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FIGS Surges In IPO Debut

socalTECH

FIGS was started in 2013, raising a seed funding worth only $2M from Crocs, Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups, Karlin Ventures, and others. The company's Co-CEOs are Heather Hasson and Trina Spear.

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Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development

Tech Zulu Event

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. Their deep, direct domain experience has already proven valuable as they capitalize on the 2013 holiday shopping season,” said Chino. Blogger Rewards Program.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” That used to be called A-round investing.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

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Interview with Tony Adam, EventUp

socalTECH

The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. With this fund we also wanted to broaden our partnership ranks and added the talented Jamie Kantrowitz. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital.

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As Drone Navigation Advances, SlantRange Focuses on Farm Analytics

Xconomy

SlantRange raised $5 million less than three months ago from a consortium of investors in a Series A round of venture funding led by The Investor Group, a San Diego investment firm. Ritter and co-founder Mike Milton raised much of their initial seed funding from farmers in Nebraska and Iowa.