socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project is significantly boosting its executive ranks today, saying that it has named a new CTO, General Counsel, and SVP of Product Management to the firm.

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Ticketmaster Clearstone Yahoo Web 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. Frank Addante: As you might know, this is the second company I have been involved with taking public.

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Startup Advertising Los Angeles Southern California 176

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante , announced this morning that it has hired investment banker Allen & Company. Rubicon has raised over $42M in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has hired three new executives. According to the company, it has named Nick Hulse as Chief Revenue Officer, Bill Harries as Vice President of Sales Operations, and Bill McHargue as vice President of North American Sales. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 113

Clearstone Oracle Web Advertising 113

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

” Struck Capital, which is currently investing out of a $55 million second fund, would not disclose the size of DiCaprio’s stake, but said that the investment is significant. DiCaprio has already made a number of investments in startup companies that have done very well for the Academy Award-winning actor.

Capital 188

Capital Funding Los Angeles Invest 188

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which provides Internet advertising optimization services to publishers, announced today that it has raised $9M more. The Series C funding was led by the GE/NBCU Peakcock Equity Fund, and also included Clearstone Venture partners and Mayfield Fund. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Venture Capital Equity Advertising 124

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M.

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Capital Funding Clearstone Internet Brands 172

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has signed a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to give Katz access to its inventory of premium display ads, the firms announced today. Katz 360 Sales said it is using Rubicon Project's Internet advertising infrastructure to customize content and audience selections for its advertisers.

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Advertising Clearstone Santa Monica Sales 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has tapped a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to sell premium display ads to advertisers, the firms announced today. Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Sales 133

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization software firm headed by Frank Addante, released new traffic and customer numbers Monday, saying that the company is now serving up ads for 8 of the top 15 newspaper publishers in the U.S. Tags: project newspaper rubicon publishing advertising. READ MORE>>.

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News Clearstone Advertising Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , a developer of e-commerce technology based on consumer behavior, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of funding and launched its "behavioral commerce technology" to boost e-commerce conversion. Details on the funding round were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Commerce Technology eHarmony Funding 154

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2014

in a seed funding. The company disclosed Monday that the funding came from 500 Startups, Siemer Ventures, Archer Gray, Rubicon VC, Wefunder, Be Great Partners, Rosepaul Investments, Mogility Capital, Sierra Maya Ventures, and Warner Brothers, along with angels. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Hollywood Venture Capital Content 185

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maestro , a new startup developing engagement and analytics software for the e-sports industry, has raised $3M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Hersh Interactive Group, and also included Rubicon Venture Capital and the Stanford-StartX Fund.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment. For several years, the phrase "Los Angeles Venture Capitalist" had almost become an oxymoron.

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Los Angeles Truecar Angel Anthem 187

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

NewCo , the company which put together the NewCo festival in Los Angeles in November, has just raised $1.7M in a seed funding, the company disclosed today. NewCo--which is based in the Bay Area--was founded by John Battelle and Brian Monahan.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Seed Funding Conference Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

in a seed funding round, and set up its U.S. The UK-based company did not disclose the source of the funding. Glow said the funding will specifically go towards opening up a new, regional headquarters in Los Angeles, headed up by David Wamsley, who formerly founded GravityEight, campsix, and Adauction.com. READ MORE>>.

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Media Idealab OpenX Seed Funding 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- The Workshop: Get Funded in One Day (Dealmaker LA). Brought to you by the team who produces Startonomics and Dealmaker LA, this hands-on "workshop-style" event will allow entrepreneurs to drill down on the key issues we face when laying the foundation to build and fund their company.

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Rustic Canyon MyLife GRP Partners Funding 100

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Pasadena-based online advertising software firm OpenX has just raised a big, $20M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm late Friday. The funding has not yet been announced by the company. The new round would bring the company's total raised up to around $50M, over four rounds of funding.

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OpenX ReachLocal Southern California Advertising 168

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

There is a lot of talk these days about the growing number of angel funds and super angel funds, that is funds that quickly invest 250k to 2MM (roughly) into a company and remain very hands off. To be sure these super angel funds do indeed properly fit into the new trends around company creation.

Angel 140

Angel Clearstone Advertising Funding 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Lawrence Ng , the former founder of Oversee.net--who is now running an asset management company called LNG Management--has linked up with New York City-based venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures. LNG said that Ng is incubating a number of startups and selectively invests in early stage startups and funds. READ MORE>>.

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Oversee.net Southern California Incubator Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We''re doing that again this year, with the thought to highlight some of the people (not companies) here who are worth watching, wherever they are and whatever they are doing. Brian Lee also gets double credit, with another of list companies--The Honest Company--recently raising $70M in funding.

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SoCalTech Acquisition Truecar Southern California 166

Frank Addante

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Steve Jobs didn’t choose “we build the best devices” as a slogan for Apple; he chose “think different” There were other teams that were better qualified and funded in the world of aviation, but it was The Wright Brothers who created the first flying machine. They are hungry for a company mission, not a company manual.

Company 40

Company Companies Organization Mobile 40

Frank Addante

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Steve Jobs didn’t choose “we build the best devices” as a slogan for Apple; he chose “think different” There were other teams that were better qualified and funded in the world of aviation, but it was The Wright Brothers who created the first flying machine. They are hungry for a company mission, not a company manual.

Company 40

Company Companies Organization Mobile 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Bay area venture capital firm Mayfield Fund appears to be eyeing more investments in the Los Angeles area, with the addition of Sean Moriarty , the former CEO of Ticketmaster, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the firm. billion under management, and has investments in such firms here as Rubicon Project and Inphi. Mayfield has $2.8

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Ticketmaster Los Angeles Angel Venture Capital 165

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

And of course there are virulent debates about whether publicly funded media should exist at all. I fall firmly on the side of supporting public funds for quality, less-biased, programming. But I’ve seen first hand when I lived in the UK how great public funding of news can be with The Beeb. He was CEO of E!,

Riot Games 299

Riot Games Media Startup News 299

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? The themes expanded to include both hot new startups, as well as companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, Belkin, and Telesign which have been part of LA tech for more than a decade. I like events. This is just the start. Watch for more in 2015.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Frank Addante

JANUARY 27, 2008

And today, we at the the Rubicon Project announced that we have raised $21 million in total financing (see press announcement). We are very excited, as this is a huge vote of a confidence for the company from investors. It's not everyday that a company that has been around for only 8 months.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Press Venture Capital Capital 40

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Others I have not.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros., ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Frank Addante

JANUARY 27, 2008

And today, we at the the Rubicon Project announced that we have raised $21 million in total financing (see press announcement). We are very excited, as this is a huge vote of a confidence for the company from investors. It's not everyday that a company that has been around for only 8 months.

Press 40

Press Twiistup Company Companies 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. ► April (3) Make a Big Splash without Spending Big Cash Rubicon Project Update - Free Ad Server Launch and. .

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. ► April (3) Make a Big Splash without Spending Big Cash Rubicon Project Update - Free Ad Server Launch and. .

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Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40