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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Circle Street , the developer of a mobile advertising service to help retailers drive local store traffic, has been acquired by media and advertising firm Valassis , according to the company''s venture backer, Crosscut Ventures. circle street valassis merger acquisition mobile advertising local launchpadla'

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APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. Greystripe was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Monitor Ventures, Peacock Equity, and Incubic Venture Capital, and was based in San Francisco.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Shopzilla acquired programmatic media buying startup Connexity--which had been based in Ventura at the Ventura Ventures Incubator--back in February. connexity shopzilla bizrate rename businss unit advertising programmatic comparison shopping' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based Pagewoo , the mobile advertising startup founded by Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly, has quietly scored a round of funding, which was disclosed by the Tech Coast Angels this morning. Pagewoo--which is in private beta--was part of Howard Marks' StartEngine incubator earlier in the year. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Swadia was most recently CEO of White Ops, a company in the digital advertising fraud prevention area, and according to The Trade Desk, has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and media industry. Swadia will be based in The Trade Desks's New York offices. Swadia reports to The Trade Desk's founder and CEO, Jeff Green.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based startup studio and incubator Science Inc. FameBit''s service helps match advertisers with YouTube influencers, mostly for sponsored content and endorsements within that YouTube content. is backing YouTube influence marketplace FameBit , as part of a seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Southern California SoCal Incubator Advertising 159

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Ross Levinsohn of Fuse Capital also is involved in incubating Tecca. Why did you decide to incubate this firm--rather than fund something already in the market?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

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AUGUST 14, 2014

vadio music video streaming technology advertising venture capital investment vevo amplify muckerlab incubator' Vadio is led by entrepreneur Bryce Clemmer, and recently inked a deal with Vevo to help match Vevo''s large library of music videos with other online, music streaming sites. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 25, 2019

The Trade Desk , the programmatic advertising platform developer led by technology veteran Jeff Green--and which got its start at the Ventura Venture Technology Center, the incubator behind Ventura's city hall--is planning a major expansion in Ventura , according to the company.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Triggit's funding came from Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Angel investors Bret and Scott Crosby (Urchin), Asher Waldfogel (Peakstream/Tollbridge), Ben Narison (Fashionmall), Joe Spieser and Alex Zhardanovsky (Epic Advertising), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), TriplePoint Capital, DG Incubation, Joi Ito, Charles Sprincin, and Eric Stein.

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Santa Monica Google Incubator Advertising 133

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MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2020

FameBit , the online marketplace which had allowed advertisers to connect with YouTube influencers, is no more, and has been renamed YouTube BrandConnect , Google said on Tuesday. FameBit was one of the big success stories out of startup incubator Science, Inc., with over 25,000 subscribers. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Google Advertising Los Angeles 113

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 The company will begin trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as TTD. and $18.00 and $16.00 per share on August 31st. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The advertising technology company is led by Jeff Green. The IPO filing is a huge win for the City of Ventura, and in particular its Ventura Ventures startup incubator, where The Trade Desk got its start. The company says it has filed to trade as TTD. Green is a serial entrepreneur , having sold his last firm, AdECN, to Microsoft.

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MARCH 6, 2014

If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. Using the incubator to figure out what we were doing made sense, and it gave us a platform to launch and have some unfair advantage in building out our business. Were you looking at acquisition, or did it just come up? It was really great.

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JUNE 12, 2012

A new startup, Uncovet , headed by Heather Lipner and backed by Mike Jones' Science studio/incubator, has launched today, saying that it will provide curate, ec-ommerce focused around fashion and the home. Uncovet says its site helps map a shopper's "style graph", and provide discounts and tailored shopping recommendations to users.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him.

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MAY 7, 2015

Los Angeles-based startup studio and incubator Science said late Wednesday that it has seen its first exit, and has sold Playhaven to RockYou. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. Playhaven is a mobile ad network, which Science had acquired in September of 2014.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator? Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. It's one of the few instances where you take a company out of Silicon Valley, because it was more logical and better to be here.

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CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. In the early years at Montgomery, I was essentially the in-house M&A expert. When the tech bubble burst, we focused on technology M&A investment banking, which was my personal expertise.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Like any accelerator or incubator, companies and teams must be selected before being admitted to the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precelerator, but in a unique twist, the firm will not take anything in return for their participation, including equity or a guarantee of legal representation. Thanks to our advertisers. Comment help.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

look forward to learning more abt the companies incubating out of startup ucla as well as the 2nd class of startups from other accelerators that launched their first class earlier this year. Thanks to our advertisers. socaltech socalcto the startup scene really is booming in la! continuity of quality of startups will be key!

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally.

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