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MARCH 3, 2016

Santa Monica-based Mave has raised seed funding, for a yet-to-be-launched personal concierge startup, according to Fortune this morning. The new startup was founded by Emily White, a former executive of Snapchat and Instagram. White was previously COO of Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator. in its seed funding round. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars'

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It’s not just Snapchat, although there’s that. Not just Tinder, Dollar Shave Club, Riot Games, CornerStone OnDemand and the companies you’ve heard of but there are large successes that are less well known but now very large startups businesses like Ring, Zip Recruiter, GumGum, Laurel & Wolf and too many other great companies to mention.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. The Motive for Speaking Up. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” So prices start dropping.

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MAY 24, 2016

Los Angeles-based mobile app startup Chatter said today that it is about to launch an app, which will let fans hold one-on-one, five minute chats with their favorite stars--and, at the same time, help raise money for charities. The company says it has raised seed funding from Innovation Factory. The app runs on iOS and Android.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Betaworks is betting on the content studio aspect through companies like SuperPlastic , a new startup launched by Paul Budnitz, the founder of the alternative social network ello and Budnitz Bicycles. “We started doing cartoon live streams and the founders of Musical.ly Lil Miquela and fellow brud avatar Blawko22.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

A number of startups have tried to make sharing of premium clips more available to users, but none have yet managed to convince studios and other content creators to allow for widespread clipping and sharing of that content. We recently spoke with Mauhan about his startup, which is setting up offices in Los Angeles, but is based in New York.

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