TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2022

Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. Being first also allows them an opportunity to establish a new media category Holoride calls “Elastic Content.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

MIAMI—Palm Tree Crew, an entertainment, hospitality, and investment holding company, recently closed a new round of funding at a $150M valuation. Backers in the $6M round included Barry Sternlicht, Brad Garlinghouse, David Adelman, Jim Coulter, Jonathan Kraft, Keith Rabois, and Michael Meldman, among others.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For example, you’ll want to identify the social media platforms your customers use and make those a key component of your strategy. Earned media : “Earned media” are the platforms that you gain access to by providing value to their audiences in some way. Bonus points if they’re entertaining, as well!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world. 70% of its content is free and VUZ monetizes by showing ads to users in this category; on the other hand, users must pay between $4-8 for its exclusive content.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto. For its first foray into live entertainment, Moment House is going to host a geo-fenced, location-specific tour for the musician Yungblud. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

CSS businesses at the forefront of outdoor activities have closed major deals in recent years such as hunting app OnX (Summit Partners), hiking app Alltrails (Spectrum Equity), Surfline (The Chernin Group) and mountain bike leader Pinkbike (Outside Media). So what sets apart the great CSS businesses from the good ones?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“We’ve been able to attract top talent from the [music, entertainment, tech and gaming] industries we touch,” Lee said. In the wake of social media, fans have unprecedented access to their favorite artists but are still separated by a screen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

“What we are seeing is that there’s a significant appetite from public market investors to interactive entertainment as a category,” said Scopely co-chief executive Walter Driver. “Inside of most passively consumed media experiences, you don’t have an identity. You don’t have friends. ” .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawyer and author grew her side hustle of making activist T-shirts into a behemoth of a brand, Phenomenal , which recently expanded from merchandising to media to entertainment. Harris said that Phenomenal Media and Phenomenal Ventures will operate as two separate legal entities. Meena Harris knows how to build.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Immediate plans include launching a U.S. However, an upcoming version might see Kukua take Super Sema to the metaverse.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. 6SensorLabs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For the next couple of years, Gotter, as CFO, was instrumental in turning IROKO — after raising over $30 million from VCs, including Tiger Global — into a household name in Nigeria’s entertainment and tech scenes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? But the product is called textPlus, not textFree.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

Live entertainment venues are exploring augmented reality, while retailers are looking for new ways to personalize the digital shopping experience. When used properly, the positive attention helps build credibility and could get your venture covered by a media outlet or two. Restaurants all over the U.S. Flex those PR muscles.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

That’s largely, it seems, because it has never made an effort to talk much to the media or speak to much of anyone except those in its target community — my interview with Cotorruelo, the company told me, was one of the first and only interviews that he has ever done. (In Image Credits: Domestika.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Howly “You choose a category where you need professional advice and type your question in the chat form. Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my In these last two categories LA has as much of an advantage as any other market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2021

tapped the equity crowdfunding market, a noodle or two on the a16z media game, Talkspace’s SPAC, VC and founder predictions for 2021, and where’s the right place to found a company. The a16z media push. If you were a fan of the original layout, we’ll be back to it next week. Today we’re talking Coinbase’s growth, how Juked.gg

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

“It felt like our consumption of information — both factual, balanced, entertaining, etc. “It might be cheesy to say, because I’ve now said it a bunch of times, but I feel like the worst part about social media is that it’s social,” Systrom says. “It’s not a free-for-all.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Entertainment is this $2T a year industry. And the dirty secret is that entertainment is imaginary friends that don’t know you exist. But friends you can do really fast, it’s just entertainment, it makes things up, that’s a feature. It’s a cool first use case for AGI. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It was later acquired by Adobe for around $400 million and lives on as Adobe Media Optimizer, though these days it’s more likely that Google (and now Meta) are doing the optimization for you. Shaw, who sought to apply algorithmic trading algorithms to optimize digital ad campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

In addition, the company will double-down on category verticals. Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Category leaders went hard and exhausted their resources, consumers bought every last roll of Charmin, cans of Lysol and the shelves were soon barren. Meanwhile, the category leaders had the infrastructure to leverage their supply chain partners to take advantage of the surge in “stocking” that happened as consumers bought in bulk.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

It should be gaming, gaming-related or working in the media and entertainment sector or digital space – these are the three pillars we focus on. Since Lila Games is also working on something for the battle royale category, how would you ensure that it is not something that can bring an issue of conflict of interest?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

The pandemic put extra stress on the already unstable business models supporting talent across sports and entertainment ecosystems,” CEO Steven Galanis said in a Medium post tied to the news. But the site is looking to grow into additional categories. In total, around two million videos have been created through the offering.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. We’re excited to see what emerges from this talented team.” ” .

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This community plays a key role in generating and disseminating content across social media platforms, Discord and Reddit. These quizzes are widely distributed among friends on social media platforms and find homes within online communities on Discord and Reddit. ” Rhee stated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your cousin specializes in entertainment law – that’s different. I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. Here’s a hack for you.

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Feedough

APRIL 2, 2021

Remember, Facebook wasn’t the first social media network. It must have a patentable subject matter: By patentable subject matter, we mean that it should usually belong to a patentable category and meet the government’s standards set forth. Generally, patents are given to the inventions falling in these categories.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

This innovative service has bagged the 2023 Edison Award in the Safety and Security Solutions category, a highly esteemed invention accolade in the United States. We’ve also been approached by card industry and entertainment officials, including concert ticket companies, and plan to penetrate the Japanese market this year.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. But I did think about other potential uses as I tested, like recording voiceovers for social media or conducting an interview that you'll want to review later.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Acquiring early customers fall in the same category: Why should they trust you over a larger, more established competitor? Pixar’s films don’t resolve pain directly, but they do reduce boredom and cause excitement and entertainment. We wrote about it, and became the center of a media storm. Advertising? Raising investment?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

TechCrunch wasn’t able to gain access — we’ve reached out to Anthropic — but those in the beta have been detailing their interactions with Claude on Twitter over the past weekend, after an embargo on media coverage lifted. I asked trivia questions in the entertainment/animal/geography/history/pop categories.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

.” After polling Gen Z and millennial users, the team found that people’s top complaints about today’s social media apps were about the number of brand ads showing up in users’ feeds and the algorithm-driven experience. 5 spot in the Social Category on Apple’s iMessage App Store.

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