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JANUARY 14, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , a developer of multi-channel, performance advertising technology, announced today that it has raised $6M in a venture funding round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures. As part of the funding, Redpoint's Greg Martin joins the company's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. That's why we're called the creative capital of the world.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2012

The round was led by Google, along with prior investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital. Machinima said the new funding will go towards content and global sales operations, international expansion, distribution strategies, and product and technology initiatives.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

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. The new API effort extends Gravity's technology into use in mobile applications, tablet apps, in addition to the web. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Other big funding deals included a big, $115.3M

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. Those devices worked great, but unfortunately, they''re juts not up to speed on the newer innovations in big data and the technology world. Who are the customers for your technology?

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the provider of social advertising software and technology, announced today that it has raised $20M in additional equity funding. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinacle Ventures. SocialVibe is headed by Jay Samit.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks appears to have bumped the size of the funding round it announced in August, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. in the round at that time, led by Redpoint Ventures. BetterWorks is a provider of technology driven, employee perks and benefits programs. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Auditude develops technology to help companies monetize their online video. Auditude is venture backed by Granite Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, and Redpoint Ventures; the appointment of Helfand came in conjunction with a new, $11M Series B funding round for Auditude.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Tags: venture capital pricewaterhousecoopers nvca finance moneytree thomson reuters. Los Angeles saw $407.2M

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My career in the venture startup world started in about 1984--I'm not a completely young guy--and I actually did about ten years in venture capital. Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners. at that time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Voice and chat are both very powerful computing metaphors but only if the underlying technologies and interactions become as seamless as mobile integrations have become in the consumer worlds. can receive instant, accurate response without requiring human intervention — critical for teams in the field.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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