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AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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Dollar Shave Club Southern California Agoura Hills West Hollywood 100

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AUGUST 7, 2017

San Diego-based Scientist.com , the venture-backed, online marketplace for outsourced research, and biotech accelerator IndieBio announced this morning that the two are in a new partnership. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

the domain name startup with links to Demand Media at number 14; Idealab's Ubermedia at number 16; Machinima in West Hollywood at number 21; San Diego's PatientSafe Solutions at 24; SmartDrive Systems at 25; and SocialVibe at number 23. That list included Laguna Hills-based Glaukos at number 7; Donuts Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm said this morning that it has acquired several video processing related product lines from IDT. According to Qualcomm, it has acquired the design team of IDT's Hollywood QUality Video (HQV) and Frame Rate Conversion (FRC) video processing products, as well as other related assets.

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San Diego Hollywood Design Product 140

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MARCH 15, 2010

The firm said the new offering will be available in eight markets, starting in New York, New Jersey, Houston, Dallas/Plano, San Diego, Bakersfield, Sonoma County, and Hawaii, at selected theaters run by Reading Cinemas. Tags: fandango mobile ticket movie interactive phone content hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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Fandango Mobile Product San Diego 170

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AUGUST 8, 2012

San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has rolled out a new technology for its popular EverQuest II online game, which allows users to control their avatars' faces and change their voices, as part of a deal with Santa Monica-based Image Metrics. READ MORE>>.

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Entertainment Metrics Santa Monica San Diego 133

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MARCH 23, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of DRM software used in IPTV and set top boxes, said today that it has added New Zealand telecom TelstraClear Ltd. Tags: management hollywood content digital software iptv verimatrix. as a customer. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Hollywood Content Software 133

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JUNE 2, 2010

San Diego-based DivX and Sonic Solutions said this morning that Sonic Solutions is acquiring DivX in a deal worth approximately $323M. Sonic said the buy would help retailers, online services, Hollywood studios, and manufacturers of CE and mobile devices to distribute premium digital video content over the Internet. in the deal.

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San Diego Hollywood Acquisition Media 140

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JANUARY 8, 2010

San Diego-based Slacker , the online personalized radio service backed by Mission Ventures, Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds, said Thursday that it is adding ABC News to its Slacker personal radio service. Tags: slacker news content hollywood electronics personalized radio music.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. Robert Earl, who founded Planet Hollywood, the restaurant company and I both knew the management at Universal Music. Andrew Connell: It was fortuitous.

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San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Who says that Southern California's high tech industry is all about Hollywood and e-commerce? The region's large stable of high tech hardware companies are out in force this week at CES, with San Diego-based Qualcomm leading the charge and the keynote; Irvine-based Broadcom announced a new chip aimed at UltraHD TV Home gateways, MoCA 2.0

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Xconomy

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. Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester founded GoFundMe in San Diego in 2010.

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JULY 21, 2010

RealGifts , San Diego - a facebook application which allows users to send both real and virtual gifts to their friends. Friendgiftr , Hollywood - looking to allow Facebook users to send actual gift cards to their friends. Backed by Facebook's fbFund. Founded by Rob Carpenter. Profile ].

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Westlake Village Steamboat Ventures Southern California SoCalTech 178

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

It looks like Los Angeles is set to get access to peer-to-peer car sharing service Zipcar , as it plans to open an office in Hollywood tomorrow. GetAround, another venture backed peer-to-peer car rental service, already has a Southern California beachhead in San Diego.

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MARCH 23, 2017

San Diego-based TVPage , a startup developing cloud-based technology for monetizing video content, said on Thursday that it has added Greg Silverman as an investor in a recent $3M funding round. Silverman is the former president of Warner Bros.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell , the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The service is suprisingly close to AnywhereCD , the now defunct San Diego startup started by MP3.com Plus, Amazon said it will dig into its archives of CD purchases and provide the same tracks to users automatically based on what they previously purchased from the company.

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San Diego Startup Commerce Sites 200

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. Plus VIP-only parties and other networking events.

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

San Diego- and Redwood City-based GoFundMe , the online social crowdfunding site which lets people raise funding for everything from personal causes to nonprofit efforts, said today that it has launched GoFundMe Studios.

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of enterprise cloud storage services, said today that it has scored a customer win at Relativity Media, an entertainment studio working on film and television production.

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Entertainment San Diego Media Customer 150

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

San Diego-based Legend3d , a developer of 2D to 3D movie conversion technology, has raised $19M in a Series E funding round. The firm said the round was led by Northwater Capital Management, and also included prior investors PAR Investment Partners and Augustus Ventures. The company said the funding will go towards ongoing R&D.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The firm is headed by Matt Michelsen, who is based in San Diego, and also includes Troy Carter--Lady Gaga's agent--who is based in Los Angeles. The firm's technology operations are in Palo Alto. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

San Diego-based KidZui , the developer of a service which provides kid-safe content via a search engine and browser, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in new funding, and will start creating its own, original video content. The new funding comes from existing investors Mission Ventures and Costella Kirsch.

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Mission Ventures San Diego Content Funding 140

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

Silicon Beach uniquely features startup and Hollywood entertainment speakers at panels, parties, hackathon, demo day, startup showcase, and more events, June 19-22, 2013 in Los Angeles. A one-day Silicon Beach Fest was held in Hollywood in November 2012. from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The deal was inked with Levi's firm, "The Nerd Machine", and is tied to the 2011 Comic-Con International Convention in San Diego being held in July. Levi is the star of NBC's "Chuck". Financial detalis of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2012

Mobile Roadie powers apps for the San Diego Zoo, Madonna, Adele, Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo, Cirque du Soleil, Marvel Comics, the Staples Center, and many others. The new iPad service costs $499 per month or $4,999 per year. The new mobile website product costs $9 per month or $99 per year.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods. It also includes some other social signals such as traffic, clicks, etc.

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MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? There are, I think, several reasons Hollywood movies often don’t get as much science input as they should.

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Hollywood Startup Screening Writing 81

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based DivX, a provider of coding and decoding technology for consumer electronics devices, has added Warner Bros. Entertainment as a licensee of its DivX format, the firm announced this morning. According to DivX and Warner Bros., the firms have signed an agreement which will allow online retailers to offer Warner Bros.

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San Diego Entertainment Technology Hollywood 100

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APRIL 24, 2015

In the age of the smartphone and social sharing, San Diego-based ScoreStream (www.scorestream.com) thinks it has figured out how to tap into that new world, and connect all that social activity with the media. We didn't have any investors from San Francisco in our company. There's a huge audience.

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Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

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APRIL 24, 2015

In the age of the smartphone and social sharing, San Diego-based SportStream (www.sportstream.com) thinks it has figured out how to tap into that new world, and connect all that social activity with the media. We didn't have any investors from San Francisco in our company. There's a huge audience.

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Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

com and CEO of San Diego-based MP3tunes, an online music storage service, is claiming a win this morning in a lawsuit filed against Robertson by EMI. Michael Robertson, the former founder of MP3.com

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San Diego Email Services Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY & TRY AGAIN: Startup Weekend San Diego was held two weeks later at a beautiful venue in the heart of Balboa Park at the Hall of Champions.

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Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. You just have to have an iron stomach to deal with the time it takes to get things done with Hollywood. I respond to everybody.

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