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Gamzee Gets Seed Funding

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The funding came from Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd; Jarl Mohn , the former CEO of Liberty Digital and former board member at Riot Games ; Heiko Hubertz, founder and CEO of Bigpoint, and Paul Bricault , a Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding.

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Report Tallies $7.7 Billion In SoCal IT Exits In 2011

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Among other major 2011 exits listed were Riot Games ($400 million) and HauteLook ($270 million). The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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Watertower has been involved in a number of high visibility exits and fundings in recent months, including Riot Games (rumored to be $400M+), Machinima, and ExtendMedia. I think you know Riot Games, where we put together their first institutional money. Those are two big gaming companies.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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We're already seeing strong engineers and founders from Snap, Riot Games, Musically and others launch their new startups in LA. Prior to CrossCut, Clinton served as the COO at Square Enix, a $3 billion video game and media publisher.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Beach Games: Surfing, volleyball, basketball and more.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Brandon Beck – Riot Games. StarCraft 2 might be the most played eSport currently, but Riot Games’ “League of Legends” is garnering prize pools in the millions. They raised some money, stole some guys from Blizzard, and released the game for free. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. The prize? $3

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002. socalcto socaltech Follow @pandodaily. Like PandoDaily on Facebook.