Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. She then toured all of the YouTube networks themselves and started forming relationships.

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APRIL 17, 2013

A report Wednesday afternoon says that Los Angeles-based streaming media site Hulu has hired investment banking firm Guggenheim Partners, to advise the firm on a sale. hulu merger acquisition exit content hollywood streaming video guggenheim' Guggenheim is the same firm that attempted to sell Hulu in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based online real estate investing marketplace RealtyMogul.com said it has helped to finance the acquisition of a multi-tenant, medical office building in Hollywood, Florida.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Fastly said that the acquisition of Signal Sciences’ business will boost its ability to provide better security for applications and APIs — the connective fabric between different services that knit different technologies together behind the scenes. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. in total investment, and ites investors have included Gannett Co. As part of the acquisition, Vimeo announced it had launched a new, live streaming services--Vimeo Live--based on Livestream's technology. Vimeo is owned by IAC. Livestream had raised around $14.7M and others.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2010

According to a report in the New York Times, Hulu is in discussions with investment bankers about pursuing an IPO in the fall. Tags: hulu merger acquisition exit media content hollywood video. No details of the potential IPO have been released. Hulu would be just one of more than a handful of local firms headed towards an IPO.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. At the end of 2013, we were excited when there was an investment round of $20M to $30M. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? I like events.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Amount of the investment was not disclosed. 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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Jam City said the new, $350M funding round was a combination of equity and debt, and included Netmarble, Kabam, and affiliates of funds managed by Fortress Investment Group.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Specifically, there was a greater and higher level of consumption of video. Why the expansion here?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason. In my mind, not a typical VC investment.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company. Machinima had been acquired by Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I ended up taking a real job at Credit Suisse as an investment banker, where I spent time studying and finding hot new Internet companies that were in Silicon Valley at the time. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. It seems most venture investors have been very shy about investing in Hollywood content related ventures.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

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. There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Further details on the potential sale of Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu continue to emerge, with the firm reportedly retaining investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners to represent it in a sale. The names of the bankers was uncovered by the Los Angeles Times, citing "people familiar with the matter".

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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally. ” But I thought Troy really nailed it when he talked about his investment philosophy going forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Foursquare. -A A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Total raised: $17mm.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2012

Citing two people with "knowledge of the matter", Bloomberg said Providence had originally invested $100M in 2007, and will be paid $200M for its 10 percent share of the video streaming site. No details on the deal have been announced. Hulu's other owners are Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp., and News Corp.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In addition to talks dedicated to VR, AR, drones, and Hollywood convergence, Cedars Techstars graduates Silversheet, Home Hero, and Applied VR discussed the futures of healthcare, while ZipRecruiter and ChowNow talked about the challenges of scaling their startups for success. . — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs.

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SoCal Delicious

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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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them. Don’t be one.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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