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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. What gives? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Connexity, Headed by FastClick's Dave Gross, Gets Seed Funding

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Camarillo-based Connexity , a new Internet advertising firm headed by former Fastclick CEO Dave Gross, said today that it has raised a seed funding round. The funding round came from Persistence Partners, which is also headed by Gross. Amount of the round was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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With its third fund, Revolution Ventures stays true to its mission

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AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Today, Washington, DC-based Revolution is announcing its latest fund. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly.

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Report: XCOR's Customers Still Holding Out For Refunds

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XCOR filed for bankruptcy in 2017 , after failing to both gain additional investors to fund its development, and also failing to ever launch a single vehicle into space. XCOR first received seed funding in 2005. The Times report says that there are 282 ticket holders hoping for something back from the failed firm.

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Connexity, Headed By Dave Gross, Finds $3M More

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Connexity the online advertising startup headed by former Fastclick co-founder Dave Gross, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. Gross said the funding will go towards sales and technology. As part of the funding, John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners has joined the company's board.

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

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This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike.

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

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One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5