Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Like any sale you first need to plan your “prospects” and qualify whether or not they’d be a good fit for your product?—?an an investment in your company.

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MARCH 28, 2019

San Diego-based biotech startup Biolinq , which is developing wireless-enabled biosensor patches for continuous monitoring of biomarkers, has raised $4.75M additional Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 9, 2019

I fund startups for a living and before that I ran two software startups that I founded. When a company raises capital it inevitably begins to look for office space in order to increase worker productivity and happiness. I’ve spent countless hours looking at historical finances, budgets, forecasts and future projections.

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MAY 4, 2020

in a Series A funding round, to go towards its products. According to Alume, the funding came from angel investors, including co-founder Chrysa Mineo (formerly of Receptos and Neurocrine Biosciences) and Dan Bradbury (co-founder and Executive Chairman of Equillium, Inc. and former CEO of Amylin).

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APRIL 1, 2020

San Diego-based Aspen Neuroscience , a biotechnology company developing treatments for Parkinson disease, said it has raised $70M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by OrbiMed, and also included ARCH Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Domain Associates, Section 32, and Sam Altman. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Previous investors Vertex Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Moment Ventures and the Slack Fund also participated in the funding, which brings Astound’s total capital raised to $27 million. Astound said it would use the financing to increase its product development and sales and marketing efforts, according to a statement.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient. When seeking the perfect pitch, in baseball and in the startup world, less is a lot more. One-liners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Irvine-based Modulated Imaging , a developer of optical imaging products used for noninvasive assessment of tissue health, has raised $7M in a Series B funding, according to the company. As part of the funding round, Janelle Goulard, Director of Health Investment for Pangaea, has joined the company's board. Ltd and Fouse KK.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

FactoryFour , a startup which developing software to enable custom production of industrial goods, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, and set up shop in Culver City. The startup's Series A funding was led by August Capital, and also included existing investor Refactor Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Josh Xu met his co-founder and CFO Liang Wang, a veteran of ByteDance and the music social network Smule, when the two were studying at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

The debt funding comes from Pharmakon Advisors and Athyrium Capital Management. Halozyme said the credit line is secured by future royalties of its ENHANZE products, which are coming from deals with Roche and Baxalta.

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MARCH 28, 2018

La Jolla-based Singlera Genomics , which is developing genetic diagnostics for early stage cancer detection, has raised $60M in a Series A+ funding round, according to the company. The company's initial target is early detection of lung cancer. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding. Set expectations accordingly.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Aliso Viejo-based Sequent Medical , which is developing medical devices for treating aneurysms, said Tuesday that it has raised $20M in a Series D funding. The funding was led by Delphi Ventures, and also included Domain Associates, US Venture Partners, and Versant Ventures. in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. Almost 80% of the funding handed out in the US consistently comes from these three locations. Whites and Asians lead the race. Experience does count.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Often speakers will donate their fees to scholarship and childcare funds, she added.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding. Set expectations accordingly.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Amir Tehrani, the company’s co-founder and chief executive spent, his life in the cookware and kitchen business, while his wife, Shiza Tehrani, is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, supporting educational initiatives for young women around the world, and Now Ventures, an impact seed investment fund based in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? All of that represents opportunity, as well.

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JULY 7, 2015

San Diego-based oncology products developer Ignyta said late Monday that it is in a clinical trial collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Ignysta said that UCSF will study its compound, entrectinib, in a proof-of-concept clinical trial in cancer patients with metastatic melanoma.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Working with a team of technologists, Chen built a software product that can provide the same analysis of a test kit using a smartphone’s camera and an app that would have been performed in a brick and mortar diagnostics testing facility. The company first submitted its product to the Food and Drug Administration for approval in 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you can’t state clearly why your startup is the only choice, then it’s time to regroup before spending your hard-fought funding. Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. Cold calls to strangers and email blasts are not so productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve spoken before about our desire at Upfront Ventures to fund really big ideas that solve hard problems, are science led and if successful will both have a positive effect on people’s lives as well as make great financial returns. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns. They have raised $14 million to date.

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JUNE 4, 2015

in a funding round, the company said today. The company says the funds will go towards supporting a current Phase III study of the product. The funding was split between $52M in equity and $17M in debt conversion. The financing was led by Longitude Capital, and also included H.I.G. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

So, if you are starting a beauty company, like Justine and I were with LovingEco, which was natural and organic products and skincare, lots of men just didn't understand why you would need organic skincare products, or why organic jeans were just much more sustainable, because of water use and all these other things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising. You should, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. She focused on her customer.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

I’m happy to add my own insights here for your consideration to her suggested eight essential lessons, with supporting case studies, for evolving any innovative idea into a business reality: Every innovation must solve a customer problem. Investors expect this step to be proven successful before funding.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

San Diego-based Elevation Pharmaceuticals , which is developing treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), said this morning that it has closed on a $30M, Series B funding round. joins the company's board with the funding. Novo's Heath Lukatch , Ph.D., READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source. Win-win model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

I find that startups looking for funding often never even think of asking strategic partners, rather than just venture capitalists. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Due to learned habits and routines, new ideas default to be similar to old ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Bockerstette, Main Street Venture Fund As I outlined last week, trophy angel investors are always looking for trophy entrepreneurs. The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. There is no product idea good enough to overcome bad partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to one of my favorite authors, Brian Tracy, in his classic book “ The Power of Self-Discipline ,” happiness is not even a goal that you can aim at and achieve in and of itself, but it is a by-product that comes to you when you are engaged in doing something you really enjoy while in the company of people you like and respect.

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