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Influential Adds $12M For Influencer Discovery

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Los Angeles- and Las Vegas-based Influential , which operates a service to help match brands with influencers, has raised $12M more in a Series B funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME. Influential is led by CEO Ryan Detert.

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

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Nuggetverse — Los Angeles-based Nuggetverse is creating a children’s media business based on its marquee character, Tubby Nugget. TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video.

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Influential Names New CFO, COO

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Los Angeles-based influencer marketing software developer Influential says it has named Michael Lin as its new dual CFO and COO. Lin was previously CFO at Mavenlink and Cake, and also served at Gehry Technologies and Fast Search and Transfer. READ MORE>>.

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Influential Raises $5M For Influencer Marketing

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The funding was led by Capital Zed, and also included ROAR, Paradigm Talent Agency, Europlay Capital Advisors, MSMCi, and Ace Fund, along with angels Alex Welch, Michael Tedesco, Chris Varelas and Ivan Brockman. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. making their way to Los Angeles. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

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REX: Skipping The MLS When You Sell Your Home, with Jack Ryan

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Using big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, REX takes care of everything both buyers and sellers need, while removing traditional agent commissions of 5-6%. We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at At Betaworks, the firm is exploring the popularity of these virtual characters — and the role that artificial intelligence and new content creation technologies will play in reshaping entertainment and social media platforms.