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JANUARY 27, 2020

Culver City-based Encantos , a developer of family entertainment and education titles, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company announced this morning. The startup said it will use funding for its subscription services, which revolve around hands-on craft activities for pre-school and primarly school age children.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Westlake Village-based Avinew , a new startup looking at developing auto insurance for the autonomous vehicle market, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Crosscut Ventures, and also included American Family Ventures, Draper Frontier, and RPM Ventures.

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MARCH 20, 2017

Pasadena-based ShadeCraft , which is developing a "smart" sunshade/umbrella which tracks the sun, absorbs solar energy, and includes built in speakers, a camera, and smartphone charger, has reportedly raised $2M in a seed funding. Source and details of that funding have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based DASH Systems , a developer of technology that allows for precision airdrop of deliveries from cargo aircraft, has raised $8M in a seed funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by 8VC, and also included Tusk Venture Partners, Loup Ventures, Trust Ventures, Perot Jain, and MiLA Capital.

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MARCH 3, 2014

in a seed funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. According to the filing, part of the funding came from Allegro Venture Partners, and also included a number of other investors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

According to Breaker, it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, to help bolster its efforts to produce and distribute mobile video entertainment in Japan. The funding was led by Dram Incubator, Inc., and also included Siemer Ventures and other investors.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Today, Washington, DC-based Revolution is announcing its latest fund. It’s not where the talent is.

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APRIL 24, 2018

According to TAU Ventures, its early stage venture capital fund is looking to invest pre-seed funding into startups founded by students and alumni of Tel Aviv University. Other investors in the fund include Singapore investment fund Charter High Tech, as well as other individual investors across the US and Canada.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by LaunchPad Digital Health, and also included Aspect Ventures and angels. The company previously raised funding from Amplify LA. million downloads and over 200,000 monthly active users. The company says it now has over 2.2 READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2014

in a seed funding round. The funding wa sled by Tony Hsieh''s Vegas TechFund, and also included angels Josh Makower, John R. Los Angeles-based Stir , a startup developing a touchscreen-driven, Wi-fi connected, and sensor-powered desk which automatically adjusts to a user''s height, said this morning that it has raised $1.5M

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JULY 13, 2016

The seed funding came from MHS Capital and Archer Gray. MHS Capital Partners is very active in investing in Los Angeles, and has been an investor in such local companies as Combatant Gentleman, Fonality, Magnify360, and others. ShareGrid is headquartered in Seattle.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

The two are just a couple of the accelerator groups in the region which have been the driving force in early stage startup activity and funding, by providing mentoring, early stage seed funding, and a structured program designed to get startups to the next level.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. presidential elections. According to New Knowledge, it has raised $1.9M READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

SendHub said this morning that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, which came from Kapor Capital, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups, Howard Lindzon's Social Leverage fund, Bronze Investments, Start Fund, Y Combinator, Eric Ries, Jawed Karim, Paul Buchheit, among with other angels.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Akanda announced Monday that it has raised a round of seed funding, from New Dream Network (Dreamhost), The Fabric, Double M Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Simon Anderson (CEO of Dreamhost), and Matt Ocko. READ MORE>>. dreamhost rincon akanda openstack networking virtual venture capital'

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based Social Rewards , which operates an online, loyalty program which rewards users for social media activity for brands, has raised $600,000 in a seed funding round. Social Rewards was founded by Joseph Morin and Mike Uesugi.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Previous Boundless investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Esther Dyson will join Thrive Global’s cap table. The Boundless technology works by monitoring what activity is happening on the phone’s tap screen (similar to Apple’s screen time monitoring).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based Siemer Ventures , the venture capital arm of investment bank Siemer & Associates, has been one of the most active local investors lately--and is continuing that trend, with the investment in Ribbon. in a seed funding round. Members can see our full profile of Siemer's investment activity in our database.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

At the early stage investment firm Fink said he was responsible for marketing activities for companies including Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, SpringRole, Wishbone, and Hello Society over the six years he worked at the company. Neddenriep, served as the chief technology officer for Science — a role he’s continuing at Postie.

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JULY 15, 2015

Wish there was something as convenient for Uber to tote your kids to and from all their activities? in a funding round, to provide the convenience of Uber with the trust you might give your own nanny. Los Angeles-based HopSkipDrive has raised $3.9M

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MARCH 25, 2013

Sky Dayton is an advisor to WiFiSlam, and one of the initial seed investors in the firm, which has also seed funding from Don Dodge (Google) and Relay Ventures. Sky Dayton is an active angel investor, and has been since he became one of Southern California's first Internet-era successes when he founded Earthlink.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

As an active angel investor, I can tell you what doesn’t work is broadcasting your idea description to flocks of angels, hoping that one will swoop down to anoint you with funding. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.

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APRIL 24, 2019

We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. So it sounds like developers really need to try to be active on these public sites, for any visibility? Are people using the product now?

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JULY 16, 2010

So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. Some seed angles and seed funds clearly get it.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. Grant Hosford: My favorite consumer tech trend is voice activated assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. The company's founders, Damir Vrabac, Anirudh Joshi, and Viswesh Krishna, intend to use these funds to expand their operations and development efforts, so we're expecting big things from the biotech company going forwards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

As an active angel investor, I can tell you what doesn’t work is broadcasting your idea description to flocks of angels, hoping that one will swoop down to anoint you with funding. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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APRIL 3, 2010

The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. Let me explain: 1. million investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Multiply the pay-back. Products need not be tied to a given company.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. With our backend tools we can push products to the front of videos, allowing content providers to drive shopping activity. What is Sidevision all about?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. So in a way it’s self selecting.

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MAY 5, 2013

As has been pointed out by Dan Primack based on FLAG Capital data, there are fewer than 100 “real and active” tech VCs in the country. If we count seed funds and large angels maybe that number goes up by 2x? .” or whatever simply won’t erase the “something is wrong” psychology.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. As the CEO you need to realize that doing PR is part of the piechart of activities called “your job.” I have no money?

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JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. I was an active investors in the apparel company, and had to step back into the company in a reorg scenario, to get it back on track. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing.

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