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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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MARCH 31, 2011

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , the iPhone creation software firm, has raised $6M in another round of funding, the firm is announcing today. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based GameSalad , the developer of software which makes it easy to create iPhone and other iOS games, has named Steve Felter as the new CEO of the company. GameSalad's software allows users to create iPhone games, even if they do not know how to develop software. Felter joins the firm from Disney. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , the startup developer of iPhone game creation software headed by Michael Agustin, has named a new Chief Operations Officer, the firm said Friday. GameSalad is venture backed by DFJ Mercury, Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Tags: advertising software gaming analytics social online ijji games sometrics. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Irvine-based Kofax has acquired Kapow Technologies , a provider of data integration software, the firm announced Wednesday. Kofax said the acquisition will help grow its sales organization and accelerate its software revenue growth. Kapow''s investors included Steamboat Ventures and Morgan Stanley, among others.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software to easily create iPhone and other iOS platform games, announced earlier this week that it has improved its overall communications and support tools for its users. GameSalad also has improved its contact forms and customer support and bug handling. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: passenger brand community online software executive overture yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2010

In a statement, Dan Beldy, Managing Director at investor Steamboat Ventures, and member of Move's board, said that the board decided that "the time is right to undertake a disciplined exploration of the full range of value maximizing opportunities." READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

MuckerLab , headed by Erik Rannala, William Hsu, Greg Bettinelli and Yan-David Erlich, said it will employ a similar model to TechStars and Y-Combinator, recruiting Internet softwar,e services, and media entrepreneurs through a three month program.

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JUNE 23, 2010

The firm is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: passenger brand community online software microsoft mobile phone. Passenger provides brands with online customer input sites, and its clients also include such firms as JC Penney, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, and Fox.

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Gendai Games , a publisher of iPhone game development software, has raised a round of funding, according to the firm. The round was led by DFJ Mercury, and also included investments from Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: technology executive brands software community online passenger. The company said that Winner will split his time btween Palo Alto and Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Tags: passenger online social networking software nyse euronext. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sometrics , which develops analytics software for gaming applications, said Friday morning that it has raised a Series B round of financing. The investment was led by Steamboat Ventures, and also included prior investors Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. Those two typically don't go together well.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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

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APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew) (lead), with existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Read more: PEHub. Happy to see him get this deal done. 7mm in Series B.

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