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LA’s socially conscious bank challenger, Aspiration, launches a carbon offset credit card

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The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly $250 million from investors including the celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr.’s What Aspiration co-founder Andrei Cherny did discuss was the company’s sense of the significance of its new offering.

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How Epoxy Is Helping Content Creators Make Their Video More Social

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Los Angeles-based Epoxy (www.epoxy.tv) launched yesterday to help content creators do just that. We spoke with co-founders Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad about Epoxy''s mission, its roots from projects at Team Downey, the production firm of Robert Downey Jr., What''s your background, why did you start the company?

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Maker Studios Confirms Blip Buy

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Los Angeles-based YouTube network Maker Studios confirmed its acuqisition of Blip , the company announced Friday, two weeks after word leaked out about the acquisition. Maker Studios is venture backed by Greycroft Partners, Downey Ventures, Time Warner, M+C, and others. Financial terms of the deal have not been announced.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. This has been a very welcome addition. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012.

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Loot Crate Raises $18.5M to Get More Loot Into the Hands of Nerds

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This week the popular Los Angeles, CA-based ecommerce subscription company Loot Crate announced the successful close of a $18.5 Downey Ventures, M13, and Sterling.VC. By partnering with the leading entertainment companies, Loot Crate is able to provide a fan driven commerce experience that’s not available anywhere else.”

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