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AUGUST 25, 2020

Los Angeles-based Wrapbook , a startup developing payroll, compliance, and insurance software for the entertainment industry, said it has raised $3.6M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Equal Ventures, Uncork Capital, Steve Sarowitz (founder of Paylocity), and 4S Bay Partners.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based Artie, a new startup developing mobile games which can be played inside social media, video, and messaging platforms, said this week that it has raised $10M in a seed funding round. The company's founders are Ryan Horrigann and Armando Kirwin.

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MARCH 23, 2017

Playa Vista-based virtual reality content developer SPACES announced on Wednesday that it has added Ian Richter, the former EVP of franchise and emerging platform development at Legendary Entertainment, and Joe Garlington, formerly of Walt Disney Imagineering, to its advisory board. Boost VC, Colopl VR Fund, GREE Inc.,

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JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. But it was far from the only studio to see money in mobile-first entertainment.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Traditional venture capitalists may have made it rain on expensive Hollywood studios that were promising virtual reality would be the future of entertainment and social networking (given coronavirus fears, it may yet be), but Talespin and others like it are focused on much more mundane goals.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Our sources put the company’s funding somewhere around $6 million in its recent funding round. I’ve used my platform to raise real money for important organizations throughout LA and I’ve seen lives changed as a result. It worked. . “[Manufacturing] social influence.”

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MAY 21, 2014

As part of that, I started working for entertainment studios and networks, and saw the shift in consumer behavior to online entertainment. That was my first, deep dive into entertainment. That was a real gamechanger in the way we were viewing things, especially having been in a traditional entertainment company like Team Downey.

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JUNE 15, 2017

.� The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. Talk about this funding and what's next for you? What is Stem?

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MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? Krisztina Holly: We are an early stage fund, known for our ability to discovery and cultivate very complex science and technology deals. We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). think Apple. and again here.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? What is your app all about?

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entertainment." To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. How is the company funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. The key to the LA tech scene is finding people who really understand content, and funding pepole in content who understand technology, and getting together.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. So tell us about this new funding round?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Does this include investments or an investment fund? You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company. Where are we in bringing those worlds together?

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MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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