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USC Marshall Awards $50K In Seed Funding Competition

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Six companies started by students at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall have been awarded a total of $50,000 in seed funding, after competing in the center's New Venture Seed Competition held this week. providing online tutoring.

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CARI Health Connects With $2.3M

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San Diego-based CARI Health, which is developing a wearable, real-time mediation monitor, said on Tuesday that it has raised $2.3M in a seed funding round. The company said the funding will go towards in-patient clinical studies. The company said the funding will go towards in-patient clinical studies.

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LifeVoxel.AI Snags $5M

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San Diego-based medical visualization software developer LifeVoxel.AI announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. Source of the funding was not announced, however, the company said the round came from medical and radiology specialists, strategic medical technology investors and family offices.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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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. How Does the Industry Really Work? So it’s about 20%.

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Labrador Systems Finds $2M For Elder Care Robots

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Los Angeles-based Labrador Systems , a new startup developing assistive robots for helping with home health and assistive living, has raised $2M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding was led by SOSV, and its hardware accelerator HAX, along with Centrica Hive, Amazon's Alexa Fund, iRobot Ventures, and iD Ventures America.

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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. The startup is led by Dr. Philip Low, who founded NeuroVigil based on research he did as a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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