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.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Proofpoint said it will use the acquisition to extend its email malware protection to users' personal email accounts. in seed funding in Weblife only 11 months ago, with a 30 percent stage--giving it a 690% annualized ROI on the acquisition. Nordic Eye said it invested $3.0M

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I met with local seed fund investors like Mike Venerable who is the MD of CincyTech (a local seed stage fund), Tony Shipley who is a director of Queen City Angels as well as some local entrepreneurs including Blake Shipley of CoupSmart and Sameer Mungur of ZipScene. It’s Wedneday. I mention this for a reason. He said yes.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I then went on to work for McKinsey for a couple of years, then got involved in Eric Schmidt's seed fund, Innovation Endeavors up in Palo Alto. I have been doing seed stage stuff for a while. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email. The other way, is to email us at info@karlinvc.com.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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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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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

According to ZenBusiness, it raised $15M in its Series A funding, which was led by Greycroft, and also included Lerer Hippea, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, as well as Rosecliff Venture Partners, Interlock Partners, and Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP). Greycroft was already a seed investor in ZenBusiness.

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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

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. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. It’s a communication tool. My personal use.

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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. And we know that being stubbornly tenacious without the “street smarts&# to know when market conditions are changing and then “pivoting&# when they are changing is a recipe for failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. That’s a huge problem.

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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. Invoices are scanned faxed or emailed into the service and then electronically routed to the necessary people for approval. Total raised: Read more: TechCrunch.

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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. 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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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 sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup. But the firm that funded my first startup was loyal to me for having stuck around in what they knew to be pretty tough times and having suffered much dilution. I would do anything for these people.

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socalTECH

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

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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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socalTECH

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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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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socalTECH

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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The crux of what they do is a field called “demand generation&# or “marketing automation.&# Essentially they help you take your database of prospects and drive trackable email campaigns targeted around distinct customer segments and manage these leads through the various stages of your marketing & sales funnels.

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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. raised what it described as an “eight-figure USD investment” in a seed funding round from IDG Capital, Vision+ Capital and Tide Capital. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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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. For investors life is no different.

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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. As the clean energy market rises exponentially, Rerverion aims to solve some major challenges plaguing the sector by rethinking the way biogas is extracted. Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox?

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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

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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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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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

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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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

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.). So much for resting!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

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. My advice: Do not mention the other VC firms, angels, seed funds, etc. I asked every VC not to call Salesforce. How did VCs respond?

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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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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.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2019

in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today. The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions.

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