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AUGUST 5, 2014

What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. at the intersection of technology and media. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based Stem , which is developing a platform to simplify payments for musicians and other content creators, announced Wednesday morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The company says it has now raised $12.5M Stem was co-founded by Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners--so we thought it would be great to catch up with co-founders Rich Raddon and Zach James to hear more about what the company is working on now. Rich Raddon: As you know, we originally started out as a different company, MovieClips, at the very beginning.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. All of the major internet-age media companies had their own mobile strategies.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Donut Media is venture backed by Techstars Ventures, 3311 Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and professional driver Ryan Tuerck. What is Donut Media?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Hollywood-based Fanattac , a developer of an online, social media platform which looks to connect music fans and artists, has raised $1M in a funding round. The firm, which is headed by Dan Faiman, did not disclose the names of the investors in the company.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

In the mobile age, what is the key to connecting and engaging with users, and where does Hollywood''s creative content fit into the mix? What''s the connection between Seriously and Hollywood? You''ve got a situation, where Youtube is considered to have bigger celebrities now than Hollywood. They are super talented people there.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate said on Thursday that it has named Julie Uhrman to the position of Executive Vice President & General Manager of Lionsgate Over-The-Top (OTT) Ventures, the company's streaming media service. Uhrman also has served at IGN Entertainment and Vivendi Universal.

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MAY 9, 2019

West Hollywood-based LiveXLive Media , which produces digital media for the live entertainment space, has inked a distribution deal with Chinese video platform Tencent Video , where LiveXLive will stream the EDC Las Vegas music festival to Chinese viewers. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media?

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MAY 2, 2011

Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, told its users today that it is gearing up to launch a new, spin-off website for its social media contest platform. No other details of the new effort were announced by the company.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

West Hollywood-based LiveXLive Media , the parent company of Slacker and provider of digital media services focused on live entertainment, said today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival. Financial details of the win were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2016

If you wanted to find someone who truly understands the convergence of the media and technology, you need to go no further than Peter Csathy , the CEO of newly launched CREATV Media (www.creatv.media). Peter Csathy: CREATV Media is a very different kind of firm. Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Have a look at the companies below.

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APRIL 23, 2013

The world of media is in the midst of a major transition, where radio and television are no longer the powers they used to be--and there''s a clear shift towards some unknown future online. Unfortunately for the rest of media, it''s also allowed us to be honest with our audience, which they are not doing much at all.

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MAY 21, 2019

For over 100 years entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. There are significant economic reasons for companies to persist. Sitting at the intersection of these two market forces are companies like AmazeVR, which is hoping to beat the odds.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. Warner Bros.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Brud , the actual company behind one of Instagram’s most popular virtual influencers (it’s a thing), has raised millions of dollars from Silicon Valley investors because this is 2018 and everything is awful. Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. It worked. .

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

“You can’t build a large online video company. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not. Online technology company that distributes video. Most will fail. Always ask for the order.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media said this week that it has released a new, smart TV app, which runs on Apple TV, Roku And Samsung TV. The company said the upgraded app allows users on those platforms to listen to and watch m usic and pop culture entertainment. LiveXLive is led by Chairman and CEO Robert Ellin. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. Popbase is an app that operates almost like an interactive forum for new media.

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APRIL 30, 2014

The company--which was briefing analysts and others in New York today--also said it plans on rolling out three new ad units, including an in-stream purchase widget which will let consumers order items directly from ads. hulu streaming advertising television content hollywood pizzahut' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

The company, led by CEO Gilad Talmon, develops technology it says allows for "highly reproducible holograms" which are being aimed at immersive media, games and virtual content. Los Angeles-based Tetavi, a developer of immersive content and technology, says it has raised a $20M funding round from Insight Partners.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

In a move to add some Silicon Valley cred to the company''s board, Burbank-based The Walt Disney Company has added Jack Dorsey, chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square Inc., Disney said that Dorsey will serve as an independent director of the company. twitter executive studio hollywood entertainment disney walt square'

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The new startup, being led by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, said it is creating an entertainment platform that "brings together the best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood". JPMorgan Chase & Co., Liberty Global, and Madrone Capital.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based Artie, a new startup developing mobile games which can be played inside social media, video, and messaging platforms, said this week that it has raised $10M in a seed funding round. The company's founders are Ryan Horrigann and Armando Kirwin.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Or Tapes and CDs?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

are in a new deal where the two will work together, where Disney will work with Microsoft on ways to create, produce and distribute content on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the companies announced on Friday morning. The Walt Disney Studios , in Burbank, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Until recently, three legacy providers (Sizmek, PointRoll and Google’s DoubleClick) have dominated the rich media market. But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica.

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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. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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MARCH 2, 2010

We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. I immediately started at a company called Abrams artist industry, which I subsequently ran for nearly seven years. At a high level, what does Gotcast do?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint.

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MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. hours of TV / day.

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). It certainly has challenges.

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MAY 17, 2017

Ted Dhanik is co-founder and CEO of West Hollywood-based engage: BDR (www.engagebdr.com), which recently just launched an influencer marketing platform aimed at Instagram.users. I hate to say it, but influencers, who really are the ones driving volume, traffic, and revenues, are not being treated well by the platforms.

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