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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

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” Genies last earned a $1 billion valuation from heavy-hitting tech investors including Silver Lake and Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital during its most recent raise, a $150 million Series C round announced in April.

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Kareo Names Chief Sales Officer

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Irvine-based Kareo has named Drew Hamilton as its new Chief Sales Officer, the company said this week, to help scale the company's sales organization. The company is venture backed by Montreux Equity Partners and Silver Lake Waterman. Hamilton was most recently Executive Vice President and General Manager of TeleTrac.

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Renovate America Raises $90M For Energy Saving Financing

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San Diego-based Renovate America has raised $90M in an equity financing round, from Silver Lake Kraftwerk, DFJ Growth, and others, the company disclosed Thursday. Renovate America has previously received funding from Valor Equity Partners.

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Outspoken Ties With Apple Passbook

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Outspoken, which is backed by Silver Lake Sumeru, helps companies connect with consumers using high volume, text messaging, SMS, and MMS campaigns. According to Outspoken, the support means its clients can directly send passes, coupons, gift cards, boarding passes, and more via MMS or SMS text messages. READ MORE>>.

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Final Draft Acquired By Cast & Crew Entertainment

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Cast & Crew said the buy will help expand its suite of technology solutions. The acquisition was supported by private equity investor Silver Lake Partners, which is the majority owner of Cast & Crew. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). When that happened, I came out to LA and helped to co-found Amplify.

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A Chat With Jamie Montgomery On How LA's Tech Ecosystem Has Grown

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In terms of that, they are people like Vista Equity, particularly, but also Summit, TPG, KKR, and Silver Lake. We are very engaged in this area, because they can be very helpful in reducing time to market, and can be a really vital and vibrant part of the financing scheme. The third area, are the private equity players.