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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Venice, California-based Snapchat , the developer of the popular social media app, has added $4.5M snapchat venture capital filing social media mobile' in venture funding--and three new investors--as part of its Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company today. 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 Snapchat develops a somewhat controversial application popular for "sexting". The firm's CEO is Evan Spiegel. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A new lawsuit, targeting Venice, California-based Snapchat --the hottest company to emerge out of the area''s high tech startup cluster in recent years--says that the company''s founders stole the idea for the company from him after forcing him out of the company early on in its history. snapchat legal lawsuit social networking mobile'

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile app developer Snapchat is in the midst of a new funding round, which values the company at more than $3.6 snapchat valuation venture capital mobile social teenager startup' billion, according to a report Friday. The deal apparently has not yet closed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Snapchat , the Venice Beach-based startup which has been taking the mobile world by storm with its "self destructing" mobile photos, has just officially launched video into its Android app, just days after announcing a Series A funding round. SnapChat announced $13.5M

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MAY 8, 2014

The FTC charges came out both the agency''s dis-satisfaction with the way Snapchat represented how difficult it was to pull screenshots and video from the app, as well as the widely publicized security breach where hackers pulled 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers from the service. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based Snapchat has officially announced its Series B funding, raising $60M in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Snapchat said the funding will go towards building a bigger engineering team, and also to "figure out how to pay our server bills." snapchat venture capital photo messaging mobile sharing social'

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JUNE 6, 2014

The photos only remain accessible for 24 hours, and then disappear, ala Snapchat. tinder moments dating selfie photo mobile hookup snapchat date flirt flirting' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

How much is Los Angeles-based Snapchat really worth? The report last week that Snapchat is raising a new funding round at $3.5 snapchat valuation venture capital mobile social teenager startup' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Venice-based Snapchat said Monday that it has launched a new feature, which lets users pay their friends using the company''s mobile app. According to Snapchat, it partnered with payment firm Square, which lets you type a dollar sign and amount to send to a friend''s bank account, using a user''s debit card. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

A lot of heads turned Monday after Venice-based Snapchat , the instant-photo messaging service known for its self destructing chats, announced a huge, $60M round at a huge valuation. Among the reasons given in a blog post from IVP, defending its investment in Snapchat: the firm loves LA. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. You can follow me on Snapchat at msuster. Snapchat for my “original run” and I’ll also store each video to be watched later.

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tinder , the mobile dating app developer led by Sean Rad, is now worth over $5 billion, according to a report Friday from Bloomberg. A valuation of $5 billion puts Tinder''s worth above the $3 billion offer that Snapchat rejected last year from Facebook. Bloomberg cited "people with knowledge of the deal."

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APRIL 25, 2017

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed , which develops social marketing software to help multi-location, retail brands better manage the information about their local stores, has linked up with Snapchat's partner program, according to the company.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SketchAR — this Lithuanian company is developing an AI-based mobile app for teaching drawing using augmented reality. Nuggetverse — Los Angeles-based Nuggetverse is creating a children’s media business based on its marquee character, Tubby Nugget.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Is Los Angeles becoming the capital of mobile dating and flirting apps? Truly Social Apps , a UK-based mobile app development firm, launched its new flirting app for singles here today, saying that its new apps-- Flirt Planet Meet and Flirt Planet Play --are targeted at helping people practice their flirting skills. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Los Angeles-based mobile streaming video startup Quibi will not be launching a series about Venice, Californi-based Snapchat , according to a report from Variety. Quibi had said last year at SXSW that it would film a series based on the script "Frat Boy Genius" by Elissa Karasik.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. And consider Snapchat – one of our hometown favorites as they’re based in LA (Venice Beach). Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.” .” Boston is still a great tech hub.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. snapchat news information social media socialmedia discovery publisher publishing' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. publishing publisher discovery socialmedia media social information news snapchat' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat is reportedly near a $110M acquisition of mobile search startup Vurb , according to reports. Neither Snapchat nor Vurb have yet confirmed the deal, which apparently has yet to be signed. The original report cited a "person famliar with the deal". READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a new startup developing a network of content creators for Snapchat, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms.

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MAY 11, 2018

A new report this morning says that a new survey of users of Venice, California-based Snap 's social networking app, Snapchat , finds opinion of the brand has dropped significantly due to its redesign. The report says the opinions of 18- to 34-year old users of Snapchat dropped 73 percent following the redesign, based on data from YouGov.

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APRIL 14, 2015

It should not be a surprise to users of Snapchat , however, a new report confirms that the majority of Snapchat''s audience are Millenials. comScore aid it found that Snapchat was the youngest social network among the ones it tracks. comScore aid it found that Snapchat was the youngest social network among the ones it tracks.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Venice-based instant messaging app developer Snapchat is at the center of a murder investigation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, after a teen allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend over a message sent via the service. The issue of crime linked to new Internet and mobile services is not a new one for local companies.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A report, published Thursday by Bloomberg, says that Apple is working on a clone of the software from Venice, California-based Snapchat --in a bid to make a renewed push into the social networking area. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

In fact, many people know I grew up in NorCal and still have a 650 area code on my mobile phone. Evan, Ryan, Trystan, Ben, Ben, Randy and a whole lot more great people created the market-leading company in mobile-ad mediation (30 billion ads monthly at its peak) and mobile testing. LA has a serious technology scene. FullScreen.

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MARCH 21, 2017

The Snapchat analytics software developed by Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a startup producing online content for brands, has been acquired by social media management firm Hootsuite. Hootsuite said the acquisition specifically was geared towards the Snapchat analytics solutions created by Naritiv. The announcement was made on Tuesday.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Venice, California-based Snapchat said on Tuesday that it has launched a new group chat feature , called Groups , which lets up to 16 people communicate through the service. Snapchat said that, by default, snaps sent to a group are deleted by default after 24 hours, and that each recipient can only open and replay each of those snaps once.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

the parent firm behind Snapchat , has joined up with R/GA Marketing --which helps run the Dodgers Accelerator in Los Angeles--to launched a new startup accelerator, the R/GA Marketing Tech Venture Studio with IPG. Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2014

Fast growing, mobile advertising startup Airpush , which has quietly grown to nearly $100M in revenues, has something probably no other startup has in the office: a hot tub. Airpush says it now has over 5,000 active advertisers, and is seeing more than 4 billion monthly impressions, and is running on more than 120,000 mobile apps.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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MAY 29, 2015

Venice-based Snapchat has raised $537.6M Snapchat has now raised north of $1.15‎ billion. 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. billion raised), and much more successful SpaceX ($1.2 billion).

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 22, 2017

Facebook predicted to lose teens to Snapchat and Instagram, Uber and Lyft drivers protest their pay at LAX, and FreedomPop launches $49 per year mobile phone plan.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Skip any talk about self-destructing messages for "privacy": an Irvine-based company, Aclipsa Mobile Video Solutions, said this morning that it has launched a new Android app specifically for "consenting adults". zipaclip sexting mobile android instant messaging' READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 28, 2017

Mobile game hardware startup Wonder raises $14 million, SpaceX to launch final Falcon 9 upgrade this year and Snapchat users can create custom filters in the app.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder). Here is a preview of what we found & what we will publish: 1.

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