Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. In good scenarios, they don’t have funds large enough to follow their winners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most accelerators provide small seed investment in the range of $25,000, as well as mentoring, workspace and professional services, in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Startup incubator seed funding. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We are looking forward to a national launch in 2015. Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. Ann Wang: It was definitely a struggle at the very beginning. What''s your big goal now? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As evidence that it does work, VentureBeat calculated in 2015 that YCombinator startups had raised over $7 billion, with a $65 billion total valuation. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. Talk a bit more about your cross platform strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding. That’s the real reason that more startups get funded this way than any other. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/06/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. The Case for Reduced Funding Levels. What hogwash. The result?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That's why we have become one of the most established seed funds in Los Angeles, and have built a presence in this dynamic ecosystem. I think those top-tier, limited partners, institutions, and foundations decided they waned to back an established fund in Los Angeles, with a history of backing great founders and great startups.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We ended up all going to three different colleges in the Fall of 2015. For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. The company has raised $1.9M

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We have some announcements set for 2015. For accelerators to proliferate you need access to capital to fund them and then you need a huge community of people to fund the graduates. We plan to continue working with our good friends Jim & Peter on this. It’s where their passions are, too. What have I learned?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. David Sobie: Next month, in September, it will be three years since we founded and incorporated the business.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies. Shares of competitor Relypsa (NASDAQ: RLYP ) are up more than 25 percent since the ZS-9 decision.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

But when you fast-forward 1 year to 2015 5 out of 7 were down rounds. Again, on the surface of things I know this sounds wonderful to entrepreneurs and of course I read all the the tropes about “how VC is dead” and is going to be replaced by a roving band of altruistic former founders sprinkling funding dust on startups.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Exceptions exist, such as the highly self-aware Paige Craig, who recently described how he missed out becoming Airbnb's first investor. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

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