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JULY 19, 2019

Venture Partners, MK Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners. It sold that business, Movieclips.com, in 2014, to Fandango. ZEFR will continue to focus on its other business, in context-sensitive advertising for YouTube, and will have around 150 employees left in that business unit.

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MAY 13, 2014

Los Angeles-based Swagbucks , the web-based rewards and offers site, said this morning that it has raised $60M in funding--the company''s first, external capital round--and also appointed Chuck Davis as CEO of the company. Davis was Chairman and CEO of Fandango, and is also an early investor in Swagbucks. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Whisper is venture backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CAA Ventures, Tencent, Shasta Ventures, Thrive Capital, and others.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Tecca was originally spun out as a project of Fuse Capital, the venture capital investment firm formerly headed by Ross Levinsohn, before he was hired away to run Yahoo's Americas business; Tecca is now co-led by Assaf Tarnopolsky (Sony Pictures/MobiTV) and Shannon Ludovissy (Fox Interactive Media/Movielink/Fandango/NBC).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

LaughStub joins local companies such as Fandango (LA - movie tickets), RazorGator (LA - sports tickets), Paciolan (Irvine - ticketing systems), not to mention ticket giant Ticketmaster (West Hollywood) in the high tech-meets-ticketing area.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Velocity Interactive Group, the venture capital firm led by Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller, said this morning that it has added Mickie Rosen as an investment partner at the company. Rosen has also served at Fandango, a number of Idealab companies, Disney, and McKinsey and Company. Rosen will be based in Los Angeles.

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JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001.

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