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19 Articles match "Los Angeles","Steamboat Ventures"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Los Angeles-based Sometrics has teamed up with IGG , an online gaming site, to offer advertiser offers and surveys to gamers on IGG;s games, the firms said this morning. Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firms said that Sometrics will offer advertiser-sponsored opportunities for IGG gamers, in exchange for points redeemable within those games. Financial details of the deal between Sometrics and IGG were not disclosed.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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 is headed by Ian Swanson, and venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Sometrics said the new site will allow gamers a place to both interact with other gamers, as well as earn virtual goods and currency from advertisers. The company explained that the new site will allow gamers to earn virtual
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Los Angeles-based Sometrics , the virtual currency startup headed by Ian Swanson, released some user and traffic numbers this morning, saying that it has now provided more than 1 trillion virtual currency credits to game users. Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firm also said it has connected its to more than 100 million game user accounts. The firm--which has shifted from its original model providing analytics for social applications to now also providing advertising and virtual currency
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital firm backed by Walt Disney Co., According to Beijing-based Yoyi Media , it received a Series A investment on undisclosed size from Steamboat Ventures and Gobi Partners. Steamboat has offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong in addition to Los Angeles.
...Tags: has invested in a Chinese provider of online advertising. Yoyi Media provides targeted advertising and demographics to Chinese web sites.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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. 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. Winner has served at Ideal Soft and Blink Logic, in addition to working at IBM, Compaq and KPMG. READ MORE>>
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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. Sometrics is venture backed by
Steamboat Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. Schepke was most recently Agency General Manager for Tsavo Media, and has also previously served at Commission Junction and Proceed Interactive. READ MORE>>
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Los Angeles-based Sometrics has teamed up with IGG , an online gaming site, to offer advertiser offers and surveys to gamers on IGG;s games, the firms said this morning. Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firms said that Sometrics will offer advertiser-sponsored opportunities for IGG gamers, in exchange for points redeemable within those games. Financial details of the deal between Sometrics and IGG were not disclosed.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Los Angeles-based Sometrics , the virtual currency startup headed by Ian Swanson, released some user and traffic numbers this morning, saying that it has now provided more than 1 trillion virtual currency credits to game users. Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. The firm also said it has connected its to more than 100 million game user accounts. The firm--which has shifted from its original model providing analytics for social applications to now also providing advertising and virtual currency
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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. The firm is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>
...Tags: Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed. RazorGator operates a service which helps consumers get access to high-demand events.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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. Sometrics is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, The Mail Room Fund, AT&T, and Greycroft Partners. READ MORE>>
...Tags: Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. 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.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Los Angeles-based content delivery network firm EdgeCast Networks , announced today that the firm is now profitable. EdgeCast is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures and other investors. 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 year, and more than 30 percent per month since its launch in August 2007.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
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. The firm is backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>
...Tags: According to the company, it has expanded its product to allow agencies to build and manage their own communities using its software. Previously, Passenger provided full-service development of those communities.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
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 is venture backed by Shelter Capital Partners, StarVest Partners, and Steamboat Ventures. Passenger said that the community is for investor relations executives of NYSE-listed companies. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.
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