socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based Saucey , a provider of an on-demand, alcohol delivery app said it has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Blumberg Capital, Structure Capital, Altpoint Ventures, T5 Capital, HashtagOne, as well as individual angels.

Demand 100

Demand Seed Funding San Diego Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

San Diego-based GoShare , the developer of an on-demand, moving and delivery app, has raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. The company said it will use the funding to improve its product and expand into new cities.

Demand 100

Demand San Diego Seed Funding Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2015

in a seed funding round, and launched an on-demand, rental car service at Los Angeles International Airport. The company--led by Harry Hurst--said the funding came from Upfront Ventures, Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, Wonga. A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Skurt , said Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M

Demand 100

Demand SoCalTech Seed Funding Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2021

According to Sunstone Management, a private capital and investment firm, VITALINK, a biotech smart watch accessory startup developing a "a dermal caffeine dosage system" received $15,000 in seed funding and will also receive co-working space, marketing, legal and accounting services totaling up to $35,000.

Long Beach 113

Long Beach Seed Funding Startup Competition 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Los Angeles-based talkshoplive, a startup which operates a livestreaming shopping network and app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round. According to the company, the funding round came from Spero Ventures LLC. The company was foudned by brother and sister Bryan and Tina Moore.

Seed Funding 113

Seed Funding Commerce Demand Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

in seed funding for its service, from such angels as Aaron Batalion (LivingSocial), Ben Huh (The Cheezburger Network), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Paige Craig, Jillian Manus, Mike Walsh, and Structure Capital, along with Double M Capital, Venture51, Expansion, and Karlin Ventures. Honk also revealed that it has raised $1.8M

Help 190

Help Services Demand Santa Monica 190

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. ” After graduating from Y Combinator in the summer of 2019, the company tested its services in the Southern California region.

Services 217

Services Southern California Seed Funding Demand 217

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based Dray Alliance , which operates a on-demand, short haul container delivery marketplace, has raised $10.2M in funding, via a Series A funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by Matrix Partners, and also included Moving Capital, Craft Ventures, Act One Ventures, and Wonder Ventures.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Seed Funding Demand Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based Dray Alliance , a startup focused on on-demand, short haul container delivery, has raised $3.5M in a seed funding round, the company said on Monday. The funding came from Craft Ventures, the venture funding company run by David Sacks. Dray Alliance is led by CEO Steve Wen.

Long Beach 113

Long Beach Seed Funding Los Angeles Demand 113

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

Los Angeles-based GIBLIB , which offers up a library of on-demand, medical content in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from the Mayo Clinic, the Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM.

Content 138

Content Education Seed Funding USC 138

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based iExhale , a startup developing an online mental health and wellness service providing on-demand therapy from licensed mental health professionals, is announcing this morning that it has raised $1.86M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Dorilton Capital.

Seed Funding 113

Seed Funding Demand Los Angeles Capital 113

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. in seed funding, which as a seed round goes, is pretty good.

Demand 100

Demand Technical Support Startup Seed Funding 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

When I first became a VC, seed rounds were typically $500k – $1.5 There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). Why the latter? So back to reality.

Seed Funding 399

Seed Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 399

TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Postie uses a combination of online data collection and an on-demand print and mail technology to give its customers turnaround times on print orders in as little as 24 hours and what the company boasts is the equivalent of online ad-targeting. Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value. They aren’t the only ones.

Dollar Shave Club 232

Dollar Shave Club Chief Technology Officer Advertising Los Angeles 232

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

AOL co-founder and former chief executive officer Steve Case’s venture capital fund, Revolution , deploys capital to companies “outside of the hotbeds.” Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly.

Venture Capital 211

Venture Capital Funding Seed Funding Activity 211

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2015

the developer of a mobile, on-demand marketplace to find dog walkers, said last week that it has raised $2.45M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Freestyle Cpaital, Greylock, Crunchfund, Slow Ventures, Social Leverage, and RRE Ventures. Los Angeles-based Wag! ,

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding Demand Los Angeles Mobile 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2016

Los Angeles-based Heal , which develops an on-demand app and service which connects users with doctors for house calls, has named former co-owner, CEO, and President of the LA Dodgers Jamie McCourt to its board of directors.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Seed Funding Demand Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Commit a source of internal or external seed funding. There is no point incubating an innovative new venture if you don’t have the funds to launch and expect quick self-sustaining revenue. Don’t let early success dilute your focus, or demand that the new venture quickly meet your mainline financial and growth metrics.

Incubator 143

Incubator Seed Funding Metrics Customer 143

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

million in seed funding from David Sacks’ Craft Ventures and has already signed contracts with the toy company Mattel and CMA CGM Group. And now Dray Alliance is joining them, trying to take a piece of the market transporting cargo from the docks to logistics centers. The company has raised $3.5

Startup 140

Startup Long Beach Los Angeles Southern California 140

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. Let me explain: 1. It’s not black-and-white.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization. He has been an angel investor in over 50 tech companies, is an LP in 5 seed funds and has served on over a dozen venture-backed boards.

Capital 124

Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

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. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

Santa Monica 211

Santa Monica Seed Funding Startup Conference 211

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. Moovit, an Israeli-based Mobility as a Service startup, launched an Emergency Mobilization On-Demand service. Deal of the week. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Without the promise of riches or with reduced interest in blockchain-based exclusivity, where will consumer demand go? Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures.

Newsletter 278

Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2013

Well, a down round is even more complicated than having no demand for your investment round. If we count seed funds and large angels maybe that number goes up by 2x? They should either believe in you and your business or not, but I promise you I’ve seen this type of behavior repeatedly over the past 15 years. A down round.

Pricing 302

Pricing Seed Funding Invest Venture Capital 302

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

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. Sam Wang: We raised our pre-seed round last year, led by the Amplify accelerator in Venice.

Help 113

Help Coach Startup Tips 113

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round.

Startup 119

Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 119

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. But with the massive growth of seed funds being raised and the huge value increase of prorata rights many more LPs have stepped in to take their VC (industry term is GP) position.

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

On the other hand, if you can qualify for membership in a top-ranked accelerator , such as 500 Startups , AngelPad or TechStars , you will get a rigorous development program, top-quality professional guidance, and some seed funding to move you ahead of the crowd. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

Incubator 58

Incubator Startup Seed Funding Equity 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there. CSK Ventures in Japan is on eof the largest data center operators, and they have their own venture capital firm, which provided us with our seed funding. There's really big demand.

Southern California 242

Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. That was left to the realm of friends and family. Early-stage startup.

Startup 92

Startup Funding Seed Funding Incubator 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Was there consumer demand? She had raised seed funds from a who’s who list of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, Troy Carter and so on. No brainer. I followed my playbook on reference calls making sure to ask both positively worded as well as skeptical questions.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. And importantly we’ve had revenue. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. What is Field Day? Talk about your financial backing?

Marketing 113

Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. What's iExhale all about?

Social Network 113

Social Network Startup Platform Networking 113