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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 -- Silicon Beach Networking Mixer At Prince O' Whales. Our networking events attract professionals from entertainment, tech, social media, fashion, and marketing and we're quite popular with influencers as well. aff=socaltech.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which owns a vast range of cloud-based businesses, including eFax, OneVoice, FuseMail, and many other services, along with digital media properties such as PCMagazine, IGN, AskMen, Everyday Health, and many other sites, has just passed up $1 billion in revenues. million in 2017, which was an increase of 27.9%

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. Viant got its start as Specific Media. The company's long history--it was founded in 1999--includes the acquisition of MySpace in 2011, a 60% acquisition by Time Inc. Viant is 60% owned by Four Brothers 2 LLC, which is split evenly between Tim, Chris, and Russ Vanderhook.

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APRIL 11, 2018

percent from Q1 of 2017. The most active area for LA area seed investments was in media, entertainment, and gaming, with software-as-a-service businesses also bringing in significant seed funding. According to the report from Amplify, 23 LA startups raised a total of $52.9M in seed funding in Q1, which was up 2.5

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

West Hollywood-based LiveXLive Media , the parent company of Slacker and provider of digital media services focused on live entertainment, said today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival. Financial details of the win were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. This is a trend from 2016 that should gain momentum in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

percent increase in its revenues between Q2 of 2017 and Q2 of 2018 in its quarterly results on Thursday afternoon. j2 Global is Southern California's most acquisitive company in the technology area, and has been gobbling up small online services, digital media outlets, and other companies since inception. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2018

West Hollywood-based LiveXLive Media , the parent firm of online radio streaming service Slacker Radio , says that Slacker has launched its own Amazon Alexa "Skill" to enable voice control of its streaming music services. LiveXLive acquired Slacker back in September of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Tell us about Render Media? Demand Media made a business out of that.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Triton Digital says it has been integrated with and has been re-selling Omny Studio's software since 2017. Omny Studio's customers include Cumulus Media, Entercom, Mediacorp, Southern Cross Austereo, Corus Entertainment, Mashable, Arabian Radio Network, Mamamia, along with others. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2017

Leaf Group disclosed the sale in its first quarter 2017 results, where it reported a net loss of $10.0M Leaf Group was formerly known as Demand Media. Leaf Group said it paid $12.0M for Deny Designs, split between $6.7M in cash plus approximately 215,000 shares of its common stock. Deny Designs was based in Denver, Colorado.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

MediaAlpha said the value of media transacted through its platforms in 2017 was worth $250M. Goldsmith was previously a Sales Director at KAYAK. MediaAlpha said Goldsmith will lead its travel industry initiatives across Europe. MediaAlpha's co-founder and CEO is Steve Yi. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which is using computer vision in the programmatic advertising market, sports, and social media, said today that it has just passed up the $100M in revenues mark. GumGum said its revenues in 2016 were $72M, and it expects to have revenues of nearly $110M in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2019

Bellco's founders previously founded Kite Pharma (acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2017, for $11.9 billion) and Allogene Therapeutics (IPO in 2018); Belco says it has also made investments in Agensys, ByHeart, Cell Design Labs, Cougar Biotechnology, First Media, Hubble, Kronos Bio, Neogene and UroGen Pharma. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global acquired four more companies in Q4 of 2017, adding to a very long list of acquisition, the company said today. According to j2 Global, it acquired four, digital media companies-- Humble Bundle , blackfriday.com , Health eCareers , and Mashable --all in Q4.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

Los Angeles-based Internet services and digital media giant j2 Global has acquired two more companies, but in an interesting shift, also said it has divested three companies from its portfolio. Financial details of the acquisitions and sales were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which provides both a suite of Internet services and runs an extensive digital media and content publishing business, has made five more acquisitions, the company said today. The company said it completed five acquisition in the first quarter of 2017 across three of its business units.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

According to Fandango, the move will happen sometime in mid-2017, with the company occupying the top two floors of the four story building at 407 Maple Drive. The new office was previously occupied by Fox Interactive Media. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2017

According to Zynga, it has provided a "substantial gift" to USC's School of Cinematic ARts' Interactive Media & Games Division, to support diversity, inclusive game production, and the creation of "innovative social mobile gameplay."

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AUGUST 10, 2016

According to Disney, it will pay $1 billion in two installments, now and in January 2017, for its stake in BAMTech, which is being carved out of MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM). According to Disney, it has the option to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech in the coming years.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. The company's long history--it was founded in 1999--includes the acquisition of MySpace in 2011, a 60% acquisition by Time Inc. The company's stock jumped all the way to $47.72

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pasadena-based Like Pizza , founded by veterans of Disney Mobile and THQ Wireless, says it has launched a new digital media studio, which it says will combine games and serialized animation into mobile apps. The startup, led by Jeff Nuzzi and Bob Spang, said it hopes to ship its first mobile app, Bunny Rappid, in 2017.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Techstars Healthcare in partnership with Cedars-Sinai invested in 11 startups over the summer and will run its second program in January 2017, and this fall we announced Techstars Music and the horizontally-focused Techstars LA, both of which will begin in 2017. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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MARCH 22, 2019

million subscribers to online video services around the world, a 27 percent increase from 2017. The number of subscribers to online video services have just passed up that of traditional cable, according to an MPAA report today, which said in 2018 that there were 613.3 The report says that surpasses the 556.0

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MARCH 7, 2019

The lawsuits come several years after DivX was acquired by NeuLion, in 2017. The two patent infringement lawsuits are DIVX, LLC v. Netflix (court case number 2:2019-cv-01602) and DIVX, LLC et al (court case number 2:2019-cv-01606). DivX has been mostly dormant since that acquisition in terms of product and company announcements.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. Venice-based Snap Inc. announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. According to Snap, it now had daily active users (DAUs) of 173 million in Q2.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Snap said its daily active users (DAUs) grew to 178 million in Q3 of 2017, a 3 percent increase quarter-over-quarter. For the nine month period ending September 30th, SNAP had a loss of $3.095 billion on revenues of $539.2M, including $2.5 billion in stock-based compensation expenses.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

ConsumerTrack did not detail how large the new space is or where it is moving in El Segundo, but did say it expects to accelerating its hiring in 2017 to help support growth. ConsumerTrack says its customer include such companies Fidelity, Transunion, Chase Bank, and many other financial institutions. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life. It turned out that media, entertainment, and digital media is a very good place to be.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Icon Media Direct described how it helped TrueCar use TV ads plus digital to reach mainstream audiences and increase revenue. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? The fest has grown with the community. Luckily got a selfie with Princess Leia :). READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Today's contribution is from Brad Brooks , the co-founder and CEO of TigerText , which provides clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry, and also co-founder of anonymous social media app Whisper. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? Scott Alderton: Despite how much I love my Echo, and think voice activated assistants will be huge, I think 2017 will be the year for Virtual and Augmented Reality. If you don't have one, get it, and dive in! READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2017

There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out. I think we'll see a big increase in IPOs in 2017, but I think there will be, more dramatically, a big pickup in M&A.

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