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Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development

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The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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Avinew Finds $5M For Self Driving Vehicle Insurance

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Westlake Village-based Avinew , a new startup looking at developing auto insurance for the autonomous vehicle market, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Crosscut Ventures, and also included American Family Ventures, Draper Frontier, and RPM Ventures.

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Verge Genomics, Founded By UCLA Scientists, Raises $4M In Seed Funding

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Verge Genomics , a biopharmaceuticals startup founded by scientists out of UCLA, said Tuesday that it has raised $4M in a seed financing round. The funding was led by IA Ventures, and also included Two Sigma Ventures, Draper Associates, Great Oaks VC, Slow Ventures, Karlin Venture, Elad Gil and David Lee.

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Crosscut Ventures Backs Blockchain Startup

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Los Angeles-based venture investor Crosscut Ventures is one of the backers of a new startup, Fluent , developing blockchain technology for the financial markets. Louis Arch Angels.

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Sensay Snags $4.5M For Chatbot Technology

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Los Angeles-based Sensay , a developer of chatbot technology, has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Greycroft Partners, Sweet Capital, NHN, Draper Associates and other.

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NeuroVigil Finds More Funding

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La Jolla-based NeuroVigil , a developer of brain monitoring tools and technology, said it has received a second financing round. Size of the funding was not disclosed. According to the company, the round was led by Howard Morgan, and also included Elon Musk, Tim Draper, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Zone Ventures.

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Entangled Media Raises $3.5M For Youunity

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which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round. Younity, which is headed by Erik Caso , develops a personal cloud service which lets users store their personal files and media libraies, including iTunes accounts, photos, videos, playlists, and more.

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