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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the latest startup of The Platform founder Rahul Sonnad, said today that it has partnered up with Universal Studios Hollywood on a mobile application focused on Universal's "Halloween Horror Nights" event. Geodelic quietly raised a Series A funding for the firm earlier this year. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Los Angeles-based Steereo , which pays ridesharing drivers to stream new music to their riders, has raised a round of funding, which came from Moonshots Capital, Halogen Ventures, Moving Capital, Quake Capital, AET Fund, Beresford Partners, Fall Creek Capital, and Hawke Ventures. Financial details of the funding were not announced.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Worlize , a new startup focused on social gaming and chat, said Wednesday that it has scored initial angel funding for the firm, and opened up a private beta. The firm said it is developing a user-created, social gaming and chat platform for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and OpenSocial. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based WndrCo , the investment firm founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, said this morning that it has closed on $1 billion in a funding round for a new startup called NewTV. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Liberty Global, and Madrone Capital.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based Seed&Spark , an online crowdfunding platform aimed at independent filmmakers, has raised $1M in a seed funding round. Seed&Spark operates an online, crowdfunding platform to help independent filmmakers raise money for their films. The company is led by Emily Best. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Have a great idea for a online video project, but just need a little funding for equipment, actors, or editing? A new, Santa Monica-based startup TubeStart , said today that it has launched its crowdfunding platform specifically for YouTube video content creators. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 28, 2019

Under the pilot program, Via will provide on-demand rides to and from the Compton, El Monte and North Hollywood stations. million, which is funded in part by a $1.35 The company also partners with cities and transportation authorities, giving clients access to their platform to deploy their own shuttles.

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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. We are incredibly excited about how the AmazeVR platform will enable innovative, quality content to be generated at unprecedented scale and speed.”.

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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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AUGUST 7, 2017

According to the two companies, they have partnered to give IndieBio's members access to over 2,000 commercial research suppliers through Scientist.com's platform. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

To time-restrict content requires an entirely new platform, one that only Quibi can support to date. Meg spoke about how Quibi first built out the technology platform and only then exposed it to content creators, and how technology is primary to the platform both in content creation as well as how customers will experience the content.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , which develops cloud-based software for managing leads, trial subscriptions, and billing, has been acquired by Google , Google said on Monday. Orbitera was backed by only $2M in a seed funding it received a year ago from Resolute Ventures. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

GoFundMe, the Redwood City, CA-based fund-raising platform for charities and nonprofits, has acquired CrowdRise , a Detroit, MI-based rival founded by entrepreneurs Robert Wolfe and Jeffrey Wolfe, and Hollywood philanthropists Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Hollywood-based Fanattac , a developer of an online, social media platform which looks to connect music fans and artists, has raised $1M in a funding round. The firm, which is headed by Dan Faiman, did not disclose the names of the investors in the company.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

According to Serious Business , it has raised a second round of seed funding from Brave New Ventures to fund the effort. The firm said it will work with creative talent to "produce television formats with a web sensibility" and also help develop digital platforms into TV and digital projects.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The company''s platform has been used to create many advertising campaigns, including those in the Super Bowl. tongal content hollywood crowdsourcing feature film video filmmaker documentary' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based Tetavi, a developer of immersive content and technology, says it has raised a $20M funding round from Insight Partners. Tetavi says the funding will go towards to significantly increase its presence in North America, expanding its partnerships, brand awareness, and immersive content platform across the U.S.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general. The main difference between the mainstream platforms and us, is first, that we have really, really great hands-on support people who only do video all day long, which has a significant impact.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them. I got to talking with Will Schroter, who was an old business associate of mine and old friend, and we thought it could be very interesting to create a place where Hollywood could reach out to find people.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). At a big Hollywood fund raiser this past weekend a well-known entrepreneur pulled me aside to thank me for hiring Hamet. ” I promise to disclose that deal when/if it closes.

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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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AUGUST 25, 2020

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Equal Ventures, Uncork Capital, Steve Sarowitz (founder of Paylocity), and 4S Bay Partners. According to Wrapbook, its software platform handles the labor-intensive process of onboarding, paying and insuring film and production crews.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Quibi had been trying to start a service focused on original, short form videos on mobile platforms, with a major effort funding development of content. High flying Quibi--which raised more than $1.75 billion--was backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, but failed to gain any traction before its spectacular flameout.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Base79 helps video rights holders and producers distribute their brands and content through YouTube and other platforms. According to Base79, the strategic equity investment included both The Chernin Group and MMC Ventures, an existing investor. Size of the investment round was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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. For now, Solve is content to be a studio producing ad-supported media for platforms like Apple, Snap, Facebook, iHeartMedia, and other distributors, according to Wright.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Hollywood-based Friendgiftr , a developer of a Facebook application selling retail and restaurant gift cards, disclosed today that it has received funding from a member of the Tech Coast Angels. Amount and timing of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said it has been in "stealth mode" for more than a year. READ MORE>>.

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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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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., READ MORE>>.

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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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JULY 21, 2010

Friendgiftr , Hollywood - looking to allow Facebook users to send actual gift cards to their friends. 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. Backed by Facebook's fbFund.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms.

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JULY 31, 2009

West Hollywood-based Yammer , the corporate microblogging site inspired by Twitter, is moving from the Los Angeles area to Silicon Valley, according to founder David Sacks. Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We are building a robust social gaming platform with a specific focus on sports games. We've started with a robust platform in Facebook, and now we're pushing hard in mobile. We have invested in a very robust platform. It sounds like this is a lot like Hollywood's studio model? Talk a bit about your investors and funding?

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JULY 11, 2016

in a funding round, the company quietly revealed earlier this month. The funding came from strategic investor TEGNA Media, along with existing investors. The company has around 170M followers across social platforms and says it has more than 600 million video views a month. READ MORE>>.

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