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 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 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.

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.

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

in a venture funding round. 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 as a portfolio firm. Tags: ticketing razorgator venture capita Los Angeles-based RazorGator , which provides an online ticketing service, has reportedly raised at least $7.5M 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.

Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com . According to Connecticut-based Fanzter, Steamboat's Dan Beldy joins the firm's board of directors. The move is somewhat unusual for Steamboat, Coolspotters is a web site which highlights which products celebrities are buying and wearing. Steamboat is the venture capital arm of Walt Disney. ...Tags:

Bass Associates, and Fort Washington Capital. According to the filing, representatives from RMT Family Partners and Allegis Capital are now on its board. The firm no longer lists former investor Steamboat Ventures on its web site as an investor. Tags: emn8 kiosk fast food retail hardware venture capita San Diego-based b>EMN8 , a developer of order taking kiosks for the fast food industry, has raised $14.4M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

The conference, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, featured pitches by eight different companies vying for the attention--and pocketbooks--of venture capitalists. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. The panelists included James Cham of Bessemer Venture Partners; Beau Laskey of Steamboat Ventures; Greg Martin Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. (socalTECH

Wondering where the venture capital is going right now? 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. Tags: Entertainment Venture Capital Video Game It appears, at least this week, it’s moving towards video game related companies. Yesterday, Los Angeles-based Rotohog.com, which develops fantasy sports games, just snagged $2M in funding for the firm.

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 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.