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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. Local capital matters.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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MAY 2, 2017

Former UFC owners launch Fertitta Capital with $500 million fund, Venice venture capital fund raises $212 million aimed at real estate tech, and Disney rebrands Maker Studios as Disney Digital Network.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Venice, California-based StyleSaint , an online site which allows users to create their own collections of styles, photos, and other fashion information, has scored funding from Crosscut Ventures. Details on the funding have not yet been announced.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Venice, California-based Riot Ventures , led by Stephan Marcus and William Coffield, has launched an effort to raise $75M for its second venture capital fund, the firm disclosed this week in a regulatory filing.

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APRIL 17, 2014

Venice-based ZEFR said Thursday that it has named a new set of VPs. Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners; the company recently raised $30M in a funding round. ZEFR is venture backed by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), U.S. READ MORE>>. zefr brand executive machinima'

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Venice, California-based Amplify.LA, the startup incubator and investor led by Paul Bricault and Oded Noy, has launched an effort to raise $50M in a new venture capital investment fund, Amplify.LA As is usual with venture funds, no details have yet been announced by Amplify.LA Amplify.LA

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Chromatik is based in Santa Monica and headed by Matt Sandler ; the firm's investors include 500 Startups, Kapor Capital , LaunchpadLA, Learn Capital , and MuckerLab. The firm has the backing of both Intel Capital and Liberty Global. Earbits is in Venice, and is headed by Joey Flores. Miso Media. Music Mastermind.

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MAY 20, 2014

Venice, California-basd Epoxy --which was built by former executive from Team Downey--has launched a brand new set of tools aimed at helping online video creators use social media, and also disclosed a funding round. The company did not provide other details on the funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Venice-based photo messaging service Snapchat is reportedly raising $100M in funding, at a valuation of half a billion dollars, according to a report Friday. Snapchat--which operates a mobile photo messaging service which is very popular with the teenage set--is backed by Benchmark Capital, and had previously raised $12.5M

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Club W , the subscription wine club service out of the Amplify accelerator in Venice, disclosed today that it has raised $3.1M in a Series A funding round. Adam Goldenberg joins the company's board as part of the funding.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat , the developer of the popular social media app, has added $4.5M in venture funding--and three new investors--as part of its Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company today. Details on the new funding were not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA has kicked off fundraising for a third fund, Amplify.LA Capital III , according to a regulatory filing from the firm. in funding for the third fund. The filing indicates the accelerator is targeting $10.0M Amplify.LA

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round. authentication system operating amplify software saas capital venture bitium' Gustavson was similarly involved at 5 Desks, One Cloud, Fastpoint, and SOA Software. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

NextSpace operates two locations in Southern California, including NextSpace @ Amplify along Venice Beach, and NextSpace Los Angeles. nextspace venture capital coworking chicago coop merger acquisition' According to NextSpace, its first expansion outside California comes via the acquisition of a coworking operator called The Coop.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Venice, California-based Bitcoin startup Gem has raised $2M, to make Bitcoin easier to use for developers, the company said this week. The funding was co-led by First Round''s Howard Morgan and Jai Choi, of Tekton Ventures. bitcoin bitvault venture capital currency cryptocurrency seed' Gem is led by Micah Winkelspecht.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Venice, California-based venture capital investment fund Fifth Wall Ventures , has just received a sizeable commit into its second fund, Fifth Wall Ventures II , according to a regulatory filing by the company. raised out of a $500M targeted fund size, up from an earlier $100M in raised for the fund in June of 2018.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Venice-based Movieclips , the online movie clips site and content site founded by Zach James and Richard Raddon, said today that it has raised $18.9M in a Series C funding round, and has rebranded itself as ZEFR. The new funding round was led by U.S. John Hald of USVP joins the company's board with the funding.

