socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company.

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MARCH 21, 2019

San Diego-based Bitmo , a startup developing a mobile gifting and payment app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday afternoon. Michael Smallwood is the founder and CEO of Bitmo. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2019

in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding was co-lead by FINTOP Capital and JPMorgan Chase. According to Trovata.io, the funding will go towards ramping sales and accelerating product development for its treasury management software.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco.

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MAY 5, 2015

in a seed funding round. Source of that seed funding was not disclosed. Incentive said those funds specifically go towards its U.S.-based based expansion, marketing, sales, and product development efforts. total in funding. Incentive is led by Rickard Hansson, and says it has now raised $3.5M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Biproxi , a new startup developing a commercial real estate data platform, has raised $10M in a seed funding, the company announced on Tuesday morning. According to Biproxi, the funding was led by Greycroft, and also included Newmark Knight Frank, RPM Ventures, and the National Association of Realtors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based Retention Science , the big data-focused analytics firm led by Jerry Jao, said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a new funding round. The funding came from Forerunner Ventures, and comes on top of an earlier, $1.3 million seed funding from Baroda Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. We put products they can purchase in the mix. If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform. Ellis describes himself as a lifelong product guy, and lover of design and photography.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

We want to build a product for the next generation that wants to be mobile, video driven, exciting and fun.”. If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction. But beyond becoming another fun feed to scroll, Playhouse wants to cater to a future crop of homeowners. What are the neighbors doing?”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar… It’s not a joke. The company started off as a direct sales business, giving away coffee to friends and friends-of-friends. ” Image Credits: Taika (opens in a new window).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2012

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. Connexity, according to Gross, does to online ads what Amazon and Netflix do for products and movies. Gross said the funding will go towards sales and technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. – This massive increase in seed & angel funding caused Paul Kedrosky to predict that there is a coming seed fund crash. Some seed angles and seed funds clearly get it. That’s OK.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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APRIL 24, 2019

The team is myself and my co-founder, Alex Mostafi, our CTO, and we also have a sales director and director of engineering up north in San Francisco. So what's the status of the company, and what kind of funding have you received? We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round.

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MAY 28, 2015

It's at least a $20 billion market, and it's even bigger taking into account all of the additional technology products out there being installed. The other, was were we able to offer up additional products to customers, in a consultative way, not a pushy way, for additional sale to customers. We raised $2.5M

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. Why does that matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. Our other co-founder, Pete, was at Microsoft in business development and sales. We're really focused on the product. What's Swoop all about?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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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. If we had waited around for an investor to fund our vision, we’d still be waiting. I’m stuck.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Those were companies like Maker Studios, disrupting the traditional production of content. Those were the three categories, for a long time, that tended to be the domain of the LA ecosystems, just in terms of the number of startups house here, the funding, where you could attract talent, and really sort of where LA gained a reputation.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction. Besides capable entrepreneurs who have a similar drive and passion that the partners extol, Jeff looks for businesses that can scale.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

- A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 25, 2010 AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments : Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. Showscase your products and services.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. We also will be providing more product information and fresh inventory, and pass that information on to consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And the end of the story was ultimately a successful sale of the company … so much of entrepreneurship is not sexy but brutal. You’ve got less than 6 months’ cash in the bank and your product isn’t really fully baked. All traits of an entrepreneur must be exercised in concert.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Free product. My blog was wiped out. I wasn’t feeling it.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Snipfeed is free to set up, but if you make sales, the company takes 15% — this percentage is inclusive of any transaction fees. Through Snipfeed’s referral program, creators can make 5% of sales from anyone they onboard to the platform (this comes out of Snipfeed’s commission). “We Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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