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JUNE 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gamzee , a developer of HTML5 and mobile/social games, announced Thursday that it has raised $1M in a seed round of funding. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

in a funding round. The funding came from 3comma, Prometheus Labs, Solidity Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Paribus, Kyros Ventures, Stakely.vc ENVOY Network said its advisors include Austin Kramer (former Head of Dance, Spotify), Miranda Huybers (Nvidia, Activision, Paul Doherty (AIA President and CEO, The Digit Group, Inc.),

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JUNE 8, 2017

Howard Marks was previously founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now part of Walt Disney), and was co-founder of Activision; he created StartEngine with co-founder Ron Miller in 2011, initialy as a startup accelerator, and later transitioned the incubator into the online equity crowdfunding area.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

The funding included NBA player Chris Paul, as well as Verance Capital, Higher Ground Labs, DD Venture Capital, SW19 Ventures, LinkinFirm and Allievo Capital plus previous investors Go4it Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Alpha Edison and Iconica Partners. Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission and Activision Blizzard.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Start Engine , the business accelerator being spearheaded by Activision co-founder Howard Marks, said today that it has created a new, $15M investment fund for its portfolio of startups, and added former Governor Gray Davis as an advisor. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc) announced this morning that it has raised its fourth fund, CrossCut 4 , a brand new, $125M early stage investment fund. We spoke with one of the firm's four Managing Directors, Clinton Foy , about the big new fund and its investments.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 9, 2019

Former Comcast executive hired by Jukin Media; new executives at Activision Blizzard; Bird seeking new funding.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Size of the new fund was not announced. Heller was previously VP Partnerships and Emerging Technology at Hulu, and was also CEO of Vhoto; Heller also previously served at Atlas Venture, Activision, Surreal Software, Microsoft, and founded DNAi, a developer of a graphical 3D engine. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Los Angeles-based Mythical Games , a game technology studio which says it specializes in "digital ecosystems around player-owned economies", has raised $19M in a new, Series B funding round, the company said this morning. The new funding brings its total raised to $35M. The new funding brings its total raised to $35M.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Both also had served at Activision. Ozobot is backed by Tribeca Ventures, and recently raised $3M in a Series A funding. Otero was most recently Chief Creative Officer at Anki, and Salzer was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Hyperloop One. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Call of Duty Endowment , the non-profit started by Activision named after the popular Call of Duty game published by the company, has launched a new campaign to raise funds for the nonprofit, which says it uses 100 percent of its proceeds going directly to finding jobs for veterans.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Existing investors like SeventySix Capital, The Strand Partners, Stadia Ventures, Hersh Interactive Group, and Transcend Fund, as well as early Zoom employees Richard Gatchalian and Aaron Lewis, also participated. .

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Online Warmongers says its founders come from EA, Activision, and Cryptic Studios. Arktos is headed by Sergey Titov, and according to the firm's site has been an investor in Online Warmongers since at least March of this year.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

Our first post over the holidays is from Howard Marks --who co-founded Activision--and recently founded startup accelerator StartEngine, and who has been very active in encouraging the technology industry in Los Angeles. This will finally revolutionize the way startups get funded. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

StartEngine operates an online marketplace which lets companies run equity crowdfunding efforts for themselves, letting contributors gain equity in companies by contributing to funding rounds for startups. StartEngine is led by Howard Marks, who was a co-founder of Activision. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

in a first round of funding. The funding came from DFJ Frontier and venture capitalist Tom Matlack. Borrus was a co-founder of Pandemic Studios; Gewritz was formerly a game designer at Activision; and Miller has served at Vivendi Games and Little Quake Games.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. StartEngine's founders are Howard Marks, who co-founded Activision, and investor Paul Kessler.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision, is expanding, saying thta it is opening up a new location in downtown Los Angeles. StartEngine said the new office is a split-level loft, with access to such locations as the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a few metro stops from Pasadena.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

Our first post over the holidays is from Howard Marks --who co-founded Activision--and recently founded startup accelerator StartEngine, and who has been very active in encouraging the technology industry in Los Angeles. This will finally revolutionize the way startups get funded. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Playcast Media Systems said this morning that it has raised $10M in a new, Series B funding round, for the firm's cloud based video game streaming service. The firm said that Gadi Tirosh of JVP and Yair Landau of MK Capital are joining the firm's board as part of the funding. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2012

A mobile app new project by a local, Los Angeles team has taken to Kickstarter to help fund its efforts to create an animated, interactive caveman for your iPhone and iPad. The team includes entertainment and tech vets who have worked on computer games from Activision, animation from Dreamworks and Disney, and who have worked at Yahoo!

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Start Engine, started by Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler, said today that it is looking to provide mentorship, funding, and other resources to startups in the area, starting with a first class in January.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. Are you finding Gamzee is different that what you've previously done at Activision and Acclaim? What is Gamzee all about?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Marks is the co-founder of Activision, and Kessler a prolific investor in the region. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. The program launched today, so we spoke with Howard to learn more about the Start Engine program, and what it is going to do.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-Founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997). In 1991, Marks and a partner transformed ailing video game giant Activision into a $14B market cap video game industry leader.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Previously, Paul was the founder of The Mailroom Fund (MRF) – a venture fund in partnership with Accel Partners, Venrock and AT&T that focused on early stage investments in Southern California-based digital media firms. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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APRIL 25, 2011

By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. Our three founders have been working together for almost 20 years, since Activision. It's the quality of the team.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 6, 2016

Fund ( link ). ACTIVISION ‘s Overwatch is a Huge Hit in First Week ( link ). LOOT CRATE Raises $18.5M Series A ( link ). PASADENA ANGELS Raises $1.3M SNAPCHAT Acquires 3D Selfie Co ( link ). SNAPCHAT Passes Twitter with 150M DAUs ( link ). RADPAD Named App of the Year by Facebook ( link ).

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MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. Companies in the accelerator can walk upstairs, talk to someone who's already been funded, and get counsel on how they went through that process.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Indiegogo, “the world’s funding platform”, was also in attendance. Robin Kaminsky , founder of 1st Street Partners and former EVP of Activision Blizzard. Verizon Wireless displayed a slew of new innovative technologies such as the VGO Robotic Telepresence. This included moderator Scot Rubin , founder of G4TV and NitroPod.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

He recently produced the Silicon Beach Fest along with Kevin Winston of Digital LA , and his mobile ad optimization and re-engagement company PageWoo came out of the 1st graduating class for the new Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (developed by serial entrepreneur of Activision fame, Howard Marks). Whereas that doesn’t happen in L.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Gold Sponsor. . After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I was an early investor in a company called Harmonics which ended creating Guitar Hero … that got bought by Activision and then the rest of the company got bought by MTV and they created RockBand. “. a couple of people that worked for Softbank plus me got together and with sponsorships from Softbank created a separate venture fund.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Gold Sponsor. . After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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