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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

Tech Zulu Event

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. With the mobile app launched in 2014, Tapiture continues to refine its technology to reach its users. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu. I am drawn to it.

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How ProGuides Is Helping Gamers Master Their Game, With Sam Wang

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We have highly engaging courses, taught by professional players, and where you track your progress, driven by data, and which also features an on-demand marketplace to help you find any coach you want to help you improve your play on any game. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. We're also funding it out of pocket.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

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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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. Noam Ohana, who heads up Exor Seeds, the holding company’s early-stage investment arm, will join Via’s board. The response was overwhelming.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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We now have seven companies, and have our own venture fund as well, and we'll be doing four or five for the next few years. Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO.

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