socalTECH

JULY 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Wave.tv , a sports media company focused on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Youtube, and Tiktok, said this week that it raised $32M in its Series A funding round. The company said the funding will go to expand its portfolio of media brands. The company is led by CEO Brian Verne and President Ishaan Sutaria.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Film Fresh , which operates an online, film download, rental, and purchase service, said this week that it has raised $2M in an equity investment. The firm said the funding came from an unidentified private investment group. FilmFresh is using RoxioNow's technology for its service, and is headed by Rick Bolton.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Los Angeles investment firm The Chernin Group , the media holding and investment group founded by Peter Chernin, has made an investment in European online video company Base79. According to Base79, the strategic equity investment included both The Chernin Group and MMC Ventures, an existing investor.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. focused fund.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To try to figure out a better model to support great content, Los Angeles-based Tubestart (www.tubestart.com) recently launched a crowdfunding site, specifically aimed at digital video and YouTube creators. For crowdfunding, seventy to eight percent of your funding will come from your primary and secondary social network. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Shamrock Capital has invested $25M in Thought Equity Motion , a provider of video footage licensing services, Thought Equity Motion said today. According to Thought Equity Motion, the funding will go towards technology, cloud storage, and ability to service global customers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2009

Speaking on a panel on Venture Capital in Hollywood at AlwaysOn's OnHollywood conference yesterday, de Silva said he's now seeing repeat entrepeneurs coming out of Southern California who are just as good, if not savvier about real businesses, as Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Its success was a testament to the enduring popularity of a good mystery.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Wallach on investments out of a new fund, Inevitable Ventures. How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? My only relationship with LA was through the movies, so I naively synonymized LA with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and never really gave it a chance. It's the deal flow, the connections.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

A report published Sunday by Variety says that Jason Kilar , the CEO of Los Angeles-based online video site Hulu , is set to cash out as much as $100M after the site's management buyout funded by Providence Equity Partners.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? That's the story we got from Tobi Bauckhage , the co-founder and CEO of Moviepilot (www.moviepilot.com), a German firm which is setting up shop in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. People either love it our hate it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. We have a network of filmmakers who film for us, but all of the producing and editing is brought back to our base here in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. I pitched an idea that was voted in the top 12 but couldn’t form a complete team.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Venture Bonsai enters the increasingly active market of enabling new methods to fund startups. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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