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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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It occurred to us that a startup company with limited funding is not going to pay $5000 upfront, and that we would have loved to know the prices up front and not have to go through the same eight conversations eight times. It sounds like you have some angel funding? We haven''t gone to institutional funding yet.

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Digest 5/30 – 6/5: Nant Health’s IPO, Loot Crate’s Series A, Snapchat Passes Twitter, RadPad FB’s App of the Year

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LMU, Los Angeles. **. Fund ( link ). Pasadena Cross Campus, Pasadena. 06/11/2016 – 06/12/2016. Startup Bootcamp. Here’s what’s new in LA’s tech space: NANT HEALTH Pops to $2B in IPO ( link ). LOOT CRATE Raises $18.5M Series A ( link ). PASADENA ANGELS Raises $1.3M SNAPCHAT Acquires 3D Selfie Co ( link ).

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Backing the Jockey and Not the Horse

From the Venture Trenches

The question was posed by Nolan Simons, an LMU student from Professor David Choi’s Business Incubation class. And this is precisely the expertise investors are looking for when funding disruptive businesses. Entrepreneurs Founders Fund Raising Startup Venture Capital David Choi Pivot Ron Conway Venture capital Warren Buffett'

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