socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2017

reports that seed funding in Q1 of 2017 dropped precipitously, falling 42.2 AmplifyLA pointed out that the seed deals were in contrast to the bigger picture, where venture capital investments were up 15 percent nationally--but pointed out that those gains were driven by "mega-deals", rather than seed funding. percent, Year-over-Year.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s what my wife said to me back in June after I had been “retired” since 2017. We build and invest in startups with impact. We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. Longtime tech entrepreneur and angel investor Marco Thompson, who is closely associated with San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator, contributed a number of companies to the list. I widened my net this year.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Collectively, across all those programs, we've invested in a bit over 900 startups around the world. Cody Simms: Applications will open in January, on January 17th, 2017, and they will close April 9th, 2017. The program itself will start roughly July 17th, 2017, give or take a day or two. billion combined.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s what my wife said to me back in June after I had been “retired” since 2017. We build and invest in startups with impact. We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund.

Startup 52

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 52

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

These exits have really validated our team's vision and that the talent and ideas that we invest and believe in. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? What's the biggest lesson you learned this year? Michael Jones: Simplification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Last year 300,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 70,000 startup deals. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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