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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company, has invested in a Chinese startup which provides web, video, and search analytics, Gridsum Technology. According to Gridsum, Steamboat led its Series A. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Happy to see him get this deal done. OpenCandy.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company, has re-upped its investment in San Jose-based Baynote , a developer of personalization and marketing software for the enterprise market. Steamboat's Dan Beldy sites on the board of directors of Baynote.

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MAY 27, 2010

Source of the funding was not disclosed, however, Dan Beldy, a venture capitalist at Steamboat Ventures, remains listed as a board member. The firm has previously raised funding from Benchmark Capital, Cisco Corp., Comcast Interactive Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Microsoft Corp., READ MORE>>.

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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 19, 2014

The firm''s founder, Nicholas Woodman, is a graduate of UC San Diego, and came up with the idea for the company while surfing off of San Diego; the company''s investors also include Steamboat Ventures--the venture arm of Walt Disney--which looks to own something around 3 percent of the company.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Greystripe was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Monitor Ventures, Peacock Equity, and Incubic Venture Capital, and was based in San Francisco. According to ValueClick, it has hired Greystripe's management team and employee base, and will run Greystripe as a wholly owned subsidiary of ValueClick Media.

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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!

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APRIL 6, 2011

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of the Walt Disney Company, has backed Woodman Labs the parent firm of sports camera maker GoPro. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. The WSJ first reported the investment Wednesday.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Move Networks , the venture backed developer of high definition streaming technology for Internet video, has been acquired by Echostar , the firms said Thursday afternoon. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Bass Associates, and Fort Washington Capital. According to the filing, representatives from RMT Family Partners and Allegis Capital are now on its board. The firm no longer lists former investor Steamboat Ventures on its web site as an investor. Tags: emn8 kiosk fast food retail hardware venture capital.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

EMN8 has previously raised capital from Allegis Capital, GRP Partners, Sid R. Bass Associates, and Steamboat Ventures. Bass Associates and Allegis Capital continue to have board seats at EMN8. San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of fast food ordering kiosks for restaurants, has raised $12.2M READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2013

The new funding was led by Performance Equity Management, and also included existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. edgecast venture capital content delivery network internet traffic' EdgeCast said the Series D growth investment will go towards developing and launching new services. 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.

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MARCH 31, 2011

The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. As part of the funding, Beau Laskey of Steamboat joins the board, and Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners have joined the company's board of directors.

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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. Nour-Omid is a partner at Shelter Capital, and has previously served at Scopus Technology and StudioXchange, and also serves on the boards of Roamware, Isensix, and Kryptiq. in an investment.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

The firm is backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Previously, Passenger provided full-service development of those communities. Passenger's software allows brands to develop communities with discussion boards, surveys, and polls. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2010

EdgeCast said the round was led by Menlo Ventures, and also includes an investment from Steamboat Ventures, a prior investor in the company. As part of the funding, Pravin Vazirani of Menlo Ventures has joined the company's board of directors. 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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JANUARY 27, 2010

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. In conjunction with the board appointment, Passenger said it closed its 2009 fiscal year with 37 percent revenue growth, although it did not release financials. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

GameSalad is backed by Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital arm of Disney, Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. GameSalad also has improved its contact forms and customer support and bug handling. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The firm, which was started by Novell founder Drew Major, had been backed by Benchmark Capital, Cisco Corp., Comcast Interactive Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Microsoft Corp., and Steamboat Ventures.

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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.

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JUNE 23, 2010

The firm is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Passenger provides brands with online customer input sites, and its clients also include such firms as JC Penney, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, and Fox. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included investments from Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. Tags: content videogame ipad ipod iphone capital venture games gendai. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, however the firm said the funding was somewhere over $1M. 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). Tags: venture capital pricewaterhousecoopers nvca finance moneytree thomson reuters.

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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 19, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures has seen a big exit in one of its portfolio firms, San Francisco-based Pure Digital , with the announcement this morning that Cisco will pay $590M in stock for the video camera maker. Steamboat is a venture capital firm whose primary LP is the Walt Disney Company.

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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. Tags: razorgator ticketing venture capital. Los Angeles-based RazorGator announced Friday that it has close on $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Winner has served at Ideal Soft and Blink Logic, in addition to working at IBM, Compaq and KPMG. The company said that Winner will split his time btween Palo Alto and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2009

The firm and its venture backers had not returned further information on the funding as of press time. However, venture firm Steamboat Ventures now lists RazorGator as a portfolio firm. Tags: ticketing razorgator venture capital. Details on this funding were first disclosed by PEHub.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. According to Passenger, the new community will provide NYSE information and economic reports, live chats, surveys, and blogs, and will allow IR professionals to share ideas and other opinions with NYSE Euronext.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

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. Tags: analytics capital venture sometrics. Amount of the funding was not released, however, reports put the amount at $4M.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. Speaker List.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists.

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