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MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor. “We look at all verticals. .

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Burbank-based Cast & Crew, which provides payroll software and services to the entertainment industry, said last week that it has signed a deal to acquire The Team Companies, a developer of payroll and production management services to the advertising, music and concert tours and live events industries.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based FilmTrack , a developer of contracts and rights management software for the media and entertainment industry, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, and also acquired Dashbox, a developer of cloud-based music asset and metadata management software. FilmTrack is led by Jason Kassin. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Whip Media Group , a developer of software used by the entertainment industry to manage content, said that Shout! Factory , also based in Los Angeles, has selected its platform. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Whip Media says that Shout!

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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 According to Wrapbook, its software platform handles the labor-intensive process of onboarding, paying and insuring film and production crews. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

For over 100 years entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based 3BLACKDOT --founded by Machina Vets Angelo Pullen, Luke Stepleton, Adam Montoya, and Tom Cassell--said Tuesday that it has snagged another Machinima vet, Marwan Abderrazzaq, to head up game development at the company. Interactive Entertainment. Abderrazzaq was previously Director of Franchise at Machinima.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Los Angeles-based Deluxe Entertainment Services Group , the provider of services to the entertainment and content industry, has acquired cloud-based localization provider Sfera. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based content and rights management software developer FilmTrack said late Tuesday that it is backing a new metadata standard for the media and entertainment industry. filmtrack content identification eidr hollywood asset' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

What do you get when you combine a technology investment demo day with a Hollywood-style story pitch session? It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. the camp is the second in the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging to refashion the Los Angeles studio system for the digital age forming companies that combining live-streamed video, podcasts, and the newfound social media celebrities to craft entertainment for a new breed of consumer. but around the world,” said Rogers, in a statement. “We

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Los Angeles-based Prime Focus Technologies , a developer of ERP software for the media industry, says it has received its first round of funding from private equity investor Ambit Pragma. Global Eagle Entertainment, Cricket Australia, CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television Studios, and many others.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. It worked. .

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday. Sophoi's product was used for intellectual property management at media and entertainment companies. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Sophoi filed for bankruptcy on September 1st.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Techstars Music Accelerator , one of the startup accelerators that Techstars operates in Los Angeles, has named the latest startups to become part of its program, saying that it has selected nine startups for the latest program, which runs from February 4th through May 2nd.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood.

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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.

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MAY 29, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original and largest startup tech entertainment festival, celebrating the burgeoning tech scene in Los Angeles. Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles.

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MAY 26, 2011

million impact on Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, the millions of dollars already includes 28,000 total hotel room nights already booked for the event. According to LA INC.,

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com).

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MAY 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based Epoxy (www.epoxy.tv) launched yesterday to help content creators do just that. Juan Bruce: What we are doing at Epoxy, is we develop software tools for online video channels, allowing them to connect with their audiences where they audience connects most, which is social media.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Vyclone (www.vyclone.com) has created a mobile application which lets users capture videos, and automatically edits and combines multiple points of view from people nearby, and remixes it into an even more compelling video. To supplement my income, I started a software business. What's the idea behind Vyclone?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I invests exclusively in the space.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). How did you decide this needed to be a combination of software and content?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Jan Zands is the founders of Los Angeles-based phonesheet.com (www.phonesheet.com), a startup which is developing web-based software for tracking phone messages and action items. We ran into Jan and thought it would be interesting to talk to him about the story behind the firm and its software. What is Phonesheet.com?

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APRIL 24, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com).

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MARCH 27, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. An on-line community for entrepreneurs.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. Matthias Galica: The first two verticals which correspond to our use case are in music and entertainment.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Check out the entertaining video here.) There just hasn't been anything like this across the manufacturing industry like there is in tech or Hollywood. Most Angelenos don't realize Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the country. (We in August.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. Google balances the universe and helps all of the hardware, software and media companies ensure it isn’t a “one horse race.&#. They both gained.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

That’s what Kevin’s conference, Silicon Beach Fest (SBF), did for Los Angeles entrepreneurs. Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 included 17 panels ranging from ‘Public Relations for Start Ups’ to ‘How to Find and Hire a Developer’. It was followed by TechZulu’s infamous “ Tech Crawl ” hopping from start up to start up.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things. Thanks for the interview.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Tell us about your connection to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles music scene is very important for us because of connections. One of our guys does a lot of work with upcoming Hollywood film composers, you can see in our ‘ about ’ section, Gerrit Wunder, he does work at the moment for Hans Zimmerman and so on.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A bundle of software services for SMBs to manage their inventory, accounting, manufacturing, and purchasing. From: Los Angeles, CA. From: Los Angeles, CA. Linda’s nickname is “the Lactation Consultant to the Stars” and she’s seen more A-list celebrities’ boobs than any director in Hollywood. Fulfil.IO.

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