Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Delighted about the $750,000 seed round Chippmunk CEO Brian Nickerson said, “Our passion and commitment to incomparable UX is at the core of what drives our team and we will continue scaling and investing in the product.”. The post Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development appeared first on TechZulu.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

The startup has raised $1 million in seed funding from RXBAR founders Peter Rahal and Jared Smith, CXT Investments, and Lean Luxe founder M. Mullenax told me he became interested in this market after working as a finance and operations analyst at Bonobos, where he “fell in love with the [direct-to-consumer] model.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Emerson Investment Group. According to SOurce Audio, it has develops a business-to-business, professional music licensing catalog which helps music publishers, ad agency, radio stations, entertainment marketing, and others connect. The company is led by Geoffrey R.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2013

It''s official--Los Angeles-based brainwave-tapping startup Melon is within a couple of thousand dollars of hitting its $100,000 fundraising goal, to bring its combination headband-and mobile-phone app to market.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Zubican , an online business-to-business marketplace, has been acquired by Inuvo, a Florida-based provider of performance-based online marketing services, Inuvo announced Monday. in seed funding from the Tech Coast Angels and Pasadena Angels. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

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. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. As a reminder to our readers who haven't used EventUp, what is the site all about?

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. Where is the site now? What are you doing with your seed funding? What is MySocialNightLife all about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

The online flower delivery market is now an old and established market. There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. What are the details on your seed funding? There are lots of online flower delivery services, in a pretty established market. It''s completely customizable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as shared facilities and space. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. raised what it described as an “eight-figure USD investment” in a seed funding round from IDG Capital, Vision+ Capital and Tide Capital. If so, go check out Layoffs.fyi, the site doesn’t just list layoffs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. I got to see how different marketing and middlemen in the industry, such as Teleflora, 1-800-Flowers, and FTD, operate. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. Our expertise is in manufacturing, in bringing products to market, and advising those companies. Our expertise is in manufacturing, in bringing products to market, and advising those companies. But, what do they do from there?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

They’ve been a long-term investor in our fund – GRP Partners – and it was important to me to spend time with them in their home market and meet the people with whom they deal locally. I met with Dave Knox whom I had previously met when he worked at P&G in marketing. Find out how local markets differ from yours.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

We raised funding in January from Mayfield, on top of the seed funding we raised at the onset. We can provide customers with what they've come to expect from the Internet from travel and other sites -- why not bring those same benefits to dental consumers. Youve been in involved in a lot of very successful ventures.

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socalTECH

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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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A graduate of Ohio Northern University , Ferres built a digital marketing agency called BounceFire , which was acquired in May 2011 by a company in Phoenix, AZ. Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. Ferres and his team moved to Arizona. That’s cool!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

He told TechZulu,”I figured the market could do with some alternatives.” I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town. If they don’t find a suitable candidate then there is no cost for listing on the site. Bootstrapping or seed funded? Tell us about yourself?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

Brian Nilles, the firm's CEO, is no stranger to the 3D animation and computer graphics market, having served for ten years as CEO of Vicon Motion Capture, and he sat down with us to chat Darwin Dimensions and what's special about the firm's avatar software. Virtual goods are a billion dollar market--it's on track to hit 1.7

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Confirmed experts are given more options on the site and achieve higher visibility for themselves and their content. Any funding yet? We received seed funding from Investitionsbank Berlin , a state bank investing in innovation and technological advancements. How many users so far? Future plans?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Page 1: Market Size. $3 And covered we did. I wasn’t feeling it. It got worse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign. Raising money is difficult, even with the best idea, so don’t assume any entitlement to loans, grants, or seed funding.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We had gone our ways, and after we left UpSellit and were golfing, we decided that instead of being part of a lifestyle business we wanted to start our own, and help local businesses market themselves. There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site? We're also funding it out of pocket.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

We did that with mobile ads, essentially promoting different mobile apps after a user would visit a site like TMZ or IGN. All we did was create the pipeline, and allow publishers to sell their mobile inventory to ad developers, in the same way they were used to buying on Facebook, with hyper-targeted, cost-per-install performance marketing.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. Venture Capital Funding 7. We used some of the proceeds from these consulting projects to fund the development of StrongMail, along with personal funds. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

So the two built a platform that initially focused on letting user-generated content flourish — a kind of YouTube for animated, avatar-driven storytelling that could be distributed on any social media platform or on Toonstar’s own site and app. Toonstar lets you bring cartoon characters to life thanks to facial recognition.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 16, 2012

Knowmia is a newly launched online video learning tool founded by two ex Flip Video co-founders and staff, Ariel Braunstein and marketing executive Scott Kabat. According Knowmia, more than 7,000 free video lessons have been uploaded on the Knowmia site for use by college students and or concerned parents.

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