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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. in a seed funding round.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M in a Series A funding. As part of the funding, Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed joins the company's board.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based JibJab , which provides animated, personalized greeting cards and other social content, has been acquired by private equity investor Catapult Capital LLC , Catapult Capital announced this morning. Cloud Capital, with Catapult being advised by Reed Smith LLP in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said it has completed its acquisition of secure cloud-based document management software developer NetDocuments. NetDocuments is baesd in Utah, and provides content management software specifically for th elegal industry, focused on security and compliance.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Santa Monica-based Gravity , the developer of real-time personalization software headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, is making a big push today with the launch of a new set of free APIs for publishers. Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M

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APRIL 3, 2014

San Diego-based growth equity investor TVC Capital has boosted portfolio company Levels Byond , and invested an additional $2.5M Levels Beyond, which develops a content management software platform called ReachEngine, said the $2.5M reachengine levels beyond content management video files venture capital library tvccapital'

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based Edlio , has received a growth capital investment this morning, for its K-12 education and "community engagement" software, and in particular, acquisitions of other companies. The funding came from private equity investment provider LLR Partners. Size of the investment was not announced. Canada, and Latin America.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Capital Music Group (CMG), which is a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new "innovation center", which will be based in the music company's iconic tower in Hollywood. CMG said the intent of the center is to "help drive the future of innovation in music".

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MAY 4, 2018

Pixvana , which develops software which helps users create, edit, and show virtual reality (VR) content, said this morning that it has partnered with Los Angeles-based VR camera rental service Radiant Images. Pixvana said it will offer up a free trail of its SPIN Studio Platform to users who rent a VR camera from Radiant Images.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Kelly Perdew , the founder and Managing Director of Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com). We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA. Kelly Perdew is the managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Los Angeles- and Austin-based VRMedia Technology said on yesterday that it has launched, as a joint venture between MC Capital Advisors/Media Content Capital, and virtual reality and computer graphics filmmaker Greg Passmore , and his company, PassmoreVR.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

Studio City-based FilmTrack , which develops software-as-a-service for managing rights and content management for the film, video, and television industry, has raised $20M in a funding round. software hollywood content management rights saas capital venture filmtrack' The round came from Insight Venture Partners.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based EndPlay , a developer of software-as-a-service offerings for content management, said today that it has raised $21.5M The company said it recently closed a round of funding from VantagePoint Capital Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures. in total funding for the firm.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Burbank-based Entertainment Partners , a provider of workforce management and automated production software and services for the entertainment industry, has been acquired by private equity investor TPG Capital. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based Geenee , a company developing mobile software that allows physical objects to trigger mobile, augmented reality (AR) experiences, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday morning. The company said the funding was led by IDI Partners. on its release of IT Chapter 2.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

The two said the deal will provide the ability to target guests with content and offers, letting restaurants communicate with customers via email, mobile web, apps, and social promotions. Kahuna is backed by Sequoia Capital. tillster mobile emarketing software kahuna restaurant ordering system partnership' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Newport Beach-based Veritone , which is developing artificial intelligence software used for sentiment analysis for media firms, political campaigns, corporations, and the government, said it has closed on a $50M funding agreement. The funding comes from Acacia Research. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Los Angeles-based Edlio , a developer of a cloud-based, software product used by schools and school districts to build and manage school websites, has raised $40M in a funding round. The funding came from L Squared Capital Partners. Edlio is led by CEO Ali Arsan.

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MARCH 21, 2017

The Snapchat analytics software developed by Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a startup producing online content for brands, has been acquired by social media management firm Hootsuite. Naritiv was venture backed by Luminari Capital, Third Wave Digital, Walt Disney Co., The announcement was made on Tuesday. and Allen DeBevoise.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. With our backend tools we can push products to the front of videos, allowing content providers to drive shopping activity. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. For myself, I'm largely focused on investments in enterprise software, primarily in the areas of application software and intelligence.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

San Diego-based TVC Capital , the growth equity investor which specializes in software companies, is the lead investor in a round of funding for Levels Beyond , the two announced today. Levels Beyond provides software for streamlining media management, distribution, and monetization, and is based in Denver. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Vicente Capital Partners has invested $12.5M Vicente Capital's investment was led by Jay Ferguson. SportsMEDIA said it will use the funding to accelerate introduction of new products, migrate to a next generation software platform, and introduce its products into new markets.

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APRIL 23, 2011

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Existing investors like SeventySix Capital, The Strand Partners, Stadia Ventures, Hersh Interactive Group, and Transcend Fund, as well as early Zoom employees Richard Gatchalian and Aaron Lewis, also participated. . Maestro is at the forefront of redefining the relationship of content owners and creators with their viewers.

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APRIL 5, 2022

million in seed funding from groups like Agya Ventures, Gaingels, Goodwater Capital, Nomo Ventures, PKO Investments and Y Combinator — Playhouse was a member of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. But before then, it would need to boost its content moderation capacities. It’s already secured $2.8

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops cloud-based learning and human capital management software, said late Wednesday that it has acquired Grovo Learning , a provider of "micro-learning" content, in a deal worth $24M in cash. Grovo was founded in 2010, and has offices in New York City and San Francisco.

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JULY 16, 2014

Recently, the team behind MuckerLab has made a subtle shift--becoming Mucker Capital (www.muckercapital.com)--focusing on seed stage investments. We caught up with Erik Rannala , co-founder of both, to understand the move and why Mucker Capital felt like it needed to put more capital to work in local, seed stage startups.

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

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

San Diego-based Soci , a developer of a social content discovery engine and social media marketing software product, has raised $1.5M Soci, led by Afif Khoury, develops a social content discovery and marketing engine. soci social media marketing venture capital content discovery' in a Series A funding. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Curtail is developing a network traffic analysis product, aimed at software and DevOps teams. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. The firm's investor was San Diego-based TVC Capital , which invested only $4M in total in Accordent before it was acquired. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company's flagship software is HoloSuite, which lets content creators create live-action, 3D performances, which can be streamed to virtual reality headsets and other platforms; the company calls that editing "volumetric video editing and streaming". The startup is led by CEO Kamal Mistry.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Rio SEO , the local search software development arm of Covario, said Wednesday that it has raised a new round of funding to take the company independent. According to Rio SEO, it has raised additional funding from FTV Capital, Dubilier & Co., READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based Revee , a developer of content analytics software used to help publishers understand their page yield on advertising, has raised $1M in a seed funding round. revee venture capital seed content analytics publishing publisher advertising' Source of that seed funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops cloud-based, enterprise learning and human capital management software, says it is in an expanded, strategic global relationship with LinkedIn. Financial details of the agreement were not announced.

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