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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Santa Monica-based GoodRx , a new startup backed by Founders Fund, GRP Partners, Highland Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Dawn Lepore (drugstore.com), and Mike Ovitz, has launched its services, saying that it will allow users to compare pricing from pharmacies nationwide via its service and iPhone app.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Santa Monica-based Affordit , an online site which allows low income consumers to buy electronics on installment, rather than through an outright purchase, has raised a round of angel funding. Affordit is the latest startup of Wil Schroter, who founded business matchmaking site Go Big Network.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , an online website which look up the birthdays of famous people and read profiles of those celebrities, said on Thursday that it just passed up 17 million monthly unique users in July. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , which is led by Jason Nazar, has been acquired by Intuit, the companies said this morning. Nazar said that Docstoc''s vision is to be the ultimate destination and resource site for small businesses as part of Intuit. com), and others. com), and others.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The company then dispatches a mobile car wash to a customer's home, office, or other location for an on-site car wash. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Santa Monica-based virtual reality content developre Jaunt , and Santa Monica-based online food and travel lifestyle content provider Tastemade said today that the two have tied together for a new, virtual-reality trip through Los Angeles, featuring Ryan Seacrest and Conan O'Brien, along with a host of others.

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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 also included angels Andrew Frame (Ooma), David Neumann (Current TV), and others. software ecommerce angel seed purchase capital venture bitcoin gocoin' in a Series A financing, the company said today.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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MAY 21, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fastpoint Games , the developer of virtual fantasy sports games which was headed by Kelly Perdew, has been sold to Los Angeles-based WePlay , Weplay announced Monday. Weplay offers up an online social site aimed at coaches, parents, and players of youth sports. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

How can Lime differentiate its scooters and bikes from the piles of Birds and Spins filling Los Angeles sidewalks? “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica. They can make it clear that they care about the constituency there.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Adconion Media Group , the European advertising network firm which as significant operations in Los Angeles, said today that it has acquired smartclip , a European digital video advertising firm. Smartclip adds around 500 new publisher sites to Adconion's network. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2013

Skift , the online travel publishing site started by Rafat Ali--the founder of Paidcontent.org, which was based in Santa Monica--has raised $1.1M The company has a number of other angel investors from the Los Angeles area, in addition to Calacanis, given Ali''s prior success here on the West Coast. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has made an interesting move this morning, launching a brand new, subscription fitness and nutrition program. Demand Media recently acquired subscriptoin-based video workshop and instruction site Creativebug. Stronger is an offshoot of Demand Media''s LIVESTRONG.COM site. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2012

Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". The site allow early stage startups to gain capital from anyone, using the new JOBS Act to raise money from anyone interested in a startup, and not just professional investors and banks.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

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. Angels Brian Lee (Honest Company, LegalZoom), Michael Dubin (Dollar Shave Club), Tamim Mourad (PriceGrabber.com) and Andy Dunn (Bonobos) also participated in the funding.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based BloomNation.com , the online floral arrangement marketplace headed by Farbod Shoraka, has raised $5.5M bloomnation local flower delivery fashion arrangement marketplace venture capital angel ronconway andreessen' in a funding round, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab. LifeCrowd has been offering up its service in Los Angeles since September.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In an interesting application of a live, streaming video site, Santa Monica-based Vokle , the online, interactive live events service headed by Robert Kiraz, announced today that it is hosting a live singing competition on its site. Vokle is backed by the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , a stealth mode startup headed by well known angel investor Paige Craig, has raised around $1.5M BetterWorks looks to be scaling up dramatically; the firm currently has eight open positions listed on its web site for everything from engineers to marketing director. in a funding round.

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JULY 11, 2012

The new round apparently was led by Google Ventures, and also included former investors First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures, and angels, including Los Angeles investors Mike Jones of Science Inc. and Kamran Pourzanjani, who founded Pricegrabber. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. The firm said its new "Slideout" widget helps provide unobtrusive advertising to help publishers monetize site visitors. Diaz-Mitoma is the former founder of Titan Gaming. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2012

Santa Monica-based EventUp , the online marketplace backed by Science Inc. eVeneus, which is based out of Seattle, said it would start offering up its own, meeting marketplace in Los Angeles, an expansion of services it currently offers in Seattle and the Bay Area.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

One of the major tech focused, legal firms in Los Angeles, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP , announced today that it has launched a new co-working and "pre-accelerator" program, which will offer up access to legal services, reviews of business plans, office space, and more to companies looking to enter one of the local accelerators.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Groupon ushered in the new era of group buying, and now hyper local and vertical deal sites are the name of the game. One such company, Santa Monica, Calif-based FamilyFinds, launched this week with $5.75 in funding from Split Rock Partners. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

In a unique offer from Los Angeles-based FamilyFinds.com , the family focused daily deals site, Santa Monica-based Brighter.com , the online dental care and referrals site, is dangling the chance for free braces --valued at up to $5,000--to consumers who enter a giveaway from the firms.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting site headed by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched a new social media campaign with Mercedes-Benz. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Deadline in the casting is December 23rd. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2010

Los Angeles-based Break.com and Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media announced Wednesday afternoon that the two firms have partnered on the launch of a new site, called ModernMan.com. According to the two firms, the new site will focus on grooming advice, style tips, and product information and review for men 18-39.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the location-based analytics firm headed by Rob Reed, has scored a win with retailer Cinnabon , the firm revealed today. MomentFeed is venture backed by DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and a number of high profile, angel investors. locations from using MomentFeed's platform.

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JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based Retention Science , a new startup out of the MuckerLab accelerator, is announcing this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding. Retention Science is using big data techniques to help model online visitors, and figure out how to convert them into cusotmers.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Some positions posted to the site recently: Sr. 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.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based DailyD , an online operator of a daily, local deals site, has raised $5.0M DailyD is a direct competitor to Groupon and a growing list of other, local daily deal and coupon sites. in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the operator of technology- and software-based employee perks and benefit programs, said Tuesday that it has bolstered a number of features on its service, including a number related to discovery of programs. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Santa Monica-based Goodreads , the online book community headed by Otis Chandler, has launched a new feature on the site around book quizzes. According to GoodReads, it has created a new section of the site which allows members of the site to take quizzes and compare scores with friends and other members.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits startup headed by Paige Craig, said Wednesday that it has updated its product, adding new perk discovery features, and advanced ordering of perks.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Venture51 is an inestor in Los Angeles-based EcoMom, the online eco-friendly e-commerce site run by Jody Sherman, Zaarly, the mobile marketplace startup which spawned out of LA Startup Weekend, along with companies such as Getaround, LaunchRock, and Tout. Mahalo is based in Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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