TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course). The financing brings the previously under-the-radar company’s total raised to $65 million since its 2016 inception.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2016

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: Confirming Your Product. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC. Can a bad value proposition kill your business?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 18, 2016

Wednesday, August 24, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: From Market Entry Through Exit Strategy. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC. In this workshop, you will learn how to. ?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2016

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 -- The Roadmap to Commercialization: Building Your Customer Base Through Discovery and Validation. This workshop series will help you determine and verify the right course for your start-up, raise your odds of being funded, and build a scalable, sustainable company. Tritech SBDC.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

Don't forget the pizza parties and deskside beers funded by a seemingly endless stream of venture capitalist money, either. It even banned the consumption of alcohol in the office in 2016, as well as fornicating in stairwells. But, there have still been opportunities to get into the office, as local guidelines allow in each location.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

For example, Bill Gates founded and grew Microsoft, and Michael Dell built a great technology company, both with no outside funding until they went successful enough to go public years later and sell shares to common stockholders. Of course, this can be positive if you really need the help and experience in making key decisions.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Online travel sales to grow by 200% by 2016. Co-founded in the Netherlands in 2013 by brothers Marijn and Willem Maas, Withlocals is open for travel and dining experiences in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia where online travel sales are expected to grow nearly 200% by 2016 according to emarketer.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men. The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. million for her app, placing Squad in the mere 0.34% of companies funded last year with a Black woman founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was only legalized via the SEC in 2016, so its impact is still in the early stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/03/2016. They expect to hear about founders and team member’s prior experience in building a startup, and knowledge in the relevant solution domain. Not highlighting people is as deadly as not highlighting the solution.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Shipwell , a startup pitching a marketplace for domestic ground shipping and fleet and cargo management services for freight trucking companies, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding. The two men began planning the business in 2016 and only launched the service in the beginning of this year. trucking services. .

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey).

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Of course, every business has unique requirements, so there is no candidate that fits all businesses, but in my experience there are a basic set of expectations which define the role: Attract, incent, and manage great people. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/27/2016. So what are the key attributes of the CEO you need?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. Now that you have some new funding, what's the big goal for the company? What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

If you start pumping someone you have just met for funding or referrals, he or she will realize that your intentions are shallow. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/05/2016. While the ultimate purpose of networking is to advance your career or business, don’t treat it with the formality or structure of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Course corrections, or pivots, are normal for new ventures, so expect them and don’t make excuses. Of course, a move on price also puts them in the realm of new competitors, including e-commerce vendors and big-box stores. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/15/2016. Are you still hesitating?

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. Alternative lending encompasses a broad range of loan options outside traditional bank loans.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. Alternative lending encompasses a broad range of loan options outside traditional bank loans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

Of course, there are several additional elements which may be relevant, and should be considered to increase the valuation: Your startup owns physical assets with significant market value. Relate your startup to similar startups funded with a higher valuation. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/09/2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Startups don’t come with formal training courses. Early funding is a full-time effort, and it’s no fun for anyone. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/18/2016. Businesses require people relationships, to find the right team, investors, contract vendors, and attract customers. Entrepreneurs can be lonely at the top.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Of course it’s not literally a memo but that’s a metaphor for knowing that things have dramatically changed. September started easily enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Planning and dealing with extra-ordinary events: M&A, fund raising, crises. You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. As You Start to Mature.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. Here is a brief history first to put the changes into context. Rise of Seed. I Leaderless Rounds.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Xconomy spoke with Jacks and CEO and longtime tech entrepreneur Bill Haney about the venture, a cancer immunotherapy startup that is relying on funding from family offices—among them the Disney family—rather than venture firms.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Atom Factory also has a venture fund, Cross Culture Ventures, which has made 8 investments so far. Applications are open through June 5, 2016. Trakfire : a platform that enables its community to curate the best music from emerging artists, the third company founded founded by 19 year old USC Iovine Young Academy sophomore Arjun Mehta.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Of course it’s too early to predict whether this is a trend or an aberration but the smartest people I know in the industry are predicting the former. As we noted in our survey of more than 150 VCs we know in the industry, many saw drops in Q4 valuations last year with nearly all of them projecting decreases in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. Mostly, no. This is how VCs feel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

It can’t be funded. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. This is dumb because you really are nothing more than a temporary ad network if you do this and usually one who delivers almost no value. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see? Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster. Perhaps what’s most interesting has been the moves by mutual funds and hedge funds to get into the private capital markets. The response? Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And also why today Mitu attracted $27 million in funding from AwesomenessTV (DreamWorks/Hearst), WPP, Verizon and Upfront Ventures. And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. And so forth.

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