TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . That thinking became the seeds for Elementary Robotics and was one of the aspects of the company that attracted Toyota AI Ventures as a co-investor.

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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. Cui was brought on board to start developing the technology product — which Wen says is exactly like an Uber for trucking. The company has raised $3.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I love how open Danielle has been throughout the development of her startup Mattermark including honest reflections of when she has changed her opinion. I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. That’s what it feels like.”. All of my partners at Upfront do. Information leaks.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox. ” What do I mean? It’s inbound.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Please fill in your email. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

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. Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The Billion Dollar Email. Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. A few months later, on December 30th, 2010, my friend appended the following text to a lengthy, non-Uber oriented email: “not sure if you guys are aware of uber ( ubercab.com ).

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an email I wrote to a student who asked me if she should drop out of school to run her business fulltime because she was anxious "to do great things.". My response is almost always the same; I think dropping out is a very bad idea. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. The app does: Alerts users before they fall out of touch with important contacts, across email, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Maybe we just have too many tools at our disposal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing? You raised your seed funds. Your churn rates are too high.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". We spoke with CEO and founder Andy Wilson about how Rexter is looking to help business professionals further develop their relationships. What exactly is Rexter?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. You want to hire a crack team of developers but you haven’t raised enough money yet. In turn Blackberry missed the Internet and still has a sucky browser after all these years. So tenacity and resiliency alone are not enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Current round: $6.0mm in Series-D from existing investors Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, High Country Venture.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. > -jeff.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to better run a product management process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Develop your business plan. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Lessons at the end.).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. We had a nice debate.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.

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