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Nativo Snags Google Vet As VP of Product

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Los Angeles-based native advertising technology developer Nativo said this week that it has named Eugene Cherny, a former Google executive, as its new Vice President of Product. Nativo said that Cherny was previously manger of Google's TrueView In-display product, a native ad unit used on YouTube and Google. READ MORE>>.

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Epoxy Looks To Help Online Video Creators With Social Tools

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The startup, which is funded by Upfront Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Downey Ventures, Advancit Capital and angels, said that it is aiming its tools at everyone from individual online video creators to studios, brands, and agencies.

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Epoxy Tunes Into $2M to Enable YouTube, Video Publishing

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To that end, Venice-based Epoxy announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, to help build out its product suite to help grow, engage, and monetize online video channels. According to Epoxy, the new funding will go to expand its engineering team and build out its products.

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Emotive Communications Acquired By Zad Mobile

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Los Angeles-based Emotive Communications , a venture backed provider of ringtone and mobile music products, was acquired last week by Zad Mobile. Shaw Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Emotive was venture backed by Mayfield, D. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Arvato Digital Services Acquires Protexis

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Valencia-based Arvato Digital Services , a provider of supply chain, post production, replication, and software distribution services, said this morning it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Protexis, a provider of digital software distribution tools. Arvato is a division of Bertelsmann AG.

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Interview with Gabe Gottlieb, Pathmatics

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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. We keep that in mind when we find some technical problem, or when we're figuring out how to market our product. Tell us about your company?

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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