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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Media relationships. Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him? I’ve known Hamet for 5 years.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. Surprisingly, Media and Entertainment only saw $18.1M do not expect venture funding to dry up.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Emotive had raised over $13.95M in funding, and had itself acquired venture-backed Sennari Entertainment, a developer of loyalty programs for the mobile market, in 2008. Emotive was venture backed by Mayfield, D.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. So I think it’s now fair to rate me at 9/10 on follow-on fundings. 5 years ago.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Wall Street investors, traders, financial media, and others use StockTwits to share insights and banter about investment picks.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Thing Labs was foundedin June of 2008, with funding from Jones, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and Jeff Clavier. It has been a very acquisitive day for AOL, which announced--in addition to buying Thing Labs--that it has acquired tech blog network TechCrunch, and video content syndication firm 5min Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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MAY 19, 2009

The angel investing group said the $100M was invested in more than 150 California-based companies, and included firms in the life sciences, software, Internet, biotechnology, media, business services, and consumer products areas.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands. Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 -- VC OUTLOOK '09: If You Need Funding, You're F%#$*d.Or DealMaker Media. VCs don't invest in trends they invest in passionate entrepreneurs. We're all inundated with news on how the economic crisis may affect the technology sector and bring venture capital to a screeching halt.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion and 407 deals in 2008.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. They reminded me that the market is now higher than 2008 when it crashed (note: it’s also higher than it was in 1968, 1988 and 2003 – all of these are irrelevant). It was a nerve racking morning.

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MAY 24, 2011

Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams. It's just grown on its own.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products As an investor, managed personal investment fund, Chance Technologies (1995 to Present), served as an advisor to Accel Partners (2006 to Present), served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies (1998 to 2000), (..)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels. What is PromoJam?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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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. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. the funding and market coverage. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. LivingSocial.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to the latest news from the company, ResearchGate has acquired Germany based Scholarz.net , an academic and reference management, knowledge management network founded in 2008 by economist and political scientist Dr. Daniel Koch and media technologist Marc Willwacher. Scholarz.net now becomes part of ReseachGate.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Everyone knows this.

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APRIL 20, 2009

PwC found the largest funding deals were for San Diego's Mpex Pharmaceuticals, with $27.5M The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. in deals from Q1 of 2008. PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA also broke out local numbers, finding that Southern California saw nearly $295.2M in 67 deals.

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JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company. total funding $1.7 million) TechCrunch.

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JULY 24, 2012

When I first arrived in LA my good friend Matt Pillar (a long-term veteran of tech, media & VC) who had been in LA for some time told me, “in LA there’s none better than David.” I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. He was the guy I wanted but couldn’t afford.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) Yes, the VC industry was over funded and too many non value-add people entered the industry.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. Omniture acquired San Diego-based WebSideStory in 2008 (after the company had rebranded itself as Visual Sciences), and Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE ) acquired Omniture in 2009.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Once a campaign has been created, there's some level of marketing and call to action, which can be through traditional media, or the web. I have two successful exits, mostly in mobile and teh web, as well as social media. I spent the last year at a venture capital fund, helping people to prepare broken businesses.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. How is the company funded? Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. Mobile Media Ventures is part of a larger investment company, which has the core of their investing in the energy market.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The media attention surrounding the allegedly naughty lyrics caused millions of teenagers to seek out the record. Authentic) Better Funded Competitor Lost - Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded and released Louie, Louie within days of the Kingsmen. Lean startups often need to ignore the wisdom of industry experts.

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