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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Santa Monica-based Lenny , a startup which develops a mobile app and service which provides microloans to Millenial students, said today that it has raised a new round of fudning. Size of the seed funding was not announced.

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MARCH 8, 2018

Santa Monica-based Ordermark says it has raised $3.1M in a seed funding round, for an online ordering management platform for restaurants. The funding was led by TenOneTen Ventures, and also included Act One Ventures, Mucker Capital, and others. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based Camera IQ , which is developing technology focused on the "camera experience", says it has raised $4.3M in a seed funding round. According to Camera IQ, its technology integrates OS platforms, AR toolkits and native apps into a "single fabric" for brands.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. We also focus heavily on geographies. How Does the Industry Really Work?

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Santa Monica-based Vyng , the developer of a social video ringtone product, said on Tuesday that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Santa Monica-based Manalto has raised $1M in a seed funding round, for the company''s social media content management software. According to Manalto, the funding came from Europlay Capital Adivsors, Raven Capital, as well as high net worth individuals from Australia. The company is led by Anthony Owen. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Santa Monica-based Workast , a developer of applications that run on the popular Slack chat platform, has raised $1.85M in a seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Spider Capital, Mucker Capital, and Dream Incubator.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures.

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JULY 31, 2017

Santa Monica-based FanAI , which is developing artificial intelligence software specifically aimed at e-sports monetization, said today that it has raised $1.8M in a Series Seed funding. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Santa Monica- and Singapore-based Wavemaker Partners is one of the investors in Saleswhale , a Singapore startup developing artificial intelligence software for managing sales leads and sales conversations. in a seed funding over the weekend, which came from Monk's Hill Ventures, Gree Ventures, and Wavemaker Partners.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Santa Monica-based Fastdata.io , a company that is developing GPU-native software specifically aimed at real-tie stream processing, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday afternoon. The funding was co-led by CrossCut Ventures and Pelion Venture Partners, and also included NVIDIA.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Lettuce , a developer of software to help manage order capture, inventory, and accounting for online businesses, has raised $2.1M in a seed funding round. Funding for the Santa Monica company came from Crosscut Ventures, 500 Startups, Launchpad LA, Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and Double M Capital.

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MAY 17, 2013

In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of online, contact and relationship management software headed by Jon Ferrara, the former founder of Goldmine, said last night that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The funding also included Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Dharmesh Shah, and others.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney). READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

No, Jason Calacanis , the Santa Monica angel investor, and CEO and founder of Mahalo , isn''t bootstrapping a new company and reverting to the hungry''s entrepreneur diet. ramen software crowdfunding finance project development jason calacanis mahalo launch conference' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Santa Monica- and London-based Echoecho , which is developing a service to provide location information to your friends via a mobile application, announced today that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from Google Ventures and PROfounders. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 16, 2015

Santa Monica-based Rayton Solar , a startup developing solar industry manufacturing technology, announced this morning that it has raised $1M in seed funding, and is looking for another $1.2M.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. The firm announced its seed funding in April. Financial details of the deals were not annoucned. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based Retention Science , a new startup out of the MuckerLab accelerator, is announcing this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures has backed a developer of an online social dating and games firm, CupidsPlay. CupidsPlay said it received seed funding from Clearstone. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. CupidsPlay is based in Bellevue, Washington. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round.

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APRIL 6, 2020

I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor.

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JULY 24, 2012

I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. And I was so pleasantly surprised to learn that Randy Churchill will join Cooley’s LA practice as head of business development.

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