socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2018

San Diego-based Raken , a startup developing mobile software to manage construction projects, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by U.S. Raken has now raised $12M, including its earlier $2M seed funding announced in March of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The startup--led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier, who had been CEO of Eventful--says that it has created apps for iOS, Android, the Mac, and PC which allows anyone who shares a link to a product to make money when someone clicks on that link and makes a purchase. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Krista Berlincourt, the co-founder and chief executive officer of a new startup, Kensh? The startup has also collected information to construct a research-backed guide to holistic health, something the team believes has been missing from the natural health sector. Health , hopes she can take back the narrative. Berlincourt and Kensh?

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices. CEO Michael Smallwood launched the Carlsbad, CA-based company in 2017.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier. million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. NFT infrastructure startup NFTPort raised a $26 million Series A round led by Atomico. follow the money.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Constance Curtis , the Founder and CEO of The List (www.getthelistapp.com), thinks so, and tells us about her startup's efforts to bring the world of matchmaking to the modern worldand how her own frustration with online dating let to her startup. With matchmaking, you hire someone to do everything for you, setting you up for dates.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. While there was a 6 percent downtick from funding in the previous. Venture firms invested $21.5

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2019

Ever wonder what the origins were of some of the most successful local startups? Look no further than the seed round pitch deck for SendGrid , one of the biggest exits of a company founded in Orange County in recent years. SendGrid had a successful IPO in 2017 , and was acquired for $3 billion in February. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company. Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

How did you start Happy Returns? We ended up being acquired by Nordstrom. Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. We checked all of those boxes, and then went back out to market in Spring of 2017, last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.

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