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MAY 5, 2011

GoPro , the maker of wearable, action sports cameras, which has operations in San Diego, has scored a strategic investment which includes the involvement of Burbank Steamboat Ventures , GoPro said today. Venture Partners. Amount of that funding was not announced.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

EdgeCast has announced only a total of$20M in funding, from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. Those data points, along with revenue range figures reported elsewhere, implies that the company now has revenues of perhaps between $100M and $200M. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 6, 2009

in a funding round, led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. The funding had been disclosed earlier this week, but not confirmed by the company until today. Los Angeles-based RazorGator announced Friday that it has close on $7.5M

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Sometrics had raised over $5.25M in funding from Big Sky Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Mailroom Fund, and Steamboat Ventures. El Segundo-based Sometrics , the in-game virtual currency and monetization startup headed by Ian Swanson, has reportedly been acquired by American Express. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2011

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , the iPhone creation software firm, has raised $6M in another round of funding, the firm is announcing today. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management.

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MAY 27, 2010

in a funding round, part of what appears to be a $20M targeted fundraising effort, and also set up its corporate headquarters in Irvine. The firm, which was previously based in American Fork, Utah, has not yet announced the funding or details of the new corporate headquarters. and Steamboat Ventures.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Series C funding today. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board.

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MAY 27, 2011

Two Southern California venture capital firms have benefited from an acquisition yesterday of Mountain View-based MerchantCircle , an online local business advertising and networking site, by fellow online advertising firm Reply! MerchantCircle's other backers are Scale Venture Partners and IAC. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

out of an ongoing, $18.186M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Bass Associates, and Steamboat Ventures. San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of fast food ordering kiosks for restaurants, has raised $12.2M The filing indicates Sid R.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Sometrics is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, the Mail Room Fund, and Greycroft Partners. GameCoins.com allows users to both earn virtual currency, and spend it on various items for online games and virtual worlds. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The funding has not been announced by the company. The firm no longer lists former investor Steamboat Ventures on its web site as an investor. Tags: emn8 kiosk fast food retail hardware venture capital. EMN8 is headed by Perse Faily.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Series C funding today. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series B funding; managing director Dan Beldy sits on Greystripe's board.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , a content delivery network (CDN) provider, is announcing today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. EdgeCast said the round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also includes an investment from Steamboat Ventures, a prior investor in the company. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Sometrics said that it is optimizing the way that the gaming website presents advertising offers to members, increasing offer-based revenues at Ijji by more than 30 percent. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Sometrics is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The company explained that the new site will allow gamers to earn virtual currently on massively multipler online games, virtual worlds, and social games by completing advertiser offers.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Financial details of the deal between Sometrics and IGG were not disclosed. IGG operates a number of free, massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs). READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firm--which has shifted from its original model providing analytics for social applications to now also providing advertising and virtual currency services to social game publishers. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The round came from Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. AS part of the funding, the firm said that Nour-Omid has been named CEO of the firm, and that Steve Howe has become Chairman of the company. in an investment.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Burbank-based venture capital firm Steamboat Ventures , which is affiliated with the Walt Disney Company, has led a new investment in a Bay area video advertising and monetization firm, FreeWheel. According to FreeWheel, Steamboat led a $16.8M Steamboat's investment was led by Dan Beldy.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Sometrics is venture backed by. Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Schepke was most recently Agency General Manager for Tsavo Media, and has also previously served at Commission Junction and Proceed Interactive. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2010

Backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Sometrics , Los Angeles - Sometrics, originally founded as a provider of analytics for Facebook apps, is now also powering virtual goods and currency tools for social games on Facebook and other platforms. Headed by Ian Swanson. Let us know!

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MARCH 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. According to Connecticut-based Fanzter, Steamboat's Dan Beldy joins the firm's board of directors.

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MARCH 4, 2009

in a venture funding round. No details on the funding have been released by the company, however, regulatory filings for the firm show that a funding event occurred around February 13th. The firm and its venture backers had not returned further information on the funding as of press time.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Amount of the funding was not released, however, reports put the amount at $4M. The investment was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included prior investors Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners. Beau Laskey of Steamboat has joined the firm's board with the funding.

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MARCH 9, 2009

equity raise last week from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: razorgator ticket htgc venture debt funding capital. Terms of the debt financing were not disclosed. RazorGator announced a $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

In terms of venture firms, the most active firms from Southern California, nationally, were Redpoint Ventures (9 investments), Steamboat Ventures (5 investments), and GRP Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Blade Ventures , Avalon Ventures , and Angeleno Group , with four investments each.

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MARCH 12, 2013

James Segil: There's a couple of things to consider with growth, around what does it take to fund a company's growth. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. Read more: Index Ventures and TechCrunch. 10mm in Series C.

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