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JULY 8, 2013

West Hollywood-based 12Society , which operated a subscription-based, celebrity-driven gift delivery service, has been acquired by fellow Los Angeles gift subscription firm Quarterly. Quarterly is venture backed by Collaborative Fund, Initialized Capital, SV Angel, and True Ventures. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.

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APRIL 4, 2013

HYFN was advised by Angeles Capital Group''s Peter Cowen and Andrew Williamson in the deal. hyfn lintv merger acquisition media digital agency television content hollywood' HYFN was founded in 2000, and was part of Facebook''s Preferred Marketing Developer Program. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based investment banking firm Siemer & Associates , which has focused on the technology and media sector, has been acquired by Chinese investor CEC Capital Group. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. CEC said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Siemer & Associates.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. M&A Discussion. OTHER STUFF.

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MARCH 11, 2015

GoDigital said that Cinq Music will use the funding to finance catalog acquisition, for advances to artists, and accelerate development of its cloud-based technology. cinqmusic venture capital content hollywood streaming distribution godigital' Size of the funding was not disclosed. Cinq Music is led by Barry Daffurn.

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APRIL 9, 2010

RealD is backed by Shamrock Capital, which owns about 14.8 Tags: reald merger acquisition content movie hollywood. percent of the firm. Co-founders Michael Lewis and Joshua Greer also each own about 14.7 According to the filing, RealD had a net loss of $20.3M on revenues of $95.95M for the nine months ended December 25, 2009.

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JULY 15, 2010

William Blair & Company, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and BMO Capital Markets Corp. RealD is backed by Shamrock Capital, which owns about 14.8 Tags: reald merger acquisition content movie hollywood. Morgan Securities, Piper Jaffray & Co., percent of the firm. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2019

According to Vobile, it will open up a new office in Los Angeles as a result of the acquisition, with approximately 100 employees. Venture Partners, MK Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners. Vobile said ZEFR's businesses produced over $40M in recurring, profitable revenue in 2018.

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JUNE 29, 2010

and the firm's major backer is Shamrock Capital. Tags: reald movie merger acquisition theater hollywood content. RealD, which is looking to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange as RLD, said it will offer 10.75M shares of its common stock in its offering, which would raise up to $161M in the IPO for the firm and its shareholders.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

According to Viacom, the acquisition will help it with "key strategic priorities", including expanding its presence across next-generation distribution platforms and growing its advanced advertising business. Viacom said that Pluto TV has more than 12 million monthly active users, with about 7.5 million of those using connected TVs.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. As part of the acquisition, Vessel said it will be shutting down the Vessel service on October 31st. Vessel had raised more than $130M in funding from such investors as Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bezos Expeditions. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Stifel Nicolaus Weisel and BMO Capital Markets Corp. Tags: reald merger acquisition movie projection hollywood content. Morgan Securities LLC., Piper Jaffray & Co., William Blair & Company, L.L.C., on the NYSE Monday. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. Since its acquisition in July of 2008 by The Guardian, and departure of founder Rafat Ali, ContentNext has continued to operate out of Santa Monica, and runs paidContent.org, mocoNews, contentSutra, and paidContent:UK.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition was supported by private equity investor Silver Lake Partners, which is the majority owner of Cast & Crew. Cast & Crew was advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the deal; Final Draft was represented by MediaBridge Capital Advisors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The firm was co-founded by Adam Erlebacher and Greg Neichin, who were both involved in Colloquois and GetActive Software, which both saw successful acquisitions. Tags: hollywood content product venture placevine capital advertising placement. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

To hear more about the firm's unique take on deals for nightlife, we caught up with Niall Donnelly , the firm's founder, who--not coincidentally--runs the Rolling Stone nightclub venue at Hollywood and Highland: Describe what Bevvy is all about? We opened up our first on in Hollywood at the start of this year, which was a pretty big deal.

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JULY 2, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. MOG was venture backed by Angels Forum , Balderton Capital , Menlo Ventures , Simon Equity Partners , Sony Music Entertainment , and Universal Music Group. Beats Electronics was co-founded by rapper Dr. Dre and Interscope Geffen's Jimmy Iovine.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Songtradr said the new funding will go towards global expansion plans, product development and to fund acquisitions, among other efforts. Baker Australian family office, as well as other un-named, Australia family offices and existing investors. Songtradr said the new funding round values the company at $165M. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Financial details of the acquisition and investment were not announced, however, Mighty Oak Entertainment said Bryan and Ellis have purchased 50 percent of the company from founder Mark O'Brien. the company said last week. Mighty Oak Entertainment is best known for its "Whacked Out Sports" clips.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, was suggested as a takeover target Tuesday by Merriman Capital analyst Eric Wold Tuesday, sparking a jump in RealD's stock price.

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MARCH 4, 2011

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. CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Hollywood Walk of Fame. New capital to be used for international expansion and to challenge Skype.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Wondery is backed by Waverley Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Greycroft, BDMI, Advancit, Water Tower Ventures, and Powerhouse Ventures. Terms of the possible deal have not been released. Wondery has reportedly been looking for a buyer since early in November, seeking anywhere from $300M to $400M. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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JUNE 29, 2015

Cast & Crew was owned by ZM Capital , and offers up technology-enabled production accounting and related value-added services to the entertainment industry. Debt funding for the deal came from RBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities and Societe Generale. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. The old saying in Hollywood is that “It’s not what you know but whom you know” but the truth is always more deceptive and the tech industry is a lot more susceptible to this notion than you may think.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. From there, I did a couple of internships in the venture capital world, including with Hummer Winblad in San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

The deal is being funded by capital from Macquarie Capital and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. The deal is worth approximately $120M, split between $113M in cash plus assumption of debt obligations worth approximately $7M. Wasserstein & Co. is the majority owner of Encompass.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Pandora is venture backed by Crosslink Capital, Walden Venture Capital, Greylock Partners, Labrador Ventures, The Hearst Corporation, GGV Capital, and others. Pandora filed for an IPO Friday, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to raise up to $100M in its IPO. According to Pandora's S-1, Gotcher owns roughly 1.05

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

EQAL had been backed by Spark Capital, Conrad Riggs, Ron Conway, Marc Andreessen, and Georges Harik, among others. EQAL--which came onto the scene with lonelygirl15--has since been managing digital media properties for brand and celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Bethenny Frankel and Lauren Conrad. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

We have our product and driver acquisition teams in New York, and in LA we have seven, focused on music approval, artists submitting music, and business development and relationships with the music and advertising industry. What part of your operations are in LA? Anne Kavanaugh: New York and Los Angeles are our base teams. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Move, which briefly was based in Irvine, was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast and Televisa. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

We have our product and driver acquisition teams in New York, and in LA we have seven, focused on music approval, artists submitting music, and business development and relationships with the music and advertising industry. What part of your operations are in LA? Anne Kavanagh: New York and Los Angeles are our base teams. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2011

There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space. Investment banking was a great training ground.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. Coming from the world of academia, did you feel you had to overtly fight the Hollywood stereotype that business leaders have to be greedy and vindictive to win? . “In One key decision early on was that RightScale needed to become big fast.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Beverly Hills-based movie studio Relativity Media --which is behind such titles as Limitless, Masterminds, and Immortals--scored a big investment from Singaporean Internet company YuuZoo , the two companies said this morning. The two said that YuuZoo will initially buy 33.3

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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