2018 Funding Invest Seed Funding 
socalTECH
APRIL 11, 2018
Seed stage investments in Los Angeles area startups was up, year-to-year, according to the Q1 2018 LA Seed Deal Report from investor Amplify LA. in seed funding in Q1, which was up 2.5 According to the report from Amplify, 23 LA startups raised a total of $52.9M percent from Q1 of 2017. READ MORE>>.
TechCrunch LA
MAY 23, 2019
The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund. Fika invests roughly half of its capital exclusively in startups headquartered in LA, with a particular fondness for B2B, enterprise and fintech companies.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 7, 2019
What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? Startup Boost became global, growing to six cities in 2018 (Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Detroit, Dublin and London), helping over 70 early stage startups. And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help.
TechCrunch LA
MAY 31, 2022
Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15
socalTECH
JANUARY 2, 2019
As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2022
Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. Considering that many of our funds are in the $200–300 million range, these returns were more meaningful than if we had raised billion dollar funds. The answer is: not much.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. That used to be called A-round investing. of the fund.
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