TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Companies like Shippabo , a provider of shipping tracking and logistics for international small cargo transport, and NEXT Trucking , which handles long-haul and short-haul trucking, have both launched in the Los Angeles area to tackle different areas of the shipping industry. The company has raised $3.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. Many angels may also not know the exact health of the start-up they have invested in when asked by others, which can give the perception that the company is not doing well.” All of my partners at Upfront do. Hua of Apptimize.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Only companies with cutting-edge concepts and crystal-clear market strategies stand a chance of surviving through their first year, let alone making a profit. Please fill in your email. The Palo Alto-based company uses emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to tackle pressing questions in cancer care. Valar Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. A Nashville-based startup called Hytch Rewards developed an app that companies and governments can use to give their employees incentives to walk, bike, rideshare or use public transit.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

That's what Santa Monica-based EventUp (www.eventup.com), one of the first companies to emerge out of Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , 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. Tell us a bit about this seed funding?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I met with local seed fund investors like Mike Venerable who is the MD of CincyTech (a local seed stage fund), Tony Shipley who is a director of Queen City Angels as well as some local entrepreneurs including Blake Shipley of CoupSmart and Sameer Mungur of ZipScene. In that sense it felt very LA. It’s Wedneday.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Constance Curtis: The list is a modern matchmaking company. The other option in the dating space was to hire a traditional, matchmaking company. We've taken matchmaking onto a mobile application, as a modern matchmaking company. How did you start the company? Before this, I had an event planning company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product. Two emailed Marc Benioff directly. People call each other.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, we'll go to the University, and say hey, Panera Bread has an offer, which you can also add to an email and can go out to your student base. Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. Most VCs fund companies with a degree of traction.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Dubbed Mingly for Web and MyPeople , the suite of products (including Mingly for Gmail) are powdered by the company’s Social Interaction Mapping (SIM) Engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. And the end of the story was ultimately a successful sale of the company … so much of entrepreneurship is not sexy but brutal. In turn Blackberry missed the Internet and still has a sucky browser after all these years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy. The reality is that many successful companies have more than 20 angels in the cap table. Send that email. How many Angels do you want in your cap table?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser. > -jeff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. For investors life is no different.

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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. You mention the big companies, like FTD, 1-800 Flowers, etc. What is BloomNation?

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". We think if we do that well, we'll create value, and create a big, successful company. What's different from Rexter from the many CRM tools already out there?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

We send you reminders by email, and deliver as many times a year as you prefer. What are the details on your seed funding? What was it that you were doing which attracted investors to your company? He got his MBA here, and went back to help start this company. It''s completely customizable. million round.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Wildfire Interactive. 4mm in Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox. They all want you to come meet companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

We do mostly seed and Series A, and the occasional series B round, especially if we get into the company in seed or Series A level. We invest anywhere from $100,000 to $1 million per company, and the maximum we'd invest in any company would be $2 million. Hopefully, we'll grow our portfolio to around 50 companies.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital. A VC has done their job when their funds include enough great companies to generate an industry-leading outcome. The Billion Dollar Email. one of my old <company name redacted> colleagues is the ceo.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. Jacobo Lumbreras: My background for the last three years, I was at working at a company that Keith Ferrazzi had built. Yoy, for the last three years on the technical side. It's got a very fast growing ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing? You raised your seed funds. And it’s everywhere. Confidence.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I believe that it’s OK for young people to learn and try different roles, companies and geographies. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I said this all the time to the employees at my companies. &# I know you can earn more by leaving.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. 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. Sounds like a noble cause. Hope you all enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the chart below, 78% of the rounds of 80 $1bn+ companies were led by non VCs. Here is a chart to show you the median valuation of late stage private tech companies compared to traditional growth rounds of capital led by VCs and also vs. the public markets. It turns out that companies eventually must have their day of reckoning.

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