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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Docstoc was venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, Crosscut Ventures, as well as local angel investors like Mike Jones, Scott Walchek, Matt Coffin (LowermyBills), Brett Brewer (Intermix/MySpace), Robin Richards (MP3.com), com), and others.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based TopFloor revealed today that it has raised $6M in a funding round, from Polaris Ventures, Google Ventures, Crosslink Ventures, and Rustic Canyon Partners. The firm is building a celebrity influencer based fashion and e-commerce site, geared around flash-sales of products.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Science just launched Ellie , a site which offers up clothing for activewear for women, via subscription. The firm aid this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round from Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Blumberg Capital. Science, Inc.,

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MAY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, said Thursday that it has launched an iPad version of its service. The new app, Docstoc Premium, allows users to access both free and premium versions of documents on the site. The firm is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2010

The firm is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. Tom Unterman of Rustic Canyon Partners--the majority owner of Foodlink--site on the company's board. Peters previously served at Acosta TrueDemand as President, and also served at TrueDemand Software, where he was a co-founder before its acquisition by Acosta.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Streaming, cloud-based game service provider Gaikai has linked up its service to Facebook , the firm said Wednesday, launching a beta of a Facebook app which allows users to play console-quality games directly from the social networking site. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media , the online fashion content site run by Emrah Kovacoglu, said this morning that it has acquired LimeLife.com , a female lifestyle and celebrity news site. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. LimeLife was founded by Kristin McDonnell. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2011

The deal allows Eurogamer to stream Gaikai-powered gaimes across its various local language sites. The firm is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners, Limelight Networks and Intel Capital, and is headed by David Perry.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar , is launching a new marketplace this morning which will allow users to sell their own content on the firm's site. According to the firm, its new Docstore will allow users to sell their professional documents from the site, splitting revenues with Docstoc.

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MAY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, said this afternoon that it has officially come out of its public beta. Along with the official launch, the firm said that it has rolled out a new revenue sharing agreement--DocCash--which will split Google AdSense revenue with people who upload documents to the site.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Among other enhancements to the site, Factual said it has added a RESTful API, new tools for geo-specific queries, integration with Google Maps, and topic-specific data hubs. The release also came in conjunction with new developer tools and redesign by the company to help developers get started more quickly in using its datasets.

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MARCH 27, 2009

The new features allow users to automatically post a link in the Facebook social networking site or the Twitter micro-blogging service with any upload or download of a document. Docstoc is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, along with local angel investors.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

The firm said that any document can be uploaded to the firm via email, and it will automatically be published publically on the site. DocStoc is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. READ MORE>>

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MAY 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, just released a new feature Thursday afternoon, DocStoc Collections , which allows users to create their own groupings of documents by topic. DocStoc is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

The funding was led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, with participation from Series A investors Atomico, General Catalyst Partners, and Mayfield Fund. Santa Monica-based DECA has raised $10M in a new round of funding worth $10M, according to a regulatory filing. DECA is a digital media studio which produces online video content.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Docstoc is tying into a Firefox browser extension, saying Wednesday that it has tied into MashLogic, which analyzes web pages and gives users more information about sites they are visiting. The arrangement adds documents gleaned from Docstoc's site into the MashLogic's list of related information for keywords.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , a venture-backed firm developing leads management software, said today that the firm has linked into real estate site Zillow with a new product. Leads360 is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. Zillow's Mortgage Marketplace is an online marketplace for finding mortgages.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Santa Monica-based business document sharing site Docstoc.com has made two executives hires, saying Wednesday that it has hired Robyn Ward as Vice President of Business Development, and Serena Ehrlich as Director of Marketing. Docstoc is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Ventures. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc rolled out a new feature for the firm's web-based document sharing service Thursday, which allows users to embed preview links into their web pages of documents on the site. The feature is only available to users registered with the Docstoc site.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Jason Nazar is CEO of Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com), the online document sharing site, and a fixture at Los Angeles technology events. Jason Nazar: Our venture capital firm is Rustic Canyon, and they've been absolutely amazing partners. People like David Travers and Nate Redmond.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. Subsequently, Rustic Canyon came in a Series A round. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.

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JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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