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APRIL 15, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire of Richard Rosenblatt, has handed out some big bonuses to executives, three months after the firm's successful IPO.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Santa Monica-based Heal , the on-demand doctor's house call startup, said this morningg that it has raised $26.9M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Tull investment Group, and also included Breyer Capital, Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm), David Ellison (Skydance Media), Hashtag One, and Slow Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Burbank-based streaming media firm Loop Media says it has launched its first, OTT service, called The Preview Channel , on XUMO TV. Loop Media recently announced its "short-form" streaming startup, saying it raised $10M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Richard Rosenblatt , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Demand Media said today at the Twiistup conference in Los Angeles, that he sees an IPO as a possible opportunity for the firm. Tags: demand media exit content. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the well funded Internet content startup headed by Richard Rosenblatt, the former chairman of MySpace, has acquired the domain name Demand.com. Demand Media acquired the domain name from Phoenix-based inter123, a firm owned by Jeffrey Peterson, former founder of Quepasa.com.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 -- LAVA Special Event: Venture Funding in Digital Media. Digital Media's New World: Incumbents, Insurgents, and Investors: The media world is going through tremendous change. See [link].

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APRIL 22, 2009

Demand Media , the well funded online media firm run by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has a new solution to the recent doom, gloom, and stress brought on by the economy: a new iPhone app it is calling " The Daily Puppy." READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online content publishing firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has reportedly selected Goldman Sachs to run its IPO effort, according to a report this evening from the Financial Times. The report says that Demand Media has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering for the firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Today, Washington, DC-based Revolution is announcing its latest fund. Revolution began nearly 15 years ago as Steve Case’s balance sheet fund, in essence.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

From larger fund investors like Mark Suster and Kara Nortman at Upfront Ventures to Dana Settle at Greycroft Partners; to early-stage investors like Will Hsu at Mucker Capital; TX Zhuo at Fika Ventures, the responses were generally upbeat about the future opportunities for Los Angeles startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Far from it.

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JULY 8, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based 3L Capital , a new venture capital investment fund co-founded by former Demand Media CEO Shawn Colo, has raised $217M in a new investment round, the firm said today.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Congrats on funding. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. That's what we are finding.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based WhipClip , a yet-to-be-launched startup led by Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, revealed today that it has raised $20M in a venture funding round. The funding reportedly values the startup at $100M. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While Google just launched its LA hub, Microsoft has operated a cloud region in Southern California for a while, and started wooing Hollywood last year at the National Association of Broadcasters conference, according to Tad Brockway, a general manager for Azure’s storage and media business. We open these doorways.”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The company--which trades on the NYSE as LFGR--said the funds would go to working capital and general corporate purposes, plus to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products and technologies. Leaf Group was last known as Demand Media. Leaf Group says it does not have any specific acquisitions in mind. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Build a following and start a brand through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). But sometimes higher prices create higher demand, causing a boom. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. Cheap money. Policy-driven distortions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird. Brand matters.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Tell us about Render Media? Demand Media made a business out of that.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

According to TaskUs, the funding round values the company at $500M. TaskUs has made its name providing much of the back end customer service and business process outsourcing for many, on-demand and Internet companies, across the ride sharing, social media, online food delivery, e-commerce and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. Runway AI user interface. million in 2023, up from $181.5

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APRIL 9, 2013

the startup which is taking on the new, generic top-level domain name market, announced a new round of funding today, a Series B round. The firm said the round was at twice the valuation of its initial Series A funding. Donuts is led by Paul Stahura, the former Demand Media President and Chief Strategy Officer.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

Shein has shown the world how combining social media marketing, data analytics, and China’s well-oiled supply chain has created a $100 billion fast fashion behemoth. As of last September, Cider had raised $130 million in funding and crossed the $1 billion valuation point. Its success naturally spawns imitators and challengers.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2018

These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics will also work their way through prepared food businesses. ” Collins’ company just raised $10 million in a funding round led by GV , the investment arm of Google parent company, Alphabet. million) Sprig , ($56.7

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MARCH 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based WhipClip , the content discovery startup which was co-founded by former Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, debuted its mobile app today , looking to help users create, share, and find music and television video clips. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Donuts has raised more than $100M in funding, and some of its executive team comes from Demand Media and Oversee.net. The domains are part of a bit extension of GoDaddy in the new global top-level-domain market. All of those domains are owned by Donuts. READ MORE>>. donuts godaddy domain domainer oversee gtld icann'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Santa Monica-based YouTube food show producer Tastemade has raised $10M in new funding, the firm said Thursday, led by Raine Ventures and also including Redpoint Ventures. Tastemade is the producer of a number of online, Youtube food and cooking shows, which had been founded by former Demand Media executives.

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JULY 7, 2015

Los Angeles-based WhipClip , the mobile television clip sharing app developer led by serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has raised $40M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Eminence Capital, and also included Institutional Venture Partners and Raine Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A number of local, high tech companies are putting their efforts behind Movember , a charity which helps raise funding and awareness for men's health, and particularly prostate cancer. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Often speakers will donate their fees to scholarship and childcare funds, she added.

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