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MAY 26, 2016

Venice, California-based Snapchat has raised $1.8 billion in its Series F funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this morning, in what might be the largest funding round ever for a Southern California startup. Details on the round have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

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MAY 3, 2017

Venice, California-based Fifth Wall Ventures , a brand new venture capital firm focused on investing in real estate technology, announced this week that it has raised a new, $212M venture capital fund.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Paul Bricault is Managing Partner at Amplify LA (Www.amplify.la), a hands-on startup accelerator and co-working and community space in Venice. He's also a Venture Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft Partners, and is EVP and a member of the Board of Directors at William Morris Agency, and was Founder of the Mailroom Fund.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Venice, California-based startup accelerator Amplify.LA reports that seed funding in Q1 of 2017 dropped precipitously, falling 42.2 percent from Q4 of 2016, and 43.8 percent, Year-over-Year. raised, from $2.8M in the prior quarter. raised, from $2.8M in the prior quarter.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Both Howard Lindzon and Dave Samuel are joining the firm's board as part of the funding. Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Bombd , a startup which develops a social networking and messaging app revolving around sharing instant photos with others, has set up shop in Venice Beach. The startup--originally started in Australia--said its team and founders have moved to Venice Beach to scale the app in the U.S., and that it has begun hiring a team here.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Venice, California-based MOVIECLIPS , the online provider of licensed movie clips headed by Richard Raddon and Zach James, is announcing today that it has scored $7M in a Series B funding round, and also partnered with Google to feature its clips on YouTube. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

One way might be to try out GrubTonight , a newly launhced iPhone application from Venice-based Grubwithus, which allows users to find organized dinners in a local area, reserve a seat, and meet others at meals. The firm raised $5M in a venture funding round back in May of last year, and earlier had raised $1.6M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Venice, California-based comedy startup Laffster said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a funding round, which came from Greylock Partners, Howard Lindzon, Adam Nash (LinkedIn), Chris Williams (Maker Studios), Samer Hamadeh (Vault.com), Christopher Grey (CapLinked), Sonny Singh (Jumio), and The Paradigm Agency, along with others.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Venice-based Amplify recently close a third, early stage investment fund of $10M, as part of its efforts to accelerate startups in the Los Angeles area. Amplify, which operates its own startup accelerator in Venice, had previously been investing $12.6M raised in its prior two funds. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Venice Beach-based Snapchat , the developer of a popular mobile application which lets users take "self destructing" mobile photos of themselves that they can send to friends, has raised $13.5M in a Series A funding, according to multiple reports. The funding came from Benchmark Capital, led by Mitch Lasky.

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MARCH 5, 2013

To that end, Venice-based Epoxy announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, to help build out its product suite to help grow, engage, and monetize online video channels. According to Epoxy, the new funding will go to expand its engineering team and build out its products.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based CrossCut Ventures , the venture firm run by Rick Smith, Brian Garrett, Brett Brewer, and Clinton Foy, is announcing this morning that it has raised a big new fund-- CrossCut 4 --worth $125M. According to CrossCut, the new fund was targeted at $100M, but was highly oversubscribed, even beyond the fund's hard cap at $125M.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Venice, California-based Briabe Media , a mobile marketing firm targeting Hispanic, African, and Asian American consumers, said today that it has raised more than $2M in funding. According to Briabe, the funding also includes a joint venture between the company and Stochasto Holdings AS.

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JULY 19, 2012

Venice-based MovieClips , the online site which allows people to share and view clips from movies, has raised a Series C funding round, according to reports. No details on the funding, which was first reported by Dan Primack at FORTUNE, have been released. Raddon and James have not yet released any details on the funding.

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MAY 29, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has raised $537.6M more--part of an ongoing $650M funding round--as the instant messaging app developer continues to break Southern California records in both total funding and valuation. Snapchat has now raised north of $1.15‎ billion. billion raised), and much more successful SpaceX ($1.2

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JUNE 26, 2014

Venice, California-based online flower delivery service TheBouqs said this morning that it has raised $6M in a Series A financing, to go towards expansion of its team, delivery outside the US, and scaling of its technology and infrastructure. mobile online delivery floral flower capital venture thebouqs' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat has raised an enormous, $485.6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the company on New Year''s Eve. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. According to the filing, the funding came from 23 investors, and the first sale in the round was in April.

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