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JANUARY 29, 2010

Venture capital firm First Round Capital , the early stage venture fund whose Managing Directors include Idealab's Howard Morgan , said last night that it has created its own startup exchange fund, a fund which allows the founders of the firm's various startups to diversify their investments and share in the success of the company's portfolio.

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Capital Funding OpenX Startup 169

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Chewse , a startup which helps companies manage their office food and meal programs--and counts Pivotal Labs, TasteMade, OpenX, Factual, and Big Frame as customers--said it has raised $5.9M in a Series A investment.

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica OpenX Startup Capital 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

in a seed funding round, and set up its U.S. The UK-based company did not disclose the source of the funding. Glow said the funding will specifically go towards opening up a new, regional headquarters in Los Angeles, headed up by David Wamsley, who formerly founded GravityEight, campsix, and Adauction.com.

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Media Idealab OpenX Seed Funding 150

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JUNE 20, 2012

GradientX, led by Brian Baumgart and co-founded by Julie Mattern and Michael Lum, said the new funding round came from Rincon Venture Partners, GRP Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Walter Kortschak, Jim Willenborg, Clark Landry, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Siemer Ventures and Baroda Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile OpenX GRP Partners Advertising 140

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Rubicon is venture backed by News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn.

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Southern California Chief Technology Officer Legalzoom OpenX 180

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 15, 2010

Best Exit Internet Technology, Networks In Motion; Best Funding in New Media/Internet: Rubicon Project, The, HauteLook.com, Zag; Best Funding in Software/Services: OpenX Technologies, Inc. Eucalyptus; Best Funding in Clean Technology and Energy: Energy and Power Solutions, Inc. FKA: Openads), Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc.;

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LAVA Cornerstone OnDemand Zag OpenX 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. We''re taking a fairly unique approach to program development, however, in that we will get involved with nonprofits and people with program ideas, and figure out how to fund them.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

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APRIL 1, 2010

We're very similar to OpenX, from the standpoint of ad management tools, in that we also have built in a marketplace and also allow you to go direct to advertisers. Finally, you're one of the few companies that has raised some significant funding in this market, how tough was it for you to go through that process?

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Competition: DSPs (DataXu, X+1, Efficient Frontier) and Ad Exchanges (DoubleClick, RightMedia, AdECN, OpenX). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217