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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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AUGUST 5, 2014

Toggle , a new startup creating HDMI-based dongles to allow consumers to purchase movies and other videos using UltraViolet, has raised a seed round of funding from Warner Bros. , The company--led by Adam Johnson--is looking to promote the use of Warner''s Ultraviolet movie storage service in retail channels. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based weeSPIN announced late Tuesday that it has raised a seed investment round for its music-focused, social networking app. weeSPIN is led by Darius Fong, and offers up an app with a collaborative playlist and connects to streaming music services like Soundcloud and Spotify. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

San Diego-based Trust & Will , which operates an online estate planning service, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Tuesday. According to the company, it has now raised $23M in total funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. 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. That used to be called A-round investing. of the fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in funding, via a Series A funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Moving Capital, Craft Ventures, Act One Ventures, and Wonder Ventures. Craft is the venture investment fund run by former PayPal founder David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2020

San Diego-based startup Trust & Will , which offers up online estate planning, says it has hit 100,000 members to its service. According to the company, the recent pandemic doubled the volume of individuals seeking its estate planning services. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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JULY 27, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab has made another investment in a Twitter-related service, in GoPollGo , which said today that it has launched an online polling service based on Twitter. The firm said it recently closed a seed funding from Idealab. Financial details of that funding were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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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. Any lessons you have learned now that you're now on your fourth fund?

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JUNE 9, 2014

Santa Monica-based Washio , which operates a smartphone driven, laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery service, said today that it has raised $10.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo).

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

This morning, Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com), led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings , announced its first formal fund, a $19M seed stage fund. In October of last year, we did a first close on our first committed fund, which we're announcing. Talk more about the ability to lead investments?

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JULY 7, 2020

According to Grow Credit, Commerce Ventures will join its seed funding round alongside lead investor Mucker Capital, as well as Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global Ventures. Size of the investment was not announced. According to Grow Credit, Hasn also has taken on an advisory position at the company. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Even if you work every day in the world of new-venture funding, as I do, the options are confusing, and their meanings seem to change on a regular basis. I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Business accelerator funding.

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JULY 21, 2014

Los Angeles- and San Francisco-based Dealflicks , an online service which offers up discounted movie tickets to help theater chains fill empty seats, has raised $1.7M in a seed funding.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding. 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. Forerunner Ventures led the deal and the investment was made by Kirsten Green, the firm’s famous founder and managing partner.

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APRIL 26, 2012

San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon , via his Social Leverage fund, has backed a provider of SMS messaging services, SendHub as part of an angel funding round for the company. Lindzon runs stock messaging service StockTwits , and is a fairly active angel investor in Silicon Valley and other startups. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based Radish which develops a service which provides short-form, serialized fiction via iOS and Android, has raised $3M in a seed funding round.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Los Angeles-basd SourceAudio , which provides music licensing search and distribution tools and services, said Monday that it has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Emerson Investment Group.

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JUNE 18, 2022

million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based TheBouqs (www.thebouqs.com) thinks so, with its new, cut-to-order online flower delivery service for the iPad generation. The third part of this is the subscription service we offer. What are the details on your seed funding? What is the Bouqs? Instead, we offer three types of subscriptions.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Stockr , the social networking service aimed at financial investors based in Los Angeles, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round, the firm said yesterday. The company said the round came from Personal Capital, The Doyle Investment Group, and Adam Townsend. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We led an investment round in a company a while ago in which we wrote a seven-figure check and have taken a board seat. There is a reason for this.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Fresh Nation , a startup operating an online marketplace for farmers, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, to help it expand into Los Angeles. According to the startup, the investment came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lerer Venture. Los Angeles is the first, West Coast market for the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. 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. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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JULY 3, 2018

Using the service, customers can access demographic, interest and behavioral data of over 320 million people; can use retargeting to provide direct mail campaigns and integrates with existing customer relationship management tools. They aren’t the only ones. Postie has raised $3.5

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Instead, he''s one of the key angel investors in a new, crowdfunding site called Ramen , which launched this week at Calacanis'' Launch Conference, saying that it has raised a seed funding from Calacanis, Naval Ravikant (AngelList), and Matt Cutler, to bring its online crowdfunding service for software projects to market.

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MAY 3, 2012

ventura-based NetPlenish , the mobile shopping service startup headed by Dave Compton , said today that it has launched with $1.9M The firm says it automatically place orders on services such as Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens , Drugstore.com, and Sephora. NetPlenish is one of the firms located in the Ventura Ventures Technology Center.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2016

Los Angeles-based Heal , which develops an on-demand app and service which connects users with doctors for house calls, has named former co-owner, CEO, and President of the LA Dodgers Jamie McCourt to its board of directors.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. By March, a month after Mr. D’Angelo agreed to invest, CodeFights had raised $2.5

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