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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

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Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” So the two founders began contemplating what a new, low-cost, high-touch media network might look like.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

Tech Zulu Event

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. We use machine learning to analyze the behavior. We went into this knowing how our users engage with content.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

With 10 years of serving some of the largest enterprise customers in the US, our machine learning advantages actually get better with more data and more time and the value of our IP has been growing exponentially. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. They wanted to lead our round, so we relocated to Los Angeles.

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Six Tech Startups to Look Out For in 2023

Tech.Co

The Palo Alto-based company uses emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to tackle pressing questions in cancer care. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. The podcasting and multi-media market is a notoriously hard one to break into. Valar Labs.

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E-Commerce Firm Dearduck Uses A.I. in the Hunt for the Perfect Gift

Xconomy

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Houston —Knowledge is power, but too much of a good thing can render data meaningless. That’s the struggle many retailers have in an age of data analytics.