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MAY 25, 2011

a game development firm that created titles for Activision, Interplay, and IBM. Doyle joins the company from Activision-Blizzard, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO. He also has served at investment firm Summit Partners, Mercer Management Consulting and the Bridgespan Group. Subar also had founded Interna Ltd.,

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based Arktos Entertaiment Group , a firm which says it provides investment, creative and production management support, and other services to interactive and online entertainment firms, said today that it has led a $5M investment round in firm Online Warmongers.

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MARCH 2, 2021

We are pleased to be supporting the continued development of Maestro as part of our ongoing investment in new technologies that provide artists with cutting-edge tools and solutions for growing their careers.

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JUNE 16, 2011

The funding came from Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd; Jarl Mohn , the former CEO of Liberty Digital and former board member at Riot Games ; Heiko Hubertz, founder and CEO of Bigpoint, and Paul Bricault , a Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

StartEngine is the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks , the co-founder of Activision, which invests up to $20,000 in startups and helps them build their businesses through a 90 day mentoring program. If you'd like to be considered to pitch us at StartEngine, submit your application on their site today.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based 3Rodeo , a brand venture capital investment firm led by former Hulu executive Noah Heller, says it is targeting investments in startups in Los Angeles. Size of the new fund was not announced. Size of the new fund was not announced.

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JULY 29, 2021

Playa Del Rey-based gaming studio That's No Moon Entertainment--created by game designers from Sony, Naughty Dog, and Activision--has raised $100M in an investment round, the company said this week. The funding came from Smilegate, a South Korean gaming company knokwn for the title "CROSSFIRE".

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JUNE 8, 2017

StartEngine's site lets investors browse investment opportunities for a wide range of companies, with background on the founders of those companies, their products and technology, as well as tools to manage the actual equity crowdfunding efforts.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Marks is the co-founder of Activision, and Kessler a prolific investor in the region. Are you making investments in those firms as part of the program? Don't forget, as you know, I moved Activision from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles, which is why we were able to make it a number one company. Howard Marks: Absolutely.

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APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My we are not going to invest. Brad on blogging.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. What was the biggest news for you/your firm 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. After investing in 60 startups, we realized that the biggest pain point was to help them raise the first $1M in financing.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mythical said that, as part of the investment, Alex Gurevich of Javelin Venture Partners joins its board, with new independent board member Rehito Hatoyoma, who was formerly Global COO of Sanrio and Helly Kitty. According to the company, the new funds will go to expand development of its platform and brings its first game to market.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission and Activision Blizzard. Greenfly's founders are former Major League Baseball All-Star Shawn Green and Daniel Kirschner, who has held senior legal roles at the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Since 2008, Harrison Metal has invested in over 40 companies, including Aardvark (GOOG), DocVerse (GOOG), Heroku (CRM), Manymoon (CRM), MixerLab (Twitter) and ZipZapPlay (ERTS). 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).

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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. So, having venture firms invested in our accelerator, and included in our support companies, helps them come out to see us.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.

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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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MARCH 5, 2015

Invested in 60 startups. Founded the rebirth of Activision in 1991 with a business partner. His core belief is as technology continues to transform our work, tinkerers will inherit the earth. Howard founded StartEngine in 2011 to help LA based startups grow successfully.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

We're helping to build a new league that is forming around these professional teams, and working with publishers like Riot Games, Blizzard, Activision, and Valve to lock in broadcast stations, the ESPNs, the Twitches, and Foxes, and Turners to help create an ecosystem around this. At Crosscut, we tend to invest in platforms.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. But I never gave up.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Shea was a former venture capital investor and investment banker at Hambrecht & Quist in San Francisco in the 1960's. Shea, Jr. , 80, the co-founder of Shea Homes and a former venture capital investor at Hambrecht & Quist , died August 13th at his San Marino home, according to J.F. Shea & Co.

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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. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Coffin has personally invested in Machinima, Mahalo.com, Demand Media, Rubicon, Docstoc, ShoeDazzle, Deal Quad (sold to Beachmint), and many others.

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MARCH 6, 2014

From investments and business, Robin Kaminsky , Entrepreneur in Residence at Rustin Canyon Partners, and former EVP of Publishing at Activision. Robin Kaminsky, who’s spent extensive time in the investment and business world, says no. That’s where the scale is, she explains. Social Gaming. 100% social.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” Keval Desai, InterWest Partners - a firm investing across the entire mobile stack. Sharon Wienbar, Scale Venture Partners – in this interview, Wienbar discusses the investment opportunities in mobile, and what Scale Venture Partners is looking for at the mobile app level. ” He notes that 1.2

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The complete implications of the executive order are unclear, however, Tencent has a large presence and investments across Southern California's the US tech industry, including owning 100 percent of Los Angeles-based Riot Games , 40 percent of Epic Games , 5 percent of Los Angeles-based Activision Blizzard , not to mention having business deals with (..)

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