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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video mobile marketing firm led by James Citron, said today that it has named Tara Zanecki as Vice President of Marketing and Client Services. Zanecki joins the company from Obscura Digital in San Francisco. Mogreet said Zanecki has more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience in technology.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , coming off a new round of venture funding, is in expansion mode, saying that it has opened up a new Midwest sales office for the company. Mogreet said it has opened up a new office headed by Joshua Pyne, who the firm snagged from ChaCha, the mobile questions and answers service.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of mobile video marketing services, has raised $2.8M No details on the funding have been announced by the company, which is led by James Citron. Mogreet has previously raised funding from Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and Spyglass Ventures.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video-based, mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, reported today that it has named Jesse Silver as Senior Sales Director. Mogreet said it is expanding the sales team to drive new business for the company. SIlver was previously at OpenMarket, and also served at MX Telecom.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Venice, California-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, has raised $2.0M No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company. Mogreet's investors include Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and Spyglass Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Venice-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and services firm headed by James Citron, has launched a new, mobile service today called moShare. According to the company, the service makes it easier for users to share video, pictures, songs, and articles to consumers via a text message.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Venice-based Mogreet , the developer of mobile messaging and marketing related products and services, said today that its moShare web-to-mobile sharing services has partnered with ShareThis. Mogreet is led by James Citron, and is backed by Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, Bryant Park Ventures and DFJ Frontier.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform. Founded in 2006, Mogreet is a privately held company.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based Payvia , which is backed by Silver Lake Sumeru, said today that it has rebranded the company and refocused the company on SMS and MMS marketing. The company also said it has launched a new product, aimed at video transcoding for clients on a wide range of mobile devices. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

WellCaster , a developer of enterprise wellness apps, has set up its operations in Los Angeles, and hired LA technology veteran Jay Goss as President of the company. The company--which originally started in New York--develops mobile apps specifically aimed at enterprise customers ofering up wellness apps to their employees.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

The startup, led by Los Angeles startup veteran Jay Goss, says the company's technology was developed by the former CTO of AskJeeves, and uses photo sharing to power a recommendation engine. Goss has previously been involved with such companies as Kumba Health, Wellcaster, RxVantage, Mogreet, and Numedeon, among other firms.

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JULY 16, 2013

Launchpad LA offers up a $100,000 investment, free office space in Santa Monica, mentoring and access to resources, and much more to companies. Launchpad LA lists nine successful exits in its portfolio so far, including Cramster, Flipgloss, iBeatYou.com, Mogreet, MoVoxx, Sometrics, TechForward, InheritedHealth, and TicketMob.

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JUNE 13, 2016

The company said the expansion comes due to the hiring of a new CEO, SoCal startup vet Jay Goss, to lead the company. Goss has previously helped to run such companies as Numedeon, EternalSpace, Mogreet, RxVantage, Kumba Health and ExecuSurv, and also was an executive at Disney. in funding.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Citron was previously CEO of mobile messaging and marketing firm Outspoken, and prior to that, was CEO and founder of Mogreet, which was acquired in 2013. The company allows users to make donations as small as $5 to charities from either their smartphone or the web. Pledgeling has raised $4.1M

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The group launched its inaugural event--which combines the idea of a "bar crawl" with tours of local technology startups and accelerators--in July, touring such companies as ParkMe, Coloft, Goodreads, CallFire, and LaunchpadLA.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Join TechZulu on a tour of some of the hottest Silicon Beach tech companies. Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many Silicon Beach tech companies on August 30 th from 6pm to 11pm Have a free beer or beverage, drop off a resume, see the office space or just kick back. Tech Crawl Venues.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. James Citron: It's actually nearly ubiquitous.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Silicon Beach Fest, created by Digital LA and presented by engage:BDR, is the first startup / entertainment fest in LA with programming by tech community team effort including companies (Digital LA, engage:BDR, StartEngine, TechZulu, PromoJam, PageWoo, venues (Hotel Erwin, Viceroy Hotel, Cross Campus, Coloft, CoWorks, Working Village, io/LA).

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JUNE 3, 2019

Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures. If you see all of the examples, like Salesforce, Warby Parker, the companies that do good outperform all of their peers. How did you decide to get into this as a company? What is Pledgeling? I'm thinking, this is crazy.

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