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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has detailed how to go about buying its new, connected "Spectacles" sunglasses, through a network of vending machines, the company said on Thursday. Those vending machines will only be available for around one day in each location, according to the company. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Yahoo is planning a big investment in Venice-based Snapchat , in a deal that values Snapchat at $10 billion, according to a report over the weekend. The WSJ reports that Yahoo is investing around $20M in Snapchat at the lofty valuation, using money it cashed out of the IPO of Alibaba. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat is in the midst of raising a new round of funding, led by storied venture capital investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which valued the company at close to $10 billion, according to a report. The report also said that Snapchat has around 100 million monthly active users now using its messaging service.

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JULY 23, 2018

Venice-based Snap is shutting down the Snapcash payment feature of Snapcash , which had offered up peer-to-peer payments on its network. Snapchat had launched the peer-to-peer payment service in conjunction with Square back in 2014. The feature will be shut down on August 30th. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a new startup developing a network of content creators for Snapchat, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Looking to buy one of Snapchat's new high tech Spectacles ? The new product, from Snapchat parent Snap Inc., is only available what Snap is calling the "Snapbot", a vending machine which moves from place to place selling its Snapchat specific, wirelessly enabled camera. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A report on Tuesday afternoon from Reuters says that Venice, California-based social communications and networking app developer Snapchat has filed its paperwork for its IPO. No terms or details on that IPO have been yet announced by the company, which has been rumored to be working on an IPO for months. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat seems to have learned its lesson from its recent security breach , and has proactively added a new CAPTCHA feature -- asking new users to select images containing its trademark ghost to prove they are human, and not a machine when creating an account. The new feature rolled out Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Yellow , the accelerator program launched by Snap in 2018, has selected ten companies to join its latest cohort. The list of new companies include: Brightly — an Oakland, Calif.-based based media company angling to be the conscious consumer’s answer to Refinery29. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat is hoping to launch an IPO, which will raise the company an astounding $4 billion in capital--valuing the company at between $25 billion and $35 billion--according to a report on Wednesday from Bloomberg. Snapchat is in the midst of an IPO effort being led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat has selected two investments banks--Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs--to lead the company's much anticipated IPO, according to a report from Reuters Wednesday afternoon. The report--citing "a source familiar with the situation"--said the IPO would value Snapchat at $25 billion. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, reported its results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that its fourth quarter revenues were up 36 percent to a record, $390M. However, the company is still posting big losses, saying it had a net loss of $191.7M on its quarter, which ended December 31, 2018. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based online ordering technology developer ChowNow says it has launched a new product, called the Order Better Network. According to the company, the new product helps connect restaurants to over a dozen channels for delivery and takeout.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat, and Time Warner announced on Monday that the two are in a $100M deal, where the two will collaborate on both content and advertising. on Snapchat over the next two years. on Snapchat over the next two years. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. Yellow’s small batches are much easier to manage than other accelerator behemoths like Y Combinator that are pushing hundreds of startups through their network. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Looking to buy one of Snapchat's new high tech Spectacles ? The new product, from Snapchat parent Snap Inc., is only available what Snap is calling the "Snapbot", a vending machine which moves from place to place selling its Snapchat specific, wirelessly enabled camera. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Venice-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat, said this morning that it has rolled out a new version of its Spectacles, its hands-free, photo-and-video snapping sunglasses. The company said the new glasses transfer to Snapchat up to four times faster. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The company said that Lin will play a "vital role" in its growth, directing financial strategy, business planning, and operations. Lin was previously CFO at Mavenlink and Cake, and also served at Gehry Technologies and Fast Search and Transfer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

the parent company of Snapchat , was paid $637.8M Evan Spiegel , the CEO of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , in compensation in 2017, in combined stock options and salary--the third highest CEO payout ever , according to Reuters. Spiegel's big payday was split between $636.6M in stock-based awards, plus $1.2M

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The companywhich is being very quiet about what it is working onwas founded by a group of former Snap executives, and is venture backed by Upfront Ventures, and which also included Lerer Hippeau, Manta Ray, and angels. Snapchat was able to recruit a huge talent base. Tell us a little bit about what you're up to now?

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

The company said the original content includes a number of serialized shows, "docuseries", and other efforts. The original shows will be on the Snapchat Discover page, as well as available through search. Snap said the effort is part of its partnership with NBCUniversal and Viacom. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Skip any talk about self-destructing messages for "privacy": an Irvine-based company, Aclipsa Mobile Video Solutions, said this morning that it has launched a new Android app specifically for "consenting adults". READ MORE>>. zipaclip sexting mobile android instant messaging'

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Santa Monica-based food content and programming startup Tastemade has raised $40M in a Series D funding, the company announced this morning, to further expand its content channels. Tastemade has now raised around $80M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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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.”

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. company is applying its own twist to the genre. The result?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Brud , the company behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela , is now worth at least $125 million thanks to a new round of financing the company is currently closing. Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. And he’s not alone.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

the parent company of Snapchat , has filed for its much anticipated IPO, saying in a filing late Thursday that it is looking to raise up to $3.0 Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Allen & Company LLC. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Allen & Company LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2014

Snapchat, the messaging pioneer leads the charge with a staggering $123 million raised (and a valuation of $3-4 billion) even amongst a strange series of uncertainty surrounding their denial of Facebook’s $3 billion cash offer and security leaks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Network Up. Prices down. But what else?

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Jerry Jao , Retention Science (Los Angeles, analytics/advertising).

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

SNAPCHAT Showing Phenomenal Growth ( link ). Snapchat’s #1 Channel ARSENIC TV Featured by Bloomberg ( link ). Daqri, Snapchat, SpaceX Make CNBC ‘s Disruptor 50 ( link ). Breakfast networking at #stream16 at @FairmontHotels @thebungalowSM pic.twitter.com/ug6gklIne7. FREQUENCY Raises $11M Series B ( link ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Thus the amount of money that companies have raised before going public had doubled since the Great Recession.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Social Media: Snapchat.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The company was founded by Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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