVibe, via its partnership with the Causes.com web page and Facebook app. SVnetwork is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents.

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

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Goko is backed by Redpoint Ventures and Aslop Louie Partners from whom it raised raised $8m in Series A funding. It has an SDK for developers to create, distribute and monetize HTML5 social games across iOS, Android, Facebook, Google+ and Windows 8 and the web. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Time will tell.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1.

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