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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network."

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

in a venture capital funding, in a combination of both equity and debt. The startup said the funding came from Ed Ojdana, 3G Capital, Grind Games, Silicon Valley Bank, as well as other strategic and angel investors. network advertising mobile online rewards capital venture paedae' PaeDae is led by Rob Emrich.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Venture capital for innovators. Advertisers. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. professionals? to San Diego.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

The founders Los Angeles-based GumGum , a startup which offers ad-supported, celebrity and entertainment photos for blogs and other web sites, has diverged into the online ad business, saying this week that it has launched a separate, advertising service called Bedrock. Tags: bedrock gumgum online advertising. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. But I made it for a reason.

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JUNE 12, 2014

Santa Monica-based Mobile Majority , which offers up premium, mobile brand advertising, said this week that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding round. Prior investors G Capital, Ed Ojdana and others also participated in this funding. mobilemajority venture capital mobile advertising paedae brand fraud prevention'

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

Native Ads offers a great way to get native advertising – i.e. adverts that fit seamlessly with your website content. StreamSpread helps publishers create portals on their web pages that can then be used to publish tailored digital advertisements. patent, making its offering totally unique to both advertisers and audiences alike.

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MAY 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based social, celebrity advertising startup Adly confirmed the company''s recent $2M funding round today, officially announcing the funding from GRP Partners and Siemer Ventures. Adly says it has a network of more than 75,000 influencers and celebrities on its platform, and so far has run campaigns for over 200 brands.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2021

OneRoof is building a social network for residential buildings. The app has raised a small $1.25M seed raise to carry out this vision, led by General Catalyst with participation from Kleiner Perkins’ discovery fund, Dream Machine, Script Capital and Urban US.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising startup PaeDae announced this morning that it has tied into Intel''s appMobi effort, which will allow Intel developers to integrate with its advertising platform. paedae appmobi intel advertising mobile development cross platform software network' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Glendale-based MediaShift , a newly formed online advertising company, said today that it has acquired travel advertising network Travora Media. The company said it will be enhancing Travora's offering with its technology for advertisers and publishers, to help them with deeper audience segmentation and richer data insights.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Phunware , a developer of mobile advertising, application, analytics, and other tools for brands which has operations in both Newport Beach and San Diego, said this week that it has raised $26.25M in a Series E funding. phunware venture capital mobile advertising analytics software' The company is headquartered in Austin.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

The funding came from Run Capital. The company says its tools help publishers double their effective CPM (eCPM), by predicting who is going to bid on their ads and selecting the highest paying advertisement, rather than ad network, for an ad placement.

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JULY 21, 2011

The round was led by Bullpen Capital, and also included Floodgate, Mack Capital, Tomorrow Ventures, 500 Startups, and Western Tech. The firm's software-as-a-service creates video advertising for local business customers, using a network of 4,000 videographers for generating content. The firm is headed by John McIntyre.

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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. 1, Scripps Network Interactive, Prizker Group, and individuals like Ross Levinsohn, Ken Parks, and Stephane Kurgan.

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MAY 10, 2011

Carlsbad-based Scentsa , a developer of an out-of-home advertising network, has scored a Series A funding from San Diego private equity fund Huntington Capital , Huntington said Tuesday. Size of the equity funding deal was not disclosed.

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MAY 1, 2014

i-Hatch LBS Fund (which includes Zebra Technologies Corporation and AEG), as well as other venture capital, strategic, and individual investors. The company said that technology is being used for retailing, advertising, social networking and other use cases. qualcomm retail solutions unit venture capital spinout gimbal'

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JUNE 8, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising play of Idealab's Bill Gross, said today that it has added news site Topix to its network. TweetUp said the addition of Topix adds potentially 140 million additional monthly pageviews to its network. Tags: content search news topix idealab advertising twitter tweetup.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Multiple reports today say that once lofty social networking site MySpace is now being set to be sold by News Corp. Irvine-based Internet advertising network Specific Media and Golden Gate Capital are among the rumored bidders for MySpace. for as little as $20M to $30M. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising). Jerry Jao , Retention Science (Los Angeles, analytics/advertising). Jason Lehmbeck , Datapop (Los Angeles, advertising).

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MAY 27, 2011

Two Southern California venture capital firms have benefited from an acquisition yesterday of Mountain View-based MerchantCircle , an online local business advertising and networking site, by fellow online advertising firm Reply!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Personalized card-linked offers Edo has raised $15million, ready to set a new trend in the payments and advertising sector. The Series C financing from VantagePoint Capital Partners with participation from Baird Venture Partners and some of its investors puts the firm’s financial nerve to a total $54.3 Personalized Card-Linked Offers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. They also add that LAGbook ranks #2 in the city of Yaba-Lagos, where the social network was incepted, and #37 in the city of Hirtshal, Denmark. We create a social network for students of the University of Lagos.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. It enables marketing firms to work together on a variety of functions including planning, content creation, analysis, social advertising. Impact of Social Networking to Marketing. Venture Funding. Developers API.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. For those not familiar with Saban Capital, tell us about the fund?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

” MediaLab is a holding company that owns several other mobile properties , including anonymous social network Whisper and mixtape app DatPiff. Heyward intended it to be a way for people to share more personal and intimate details — to be a social network for confessions and support rather than harassment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. Greystripe was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Monitor Ventures, Peacock Equity, and Incubic Venture Capital, and was based in San Francisco.

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MAY 10, 2011

Adconion , which operates an Internet advertising network and related businesses, said earlier this week that it has raised £21 ($34M) in financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The firm said the funding will go towards acquisition and working capital requirements at the company. Adconion has major operations in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Santa Monica- and Mexico-based Flyr , a startup developing video advertising templates specifically designed for the iPhone and iPad, says it has upped its funding to $6M in total for the company. Flyr said its software and products democratizes production of TV-quality advertisement for iPhone and iPad users worldwide. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based Trigon Digital , the provider of digital advertising anf other services to both the traditional and online radio market, is powering a number of features of the new, free music streaming service from Microsoft, Xbox Music , the company said this week. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2012

The funding included a senior credit facility from Wells Fargo Capital Finance and a subordinated debt and equity investment from SF Capital Group. FastPay offers up credit lines of up to $5M to online content publishers, social marketers, and others to provide better liquidity to those firms.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Hydra Media , the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising network, has new funding in hand and legal issues behind it, and is now looking upmarket, the firm told socalTECH in an interview Thursday. How does the firm hope to attract more large brand advertisers? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Santa Monica-based W4 , an online advertising marketplace founded by former Hydra Network executives, said this morning that it has raised $10M in debt funding. W4's co-founders include three former Hydra Network founders. The firm said the funding came from Silicon Valley Bank. W4 is headed by Jason Durant Walker.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , a developer of programmatic video advertising software, said Friday that it has opened up offices in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, and also has hired a new VP to head up its eastern region sales. VideoAmp also said it and expanding its current office in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Poptent , which is harnessing crowdsourcing to help brands and agencies to develop advertisements, said this morning that it has raised $5.5M The round was leds by MK Capital. in a funding round.

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Advertising Los Angeles Ideas Networking 133

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. According to the company, the new funding goes towards growing Pokki, the desktop app platform it launched in June.

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