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MARCH 27, 2014

Santa Monica-based GoCoin , the Bitcoin payments startup led by Steve Beauregard, has scored $1.5M The funding was led by the Bitcoin Shop, Inc., The funding also included angels Andrew Frame (Ooma), David Neumann (Current TV), and others. software ecommerce angel seed purchase capital venture bitcoin gocoin'

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MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles business accelerator program upStart.LA , one of numerous startup acceleration and incubation efforts to start in the last year in Southern California, is merging with a startup in Santa Monica, Cross Campus. According to a note to supporters form upStart.LA According to a note to supporters form upStart.LA

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , along with another local investor, Crosscut Ventures , have both made investments in a new Techstars company, Branch Messenger , Branch announced this morning. The company said it has raised $10M in funding, including a $6.8M

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MAY 17, 2013

In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Rob Freelen: The best lesson I learned in 2016 is that a well-managed company can succeed in any funding environment. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Focused Labs , which provides social media marketing services, said Thursday that it has renamed itself GraphEffect , and raised $2M in funding. GraphEffect provides a social advertising platform which helps advertisers gain Facebook fans and Likes. The firm was founded by Clark Landry and James Borow.

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APRIL 6, 2020

As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. Deal of the week.

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MAY 23, 2012

A new startup, headed by entrepreneur Wil Schroter, has launched this week, looking to make it easier for startups to raise funding. Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". on its advisory team. on its advisory team. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine).

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MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti. Maker Studios. FullScreen.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. As part of the investment, Best Buy's Kuk Yi and Blackberry Partners Funds' John Albright have joined the company's board.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Tech Lead Adserving Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Accounting Manager / Assistant Controller , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Platform Senior Software Engineer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

How did a quick weekend trip (for a birthday) to Los Angeles result in the creation and funding of a startup? Turns out that this weekend birthday celebration at Startup Weekend at CoLoft in Santa Monica was the perfect cocktail for. Sounds great," he said. That was the start of Zaarly. But let me back up just a bit.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and also included Michael Ovitz and Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. AirMap - Santa Monica - (www.airmap.com). Our list below: 1. 5drobotics.com).

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks! Our Panelist Include.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , the secondary market for private company shares run by Greg Brogger, announced this morning that it is extending its platform to add independent brokers. and former founder of broker McDonnell, Inc.; and Tim Sullivan, former of Susquehanna International Group.

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APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Invest more heavily in platform services. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA.

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. What is Miso Robotics? The demand is there.

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JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. He received a B.S.

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MAY 10, 2017

Santa Monica-based WorkToday (www.worktoday.com) has created a text-based marketplace to help connect workers with employers. in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. What kind of jobs are coming through your platform? How are you funded?

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JUNE 6, 2016

LACI, Los Angeles. General Assembly, Santa Monica. Real Office Centers, Santa Monica. DTLA General Assembly, Los Angeles. CTRL Collective, Los Angeles. HauteLook/Nordstrom HQ, Los Angeles. Santa Monica Public Library. Busby’s, Los Angeles. LMU, Los Angeles. **.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. We've worked with Microsoft, Live Nation, Variety, and other clients, plus just closed our funding of $2.2M

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. I was working at a job in Santa Monica, helping to run somebody's company.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. Joining that surge last week in startup activity was Science, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. How does Giftagram work?

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. I wanted to give back to my community in the D.C.

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