socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. Grant Hosford: My favorite consumer tech trend is voice activated assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A seed-stage “super angel.” Startup incubator seed funding.

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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. . Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. The company recently announced $3.2M from Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and angels. What's Swoop all about? wanted to start my own thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Put simply – if you invested early in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. but didn’t have funds to back-up their prorata rights?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), Next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. Investors: Google Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), Next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Rise of Seed. Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. Boom in Number of Startups.

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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. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. The cycle before that was Google, Salesforce and LinkedIn, amongst others. Boom and bust.

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