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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. ShopNation's web site allows users to find fashion products, including clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and lingerie, sort-able by brand, features, price, and other options. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. Coolspotters is a web site which highlights which products celebrities are buying and wearing.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and electronics service and help firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, said this week that it has launched a new web and social media services arm. The firm is backed by The Tech Coast Angels, Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , the provider of royalty free music and sound effects run by Ryan Born, has scored a round of financing from micro stock photo site Fotolia. AudioMicro operates an online web site which allows users to license royalty free music and sound effects for their video products, YouTube videos, and other uses.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Other Deals.

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Hollywood-based Ranker , the online startup headed by Clark Benson, said today that it is now seeing over 1 million unique monthly visitors to its web site. Benson was the founder of eCrush, which he sold to Hearst in 2006; Ranker is backed by Benson, Siemer Venture Capital, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Jeff is the founder of crowd-sourcing location based mapping services web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. It has been a long 10 year drought of no IPOs and sub par M&A activity that has stifled the startup, venture capital and angel investment community throughout the US. However (More.).

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JUNE 8, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising play of Idealab's Bill Gross, said today that it has added news site Topix to its network. TweetUp allows Twitter users to bid on keywords to bring their tweets to the top when users search for information on different web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. The site said the two are launching the effort with a new series called "The Iceman Chronicles". READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

The firm allows users to increase the prominence of their Twitter and other updates in searches on third party Twitter clients, web sites, and other applications. The site is venture backed by Idealab, Index Ventures, betaworks, Steve Case's Revolution LLC, First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis and Jeff Jarvis.

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MAY 21, 2010

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.

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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. capital venture online shopping shopzilla davis chuck executive rewards swagbucks' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2013

According to Greentoe, it will use the funding for marketing of the site, including a multi-platform advertising campaign across the web, television, and mobile. greentoe venture capital angel ecommerce retail retailer seed' The funding came from Parker Thompson from 500 Startups/Dave McClure. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Evolver , a firm developing avatar creation technology, launched an alpha of its web site this week, focused on helping consumers create their own virtual avatars. The site allows users to create what Nilles says are "breathtakingly accurate" versions of users, or to create fantasy characters. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable. in funding from such firms as Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, The Tornante Company, and Time Warner. Veoh had raised over $67.5M

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JUNE 18, 2010

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). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. Tags: entrepreneur startup venture capital investment repeat. which he sold to AOL.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Retention Science develops software which uses big data to help analyze and predict the behavior of consumers on a web site, which can be used to drive offers to those customers. Retention Science is venture backed by Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Venutres, Double M Capital, along with angels Paige Craig, Clark Landry & Bong Koh.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based My Damn Channel , the online comedy site headed by Rob Barnett and Warren Chao, has raised $1.0M 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.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based Global Fitness Media has officially launched its fitness web site FitOrbit , focused on helping users connect with fitness trainers and track their fitness training and meal planning online. Global Fitness Media was co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake Global and Exercise TV, and is run by Nick Desai.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of web content 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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JULY 14, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising firm started by Idealab's Bill Gross, is expanding out its network of sites this morning, saying that it has added four new publishers to its roster. All of those sites will serve up search results from TweetUp. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Martin is no longer listed on Redpoint's web site, was not listed in its latest fundraising documents, and declined to comment on the story. Martin had actually disappeared from Redpoint's site in February, when Redpoint announced it had closed its $400M, Redpoint IV early stage venture capital firm. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

BetterWorks looks to be scaling up dramatically; the firm currently has eight open positions listed on its web site for everything from engineers to marketing director. Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

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. That meant I got to operate them, working on video sites, travel sites, helping with content recommendations. What is Kixer? What''s your background?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital firm backed by Walt Disney Co., Yoyi Media provides targeted advertising and demographics to Chinese web sites. Tags: steamboat venture capital ventures disney walt yoyi media china internet advertising. has invested in a Chinese provider of online advertising.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

El Segundo-based Internet Brands , the Internet media firm headed by Bob Brisco, has been acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners, in a deal worth approximately $640M. Internet Brands owns a wide network of online web sites in a number of verticals. The price is a premium of approximately 46.5

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JANUARY 19, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has made an investment in Indianapolis question and answer site ChaCha , ChaCha said Wednesday afternoon. According to ChaCha, it raised $3M in total funding, including $900,000 in outstanding warrants from Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. building a web site for him. I figured there.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Pasadena-based PostUp , the Twiiter advertising firm backed by Idealab, Index Ventures, betaworks, Revolution LLC, First Round Capital, Jason Calacanis and Jeff Jarvis, said Tuesday that it has launched a new version of its Twidroyd Twitter client for Android phones. PostUp is headed by Bill Gross, founder of Idealab.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Pasadena-based Cramster.com , which operates an online home help web site, is announcing today that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Primera Capital. Tags: cramster homework help venture capital. As part of the funding, Ori Sasson of Primera is joining the firm's board of directosr.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

GumGum is backed by NEA, GRP Partners, First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures, and develops in-image advertising technology focused on interactive ad units integrated with photos on the sites of web publishers. He also has served at NBCUniversal and AOL. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2010

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 Hitfix, led by investor Yuri Pikover. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The firm has previously raised funding from Accuitive Medical Ventures and The Innovation Factory; the Innovation Factory indicates on its web site that AqueSys had raised $6.9M A representative from Longtidue Capital appears to also have joined the firm's board. in a Series A and had been working on a Series B worth $9.0M.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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