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Artie Takes $10M For Mobile Games

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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.

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Hollywood Insiders Back Social Shopping Site The Hunt

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The Hunt says it is developing a community-driven, online shopping site, focused on making social media photos "shoppable". The site--reminiscent of Pinterst--helps users find products features from other social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr.

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Next 10 Ventures is launching an incubator for YouTube personalities

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Los Angeles-based Next 10 Ventures , a $50 million fund focused on the creator economy, is launching an incubator program to support YouTubers. “I have three kids ages 9, 7 and 4 and I’ve seen it there too in how they are consuming media. ” Applications to the incubator opened today and close November 17, 2018.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

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I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. We had a nice debate. Other News: 1.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25

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Interview with Jeremy Gocke, Fliptu

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With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.