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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. Santa Monica, CA-based Ring makes smart doorbells connected to cameras that alert homeowners when someone is at their door. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.)

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Santa Monica Commerce Report Acquisition 62

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The prize money for Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Festival technology conference has hit $151,000, after early stage venture investor Venture51 agreed to invest $51,000 in the winner of the conference's "Best in Show" award. Mahalo is based in Santa Monica. The conference is being held in March in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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Conference Mahalo Santa Monica Commerce 145

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MARCH 10, 2015

The consortium is led by Los Angeles City College, Santa Monica College, and Pasadena Community College, and also includes partnerships with the, Los Angeles County Workforce Investment Board, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce''s Bixel-Exchange, Amazon Web Services, and JP Morgan Chase.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. We have invested $17.3

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. I wanted to go back to both, with an operation and investment focus. It's different from making an investment, and it's also different from an incubator, in that it's a long term relationship.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2010

One such company, Santa Monica, Calif-based FamilyFinds, launched this week with $5.75 Groupon ushered in the new era of group buying, and now hyper local and vertical deal sites are the name of the game. in funding from Split Rock Partners. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Sites Santa Monica Invest Funding 56

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Key Events include: June 14-16: Hackathon presented by AT&T will gather a few hundred developers, coaches, and business professionals who will create startup pitches at ROC Santa Monica. Thursday Night Fashion Party at Santa Monica Place.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

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JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets. We can see marchan transactions, and if they are making e-commerce transactions, if they are paying things at small kiosks.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

It''s all over the map, from content moderation for applications like Whisper and Tinder, to photo retouching for e-commerce websites. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school.

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Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers. Unlike the U.S.,

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Mobile Santa Monica Startup Commerce 140

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APRIL 22, 2016

How did you end up in Santa Monica? Jason Reid: We have hired some very experienced folks as part of our team from LA, who have been in the market with e-commerce and gifting in the past. Part of that is just a general open-ness, and a little more early adoption of mobile commerce.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

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MAY 20, 2016

Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. If you're not familiar with that, that's where the barista at Starbucks can invest ina company.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. At the end of the 90's, I had the opportunity to launch Bugleboy.com, an e-commerce enabled site, which we launched a week fore Gap.com. You have to understand, in a public company, there are earnings, and all these trapping of being a public company.

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Startup CitySearch Outsource Development Organization 113

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm.

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