socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

According to the company, the new round was led by Time Warner Investments, along with Canal+, Astor, Singtel Innov8, Upfront Ventures, Greycroft Partners, and Downey Ventures. Culver City-based Maker Studios confirmed today that it has raised $26M in additional funding in its Series C funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Maker Studios is venture backed by Greycroft Partners, Downey Ventures, Time Warner, M+C, and others. Los Angeles-based YouTube network Maker Studios confirmed its acuqisition of Blip , the company announced Friday, two weeks after word leaked out about the acquisition. Financial terms of the deal have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Southern California is fast becoming a hot location for the electric and alternative vehicle industry, with automakers Coda Automotive, Fisker Automotive, Aptera Motors, and V-Vehicle also all in the region, plus Silicon Valley's Tesla Automotive also planning a plant in the Downey area.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Airware is led by Jonathan Downey. Airware said the new funding comes on top of existing funding from First Round Capital, Firelake Capital, RRE Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Promus Ventures, and Y Combinator; the company said it has been part of both the Lemnos Labs and Y Combinator incubators. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Epoxy is venture backed by Upfront Ventures, Time Warner Investments, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Advancit Capital, Greycroft Partners and Robert Downey Jr.''s s Downey Ventures. Epoxy''s founders came out of Team Downey. marketing platform tools social hollywood content youtube downey team epoxy' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

Epoxy is led by Juan Bruce, the former Presiden tof Digital at Team Downey, who also has served at IDEO; the firm's other founders include Jason Ahmad (Proto), Peter Skirko (Adobe, mixpanel), and Brendan Wypich (YouTube). According to Epoxy, the new funding will go to expand its engineering team and build out its products.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The shuttle will then fly to Northern California, and then eventually circle back towards the Los Angeles area around 11:30 a.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

And while the press always likes to mention the other big media investors who participated in the investments (Time Warner, Canal+, Astro, Singtel, Elisabeth Murdoch, Robert Downey, Jr. – there were many), the reality is that Upfront & Greycroft were the largest shareholders in the company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2017

The funding was led by Third Wave Digital, and also included Les Moonves (CBS ), Jon Landau (Avatar & Titanic), United Talent Agency (UTA), Robert Downey Jr. Downey Ventures) and Chris Jacquemin (WME). Pocketwatch says that it creates, acquires, distributes and curates content for kids age 2-11.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly $250 million from investors including the celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr.’s ’s Footprint Coalition, and Orlando Bloom and more traditional institutional investors like AlphaEdison, Capricorn Investment Group, the Omidyar Network, and Allen & Co.,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He'll be joined by Scott Downey, RapidScrum.com. Join our fourth one-on-one chat with Jeff Sutherland, often known as the Father of Scrum. Jeff will lead a discussion on using Scrum including techniques, use, educating others in ur company about scrum, etc. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Heck, I even had Robert Downey, Jr. It was Soleil Moon Frye. Aka Punky Brewster. We’ve had many celebrities walk through our doors including a-list film stars. bang on the windows of a board meeting recently and stick his tongue out at all of us. And Tasha never screamed before? We’re in LA. They’re only people.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 27, 2012

s experience with Scrum, which began with training from with Master Scrum Trainer Scott Downey. How does the Scrum process change team collaboration and accelerate development? Learn from one of our very own LA CEOs, Bill Sewell, about his team?s See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Pasadena-based 3D printer manufacturer New Matter announced this morning that it is donating five of its MOD-t 3D printers to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization program in Downey, called the Challenger Center.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2021

Carrot Group says its programs are already being implemented at the Downey and Compton School Districts of Los Angeles. According to Carrot Group, the two will expand its reach to more school districts nationwide. Financial and other details of the partnership were not announced.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2016

Downey Ventures, M13, and SterlingVC. Loot Crate offers up a subscription box service which delivers boxes full of items of interest to what the company calls "geeks and gamers"; the company recently raised a round of funding from Upfront Ventures, Breakwater Investment Management, Time Inc., READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions.At Monday, February 9, 2009 -- "Bootstrapping an Agile Team" Scrum Club.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Connectifier's angel investors also included Sean Ellis, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Downey, and James Hong. Connectifier was developing automated software to help companies with their recruiting, and had raised around $12.0M in funding from such investors as Galeo Ventures, Goldcrest Investments, Okapi Venture Capital, and True Ventures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2015

According to Connectifier, the funding was led by True Ventures, and also included Galeo Ventures, Okapi Ventures, and angels, including Sean Ellis, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Downey, and James Hong.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2016

Downey Ventures, M13, and SterlingVC. Los Angeles-based Loot Crate announced this morning that it has raised $18.5M in a Series A funding round, for the company's subscription, "fan boxes"--which feature custom, tailored mystery boxes delivered to fans from their favorite entertainment and pop culture brands, every month.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2012

s experience with Scrum, which began with training from with Master Scrum Trainer Scott Downey. How does the Scrum process change team collaboration and accelerate development? Learn from one of our very own LA CEOs, Bill Sewell, about his team?s Scrum is not just for developers, it?s See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

This year, after working with Team Downey, and several other accelerators, our idea became more developed. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? Justin Wu: Last year, we talked to Media Camp about our idea, when it was at a much earlier stage. We found applications here where Warner Bros.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He initially started by becoming an investor in the company along with many of the good & great of our industry including Shari Redstone, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Miller & Robert Downey, Jr.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The team from Epoxy spun out of Robert Downey Jr.’s One of the best I have seen in the market is Epoxy.TV. And while I’m an investor so I may seem biased, I’m an investor there for a reason. ’s digital studio. It’s a team of Stanford engineers with direct video distribution skills.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 2, 2016

Downey Ventures, M13, and Sterling.VC. They are considered a pioneer and one of the more successful offerings in the subscription space with more than 600,000 subscribers. The round is led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Breakwater Investment Management, Time Inc.,

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The tech world is filled with unique personalities, budding innovators, and a great deal of money. That’s why the tech world is the perfect place for celebrities to get their feet wet when it comes to investment opportunities.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Davis talked about Loot Crate’s incredible trajectory, growing from shipping Avengers cologne as one of its first mystery box items to having none other than Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr, as an investor a mere four year later.

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