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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

West Hollywood-based Attn: , a company which publishes an online news site focused on social topics like economic mobility, civil rights, education, criminal justice, and the environment, has raised $18.5M in a funding round, the company disclosed on Friday.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media. Miso Media's guitar learning app is changing how people learn music, listening to musicians, letting them know if they're playing the right notes, and teaching them how to play a guitar, all from their iPad. The firm has picked up funding from YCombinator, Charles River Ventures , Start Fund , and angels.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Start Engine, started by Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler, said today that it is looking to provide mentorship, funding, and other resources to startups in the area, starting with a first class in January.

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Startup Southern California Activision Mentor 219

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JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone.

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I didn't have any funding.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

socaltech is a sponsor of next week's Recurring Revenue Conference on Tuesday at the Skirball Center, where Weiss will be speaking on a panel. Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them. We understand you're backed by $100M in funding? What is IPSY? Or, maybe they'd learn from a magazine.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutelier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. It sounds like you''re completely boostrapped.

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MAY 16, 2012

Looking to help voters educate themselves better on the candidates, and the issues, Taylor Peck and Nick Boutleier came up with iSideWith (www.isidewith.com), a cleverly built site which lets users input their opinions on issues important to them, and helps the compare and match their answer with the positions of all of the candidates in the race.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We have a licensing business with that.

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. How did the new fund come about? Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital? David Waxman: This fund is a new company, the way I see it.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Ken Brook: Part of our job at MetaX is educating the industry. I have been in adtech for about five years now, and had previous startups in streaming media, with VidRoll, and now MetaX and adChain. How are you funding this? We just started the conversation. We have a lot going on, but we have a great team.

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JUNE 2, 2014

It''s going to be at least a three year program, and is being funded by Ernst & Young for those three years. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment. That makes the opportunity for creating physical things much more akin to creating things like media.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and investment director at Intel Capital, and tells us how his fund--which he co-founded with Atom Factory's Troy Carter--is looking to find companies solving large problems outside of the typical Silicon Valley bubble. How did the fund get started? I led a number of investments for that company.

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media.

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Startup Buzznet Entertainment Social Network 213

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

It''s a highly educated, English speaking workforce, and they love working for American companies. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis. You''ve built quite a big business--how did you fund all of that?

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Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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JUNE 25, 2013

What are the details on your seed funding? round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media. It''s completely customizable. John Tabis: The announcement today is a $1.1 million round. Closing this $1.1M

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Once a campaign has been created, there's some level of marketing and call to action, which can be through traditional media, or the web. I have two successful exits, mostly in mobile and teh web, as well as social media. I spent the last year at a venture capital fund, helping people to prepare broken businesses.

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

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MAY 14, 2010

Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. The second thing is the stuff we have been doing--education, networking, and connections--and getting that primordial soup stirred up and catalyzed. We hope that will go a long way to stimulate the ecosystem.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

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JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Explain your technology?

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