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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 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.

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JULY 31, 2012

GoPro--although based in the Bay Area--has a number of Southern California ties, including staff in San Diego, an investment from Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures, plus a group in San Diego it acquired when it bought Cineform.

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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. The investment involvement of the firms had been disclosed in April in a WSJ article.

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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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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. The company's headquarters are in Half Moon Bay.

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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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JULY 18, 2013

The new funding was led by Performance Equity Management, and also included existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. EdgeCast said the Series D growth investment will go towards developing and launching new services. EdgeCast also said the funding included a debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank.

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JULY 1, 2010

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. According to the firm, he was most recently at Edmunds, where he was Director of Front-End Engineering. The firm said that Elshareef will provide oversight of the firm's technology group. Razorgator is backed by. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

in an investment. The round came from Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures, all existing investors in the firm. The company said that the investment was led by DR. Bahram Nour-Omid.

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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. 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.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

The firm is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. RazorGator operates a service which helps consumers get access to high-demand events. 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). in 91 investments, up significantly from the $451.8M Nationally, venture deals in the U.S.

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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. Los Angeles- and Austin-based Gendai Games , a publisher of iPhone game development software, has raised a round of funding, according to the firm.

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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 6, 2009

in a funding round, led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Los Angeles-based RazorGator announced Friday that it has close on $7.5M The funding had been disclosed earlier this week, but not confirmed by the company until today.

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MARCH 9, 2009

equity raise last week from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: razorgator ticket htgc venture debt funding capital. RazorGator operates a service which connects sports and entertainment fans with difficult-to-find tickets. RazorGator announced a $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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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. Amount of the funding was not released, however, reports put the amount at $4M.

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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. RazorGator has previously raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Oak Investment Partners.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

As traditional and digital media companies strive to build out a worldwide marketplace for their content, services and products, the event will answer how fundraising, investment and new technologies impacttheir strategies. Last July the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit was one of the best conferences of the year.

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