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Emotive Communications Acquired By Zad Mobile

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Los Angeles-based Emotive Communications , a venture backed provider of ringtone and mobile music products, was acquired last week by Zad Mobile. Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Emotive was venture backed by Mayfield, D.

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Arvato Digital Services Acquires Protexis

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Valencia-based Arvato Digital Services , a provider of supply chain, post production, replication, and software distribution services, said this morning it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Protexis, a provider of digital software distribution tools. Arvato is a division of Bertelsmann AG.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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Emotive Gets $6.25M, Buys Sennari

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Los Angeles-based Emotive Communications, which is developing ringtone-based, entertainment products for the mobile market, said today that it has scored $6.25M in a second round of venture financing. Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Financial terms of the acquisition of Sennari were not disclosed.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 According to CEO Eric M. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. That led me to a venture capital firm, Bertelsmann Ventures. Investment banking was a great training ground.

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