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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. According to SocialAnnex, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber.com, Brian S. Social Annex was founded in 2010.

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MAY 17, 2011

Last week's $40M funding by Andreessen Horowitz of Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the monthly fashion, shoe and pursue startup headed by LegalZoom founder Brian Lee, was driven by parallels to a 1920's startup--the Book of the Month Club. O'Farrell said that ShoeDazzle already has 3 million members of the site, which, for $39.95

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Angels Brian Lee (Honest Company, LegalZoom), Michael Dubin (Dollar Shave Club), Tamim Mourad (PriceGrabber.com) and Andy Dunn (Bonobos) also participated in the funding. Santa Monica-based Retention Science , the marketing software technology maker led by Jerry Jao, has snagged $7M in a Series A funding, according to the company.

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MARCH 13, 2013

PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool. The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle , the online fashion and e-commerce site, is back in the hands of Brian Lee, according to a report from AllThingsD. Brian Lee is also head of the Honest Company, the eco-friendly products firm he runs with Jessica Alba; he's also well known for co-founding LegalZoom. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

To shortcut what has been an antiquated way of connecting consumers with attorneys, Los Angeles startup LawKick (www.lawkick.com) has created an online, easy way to match up clients with lawyers, through a set of simple questions and answers about different kinds of legal problems. It sounds like you have some angel funding?

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AUGUST 6, 2012

We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. She's a great expert, cable quality, and we feature multiple camera angels, visual stills, and of course the talent of the puppy.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. It's the eBay of professional documents.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. So how did you end up here in the Los Angeles area?

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Kobe Bryant , the basketball legend who also was one half of Los Angeles private equity investment firm Bryant Stibel , is dead at the age of 41, after a tragic helicopter crash in Calabasas took his life, the life of one of his daughters, and seven others.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites.

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