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MARCH 12, 2013

Beverly Hills-based talent agency and entertainment giant William Morris Endeavor looks to be busy with investments this week. The firm as backed a mobile application development company, Chaotic Moon Studios , as part of a strategic partnership. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Total Beauty Media , an online site providing beauty advice, product reviews, and other information, has raised $800,000 more in funding, according to last week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report. Tags: total beauty media content venture capital. The firm had not disclosed the funding publicly.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Beverly Hills-based Launch House, which hosts month-long, live-in startup programs in Los Angeles and elsewhere, is looking to raised $10M in a new venture capital fund, according to a regulatory filing from the company. The filing said the company is raising $10M to invests in startups.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , the venture capital firm of GeoCities founder David Bohnett , has invested in gay social networking site Fabulis. Tags: bohnett david capital venture lgbt fabulis ventures baroda. The deal was first reported by VentureBeat. billion to Yahoo.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Product Manager at Yahoo!

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JUNE 7, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Platform G , the stealth mode startup headed by former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, has closed a $22.0M, Series A funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Tags: platformg chris dewolfe myspace venture capital. The round came from Austin Ventures.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills.

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JULY 22, 2010

The IPO is the second successful, Southern California IPO in as many weeks, with Beverly Hills-based RealD also getting a similarly robust reception last Friday at its own IPO. The firm had debuted on the market Thursday morning at $36.00 per share, above initial estimates of $32.00 The firm is now listed at GDOT on the NYSE.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One of the company''s founders is based in Beverly Hills, as is a portion of the company''s operations. kings lane onekingslane ecommerce venture capital home furnishing house executive zappos technology officer' The firm just announced $112M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , an early stage venture capital fund, has hired on Peter Lee as a new Partner at the firm. Baroda Ventures is the venture capital firm run by Geocities founder David Bohnett; the firm's investments have included LowerMyBills, Stamps.com, UnitedOnline, XDrive, and MediaVast.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Snowball Factory , the startup behind awe.sm , the url shortener and analytics service, tweetpo.st , which updates Facebook from Twitter, and other tools, has raised $500,000 more, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The company''s LA offices are in Beverly Hills, next to the Beverly Wilshire. kings lane onekingslane ecommerce venture capital home furnishing house' The company''s website lists at least six positions at the location, including a network engineer, human resources, merchandising, and marketing position. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Actv8 , a developer of mobile applications for Hollywood and the television industry, has raised $3.2M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding and details have not been announced.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Beverly Hills-based Catch Media , a provider of software used for digital rights management, has scored a strategic funding from Motorola Mobility Ventures , the strategic investment arm of Motorola, the firms said Thursday. Size of the funding was not disclosed.

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MARCH 7, 2013

Beverly Hills-based Visualnet.com , which operates an online marketplace for production services for the film, TV, and video production industry, said Thursday that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from Kibo Ventures , which is backed by Telefonica.

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JULY 19, 2010

Green Dot would follow the debut last week of Beverly Hills-based RealD , which saw an impressive run up in its first day of trading Friday.Green Dot has said it expects to price between $32.00 Green Dot is backed by Sequoia Capital, TTP Fund, and the Tech Coast Angels. and $35.00 per share, and will list on the NYSE at GDOT.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Beverly Hills-based RealD , which develops 3D projection technology used in the showing of 3D movies, has set its estimated IPO pricing range at between $13.00 and the firm's major backer is Shamrock Capital. and $15.00 per share, according to an updated S-1 by the firm. RealD's IPO is being underwritten by J.P. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Ventures , a venture capital investment firm which focuses on commercialization of scientific advances, has raised $24.6M The fund is targeted at an overall capitalization of $100M, per those regulatory documents. in the first close of a new fund, Kairos Venture Opportunities I, L.P.

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JULY 10, 2012

Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others. GRP’s offices are near Beverly Hills. And with startups so go VCs.

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JULY 5, 2017

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , a venture capital investment firm that specifically focuses on commercialization of scientific discoveries, has raised $74.6M as part of an ongoing fundraising effort for its second fund, Kairos Venture Partners II, LP. The funding was disclosed via a regulatory filing.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

New York-based MediaMorph , a developer of technology used to track media rights for film, television, games and other publishers, said today that it has inked a strategic deal with Beverly Hills-based United Talent Agency , and also scored $2M in funding.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

The funding included WWE, The Beverly Hills Sports Council, Raul Fernandez (Monumental Sports & Entertainment), Michael Ovitz (CAA), Founders Fund, plus David Sacks and Bill Lee. Cloud9 says that, although its offices are in Los Angeles, it has teams, players, and personalities are located across North America, Europe, and Asia.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Beverly Hills-based live-streaming and on-demand video content provider LiveXLive has shifted its public listing to the NASDAQ Capital Market, the company said on Thursday, and is now trading as LIVX. The company--which previously had been traded over-the-counter--is led by Chairman and CEO Robert Ellin.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Beverly Hills-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, has filed for a secondary offering worth $242.16M. Stifel Nicolaus Weisel and BMO Capital Markets Corp. The firm said it is not selling any shares of its common stock, and will not receive any proceeds from the sale. The offering is being run by J.P.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

The United Talent Agency is based in Beverly Hills. ART19 said today that it has raised $7.5M 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. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

The funding came from Foundation Capital, Amplify LA, Sterling.VC, and ReImagined Ventures. Vetted says it is currently offering its services in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Culver City, Inglewood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Venice, and Westwood. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Beverly Hills-based Vision Esports has raised $38M in a funding round, and said it invested in 3 Esports companies--Echo Fox, Twin Galaxies and Vision Entertainment. the New York Yankees, the St. the New York Yankees, the St.

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JULY 27, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Hydra Media , the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising network, has new funding in hand and legal issues behind it, and is now looking upmarket, the firm told socalTECH in an interview Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Beverly Hills-based Kairos Venture Partners , which is led by General Manager James Demetriades, is looking to raise $250M in its third fund, Kairos Venture Partners III, L.P. according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the fund has yet to make its first sale in the new fund.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While disappointed at not being able to meet with the Prime Minister, Erik Bjontegard of Big PlayAR --which is based in Beverly Hills--was still very impressed with the openness of the UK Government. "I

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Beverly Hills-based OVGuide.com , an online site focused on video discovery and search, disclosed today that the firm has received $5M in funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, the investment firm of former GeoCities founder David Bohnett. Tags: video search ovguide content venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Beverly Hills-based Sesh , a startup which is developing artificial intelligence software, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1.6M in a funding round. The "pre-seed" funding came from angel investors, including Behzad Kianmahd, co-founder of TAU Ventures and Kyle Schlotman, Connetic Ventures and Radest Ventures.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

The company looks to have set up its Beverly Hills offices and took a big funding from Goldman Sachs in August. eKomi is led by Michael Ambros, and says it is headquartered in Berlin and Los Angeles with additional offices in London, Paris, and Madrid. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years. According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker.

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