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JULY 11, 2018

in seed funding. The funding came from Alphabit Fund, Translunar One, Kenetic Capital, NextProtocol Ventures, and BKCM. The new funding comes as CapLinked has started focusing on developing a software platform for managing "token" securities, called TransitNet. CapLinked's founders are CEO Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Now, Thrive Global is adding a tech tool to its arsenal of cognitive behavioral therapies with the acquisition of the Los Angeles-based startup, Boundless Mind. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the stock and cash acquisition will see all nine members of the current Boundless team join Thrive Global.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Orbitera was backed by only $2M in a seed funding it received a year ago from Resolute Ventures. West Hollywood-based Orbitera , which develops cloud-based software for managing leads, trial subscriptions, and billing, has been acquired by Google , Google said on Monday.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Rincon had been part of a small, $4M seed funding round for Rentlytics in 2014; it's unclear how much capital the company raised subsequent to that seed funding. Andelman has since combined Rincon Venture Partners with the venture firm of Mark Mullen, Double M Capital, to create Bonfire Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based fintech venture investor Core Innovation Capital has scored a quick exit at one of its portfolio companies, Honest Dollar , just a year after its seed funding. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

Apple confirmed the acquisition of WiFiSlam, a developer of indoor, geo-location technology for smartphones, this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed, but the acquisition of WiFiSlam has been reported to be worth $20M by a number of sources. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2020

When a group of scientists from Amira Pharmaceuticals wanted to start a new biotech after the company’s 2011 acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb , Celgene provided seed funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2021

FIGS was started in 2013, raising a seed funding worth only $2M from Crocs, Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups, Karlin Ventures, and others. The IPO raised $1.02 billion for the company, and values the company at more than $4.6 The IPO priced above an earlier estimated IPO price of $16.00

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. in its seed funding round. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition ) think that its time to take technology where it’s never gone before — into targeted, direct mail campaigns using the best ad-targeting that money can buy.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2015

had only raised $3M in a seed funding in October of 2014, which was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Ignition Partners, NEA, A-Grade, SVAngel, Eric Hahn, Alven Capital, and TenOneTen. voice intelligence artificial language natural acquisition merger facebook capital venture investment agrade tenoneten witai'

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

in seed funding from the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels. Tags: ecommerce marketing acquisition merger marketplace business zubican. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zubican was backed by $1.3M READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. If you’re a seed fund that takes 5–10% ownership and doesn’t take board seats you might have 50, 100 or even 200 investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most accelerators provide small seed investment in the range of $25,000, as well as mentoring, workspace and professional services, in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Startup incubator seed funding. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2012

in a seed funding last year. ThinkNear was venture backed by IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Real Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Zelkova Ventures, BoldStart VC, David Tisch and David Cohen, and had raised around $1.6M READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 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. As Amex scoops up Resy, a look at its acquisition history . Beverages are being disrupted, there's no stopping it. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO. Fundraising.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, Wavemaker Partners, Frontier Venture Capital, and Apex Ventures. Financial details of the Dart Music acquisition was not announced. The startup, led by serial entrepreneur Ryan Born, said it also acquired a range of assets from Dart Music.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. This could happen if every VC fund continues to launch a seed fund. Minutes 11-13. Minutes 28 – 31.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition. Th e ther thing we announced, was we've raising an additional round of seed funding. in January, and now have raised an additional $2M in seed funding, so we've now raised $4.5M in seed funding, which as a seed round goes, is pretty good.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5 Taylor then set up shop in San Francisco to further his mission. Taylor said.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

LA-based company, Chewse has joined 500 Startups in Silicon Valley, making it the first starup from LA to join the prestigious accelerator program and seed fund. 500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I raised a small seed round. I have no money?

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. I had seen how things were working over there, and went through a number of acquisition.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Make sure you can find them, acquire them, and know your customer acquisition costs. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week. Know what your customer looks like, what their demographic is, and where they areare they on Facebook, are they on LinkedIn? What are they reading?

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. That's problem driven by the fact that most acquisition get done, commonly, in the $50M to $100M range, and if a company just has too much capital deployed, when the opportunity comes up, they can't take it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I’ll give you some of Parachute’s repeat rates later in the post.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. That's appealing to them, and that distribution and acquisition model has worked very well for us. Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

The constantly changing media landscape is relentless, so our seed funding part-way through our journey from the Zappos leadership of Tony Hsieh and Fred Mossler via the downtown Las Vegas revitalization efforts of the Downtown Project was particularly helpful as we adjusted, and readjusted.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

And if you somehow manage to get seed funding on the strength of unrealistic numbers, it will come back to haunt you when you’re trying to raise your next round and haven’t met your targets. Or are you seriously underestimating key metrics like customer acquisition costs (an extremely common mistake)?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Fair recently raised $16M in a seed funding round, from Javelin Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Foundation Capital, Sherpa Capital, Moonshots Capital, and others. We have to finance that acquisition every time. What is Fair all about? The average price of an automobile is $20,000 to $30,000.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2014

Very few Southern California startups make it from seed funding all the way up through an IPO, and rarely do they do so with their original founder. One of Southern California''s big success stories -- from startup, to venture funding, and a recent IPO--is Los Angeles-based TrueCar , which had its IPO in May. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Talk a bit about where the company was at the time of the acquisition? It looks like you guys only raised less than a million in seed funding? Did you ever think you'd make it this far on only that small amount of seed? Keith Bonnici: Yes, only about $950,000. Keith Bonnici: No! One of the things is, we're cheap.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. Farbod Shoraka: My background is actually in mergers and acquisition advisory. What is BloomNation?

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