L.A. Business Journal

MAY 24, 2019

Audio sharing platform Soundcloud Inc. announced May 23 it will acquire Venice-based rights distribution company Repost Network.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2012

Venice-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and services firm headed by James Citron, has launched a new, mobile service today called moShare. The firm said the service is built on its media messaging platform, and can deliver any type of content to mobile phones, regardless of wireless carrier or device type.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. On average, we''re doubling the time on a site where our platform is embedded. That platform is driving significant volume increase at Inc.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Venice, California-based ZEFR , which helps brands and content owners monetize use of their assets on YouTube, said Monday that it has linked with Fuisz Media , to include direct purchase links on video or people in any video. The two said ZEFR will make the platform for Fuisz available to its partners. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Venice, California-based Amplify LA , the startup investor which got its start as one of LA's first startup accelerators, said this week that it has added two new companies-- Kulagy and Tapcart --as part of its portfolio of companies. Financial details of any investment in the two startups were not announced.

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JULY 6, 2016

Venice, California-based OpenMail , a developer of data warehousing products used for marketing analytics and targeting, has acquired the Infospace business from owner Blucora. OpenMail is led by Chuck Ursini, former EVP, Platforms at Demand Media; Ursini also has served at Amazon, Morgan Stanley and UBS. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles. Snap says that those 10 companies were receive $150,000 in equity investments, mentorship from Snap and others, space in Los Angeles, as well as other support.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Commercial real estate ratings platform WiredScore Inc. completed a $9 million Series A round October 22, led by Venice-based venture capital firm Fifth Wall Ventures.

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MAY 9, 2017

Venice, California-based Signal Sciences announced this morning that it has raised $15M in a Series B funding round and launches its web protection platform. Signal Sciences says it has launched the Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform (WPP), threat protection software whcih protects web applications, microservices, and APIs.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Venice, California-based StackCommerce, which develops a white-label marketplace which is used by publishers and brands to help connect people with products, has been acquired by Integrated Media Company (IMC), itself owned by private equity investor TPG. According to StackCommerce, its partners earned more than $175M on its platform.

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MAY 18, 2020

TRASH , a startup that was part of Venice-based Snap 's Yellow accelerator program, has rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) video creation platform. According to TRASH, its new AI software makes it easy to create and share videos from your phone, using the AI to automatically edit those videos.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Venice, California-based Pledge, which provides a fundraising platform which links businesses, nonprofits, and individuals to help raise money for nonprofits, has raised $3M in additional seed funding, the company said this week.

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JULY 16, 2020

Venice-based Snapchat says it is expanding the outreach efforts it has been running as part of its Yellow Accelerator. Snapchat said it is expanding Yellow to introduce a new program to support Snapchat integration, in addition to its annual programs. Snap just started taking applications for Yellow Collabs. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

a patented e-commerce platform for wine aficionados, raised $15 million in a Series B capital round led by Beverly Pacific Holdings Inc., in Venice in the mix on the institutional side. Glendale-based Drinks Holdings Inc., with Walnut-based Shea Ventures and Stable Road Capital Advisors Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

. “Community underscores everything we do here at Bev, and as such, we will be producing hand sanitizer and distributing it free of charge to the homeless and elderly communities here in Venice, populations who largely have insufficient access to healthcare and essential goods like sanitizer.”

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hermosa Beach-based Precipice Labs , a new startup developing mobile apps, has announced a new platform and SDK which helps mobile app developers add photo sharing to any mobile app. According to the startup, its new Ostetso platform is designed to help developers add their own, photo sharing social network with only a few lines of code.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

In a demonstration of the extensive adoption of Venice-based social messaging service Snapchat , the White House said that it has launched its own "Official Story" on Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. Last year at this time Bird was just planning its multi-city rollout having had tremendous success in Santa Monica & Venice. They’re invisible. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The acquisition of Venice, California-based Signal Sciences --worth $775M--by Fastly , has officially completed, Fastly said on Thursday. According to Fastly, is will combine its edge cloud platform and existing security offerings with Signal Sciences' web application and API security solutions.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And that’s why the online video space and YouTube ecosystem has taken one more leap toward its rightful place as next generation video platform.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Venice-based on-demand, electric scooter rental startup Bird has rolled out a new set of tools aimed at helping cities better manage the hordes of its scooters on its streets, the company said this week.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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JULY 21, 2017

We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market. Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). Our list below: 1. military's operations.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

Yesterday Viddy, the social video sharing site announced the launch of their public API for developers to build around the platform and come up with new ways of sharing video. On Friday, September 28th Team Viddy will pick their favorite API partner, and fly you (or your team of up to 4 people) to Venice Beach for an interview at Viddy.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. “We It reinforces the company’s culture of being a platform for giving and celebration,” said Hagger.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. We used that platform to start engaging audiences with movies and that data, and built up. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Marketing: SteelHouse. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. Coincident.TV

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). From Warby Parker … To Bonobos … To UNTUCKit … And at Parachute Home we’ve also begun our massive retail rollout with our first two locations in Venice and Portland. from Charter’s subscribers.

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JUNE 19, 2019

The best way to think about it, is as a learning platform. Most users will then want to have a deeper level of learning, and start switching to our platform. Sam Wang: We raised our pre-seed round last year, led by the Amplify accelerator in Venice. What does that look like to a user? How is the company backed, financially?

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MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. Andrew Peterson: We have what we call a web protection platform, that provides other companies with protection against attackers who are attacking their web applications.

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LATechDigest

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venice-based SRFR just launched a technology to easily stream video content from your mobile device to smart television, including videos from Facebook, Dropbox, Snapchat, and your camera roll, all without having to purchase a separate dongle or stick to plug into your TV. Want to sit back on your couch and watch your Facebook video feed?

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