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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Los Angeles-based Brainbase , a new startup building an online marketplace for intellectual property licensing, has raised $1 in a seed funding round, the company announced Tuesday afternoon. The company said that brands like Shell, Kelloggs, Technicolor, J.D. The startup is led by co-founder and CEO Nate Cavanaugh.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2020

Los Angeles-based Pepper Financial , a startup led by startup veteran James Borow, recently raised $5.6M in a seed funding, which was led by Mark Suster at Upfront Ventures, and which also included Lerer Hippeau, Manta Ray, and angels. The company said it is creating a "new set of tools" to help businesses grow smarter.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . “Los Angeles is a great place for this, because we have a close relationship with Caltech and JPL,” according to Gross.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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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. Previous Boundless investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Esther Dyson will join Thrive Global’s cap table.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

HipGeo said its new app is a "complete redesign" of its platform, and is aimed at letting mobile phone users post text, places, and photos of their travels. HipGeo is backed by Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham.

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APRIL 24, 2019

That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in. The second part of the platform addresses other aspects of recruitment, including prequalification, and the other is around engagement, where we've just launched a LinkedIn plug-in that's an engagement tool. That's an engagement tool.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Her newest venture, Moe Assist, claims to be the first project management and payments tool for influencers. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: We integrate with any video platform, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and we''re built on top of an API.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2017

The funding was led by Imagen Capital Partners, and also included Mark Cuban's Radical Investments, Google Ventures, Indicator Ventures plus angels Jason Calacanis, Howard Lindzon and Don Dodge. in funding, including an earlier seed funding round. Nimble has now raised $12.5M

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

In an attempt to change that, Bubbl (www.bubbl.me)--which is led by Mauhan Zonozzy --is creating a tool and studio relationships to do just that. We recently spoke with Mauhan about his startup, which is setting up offices in Los Angeles, but is based in New York. We''re currently raising a seed funding round, and raising $2 million.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. from Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and angels. What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Tooling helps. The company recently announced $3.2M What's Swoop all about? We use a Notion doc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based BloomNation (www.bloomnation.com) is looking to change the model, and instead empower local florists to deliver their own, unique designs. We partner with them, and give them tools to help their business. We''re partnering with the florists, and giving them free tools to help them build their business.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. The company has raised $1.9M

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” ” And even the venerable Fred Wilson weighed in with how people “ leading vs. following ” in funding rounds play different roles and have different skills.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. What are you doing with your seed funding? What is MySocialNightLife all about? I think the iPhone will be the game changer.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

Last week, Aliso Viejo-based Darwin Dimensions rolled out Evolver (www.evolver.com), an online tool for creating highly detailed avatars. It takes a process which was heavily manual before now, and boiled it into a much simpler, completely automatic tool. It looks like you've just launched the tool part so far?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. I sat down with Andrew Peek of Rocketr, a social idea platform, regarding his move through the scene.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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