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Catalog Collects $1.5M For AI Software For Visual Artists

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Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. “We understand how much money you can make from the IP. The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley. ” And Toonstar is building an audience.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. 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. What is Halla?

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? AI : artificial intelligence. Before GUBA, Thomas worked at Sony on the VAIO computer.

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