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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. Tell us a little bit about your investments and firm? We decided to formalize our investing in October, and call it TYLT Labs, so here we are.

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Calacanis Takes A Bite Of Ramen's Crowdfunding Site

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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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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. The remaining $200 million came from new investors Macquarie Capital, Mori Building and Shell, as well as existing investors 83North, Broadscale Group, Ervington Investments, Hearst Ventures, Planven Ventures, Pitango and RiverPark Ventures. Other deals: Qcraft.ai Startups are not immune.

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Interview with Tony Adam, EventUp

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That's what Santa Monica-based EventUp (www.eventup.com), one of the first companies to emerge out of Santa Monica-based Science Inc. , The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. is trying to figure out.

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Interview with Jake Winebaum, Brighter

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Donnelly, and he also was behind eCompanies, which invested in such companies as JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. 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. Let's switch gears for a bit.

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Interview with Erik Rannala, MuckerLab

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We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding.