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Report: Veoh Files For Bankruptcy

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San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable. Veoh had raised over $67.5M in funding from such firms as Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, The Tornante Company, and Time Warner. Veoh had raised over $67.5M

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Veoh's Shapiro Confirms Bankruptcy Filing

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Dmitry Shapiro , in a post on his personal web site, confirmed the Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing of San Diego- and Los Angeles-based Veoh Networks Thursday afternoon. Veoh had raised over $70M in funding. Tags: veoh video sharing dmitry shapiro bankruptcy failure employment jobs. READ MORE>>.

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Veoh's Shapiro Named CTO Of MySpace Music

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Los Angeles-based MySpace Music announced this morning that it has hired Dmitry Shapiro , who founded Veoh, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro was founder and CEo of Veoh Networks until its bankruptcy filing in February. Tags: veoh dmitry shapiro myspace executive. Shapiro also served as founder of Akonix Systems.

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Koji Connects With $20M More

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The funding was led by Jump Capital, plus new investors HBSE Ventures, Electric Feel Ventures, Visary Capital, Metaversal, and University Growth Ventures, along with Galaxy Interactive and BITKRAFT, and and a number of angels, including Shivakumar Rajaraman, Michael Eisner, and Francis Ma. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M.

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Altly Posts Anti-Facebook Manifesto, Gets Funding

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Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative. READ MORE>>.

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Altly Reveals Seed Investors

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Both Howard Lindzon and Dave Samuel are joining the firm's board as part of the funding. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. READ MORE>>.

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GoMeta Gets $2M For Augmented Reality Universe Tools

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San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney). READ MORE>>.

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