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Lyre's Picks Up $11.5M For Non Alcoholic Drinks

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Los Angeles-based Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. in a seed funding round. The funding came from VRD Investment, Doehler Ventures, DLF Venture, Maropost Ventures, and HNWI, along with a number of family offices. Lyre's said the funding comes as it prepares to launch a "ready-to-drink" range of products.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds. But rest assured valuations get reset.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO.

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. My biggest takeaway this year was truly understanding the strength and cohesion of the Los Angeles startup community.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch. 2020 will be a watershed year for investment in businesses around the creator economy,” Neil Robertson tells TechCrunch.

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Manufacturing management startup from Baltimore secures $5 million funding

StartUp Beat

The company is expected to reach 100 clients by early 2019 as it already works with dozens of clients throughout the U.S. helping to collect, integrate and make sense of the data gathered from sensors, IoT and other tech investments. and Europe that are in the manufacturing industry. “We

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

. “The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “ In 2019 and 2020 we’re going to see a lot of these… we’re going to see a lot of people putting out a lot of stuff.”