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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Stockr , the social networking service aimed at financial investors based in Los Angeles, has raised $1.5M The company said the round came from Personal Capital, The Doyle Investment Group, and Adam Townsend. in a seed funding round, the firm said yesterday.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Yahoo is planning a big investment in Venice-based Snapchat , in a deal that values Snapchat at $10 billion, according to a report over the weekend. The WSJ reports that Yahoo is investing around $20M in Snapchat at the lofty valuation, using money it cashed out of the IPO of Alibaba. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Pushup Social, a startup that lets you add a social network to an existing website, has raised $300,000 to build out its technology and launch this Spring. Our early investors saw the potential right away,” said Pushup Social CEO Dan Lohman. “As Integrating a social network into an existing website.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2008

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. My main points were: Social Everywhere - I work with a lot of different shapes and sizes of companies and it's interesting how each one has opportunities to leverage its users to form different kinds of communities, create connections, encourage contribution, etc.

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JULY 7, 2014

UST Global also said it has made six investments in technology companies, including investments in Moonraft (design), Kuboo (social networking and gaming), Abzooda (analytics), Third Eye Systems (Big Data), many of those in conjunction with venture capital firm Blumberg Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. Size of the seed funding round was not announced.

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JUNE 19, 2013

But, it looks like being a seed investor has paid off for at least one local investor, Baroda Ventures , the venture capital investment fund owned by GeoCities founder David Bohnett. Baroda had been a seed investor way back when Fab was known as Fabulis, and was focused on creating a social network for the gay community.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Beverly Hills-based movie studio Relativity Media --which is behind such titles as Limitless, Masterminds, and Immortals--scored a big investment from Singaporean Internet company YuuZoo , the two companies said this morning. The two said that YuuZoo will initially buy 33.3

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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JULY 29, 2011

Irvine-based Specific Media has recruited an investment banker to head up its business development efforts, fresh off its acquisition of onetime social networking king MySpace. Schopen was overseeing merger and acquisition transactions, initial and secondary public offerings, and private capital raises at Piper Jaffray.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Social networking site MovieLaLa --which focuses on upcoming movies--said Tuesday that it has raised an angel investment from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff. MovieLaLa said that Benioff''s investment brings the company''s total raised to $750,000. The company is led by Dana Loberg, and is based in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Image via Pixabay If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Payback on investment. Quantifying the return on investment (ROI) is “top of mind” for every investor and executive.

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APRIL 11, 2014

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. A valuation of $5 billion puts Tinder''s worth above the $3 billion offer that Snapchat rejected last year from Facebook. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

snapchat venture capital rumor valuation kpcb investment messaging social networking' The report also said that Snapchat has around 100 million monthly active users now using its messaging service. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Attend an investment conference. Join a local investment group. In most cases, these groups don’t require that you invest in others, as a condition of membership.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

” MediaLab is a holding company that owns several other mobile properties , including anonymous social network Whisper and mixtape app DatPiff. Heyward intended it to be a way for people to share more personal and intimate details — to be a social network for confessions and support rather than harassment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2020

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Payback on investment. Quantifying the return on investment (ROI) is “top of mind” for every investor and executive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Carlsbad-based satellite Internet and communications provider Viasat and social networking giant Facebook announced this morning that the two will provide high speed Internet to communities in rural Mexico who lack reliable internet or have no connectivity at all.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

David Cohen from TechStars, someone I look up to as an entrepreneur, says that they don’t invest in ideas, but teams. The post amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder appeared first on TechZulu. Braintree Payment integration is another.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The company said the move comes as it has received an investment from three U.S. Evvnt develops a software platform which helps event organizers manage and promote events across event listing sites, calendars, directories, ticketing, social networks and search engines. newspapers, and signed up its first U.S.

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APRIL 25, 2014

Santa Monica-based Stockr , the online stock-focused, social network which was founded by Vinny Jindal, Tim Symington and Brendon Crawford, has scored a new round of angel funding. The funding included STAR Angel Network, the New York City angel network founded by the NBA''s Jared Jeffries. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of private social networking sites for brands, said today that it has raised an additional $7.5M in an investment. The company said that the investment was led by DR. Bahram Nour-Omid. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Goodreads , an online social networking site focused on book readers, said today that it has raised its Series A funding to $2M. The firm said the new funding will go to expand the services and features of its social networking site. The firm said the round was led by True Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Mojiit says it already has received investment from investors, including former NFL player Ed Reed; the company says producer Rob Weiss ("Entourage" and "Ballers") is the company's Creative Director. Mojiit says that Greene previously founded social networking company PingTank. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Woodland Hills-based United Online said Tuesday that it has hired an investment banker to sell its European social networking website, StayFriends.

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JULY 12, 2012

Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Siemer disclosed the investment to its supporters in an email this week. The firm's online service helps buyers find and source products using social networking, product categories, industries, and other factors. Tradesparq is based in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

KPCB announced its new sFund, a $250M fund which will invest in entrepreneurs in the social space, specifically highlighting Facebook as "the best place to build the next generation" of social businesses. KPCB said its new sFund will focus on the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Comcast Ventures says Moorjani will be seeking to make investments in various sectors, including data and business intelligence, marketplaces and social networks. Moorjani also serves as adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and is a faculty advisor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

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MAY 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based venture investor Core Innovation Capital is one of the lead companies in a Series A investment in Vouch , a consumer lending startup which offers up consumer loans based on if a users' social network. Core Innovation Capital's investment in San Francisco-based Vouch was led by Arjun Schutte.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based Siemer Ventures , the venture capital arm of investment bank Siemer & Associates, has been one of the most active local investors lately--and is continuing that trend, with the investment in Ribbon. In the past few months, the firm has invested in a dozen companies, ranging from Surf Air, to Gradient X.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Beyond Southern California’s coastal appeal is a vibrant technology ecosystem that encompasses enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, aerospace and defense, robotics, ecommerce and social media. It’s the home of social networking favorites Snap and TikTok’s U.S. and Los Angeles angel investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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