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JULY 14, 2011

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Walt Disney, has re-upped its investment in a provider of mobile and Internet usage analytics and measurement tools.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If success, the IPO is a win for Southern California''s tech community--despite the company being based up North--since one of its major backers is Steamboat Ventures, and many of the company''s employees were previously at San Diego-based Cineform. gopro camera action sports merger acquisition exit steamboat ventures'

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

EdgeCast has announced only a total of$20M in funding, from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. Those data points, along with revenue range figures reported elsewhere, implies that the company now has revenues of perhaps between $100M and $200M. READ MORE>>.

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The company is venture backed by such investors as Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. GameSalad's tools allow developers to drag and drop components, and wire those together to create iOS, Android, Windows 8, and other games. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

GameSalad is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 supports Windows 8 and a number of the features of the Windows 8 environment. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

GameSalad is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. GameSalad is best known for the many games developed on the iPhone using its tools, which do not require complex programming skills to develop. READ MORE>>.

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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. Comcast Interactive Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Microsoft Corp., and Steamboat Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Sometrics is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, the Mail Room Fund, and Greycroft Partners. GameCoins.com allows users to both earn virtual currency, and spend it on various items for online games and virtual worlds. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

EdgeCast is venture backed by Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. The firm said those customers include AdColony, Dreamstime, SlashGear, StreamCity, and Tumblr. The firm did not say what that customer count equaled in terms of financial performance. READ MORE>>.

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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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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 11, 2011

GameSalad is backed by venture firms DFJ Frontier, DFJ Mercury Venture Partners, ff Asset Management, and Steamboat Ventures. The company's software, which runs on the Mac, allows anyone to create an iPhone game without having to be a software developer and learn the iPhone SDK. READ MORE>>.

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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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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! MerchantCircle's other backers are Scale Venture Partners and IAC.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Sometrics had raised over $5.25M in funding from Big Sky Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Mailroom Fund, and Steamboat Ventures. The value of the deal was $30M, according to the report from TechCrunch. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2010

Backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Sometrics , Los Angeles - Sometrics, originally founded as a provider of analytics for Facebook apps, is now also powering virtual goods and currency tools for social games on Facebook and other platforms. Headed by Ian Swanson.

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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 9, 2011

GameSalad is venture backed by DFJ Frontier, DFJ Mercury Venture Partners, ff Asset Management, Steamboat Ventures, as well as angels Mark Suster, Tom McInerney, Paige Craig, and others. Felter previously was COO and CFO of DigiSynd, before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Felter has also served at Warner Bros.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Sometrics said that it is optimizing the way that the gaming website presents advertising offers to members, increasing offer-based revenues at Ijji by more than 30 percent. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2014

The company--although based in San Mateo--has a number of Southern California ties, including founder Nicholas Woodman, who founded the company at UC San Diego, operations in San Diego (thanks to the acquisition of Cineform), and investors via Steamboat Ventures (the venture arm of Walt Disney). and $24.00 per share.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

GameSalad is venture backed by DFJ Mercury, Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. Coppersmith has previously served as VP, Finance and Administration for Challenge Online Games, and also General Counsel of Toppan Photomasks. The firm is one of the startups in the LaunchpadLA effort. 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. Santa Monica-based content delivery network EdgeCast has just filled up its warchest, announcing Thursday that it has raised $54M in a big funding round.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Sometrics is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The company explained that the new site will allow gamers to earn virtual currently on massively multipler online games, virtual worlds, and social games by completing advertiser offers.

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JULY 1, 2010

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. The firm said that Elshareef will provide oversight of the firm's technology group. Razorgator is backed by. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

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. Bass Associates, and Fort Washington Capital. According to the filing, representatives from RMT Family Partners and Allegis Capital are now on its board.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

The firm is backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Passenger's software allows brands to develop communities with discussion boards, surveys, and polls. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Bass Associates, and Steamboat Ventures. San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of fast food ordering kiosks for restaurants, has raised $12.2M out of an ongoing, $18.186M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The filing indicates Sid R. 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. 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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MARCH 2, 2010

Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firm--which has shifted from its original model providing analytics for social applications to now also providing advertising and virtual currency services to social game publishers. READ MORE>>.

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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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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."

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