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Steamboat Invests in Chinese Web Analytics Firm

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Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company, has invested in a Chinese startup which provides web, video, and search analytics, Gridsum Technology. According to Gridsum, Steamboat led its Series A. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Move Networks Acquired by Echostar

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Move, which briefly was based in Irvine, was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast and Televisa. The firm had been founded and ended up again in American Fork, Utah where founder Drew Major, a co-founder of Novell, is located.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Gendai Games Raises Funding

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The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included investments from Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. CEO Agustin recently moved into the LA area from Austin, and has started to build up a team here in addition to the firm's Texas staff. READ MORE>>.

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Passenger Expands Board

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Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Overture. Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Join Us At Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. Speaker List.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists.