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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Wildlink said that it is using such techniques as including natural language processing to detect product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. The startup is backed by Mucker Capital, which led a $2M seed funding round in the company in 2017.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). TX Zhuo: Karlin Ventures is an early stage venture fund based in LA. I have been doing seed stage stuff for a while.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Bccthis , a startup developing software which connects Microsoft Outlook, Twitter, and BlackBerry smart phones, announced this morning that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding and launched a beta of its service. Source of the seed funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2013

in a seed funding round, which included local high profile technology executives Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz, Sean Moriarty, Jarl Mohn, along with Siemer Ventures. Rexter , a brand new, Pasadena startup looking to put business contact management on steroids, said today that it has raised $1.5M

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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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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

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.

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JULY 7, 2015

I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy. All of my partners at Upfront do. It’s that simple.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Please fill in your email. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. The company's founders, Damir Vrabac, Anirudh Joshi, and Viswesh Krishna, intend to use these funds to expand their operations and development efforts, so we're expecting big things from the biotech company going forwards.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I was here to see one of our LPs (limited partners are the people who invest money in VC funds) called Fort Washington. They’ve been a long-term investor in our fund – GRP Partners – and it was important to me to spend time with them in their home market and meet the people with whom they deal locally. It’s Wedneday. Or a Skype.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros. Seed funding best practices - StartupCFO , February 11, 2010 Good post looking at seed funding which often doesn’t get quite as much attention. They now have a cool new way to get intros to these angels: StartupList.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. A VC has done their job when their funds include enough great companies to generate an industry-leading outcome. The Billion Dollar Email. Nope, that’s not a typo. Sounds familiar. .

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. Enovix, which has developed a silicon-based lithium-ion battery, has raised $45 million in new funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product. Two emailed Marc Benioff directly. He emailed the head of corp dev to say essentially, “who is this guy who’s telling everybody he’s working with Salesforce.com. How did VCs respond?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. An investor called the founder, spoke for 30 minutes on the phone and committed to funding having never met the team. As Shervin said, it’s just email.

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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.". Young entrepreneurs can call upon their alumni networks for advice, recruitment of key employees and even funding. 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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. He … said that his fund would actively help in getting us the next round. Often entrepreneurs show me their management team slides with the names of the people who are going to join him once they’re funded.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

What we saw that was really interesting, was in mid-May, we started seeing lots of emails and phone calls for membership. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week. In March and April, when everyone started working from home in L.A., People were unsure what was going to happen.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy. Take the time to shoot them a “what’s up” email monthly, and serious financial reports quarterly. Send that email. ” Well said, Mark.

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JUNE 23, 2021

For example, we'll go to the University, and say hey, Panera Bread has an offer, which you can also add to an email and can go out to your student base. Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. You get both the B-to-B and B-to-C as a one-two punch. Talk about your financial backing?

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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. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Total raised: Read more: TechCrunch.

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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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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. Unicornless. billion).

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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. For investors life is no different. Year in, year out.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. How do those small and medium sized businesses connect with you?

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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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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". But, to a business person, those connections and network are only good as the real life relationships they create.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. What is BloomNation? We have thousands of voices promoting not only themselves, but also the BloomNation concept.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. 10mm in Series C.

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JUNE 25, 2013

We send you reminders by email, and deliver as many times a year as you prefer. What are the details on your seed funding? We''ll remind the client that the date is coming up, and then auto-ship and auto-deliver flowers for those dates. We also have Just Because, which schedules random deliveries. It''s completely customizable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. 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.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business. Are you a candidate for an accelerator?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Venture Capital Funding 7. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.).

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JULY 27, 2013

I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all their time lamenting how lame investors are. But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. You raised your seed funds. The best revenge for rejection is success.

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