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MARCH 9, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat is in discussions with Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, over possible future funding for the company, according to the Prince''s investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company. Kingdom Holding Company did not reveal any other details of the possible investment. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat has raised an enormous, $485.6M The funding appears to be linked to an earlier reported funding effort by the company this year, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which reportedly values Snapchat at over $10 billion. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Venice-based instant messaging app maker Snapchat has raised another $175M in funding , according to the WSJ this morning, from Fidelity Investments. According to the report, the new funding values Snapchat at $16 billion, the same valuation as the company's last funding injection. Snapchat has now raised more than $1.2

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat is looking to raise at much as $500M in a new round of funding, currently valuing the company as high as $19 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg last night. snapchat venture capital investment instant social messaging rumor' READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. billion round for Venice based Snapchat. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $15.3 READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

the parent firm behind Snapchat , has joined up with R/GA Marketing --which helps run the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles--to launched a new startup accelerator, the R/GA Marketing Tech Venture Studio with IPG. Venice, California-based Snap Inc. ,

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APRIL 11, 2014

A valuation of $5 billion puts Tinder''s worth above the $3 billion offer that Snapchat rejected last year from Facebook. tinder venture capital investment social networking dating mobile snapchat' IAC"s Barry Diller said that investors have been "banging through our doors" trying to buy a piece of Tinder.

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MARCH 3, 2017

this week appears to be a Silicon Valley high school, which made $24M for its investment in Snapchat. The school invested $15,000 thanks to Lightspeed Venture Partners' Barry Eggers , who apparently recommended the school's VC fund invest in Snapchat after seeing his daughter's heavy usage of the new app.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Venture capitalists invested more than $1.3 billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in investments in San Diego. in investments in San Diego.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Auction.com said this morning that it has raised $50M in a funding from Google Capital, at a $1.2 Auction.com joins SpaceX, Snapchat, and Beats Electronics in the short list of $1 billion plus valuation, venture backed startups here. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has raised $537.6M The new investors reportedly include Alibaba, Fidelity, York Capital, and Glade Brook Capital, and the funding has widely been reported at valuing the company at around $16 billion. Snapchat has now raised north of $1.15‎ billion. billion).

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M billion funding round for Snapchat. The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M in investments in the quarter, followed by $197.5M for San Diego, then $189.0M

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2015

Venture capitalist David Lee , who was Managing Partner of seed and angel investing fund SV Angel , one of the most active venture investors in San Francisco, has resigned to spend more time with his family in Los Angeles, the fund told its Limited Partners on Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Details on the rumored deal between Snap and Saudi Arabia have not been released, and it's unclear what, if any, investment by the kingdom would be made in Snap, the parent firm of Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 24, 2016

The last time Forbes has placed a Southern California venture capitalist on the Midas List appears to have been in 2009, when Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures made the list.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

the parent company of Snapchat , has raised $250M in the publicly held company from the Saudi royal family. Saudi Arabian Price Al-Waleed Talal said on Tuesday that he has invested $250M in Snap, taking a 2.3 The investment injection comes as Snap announced its Q2 results, where the company reported a net loss of $353.3M

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

It's often tough to figure exactly who the venture capital funds are who are funding startups in the area. However, for members of socaltech.com, it's a click away with our real time analysis of venture funding flows. Most recent investments: GOAT, cloudvirga, Vemba, LootCrate, Invoca. Crosscut Ventures 6 deals.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). I hate to put us into the pre-seed and seed area, so I am saying literally, first institutional capital.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Borow currently runs an investment firm, Manifest Partners, and was co-founder and CEO of SHIFT, which he sold to Brand Network for $50M in 2015; he later was Global Head of Revenue Programs at Snap, and helped found commercial real estate marketplace CREXi.

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