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JUNE 9, 2014

Santa Monica-based Washio , which operates a smartphone driven, laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery service, said today that it has raised $10.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Canaan Partners, and also included A Grade Investments, Pejman Mar Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, and Jerry Yang (Yahoo).

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JULY 7, 2020

Santa Monica-based Grow Credit , a fintech startup which provides small dollar loans and helps consumers establish their credit record through paying for online subscriptions, says it has added a new investor, Commerce Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Foundation Capital, Amplify LA, Sterling.VC, and ReImagined Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Santa Monica-based ZoneTV , a provider of services to the pay television industry, said this morning that it has raised $4.1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by BEST Funds. The company is led by Jeff Weber, and has offices in Santa Monica; Toronto, Canada; and Pickering, Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Get.com , a new startup founded by Jake Gold and Steven Fruchter, has launched, looking to help users make product purchase decisions.

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JUNE 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based Heal , an on-demand startup offering up access to house calls from doctors via smartphone, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company announced this morning. The service currently only operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Heal is led by Dr. Renee Dua. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based Fair , a startup offering up a mobile app which lets users find, purchase, and finance an automobile--started by automotive startup veteran Scott Painter--has raised $16M and launched its services. The company also says it is in the midst of a Series A-1 financing being led by BMW i Ventures.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

No, Jason Calacanis , the Santa Monica angel investor, and CEO and founder of Mahalo , isn''t bootstrapping a new company and reverting to the hungry''s entrepreneur diet. The size of the investment round was not announced.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. The company said it has partnered with Zapier and Mover, to allow its users to move data between applications and cloud services.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Santa Monica- and London-based Echoecho , which is developing a service to provide location information to your friends via a mobile application, announced today that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from Google Ventures and PROfounders.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round.

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APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. This week, we’ll highlight Via’s Series E funding round that was led by Exor. Noam Ohana, who heads up Exor Seeds, the holding company’s early-stage investment arm, will join Via’s board. Via isn’t the only company shifting its attention to emergency services.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. I was working at a job in Santa Monica, helping to run somebody's company. So where is your service now, and where is it available? It's essentially a three-fold service.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Accelerator programs--like YCombinator in Silicon Valley, and TechStars in Colorado--have come to the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs as a way to boost their ideas quickly into the market, find funding, and into existence. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program.

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MAY 26, 2011

Jake's latest venture is Brighter (www.brighter.com), a service which is aimed at helping consumers find pre-negotiated rates on dental care. We raised funding in January from Mayfield, on top of the seed funding we raised at the onset. In Santa Monica alone, there are 300 dentists in the network.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. For those who have never used Happy Returns, tell us how the service works? The economics of this also get better the more scale we have. There are two things.

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