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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Gendai Games , a publisher of iPhone game development software, has raised a round of funding, according to the firm. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, however the firm said the funding was somewhere over $1M. Gendai is one of the firms in the LaunchpadLA effort, headed by Suster.

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MAY 5, 2011

GoPro , the maker of wearable, action sports cameras, which has operations in San Diego, has scored a strategic investment which includes the involvement of Burbank Steamboat Ventures , GoPro said today. Venture Partners. Amount of that funding was not announced.

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MAY 27, 2011

Two Southern California venture capital firms have benefited from an acquisition yesterday of Mountain View-based MerchantCircle , an online local business advertising and networking site, by fellow online advertising firm Reply! MerchantCircle's other backers are Scale Venture Partners and IAC. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The funding has not been announced by the company. Bass Associates, and Fort Washington Capital. According to the filing, representatives from RMT Family Partners and Allegis Capital are now on its board. EMN8 is backed by GRP Partners, Sid R.

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MARCH 31, 2011

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , the iPhone creation software firm, has raised $6M in another round of funding, the firm is announcing today. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management.

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JULY 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network EdgeCast has just filled up its warchest, announcing Thursday that it has raised $54M in a big funding round. The new funding was led by Performance Equity Management, and also included existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 6, 2009

in a funding round, led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. The funding had been disclosed earlier this week, but not confirmed by the company until today. Tags: razorgator ticketing venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

out of an ongoing, $18.186M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. EMN8 has previously raised capital from Allegis Capital, GRP Partners, Sid R. Bass Associates, and Steamboat Ventures. The filing indicates Sid R.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , a content delivery network (CDN) provider, is announcing today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. EdgeCast said the round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also includes an investment from Steamboat Ventures, a prior investor in the company. 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 Series C funding today. Tags: steamboat ventures video greystripe game content advertising. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The round came from Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. AS part of the funding, the firm said that Nour-Omid has been named CEO of the firm, and that Steve Howe has become Chairman of the company. in an investment. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. According to Connecticut-based Fanzter, Steamboat's Dan Beldy joins the firm's board of directors.

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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 Series C funding today. Tags: ventures steamboat video greystripe content game advertising. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The increasing venture activity seems to indicate a recovery in the outlook for startups here.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Burbank-based venture capital firm Steamboat Ventures , which is affiliated with the Walt Disney Company, has led a new investment in a Bay area video advertising and monetization firm, FreeWheel. According to FreeWheel, Steamboat led a $16.8M Steamboat's investment was led by Dan Beldy.

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MARCH 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based RazorGator , fresh off a recent equity financing round, said Monday that it has raised $10M in an debt financing extension from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. equity raise last week from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. RazorGator announced a $7.5M

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MARCH 4, 2009

in a venture funding round. No details on the funding have been released by the company, however, regulatory filings for the firm show that a funding event occurred around February 13th. The firm and its venture backers had not returned further information on the funding as of press time.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Amount of the funding was not released, however, reports put the amount at $4M. The investment was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included prior investors Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners. Beau Laskey of Steamboat has joined the firm's board with the funding. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What we've managed to do, is to use our background in web hosting--my partners and I have been building web hosting companies for years in the app hosting space--to run EdgeCast, in a way that is capital efficient, profitable, and highly performant. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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