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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 Kairos says it makes investments of between $150,000 and $5 Million. The funding was disclosed via a regulatory filing. READ MORE>>.

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

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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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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

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. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Henislie , a new joint venture created by BioAccel and Imprimatur Capital , said today that it is in the midst of raising approximately $50M to seed investment in companies in the life science, information technology, telecommunications and clean energy production.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

The Siemer Summit , the invite-only conference which has been organized by technology investment banking firm Siemer & Associates for the last four years, is returning this year, according to the firm. The firm also said that other speakers will include Thomas Gewecke of Warner Bros.

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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. Baroda Ventures Partner Peter Lee confirmed the investment in the New York company, which was worth $250,000. The deal was first reported by VentureBeat.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Beverly Hills-based movie studio Relativity Media --which is behind such titles as Limitless, Masterminds, and Immortals--scored a big investment from Singaporean Internet company YuuZoo , the two companies said this morning. The two said that YuuZoo will initially buy 33.3

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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. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing $1.0M READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The announcement of the new service came in conjunction with a strategic investment from BMW, from BMW i Ventures. In fact, at least two of ZIRX's initial customers for the on-demand parking--Live Nation and Insomiac--are in the LA area.

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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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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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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 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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MARCH 13, 2020

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills. Do users buy or rent these? Constantine Suychmez: Great question.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. Concurrently with our product launch, we announced our seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab. They have to pay for placement. Farbod Shoraka: We''re really excited.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. Michael Jones: I think with EventUp specifically, which we funded internally, we'll be raising external capital in the near future.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful.

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