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Robin Games Gets $7M In Seed Funding For Women's Games

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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Robin Games Gets $7M In Seed Funding For Lifestyle Games

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. Wilson previously worked at Jam City. READ MORE>>.

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Bombd Sets Up Shop In Venice, Aims At Social Networking

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APRIL 5, 2016

Bombd , a startup which develops a social networking and messaging app revolving around sharing instant photos with others, has set up shop in Venice Beach. The startup--originally started in Australia--said its team and founders have moved to Venice Beach to scale the app in the U.S., and that it has begun hiring a team here.

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GIGXR Acquires Assets Of Pearson Immersive Learning Group, Finds $1M

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Venice, California-based GIGXR , a new startup, has acquired the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a unit of publishing firm Pearson, and raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Gem Gets $2M For Bitcoin API

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Venice, California-based Bitcoin startup Gem has raised $2M, to make Bitcoin easier to use for developers, the company said this week. The funding was co-led by First Round''s Howard Morgan and Jai Choi, of Tekton Ventures. Gem has develops an API which helps developers build in Bitcoin support and security into their apps.

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Bitium Raises $2.4M

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round.

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Clapit Raises AU$2.57M

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APRIL 6, 2016

Los Angeles- and Sydney, Australia-based Clapit , a startup developing a social media crowdsourcing app, said it has raised AU$2.57M ($1.94M US), to bring its mobile app to market. The seed funding came from Australia angels Mark Moran and Paul Siderovski. Clapit, which says it is based in Sydney and has its U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Altly Reveals Seed Investors

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JUNE 1, 2011

Venice-based Altly , the startup headed by Dmitry Shapiro which is developing an alternative to Facebook, has revealed the full list of its seed funding investors today, saying that it raised $1M in funding from Freestyle Capital , Social Leverage , Arthur Bilger, Draper Fisher Jurvetson , Howard Lindzon , Tom Anderson , Alex Bard , Alex Karelin , (..)

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost. And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help. And as Ive witnessed countless times, they cant get there any other way.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

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APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

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MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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Amplify LA's Paul Bricault On Startup Accelerator Lessons, Five Years Later

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Robin Games Gets $7M In Seed Funding For Women's Games

Robin Games Gets $7M In Seed Funding For Lifestyle Games

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Bombd Sets Up Shop In Venice, Aims At Social Networking

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