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socalTECH
MAY 4, 2021
Los Angeles-based Genies, a startup that helps people create their own avatars--which they can decorate by buying special NFTs (non-fungible tokens)--has raised $65M in a Series B funding, the company said this week.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
In the case of the kid getting much (much) larger than its parent, Yammer , the one time spinout of Los Angeles-based genealogy and family tree website Geni , has now squarely out-raised venture capital than its parent firm, saying Wednesday that it has raised an $85M funding round. in funding. READ MORE>>.
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socalTECH
JULY 11, 2012
A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change , with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding. The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 22, 2010
It all started yesterday when Jason Calacanis sent a Tweet telling GenY’ers / Millennials or whatever people under 30 want to be called these days that job hoppers look like “flakes. &# I simply sent a supporting Tweet saying that I agreed. And good VC’s feel the same way. They make terrible employees.
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Santa Monica-based Crew32 , a stealth startup founded by Docstoc founder Jason Nazar, Betterworks, Geni, and Yammer co-founder George Ishii, and InvestedIn and MySpace co-founder Yadid Ramot, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Thursday.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 3, 2009
We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).
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