Culver City
A bit of history
Harry Culver founded the city in 1913 and incorporated it on September 20, 1917, promoting it with the slogan "All roads lead to Culver City." Producer Thomas Ince built a studio there in 1915 that became the Triangle Motion Picture Company lot, and Samuel Goldwyn's later purchase of the site led to the founding of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924; Hal Roach Studios operated nearby from 1919 to 1963. The MGM lot became Sony Pictures Studios in 1991 and remains in production today, alongside newer arts, culture, and technology tenants in the city.
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Series C$158.3MFounded in 2019 with co-founder Dave Licata, and has raised over $450 million total, with investors including Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Blue Owl Capital.
Series D$126.1MPowering premium creator entertainment and delivering proven brand impact. Connect with YouTube's top creators through the leader in Creator TV.
Series A$22.0MFounded in 2019 by Marc Washington, who previously grew Beachbody into a $1 billion+ company; the LA-based startup (maker of Muniq gut-health shakes) raised an $8.2M Series A backed by venture foundry The Production Board.
Series A$15.6MPrice transparency and plan design tools for self-funded health plan comparisons and enhanced employee benefits strategies.
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Series A$8.2MZuub raised a $9M Series A led by Vertical Venture Partners, with Bonfire Ventures also participating.
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Series A$6.6MSnail Inc. (video game publisher behind ARK: Survival Evolved) is led by founder and Chairman/CEO Hai Shi and trades publicly on Nasdaq under ticker SNAL.
Seed$5.2MKRNL, Inc. is the legal entity behind Kernel, the Los Angeles brain-technology company founded in 2016 by Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur who sold Braintree to PayPal for $800 million and later became known for his Blueprint longevity project.
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Co-founded by Caltech chemist Brian Stoltz and UCLA oncologist Dennis Slamon, known for co-discovering the HER2-targeted breast cancer therapy Herceptin; the company is backed by Kairos Ventures.
MET Biotechnology, a Culver City developer of extracellular-vesicle therapeutics founded by Ting-Hsiang Wu, came out of UCLA's Magnify Incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute.
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Series B$300KCo-founded in 2016 by Matthew Geller, Jared Kapela, and Patrick Lennon; the company has been backed by Techstars.
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