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JULY 23, 2013

in a funding round this morning, led by Spark Capital. The funding also included Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Lerer Ventures and Mesa. Santa Monica-based Panjo , which develops online marketplaces for automotive, sports, and hobby enthusiasts, announced it has raised $1.6M

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JUNE 27, 2016

Vemba, which is based in Toronto but has offices in Los Angeles, said it raised $5M in a Series A funding, which was led by Upfront Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), along with the Enterprise Fund at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Upfront investment was led by Mark Suster.

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JULY 5, 2016

more, according to a regulatory filing from the company, in the form of debt funding. No details on the new funding for the company have yet been announced. Los Angeles-based Jukin Media has just raised $2.5M

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Emotive had raised over $13.95M in funding, and had itself acquired venture-backed Sennari Entertainment, a developer of loyalty programs for the mobile market, in 2008. Emotive was venture backed by Mayfield, D. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

StyleHaul was venture backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Juvo Capital, RezVen Partners, WaveMaker Ventures (formerly Siemer Ventures), and Machinima''s Allen DeBevoise. StyleHaul had only raised around $17M in funding since it was founded about three years ago.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

in a Series A funding, which was led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and DCM Ventures, and also included the United Talent Agency, Gallo Digital, Zach Coelius and Array Ventures. ART19 said today that it has raised $7.5M The United Talent Agency is based in Beverly Hills.

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JUNE 27, 2018

in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Bonfire Ventures, and also included Greycroft, Bertelsmann, Launch Capital, CrowdSmart and Noname Ventures. InvolveSoft, led by co-founder and CEO Gaurav Bhattacharya, also said it previously received funding from Mucker Capital.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Santa Monica-based Pathmatics , a startup developing analytics software for analyzing the programmatic advertising market, has raised $3M in a Series A funding. BDMI's Sim Blaustein joins the company's baord with the funding. Pathmatics is led by Gabe Gottlieb, and was founded in 2010.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based Radish which develops a service which provides short-form, serialized fiction via iOS and Android, has raised $3M in a seed funding round.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based Nativo the native advertising technology developer led by Justin Choi, said Tuesday morning that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Advance Vixeid Partners (AVP), and also included RezVen Partners and the company's other existing investors.

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

The round was led by The Mayfield Fund, and also included prior investors D. Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Los Angeles-based Emotive Communications, which is developing ringtone-based, entertainment products for the mobile market, said today that it has scored $6.25M in a second round of venture financing.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. That led me to a venture capital firm, Bertelsmann Ventures. Why the new funding round now? The interesting thing is we got our funding exclusively from angel investors.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 25 Years of Writing Code.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We spoke with Gabe to learn more about his company�which is backed by Bertelsmann and Upfront Ventures--and what it is working on. We're funded by Upfront Ventures, Bertelsmann, and others. Tell us about your company? Gabe Gottlieb: We provide competitive and market intelligence for online advertising. It's been a good ride.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Valuations have continued to soar from early stage through later stage at an unsustainable rate, driven by large amounts of available capital, notably the increased presence of seed funds and PE firms in software. I predict SoCal will continue to grow, but in 2020 more companies nationwideand herewill not get the funding they need.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

When Propeller Health’s founders initially tried to raise funding for their new healthcare technology venture, many of the investors they spoke with were hesitant to take the risk. It was the early part of this decade, and Propeller was navigating the FDA’s regulatory process for medical devices.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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