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Influential Adds $12M For Influencer Discovery

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Los Angeles- and Las Vegas-based Influential , which operates a service to help match brands with influencers, has raised $12M more in a Series B funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME. Influential is led by CEO Ryan Detert.

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Silicon Beach Report Nov. 27: Snapchat Launches Augmented Reality Product Placement

L.A. Business Journal

Snapchat launches augmented reality product placement; Hulu exec departs to launch virtual reality investment fund and human beats NASA’s JPL artificial-intelligent controlled drone in race.

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

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TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video. and to raise bigger rounds of funding (like the voiceover video production toolkit, MuzeTV, and the animation studio Toonstar).

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Interview With Jamie Montgomery, March Capital Partners On The Firm's New Fund

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Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund.

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Influential Raises $5M For Influencer Marketing

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Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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Interview with Derek Norton, Watertower Ventures

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Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund?

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

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in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. Moving forward, this recent funding is going towards creating more personalization around that text experience. READ MORE>>.

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