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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

in a seed funding round, to go towards its development of tools to power apps and games for 5G and augmented reality (AR), the company said on Tuesday. Smith--said that the funding was led by SIP Global Partners (SIP GP), which invested $2.0M in the seed funding.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the new venture investment fund founded by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, is on an investment roll, and has made another investment from its fund. Moonshots Capital has been on a roll, having just announced the lead on two other companies earlier this month.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the venture capital fund led by serial entrepreneur Kelly Perdew, is ramping its investment pace, with the first two formal investments out of its new fund. seed funding in that firm. Moonshots also led the investment in New Knowledge.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Sound Ventures , the Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm of Ashton Kutcher, is one of the lead investors in a funding round for LearnLux , a startup which develops software that helps employees of companies with financial wellness.

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MAY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in a new startup, Backtracks , a developer of podcast analytics software. in a seed funding round, which was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Capital Factory, Sputnik ATX, Next Coast Ventures, Bull Creek Capital, and BNSG Capital.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Los Angeles- and New York-based venture capital investment firm Greycroft Ventures is the lead investor in a new, online marketplace for the freight and trucking industry. According to Scottsdale, Arizona-based startup Emerge , it has raised $20M in a seed funding round, which was led by Greycroft, as well as other existing investors.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Invested.in , the developer of a web-based platform for crowdfunding which is part of AmplifyLA, is announcing today that it has raised $830,000 more in a seed funding round. The round was led by Kamran Pourzanjani, the founder of PriceGrabber who is now head of Bestcovery.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds. This translates to about 12–15 investments.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

San Diego-based CRISPR QC, a startup developing data and analytics tools for the gene editing market, announced on Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Serra Ventures, and also included CaerusX Ventures, the investment company of George Bonaros.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. Tell us a little bit about your investments and firm? We decided to formalize our investing in October, and call it TYLT Labs, so here we are.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. Size of the seed funding round was not announced.

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MARCH 14, 2013

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the winner of its annual, Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the company said this morning. The company said it awarded over $1M in total seed funding as part of the event this year. Qualcomm's venture prize competition is in its third year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Savings search engine Chippmunk , that helps consumers to instantly find great deals online has raised $750,000 seed round as the peak holiday shopping season intensifies. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development. The post Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development appeared first on TechZulu.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

which develops non-alcoholic drinks which have the flavor--but not the alcohol--of popular spirits, has raised $11.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from VRD Investment, Doehler Ventures, DLF Venture, Maropost Ventures, and HNWI, along with a number of family offices.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. As part of the investment, Kelly Perdew, the founder of Moonshots Capital, has joined the board of New Knowledge.

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JUNE 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based Gamzee , a developer of HTML5 and mobile/social games, announced Thursday that it has raised $1M in a seed round of funding. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2021

According to Sunstone Management, a private capital and investment firm, VITALINK, a biotech smart watch accessory startup developing a "a dermal caffeine dosage system" received $15,000 in seed funding and will also receive co-working space, marketing, legal and accounting services totaling up to $35,000.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners , in a deal led by Gregory Milken, has lead a seed funding round in New York-based startup Genvid Technologies. in a seed funding round, which was led by March Capital Partners, and also included OCA Ventures. Genvid Technologies said it has raised $1.5M

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Justin Mateen , the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Los Angeles-based Tinder , is one of the seed investors in FOSSA , a developer of open source license management software. FOSSA said Thursday that it has raised $2.2M

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Crush Capital, a startup founded by Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg, said on Wednesday that it has raised $3.25M in a seed funding round, which will go towards its own, online streaming series called "Going Public".

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JULY 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based Cake, a consumer products company that develops lubricants and other (NSFW) products it bills as designed for "sexual wellness", has attracted the rare attention of venture capital investors, saying that it has raised $4M in a seed funding round. in total funding.

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MAY 27, 2021

Los Angeles-based Topia, a startup which is developing video chat tools that work inside what it says are "fully customizable virtual worlds", has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said late Wednesday. The company said it will use the funding to build out its team and invest in its "creator economy."

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based Perch Mobility, a startup that is developing portable charging "pods" aimed at helping professional chargers and scooter operators to bulk-charge scooters and e-bikes, says it has scored seed funding for its efforts. The company said the funding came from Lorentzen Investments.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Westlake Village-based Pray.com , which develops social networking applications for religious communities, has raised $14M in a Series A funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by TPG Growth, and also included Science Inc. and Greylock Partners. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based WAYV , a startup that says it is developing cannabis e-commerce software, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said on Monday. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, the venture investment fund of David Sacks. Sacks is one of the co-founders of PayPal.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Leonardo DiCaprio is making a significant commitment to the Los Angeles-based investment firm, Struck Capital , as part of the actor’s commitment to building LA into a tech development powerhouse. DiCaprio has already made a number of investments in startup companies that have done very well for the Academy Award-winning actor.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. Tell us about this new program? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Los Angeles-based Afterparty, which is developing an platform which the company says helps creators launch their own NFTs, says it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The company says its tools provide creators with the tools to launch NFTs and gain direct artistic and financial control of their fan relationships.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Slingshot Aerospace , which develops artificial intelligence software that automatically processes large amounts of imagery data collected by drones, satellites, and aircraft, has raised another $5M, in a new seed funding round.

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JULY 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based Endgame, a developer of software that links user behavior with sales opportunities, has raised $17M in funding, according to the company. The funding was split between a $12.25M, Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures, and an earlier $5M Series Seed funding which was led by Upfront Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to the company, it has now raised $23M in total funding. The company said the new funds will go towards expansion of its sales and marketing efforts, as well as for product development. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2019

San Diego-based Atlazo , a startup developing systems-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors aimed at used in healthcare and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, has raised $3.4M in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and the TCA's San Diego chapter. in the round.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Los Angeles-based Weblife , a developer of secure, employee web browsing software, has been acquired by Proofpoint , in a $66M all cash deal, the companies announced today. Weblife was venture backed by a new, venture capital investment firm in Los Angeles, Nordic Eye, which has offices in both LA and Copenhagen. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. Fika invests roughly half of its capital exclusively in startups headquartered in LA, with a particular fondness for B2B, enterprise and fintech companies.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Saturday, March 12, 2011 -- Angel Investing and Technology Trends. He will also touch on the technology trends that angels are currently interested in funding. Bootstrap2+2. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M in a Series A funding. The company's seed funding was in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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