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Startups Win $25,000 In CSULB Challenge

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Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. The runner up was UNWIND, which is developing personalized meditation programs, which received $10,000 in seed funding.

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Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone

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The company lowers its rates for popular gamers or gamers who are willing to spend more time on the platform either selling their services or actually coaching esports players. Wang says that that pros on the platform are making anywhere from $750 to $2500 per month and that there are currently 250 coaches on the platform.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. 1 billion fund and therefore a $20 million is still just 2–2.5% of the fund. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he We aren’t going to win every great deal in LA?—?there

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Link-in-bio monetization platform Snipfeed raises a $5.5M seed round

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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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Enrou: Combining Causes and Commerce To Help Improve The World

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That''s where we entered the scene, as a platform for that particular type of organization. Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. How do you work with those organizations? What''s your big goal now?

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

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We caught up with Allen Kamrava , the CEO and founder the startup, to learn about how the company is building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life. I don't think there's any more complex of an insurance platform. It's truly broken.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

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The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Our headquarters are in Berlin, but we have platform users from all corners of the world. The result was a social platform especially built to serve the needs of Business-to-Business interaction and networking. Competition? How does it work?