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MAY 11, 2010

West Hollywood-based SocialVibe , an online site which combines social media with support for brands and charities, has raised $11.65M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. SocialVibe has previously raised funding from JAFCO American Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2011

The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. Clicker was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO, Redpoint Ventures, and Blake Krikorian, and had raised around $21M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , a provider of an online programming guide to Internet television, said today that it is publicly launching its site, Clicker.com today. The firm's site had not yet gone live as of the announcement. The firm's site had not yet gone live as of the announcement. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the newly launched video and TV indexing and search site which is headed by former Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, told its users today that it has linked the site to Boxee, which is developing products which connect computers to televisions. Clicker is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

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APRIL 23, 2013

To do that, it has snagged the funding of Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, a new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. enterprise software technology google instant search capital venture srch2' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Clicker Media , the online video guide service funded by Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, said that it has linked with the University of California, Los Angeles, with a branded version of the service specifically for UCLA students.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The firm's web site indicates it is launching in January of next year. Impact Radius is backed by Redpoint Ventures, and the firm's management team includes Per Petterson, co-founder of Commission Junction. Tags: impact radius venture capital. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The site--which was originally a project of Namesake--gained funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Redpoint Ventures, Atlas Venture, Paul Kedrosky, and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. Los Angeles-based Chill , the online video discussion website headed by Brian Norgard, has raised $1.5M

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding, for the firm's social media and brand charity site. According to the firm, the funding was led by JAFCO Ventures, and also included Series A investor Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Los Angeles-based DailyStrength, an online health-related social networking site, has been acquired by HSW International, Inc., DailyStrength was venture backed by around $5M in venture capital from Redpoint Ventures. a developer of Internet businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

NIM, which was acquired last week for $170M, had been backed by venture firms Redpoint Ventures, Mission Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures. According to OVP's site, it was approached in 2005 by the CFO of a former portfolio company, who had made money for the firm twice before, begging the firm to invest. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzznet , which operates a network of web sites focused on celebrities and pop culture, announced this morning that it has raised $12.5M According to the company, the funding round was led by Focus Ventures, and also included Anthem Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The firm has been squarely aimed at the content and blog world, with recent hires of editors from AOL's PopEater, and TMZ.com, to help build out its sites. It also powers the celebrity sites of such folks as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and Nicole Richie. The firm is backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners. corp.mail.com).

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). Time will tell. Go Boulder!

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Since then, that company has been able to get Benchmark and Redpoint, and Jim Lanzone is doing a great job with Clicker.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. The conversion rates go up, when e-commerce sites deploy instant search.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. If you watch the video you’ll see that Jason & I debated whether Austin Ventures or Redpoint had funded HowAway / VRBO … turns out we were both right! Rumored to be appox.

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