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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Beverly Hills Acquisition Tool Invest 157

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The shutdown comes after a reorganization of the digital properties of AT&T, as well as its Otter Media subsidiary. Machinima had been acquired by Warner Bros. in 2016, in a deal then reported as worth less than $100M. READ MORE>>.

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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. We are thankful for continued support from Demand Media, City National Bank, Richardson Patel, Business Wire, Sheppard Mullin, General Assembly, and others. I like events.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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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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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

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. They have been hand selected to be part of our media portfolio, according to our customer's needs.

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Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Because things are moving toward streaming, and online, we become an interesting funnel to move people along the chain to actually consuming that media. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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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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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Foursquare. -A A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. See: TechCrunch.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

mitchlasky re: #techla "I feel more at home here… LA's biz culture, the fluidity b/t media & tech is unique" #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/OuYnCoIZiH. . — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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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. So Troy and Lady Gaga were amongst the earliest artists that turned to social media and tech platforms to break out.

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Mentor Venture Capital Marketing Product 150

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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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. The ones who were present, absolutely love it.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. In the end, he sold an $8 million home in the Hollywood Hills to the entrepreneur. View Interactive.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

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.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

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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