The company said that Winner will split his time btween Palo Alto and Los Angeles. 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 privately held company said it has been growing its revenues by more than 10 percent per month this year, and more than 30 percent per month since its launch in August 2007. 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.

According to the company, it has expanded its product to allow agencies to build and manage their own communities using its software. 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. Previously, Passenger provided full-service development of those communities.

Passenger said that the community is for investor relations executives of NYSE-listed companies. 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). Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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.

in a funding round, led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. The funding had been disclosed earlier this week, but not confirmed by the company until today. Tags: razorgator ticketing venture capita Los Angeles-based RazorGator announced Friday that it has close on $7.5M According to RazorGator, it will use the new round of funding for "aggressive expansion" of its ticketing service.

in a venture funding round. No details on the funding have been released by the company, however, regulatory filings for the firm show that a funding event occurred around February 13th. 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 Los Angeles-based RazorGator , which provides an online ticketing service, has reportedly raised at least $7.5M RazorGator has previously raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Oak Investment

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. Sometrics is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Los Angeles-based Sometrics is jumping into the virtual goods marketplace, saying today that it has launched a new site called GameCoins.com , which it says will serve as a marketplace for virtual goods. Sometrics said the new site will allow gamers

The new CDN service is targeted at video, audio, content publishers, gaming companies, advertisers and others with need for streaming video delivery or web content acceleration. EdgeCast offers content delivery services, and is backed by Steamboat Ventures. Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) EdgeCast has scored a big win, with Deutsche Telekom, the firms are set to announce today. Deutsche Telekom ICSS, which is the wholesale division of Deutsche Telekom, is announcing today that it will launch a new content delivery solution which it has developed in partnership

Wondering where the venture capital is going right now? It appears, at least this week, it’s moving towards video game related companies. Today, Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures just re-invested in an in-game, mobile advertising firm , Greystripe; and  Pasadena-based California Technology Ventures invested in video game engine developer Blade Games. Yesterday, Los Angeles-based Rotohog.com, which develops fantasy sports games, just snagged $2M in funding for the firm. Just last month, Calabasas-based  Emergent Game Technologies–another game