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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Venture capital rating site TheFunded released their 2009 “most loved VCs” list via TechCrunch Tuesday — with a surprise, in that they actually had some Southern California venture capitalists ranked on the list . Menell , Partner at Rustic Canyon Ventures , rated 4.3333 by 12 CEOs Stuart MacFarlane The SoCal folks I noticed on the list: 2.
 
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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. Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Los Angeles-based Passenger , which operates online communities for major brands, said today that it has named Jaynie Miller Studenmund to the firm's board of directors. Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer
 
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The firm is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Los Angeles-based RazorGator , which operates an online site for buying tickets to sports and entertainment events, reports today that it has inked an agreement with Amazon, to feature its concert ticket selection in Amazon's new Concert Tickets Boutique. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.
 

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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. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series C funding today. Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site.
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. Steamboat was the lead on Greystripe's 2007 Series C funding today. Greystripe's services insert in-game ads into mobile games, and the firm also operates the GameJump.com mobile games portal site.
Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Los Angeles-based Sometrics , a developer of analytics tools for online game developers, announced today that it has appointed Steve Schepke as its Vice President of Business Development. Schepke was most recently Agency General Manager for Tsavo Media, and has also previously served at Commission Junction and Proceed Interactive.
Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. Los Angeles-based Passenger , an operator of online communities for brands, said Wednesday that it has named Michael Winner as the firm's Senior Vice President of Technology. Winner has served at Ideal Soft and Blink Logic, in addition to working at IBM, Compaq and KPMG.
The firm is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Los Angeles-based RazorGator , which operates an online site for buying tickets to sports and entertainment events, reports today that it has inked an agreement with Amazon, to feature its concert ticket selection in Amazon's new Concert Tickets Boutique. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.
Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Los Angeles-based Sometrics , a developer of analytics tools for online game developers, reported recently that it has signed on gaming site Ijji.com as a customer. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
EdgeCast is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures and other investors. Los Angeles-based content delivery network firm EdgeCast Networks , announced today that the firm is now profitable. The firm said it became profitable in Q3, and has been EBITDA positive since Q2. The privately held company said it has been growing its revenues by more than 10 percent per month this
The firm is backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of software used by brands to run online communities for their customers, announced today that it has released a new version of its platform. According to the company, it has expanded its product to allow agencies to build and manage their own communities using its software.
Passenger is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Los Angeles-based Passenger , which develops online communities for brands, said Thursday that the firm is powering a new private online community for NYSE Euronext (NYX). Passenger said that the community is for investor relations executives of NYSE-listed companies.
Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures has seen a big exit in one of its portfolio firms, San Francisco-based Pure Digital , with the announcement this morning that Cisco will pay $590M in stock for the video camera maker. Steamboat is one of a number of venture investors in Pure Digital, which makes the popular "Flip" consumer video cameras. Other investors in Pure Digital are AllianceBernstein, Benchmark Capital, Crescendo Ventures, Focus Ventures, Heights Capital Management, Morgan Stanley, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.