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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Culver City-based Encantos , an edtech startup which helps kids with literacy, learning skills, and life skills, has raised $5.7M in a new funding round, the company announced this morning. Encantos said the new funds will go to accelerate its subscription services. Encantos last raised funding back in January.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Foundation Capital, Amplify LA, Sterling.VC, and ReImagined Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Culver City-based Envoy Technologies a startup developing programs to help make electric vehicles available to disadvantaged communities, has received $1.5M in funding from the California Energy Commission, according to the company.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Culver City-based Clutter , which operates a technology-enabled, self storage service which picks up, stores, and retrieves your excess stuff on demand, has acquired an operator of self storage services in the New York market, The Storage Fox.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

million from LA’s own venture fund, Upfront Ventures and a clutch of security experts. LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Culver City-based All Def Digital , an urban youth programming media brand co-founded by Sanjay Sharma and Russell Simmons, has raised $10M in a Series B financing. All Def Digital said the funding will go towards original programming, distribution, and brand marketing services. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Culver City-based Clutter , which offers up "on-demand" self storage of your extra stuff, has raised $200M in a Series D funding, the company announced on Wednesday morning. According to Clutter, the Series D funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund with participation from Sequoia, Atomico, GV, Fifth Wall and Four Rivers.

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MAY 2, 2017

Culver City-based CreatorIQ , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised a Series A funding from Affinity Group, the company disclosed this week. Size of the funding round was not announced by the company, which until recently, was known as SocialEdge.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Culver City-based Flowspace , a provider of "on-demand" warehousing and fulfillment services to businesses, has raised $12M in a Series A funding round, the company announced this morning. in funding, including an earlier $3.4M seed funding it receivedin 2017. in funding, including an earlier $3.4M

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Culver City-based NantWorks , the collection of companies run by biotech billionaire Patrick Soon Shiong, has backed gene sequencing startup Genos Research , the companies disclosed today. Genos said it raised $6M in the funding round from NantWorks. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Culver City-based Uproxx Media Group , which operates the Uproxx entertainment and pop culture news site, has been acquired by Warner Music Group , the two said on Thursday. Uproxx Media Group also provides branded content and video services to marketers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , the provider of technology and payroll, and production management services for the entertainment industry, said on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Culver City-based CAPS Payroll.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Culver City-based Eccentex , a developer of a software-as-a-service, enterprise business process management product, has raised $7.5M in an equity funding. The funding came from VTB Capital. Eccentex, which is led by Glen E. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy has recently launched into the market, with an on-demand, car wash service--currently serving the west side. The company is currently self funded. The startup is led by Andrew Davis. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Rinse , a San Francisco-based on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, said Thursday that it is expanding it service to Los Angeles, after raising a $3.5M funding round.

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JUNE 2, 2015

Culver City-based DataScience , a provider of data analytics services aimed at enterprises to help make sense of business data, said this morning that it has raised $4.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Pelion Ventures Partners, Crosscut Ventures and TenOneTen.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. The funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and also included Michael Ovitz and Ron Conway's SV Angel fund. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Investors will look to fund companies with strong gross margins, in case basic survival becomes necessary.

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APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), We spent the first to years servicing this one core vertical, and we're now started to expand to adjacent markets, including the closest relatives to quick serve, including casual dining chains.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. At Amplify, I evolved into wanting to do a fund, and thought about doing a regular venture fund. We had people in fourteen cities worldwide, including San Francisco and Seattle. We actually are ideating internally.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. Be Great recognizes seven main startup points in Los Angeles: “Silicon Beach”, West LA, Culver City, Pasadena, Orange County, South Bay, and Downtown LA.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City]. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name.

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APRIL 29, 2014

I wrote WiFiToys, a do-it-yourself how to build yourself stuff out of scratch, and started Crashspace, the Makerspace in Culver City. We thought we could deliver that 3D image as a software-as-a-service. How are you funding this project? This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. The first thing we offer, is it's completely automatic.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebooks earliest investor—paid $11.5 Back to Top « Customer Service. Wealthy Investors Flock to Puerto Rico. Wall Street Journal.

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