socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Perch , a startup which helps users grow their credit by allowing them to pay for such things as Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, and other services on credit, has raised $2.5M The funding came from Marcy Venture Partners, Citi, Softbank Group Opportunity Fund, Concrete Rose, and Village Capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based Perch, a startup which operates a service that lets users build their credit by paying for Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, and other services on credit, has scored an investment from financial giant Citi, via Citi's new Citi Impact Fund. Size of the investment was not announced. Citi announced the investment this morning.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Netflix settles Satanic Temple lawsuit; Microcel acquired by Atar Capital; Caltech-led probe lands on Mars

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures raises $125 million, Prevoty secures $13 million in Series B round led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity and would Disney, with control of Hulu and Fox Studios, have formula for a Netflix killer?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2020

According to Grow Credit, Commerce Ventures will join its seed funding round alongside lead investor Mucker Capital, as well as Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global Ventures. Grow Credit's service lets consumers establish or re-establish their credit by paying for subscriptions to such services as Netflix, Spotify, or Disney Plus.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2019

Startup World Cup is a global series of startup pitch competitions that is powered by Fenox Venture Capital and held in 40+ regions from around the world, where the top startup from each country comes to Silicon Valley and compete for a $1,000,000 USD investment prize! Last year, Leuko Labs was the $1,000,000 USD winner from the U.S.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Los Angeles-based Cinedigm , which distributes movies and other content to iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon, and others, said the majority investment deal from Bison Entertainment Investment Limited has been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Bison Capital is based in Hong Kong. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2020

Santa Monica-based Grow Credit , a startup which helps people establish credit by paying for subscriptions to services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and Spotify, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The funding came from Mucker Labs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The company's venture backers include Mucker Capital and Commerce Capital, as well as angel investor Minal Hasan, of K2 Global Ventures. Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013. One of Europe’s most popular fitness applications is poised to flourish in the U.S. market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. The startup, however, has no plans to expand into hardware.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2020

The group said that founding investors in the new team include social media's Casey Neistat ; Cindy Holland (VP for Original Content at Netflix); Eva Longoria (actress); and Mia Hamm (soccer). READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

What if an influencer collective could be truly collaborative, rather than fodder for a depressing Netflix reality show ? By moving away from the “influencer house” model, Collab Crew can also expand to include more BIPOC creators and entrepreneurs in the Georgia capital. A post shared by Collab Studios (@collabstudiosatl).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Peacock has previously served at such firms as Teradata , Netflix , and Capital one. The company is venture backed by Benchmark Capital , TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners , Limelight Networks and Intel Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

This is Venture Capital. In the current market it’s not that hard to find executives leaving: Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Snap, Salesforce.com, SpaceX … you name it?—?to In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% Chances are you’ll see a lot of good deals.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

Tiger Global is leading this round, a Series A, with Scooter Braun’s TQ Ventures, Temasek, Avenir Growth, Founders Fund , Talis Capital, Connect Ventures, Animoca Brands, Access industries, and Coatue Management also participating, along with “a number of high-profile angel investors”, the company said.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This includes the folks that funded Google and Yahoo and Netflix and Ebay, and many of the great recent companies which were able to start and grow to massive scale in just a short period of time. And for a select few entrepreneurs, they are able to go out and raise the venture capital they need and make their dreams a reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has struggles with the same issue, as video streaming takes over. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. In reality, failure is not a bad thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform. Be aggressive and alert.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Why else would name brands with huge resources, like Blockbuster and Kodak , get overrun by upstarts like Netflix and Apple. Capitalize on existing strengths to roll-out new initiatives. You can’t ignore the key principles preached by every innovative entrepreneur: Build tomorrow’s opportunity rather than extend today’s.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The startup, which is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said its site includes guides to content in Netflix Instant Streaming, Amazon VOD, as well as another 1,200 sources. Clicker.com is headed by Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask.com. The firm's site had not yet gone live as of the announcement.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. YouTube didn’t kill television, it just became Netflix… T hings can move in two different directions at the same time. “And I don’t see it as zero sum. Its show, the Danogs, has 4.5

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

Toygaroo--which calls itself the "Netflix of toys"--allows families to sign up for monthly deliveries of toys, which they can keep for 30- to 60-days before exchanging. Los Angeles-based Toygaroo.com , a new startup that allows families to rent toys, has raised $200,000 in a funding round, the firm said late Monday evening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has struggles with the same issue, as video streaming takes over. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. In reality, failure is not a bad thing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

Connexity, according to Gross, does to online ads what Amazon and Netflix do for products and movies. The round was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and also included Siemer Ventures, Persistence Partners and Fastclick Cofounders Jeff Pryor and Dave Gross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform. Be aggressive and alert.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2016

A silver lining has emerged in the wake of the massive and well-publicized denial-of-service attack launched less than two months ago by hackers using millions of IoT devices to cripple the websites of major companies like Amazon, Netflix and Twitter. Even some in Washington, such as U.S.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

s other startup advantages include: A long media history: Companies such as Netflix and Buzzfeed are based in L.A. There is startup money in the city — especially early-stage capital — which is a crucial ingredient many other regions lack. These tentpole companies will help startups to prioritize developing their human capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Yekra also allows creators to establish an exclusivity rights period and set up distribution to other platforms including Netflix and Hulu Plus. by angel investor Maurice Gallagher and UK’s Bray Capital. Business Entertainment Startups Video Bray Capital Danny Trejo Ed Hardy Maurice Gallagher Tattoo Tattoo Nation Trvis Barker Yekra'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I read it just after I entered the Venture Capital industry more than a decade ago. In order to get a better sense on your own fallibility I would encourage every entrepreneur to watch Brain Games, a Nat Geo series that is available on Netflix (and YouTube for a fee). I see this often in investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Social Capital / Earned Media – For many people keeping a blog is a way to build up “social capital” or as it’s sometimes referred to as “earned media.” We then went on to film an amazing 90 minute discussion afterward for This Week in Venture Capital.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. We happen to be very profitable company, but as we look to grow, also need to explore different sources of capital. Really, it's just another source of capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has suffered from the same issue, as video streaming takes over. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. In reality, failure is not a bad thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform. Be aggressive and alert.

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