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APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. What are the parameters of the investments you make? READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels. Basically, it rocks!

Blogging

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

Demand

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird has backed off on legal threats against a local, LA journalist, Cory Doctorow, after widespread outroar over what was perceived as a censorship threat , saying that the company's legal team "overreached" in issuing a takedown letter.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. Overall we write about $100 million of investment checks every year. We take this commitment and relationship very seriously and expect a great decade ahead. So what does one actually do with $400,000,000?

Funding

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Santa Monica-based video game publisher Activision Blizzard is planning a new, yet-to-be-named survival game, which it calls "Unannounced Survival Game", it announced in looking to recruit people to work on the new project. The announcement linked to a Blizzard job postings page, and included a few pieces of conceptual art.

Activision

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

Demand

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Santa Monica-based PadX , a new startup in the real estate market, said today that it has launched a new home buying and selling marketplace in Los Angeles. The new service includes home search tools, ability to book and schedule tours, ways to connect users to a local agent, and online tools to write offers on homes.

Santa Monica

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that one of its portfolio companies, Provation Medical , has acquired MD-Reports , a provider of electronic medical record (EMR), practice management (PM), and report writing software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

Report

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. Interested in pitching?

Los Angeles

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JUNE 27, 2013

I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. The new fund also comes with a move to some new space in Santa Monica? How has your broad social media presence affected your dealflow?

Funding

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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.

Rustic Canyon

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

eHow

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

Startup

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JUNE 6, 2011

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

Startup

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, is announcing this afternoon that the firm has launched a new, online store which will allow people to both buy and sell professional documents. The new online store will allow users to pay for documents with a credit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout.

Doc

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2017

At our OC Angel Investor Roundtable, the panel of investors will focus on pitching to early-stage investors, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists at Expert DOJO on 3rd St Promenade in Santa Monica!

Los Angeles

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product.

Artificial Inteligence

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APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. Also East of the 405?

Startup

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last month, Santa Monica-based PointHub (www.pointhub.com) announced a new, online service aimed at helping travelers better use their mileage and loyalty points. What ShopZilla needed to do, was write a search engine which could crawl and build a structure around the web. What is PointHub? That's what we've built at PointHub.

Startup

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

It will be held at FinaVentures’ office in Santa Monica (3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050). Just write me). 3340 Ocean Park , Suite 1050 Santa Monica, CA 90405. There’s no cost. 3) Create a core group of founding members for a formal westside CEO organization that meets monthly. Location: FinaVentures.

Santa Monica

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2019

At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. Register today, because this event will sell out and seating is limited!

Los Angeles

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. Matt Kumin: I've been working in digital and Internet in LA since 1995, and have been doing this for a number of years. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

Web

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APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each.

Company

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time.

CTO Hire

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MAY 14, 2013

However, we are here in Santa Monica, and we are a celebrity and entertainment site, and the next step for us in monetization is to get direct partnerships and deals with entertainment advertisers. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts. Our revenue is solid.

Google

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Let me use LA as an example. Los Angeles. In our regions?

Venture Capital

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

When I as a 41-year old living in Santa Monica with 2 young boys type “Halloween Costume&# into Google it is pretty clear that there is a highly likelihood or intent by me to shop for Halloween goods. They’re not currently monetizing their status updates on Facebook – I can tell you that much! Everybody gains.

Ideas

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites. Here is some info on the event: Confused by Analytics?

Google

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

Mobile

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

Startup

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. There’s Santa Monica, Westside, Hollywood, Downtown LA, the Valley, and Pasadena. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

Company

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MAY 20, 2016

Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. What's next for you?

Platform

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. Jake got a similar amount.

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