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The firm's tools allow web publishers to recommend content to users, while also inserting "sponsored stories" in those recommendations from advertisers. Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M in a Series B funding round in October. READ MORE>>.
This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.
The reason I have so many typos is that I value cranking out more content rather than perfect posts. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. They are much, much easier to contribute content to – both multimedia and text. Other deals.
This morning, we're sharing the insights of Greg Martin , a venture capitalist at Archer Venture Capital. I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. The continuing rise of smart phones and iPad-like devices has created enormous opportunities for the mobile web.
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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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Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? In a recent blog post, Calacanis said that the firm has now seen more than 950,000 downloads of its apps and 200M videos on YouTube, in the last six months.
What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? They all depend on EdgeCast to deliver content to their customers, anywhere they are, on any device. We've grown really fast. There's complexity in being a CDN.
Los Angeles-based My Damn Channel , the online original video site run by Rob Barnett, said Thursday that it has been selected by Fox as a premium distribution partner for the network's original web series. My Damn Channel is venture backed by Okapi Venture Capital. Tags: mydamnchannel video content hollywood network.
Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.
Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of webcontent management systems (CMS), has raised $1.75M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. CrownPeak, which is headed by Jim Howard, develops software used by companies to easily modify and maintain web sites, without requiring web designers.
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TweetUp said it had also inked a deal with Conduit, a developer of web toolbar software, so that Conduit's web publishers can offer up TweetUp driven search fields in their toolbars. Gross launched TweetUp in April with backing from Index Ventures, betaworks, Revolution LLC, First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis, and Jeff Jarvis.
The site produces original content for the web, both on its own site as well as distributed through other sites, including Wainy Days, Horrible People, You Suck at Photoshop, and other series. The firm is one of a number of companies now producing--with venture backing--professionally produced content specifically for a web audience.
The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages.
What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. Social Networking in Web 1.0.
Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. VIRURL said its widget lets users click on a "recommended content" link which links users to extra, sponsored content that might be relevant to the content on a page. READ MORE>>.
WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. We see the web having untapped potential for creating its own medium for artistic expression.
Aliso Viejo-based Gaikai , a startup developing technology to play computer games online in a web browser, has raised $5.0M Source of the new funding was announced, however, the firm now lists Mitch Lasky, former founder of JAMDAT, and now a General Partner at Benchmark Capital, on its board of directors.
He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. It's fun, I guess.
What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.
Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers. What is Kixer?
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Now the city’s enterprise tech scene can claim a really big winner with Signal Sciences , the security monitoring and management company that is getting bought by Fastly , a provider of content delivery networking services, for $775 million. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps.
The new funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Clicker's web site indexes and searches the web for video, providing a structured catalog of programming. Tags: clicker venture capital video content streaming television. READ MORE>>.
Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. Tags: ranker venture capital seed funding lists content. READ MORE>>.
Venice-based CitizenGlobal , an online web site which allows producers to crowd-source video content, has raised $6.0M Tags: citizenglobal venture capital crowdsource video content hollywood citizen global paul lussier. in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday.
The Series A round was led by Kohlberg Ventures, and also included Peter Boboff of Kicklabs and Transmedia Capital. RealGravity said it provides an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of online video content and advertising. The firm said it has over 500,000 professional videos available to web publishers.
Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. Rustic's Mark Menell and Nate Redmond are involved in PlayFirst, according to Rustic Canyon's web site. in an equity funding for the company, with Comerica Bank providing $4.0M
The venture backed firm, which is funded by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, and Rustic Canyon Partners, said that the agreement will enable streaming of EA's PC-based video games to any web browser. Tags: streaming game video arts electronic content videogame gaikai. READ MORE>>.
San Diego-based KidZui has upgraded the firm's web browser for children, saying yesterday that version 5.0 of the service now includes ways for children to send videos, websites, and photos to their parents, and for parents to send content to children. READ MORE>>.
Ze Frank Games , the Los Angeles startup led by web video's Ze Frank , has been acquired by BuzzFeed , a social news publisher, the firm said Friday. According to BuzzFeed, Ze Frank has joined the company to build a team of video producers in Los Angeles, setting up a studio to create content native to the social web.
Los Angeles-based Clicker , the online video viewing guide firm backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO American Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures, said Tuesday that its iPhone application is now available on the Apple App Store. Tags: clicker video content guide iphone. READ MORE>>.
Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. His new site, Mahalo, is focused on people-based, online search, with backing from Seuqoia Capital and Elon Musk, among others. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.
Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”
Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M According to the firms, HitFix was founded by Jennifer Sargent and Greg Ellwood, with Sargent serving as CEO, and Ellwood as Editor-In-Chief of the web site. in a new funding round, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels.
The funding came from Maurice Gallagher, Bray Capital, Shay O''Brien, and Michael Rogers. Yekra says its system helps match content to viewers by genre, by digitally distributing entertainment through different web sites, blogs, social networks, and other destinations. READ MORE>>.
The two things that are mostly lacking from people's investment experience are the lack of a wide network of people to refine investment ideas with, and the best available content about companies they are considering investing in. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. They all go hand-in-hand.
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I’m more of a verbal content guy. Finally, Kyle has promised to help me procure the equipment and figure out the process to relaunch my web series, This Week in Venture Capital under a different name. This Week in Venture Capital' My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. What do you think?
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