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Steamboat Ventures Boosts Playdom

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Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital firm funded by Walt Disney Co., According to Playdom, Steamboat--along with Bessemer Venture Partners and New World Ventures--have invested in the firm as part of a new, $33M venture capital funding round. Playdom is based in Mountain View.

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Steamboat Ventures Backs Elemental Technologies

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Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company, has backed a firm developing massively parallel video processing technology, Elemental Technologies. According to Elemental, which is based in Portland, Steamboat was a new investor in its $7.5M, Series B funding round.

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Steamboat Invests In Celebrity Site

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Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. According to Connecticut-based Fanzter, Steamboat's Dan Beldy joins the firm's board of directors.

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Passenger Gains $7.5M More

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in an investment. The round came from Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. The company said that the investment was led by DR. Bahram Nour-Omid. Tags: venture capital passenger executive social networking brand branding corporate. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product.

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Join Us At Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit

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As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.

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Join Us At Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit

Tech Zulu Event

As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.