socalTECH

MAY 20, 2014

Venice, California-basd Epoxy --which was built by former executive from Team Downey--has launched a brand new set of tools aimed at helping online video creators use social media, and also disclosed a funding round. The startup is led by Juan Bruce, and was co-founded by fellow Team Downey executive Jason Ahmad.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience. Why get some funding and make this into a separate company?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

To that end, Venice-based Epoxy announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, to help build out its product suite to help grow, engage, and monetize online video channels. According to Epoxy, the new funding will go to expand its engineering team and build out its products.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. With our backend tools we can push products to the front of videos, allowing content providers to drive shopping activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. So I think it’s now fair to rate me at 9/10 on follow-on fundings. I am closing 3 new fundings in April (2 new, 1 follow-on). As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Davis talked about Loot Crate’s incredible trajectory, growing from shipping Avengers cologne as one of its first mystery box items to having none other than Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr, as an investor a mere four year later. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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