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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Milk and Eggs , a new grocery delivery startup which helps connect consumers with farmers and others who will deliver perishable groceries, has raised $6M in a seed funding round, and launched its services. Source of the seed funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based fintech startup, Pipe , said this morning that it has raised $6M in its seed funding round, to launch a new platform which offers up financing to subscription-based, software-as-a-service companies. Pipe is led by Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Los Angeles-based Funraise , the developer of a software platform which helps nonprofits manage their fundraising efforts, has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding was lead by Toba Capital, the investment firm founded by Quest Software founder Vinny Smith.

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MAY 15, 2019

in its seed funding round, to help it expand its development of personalization technology for online grocers. According to Halla, the funding was led by E&A Venture Capital, an early stage food industry investor, and also included SOSV. The company said it has now raised a total of $1.9M READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

According to ZenBusiness, it raised $15M in its Series A funding, which was led by Greycroft, and also included Lerer Hippea, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, as well as Rosecliff Venture Partners, Interlock Partners, and Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP). Greycroft was already a seed investor in ZenBusiness.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

” That’s right, ProGuides is pitching a marketplace for experienced gamers so that its customers aren’t randomly matched with some noob if they can’t game with their usual partners. million in pre-seed funding last June. “Our tagline is ‘Play with pros’ now,” says Wang.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The seed funding was led by Accomplice Ventures and Walkabout Ventures, along with Mucker Capital, Index Ventures and others including HVF Labs (Max Levchin's startup studio). Santa Monica-based HMBradley , a new fintech startup focused on digital banking, has raised $3.5M

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JANUARY 20, 2016

San Diego-based LoanHero , a startup which helps merchants easily offer up financing to their end customers, has raised $2.5M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday. The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners and Mucker Capital. in equity funding for the company. LoanHero says it has now raised $4.2M

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MAY 23, 2019

The timing is ripe for a fund like ours to capitalize on the opportunity.” Additional Fika portfolio companies include Asian food delivery business Chowbus , Elementary Robotics , a developer of robot assistants, and Chatdesk , a customer support messaging platform.

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MAY 17, 2013

In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures.

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MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. million in seed round funding and clients that include NATO. Total Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu.

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MARCH 2, 2017

in funding, including an earlier seed funding round. According to Nimble, it will use the funding to scale its product, and accelerate product innovation, strategic partnerships, and customer adoption. Nimble has now raised $12.5M

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. million in funding through investors like Combinator and Adjacent.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Previous Boundless investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Esther Dyson will join Thrive Global’s cap table. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the stock and cash acquisition will see all nine members of the current Boundless team join Thrive Global.

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JUNE 18, 2022

Crypto lending protocol Celsius isn’t fire burning, but it did freeze all customer withdrawals this past weekend , citing concerns about its own liquidity amid “extreme market conditions.” Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. the latest pod.

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APRIL 24, 2019

The second part of the platform addresses other aspects of recruitment, including prequalification, and the other is around engagement, where we've just launched a LinkedIn plug-in that's an engagement tool. We have a distributed team, with customer success in Bogota Columbia, and a small data side in Romania. It's all objective data.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Customers, fans, and buyers can get a brand's essence, their personality, and vibe, in one, visual display. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. What is Fliptu?

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. Both investors and customers have told us we stand out for our ability to consistently deliver on new content, new partnerships and improving core metics. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . “Nothing is final because we are still quite early, but we’re using 3D depth-sensing cameras along with proprietary custom hardware elements.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. With its $5.5

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JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. I have such respect for other platforms and technology.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

For example, if you are watching the World Cup streaming from ESPN or your favorite WB show, you can grab your favorite moments and share them across any medium, whether that''s a chat platform, Snapchat, or anywhere. Who are your customers? Mauhan Zonozzy: Our end user is the consumer, but our customers are media companies.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I recently was sent a Tweet from an aspiring entrepreneur which said, “I have a prototype but I need funding to bring it to market. Wiley entrepreneurs pre-sell their products and get customers to fund their businesses. In addition to the above sources of capital, “unstuck” entrepreneurs tap into crowds to fund their businesses.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . When will customers start buying all those AI chips? Fundraising.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. Fortunately, the Director of Global Customer Experience at Google, became our first investor, so we could start and figure out the content problem for small and medium businesses.

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MARCH 8, 2013

On the customer side, we have companies like Samsung, GE, Kaiser Permanente, Accenture. We now have seven companies, and have our own venture fund as well, and we'll be doing four or five for the next few years. There's lots of breadth and opportunity here, and some of the things we're doing are horizontal platform plays.

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MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. However, overall we'll be customizing that out. It will become much more customizable.

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MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. What is MySocialNightLife all about?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Customers heavily adopted in-person returns. We saw the steady stream of customers Nordstrom Rack was getting from HauteLook shoppers, and we realized that we could do that same thing with any retailer. Customers expect the retailers to pay for those returns, they expect returns to be free, and they expect outbound shipping to be free.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. Where they previously were using separate tools for text messaging, paying fees that were too high for credit card processing, and employing 5 part time people, they can now cover all of that with our SaaS platform. The company recently announced $3.2M What's Swoop all about? READ MORE>>.

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