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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One Kings Lane is venture backed by Mousse Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock Partners, Tiger Global Management, IVP and Scripps Networks. One of the company''s founders is based in Beverly Hills, as is a portion of the company''s operations. The firm just announced $112M in funding. 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 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.

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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. The round came from Austin Ventures. Tags: platformg chris dewolfe myspace venture capital.

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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. Total Beauty has previously raised funding from US Venture Partners and Wallington Investors.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Lee joins the firm from Prism Ventures. Lee has also served at Clearstone Venture Partners, Fortis Partners, Goldpocket Interactive, and McKinsey & Co.

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The announcement of the new service came in conjunction with a strategic investment from BMW, from BMW i Ventures.

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JULY 26, 2016

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. It’s unclear, though, if the $41.8 million disclosed in a July 14 filing includes $27.3M

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” It was more hedge fund than venture capital.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As employees and entrepreneurs put down roots close to where they work, more venture capital funds flow in, more start-ups launch, and more of them go public or are sold. percent higher than those of last year.

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JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others.

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SoCal Delicious

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. It isnt just Silicon Valley-based techies who are buying.

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