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Kutcher's Sound Ventures Backs LearnLux in Seed Funding

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Sound Ventures , the Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm of Ashton Kutcher, is one of the lead investors in a funding round for LearnLux , a startup which develops software that helps employees of companies with financial wellness. LearnLux is based in Boston.

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Kensh?, ‘the antithesis of Goop,’ launches a research-based guide to natural medicine

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The startup has also collected information to construct a research-backed guide to holistic health, something the team believes has been missing from the natural health sector. million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund. Berlincourt and Kensh?

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

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These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital.

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Harbor Launches Disaster Prep App

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Los Angeles-based Harbor , a startup which is developing apps to gamify the process of preparing your family and home from disasters and emergencies, has launched its iOS app , three months after announcing its seed funding. The startup is led by former Headspace executive Dan Kessler, and raised $5M in August.

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Vyu Raises $825K

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Los Angeles-based Vyu , which is developing a personalized, mobile entertainment guide service, said this morning that it has raised $825,000 in a seed funding round. The funding came from Jabbar Internet Group and other investors. As part of the funding, the company said that it has added former Yahoo!

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part I

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In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. Funding: Yes. Representative companies: Funding: No. Representative companies: Funding: Yes. Funding: Yes. Funding: Yes.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all.

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