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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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APRIL 17, 2013

in a seed funding round. Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps. Gustavson was similarly involved at 5 Desks, One Cloud, Fastpoint, and SOA Software.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. Previous Boundless investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Esther Dyson will join Thrive Global’s cap table.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Zapier is a provider of software to map APIs between different web applications; Mover develops a data migration service to move data from one storage system to another. The firm announced its seed funding in April. bitium partnership enterprise application cloud migration software' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. presidential elections. According to New Knowledge, it has raised $1.9M

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JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator. How did you get involved with the Warner Media Camp? What is Sidevision all about? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. The company's founders, Damir Vrabac, Anirudh Joshi, and Viswesh Krishna, intend to use these funds to expand their operations and development efforts, so we're expecting big things from the biotech company going forwards.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. 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.

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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. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. What are you doing with your seed funding?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) Clearly, globally, data is coming out of the explosion of cloud, mobile, social media, and healthcare areas. It's just exploding.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

It’s a three-month program providing its selected startups with $21,000 in seed funding, plus the typical incubator benefits like shared office space, legal assistance, infrastructure and hosting, and mentorship from a network of advisors.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic. As a result that company is now as valuable as Invoca ( last round raised >$70 million ) so Jason ended up with two very valuable equity positions and has now raised an early-stage seed fund. Some start, some scale, some can do both.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Also, because of the internal dynamics of the talent pool, it effectively lead to more companies in the preponderant areas, which at the time were e-commerce, ad-tech, and disruptive media or media-related companies�such as game companies, companies that were in music, or companies related to the distribution of content.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. 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.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Keith Bonnici: For sure.

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APRIL 20, 2015

Media mogul John Battelle, famous for spinning up new media concepts into standards, has been quietly perfecting a new conference model he is branding NewCo , a “festival of innovation.” million dollars in first round seed funding earlier this year. Investors agree Battelle is on to something. NewCo just secured $1.7

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

The founders, who come from gaming, decided to apply their knowledge of the space to IM in a way that would put social media in a more personal, 3D environment. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. We'd like to see these options added in the future.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You can’t start and run a business these days with a working knowledge and access to online and standalone tools, including a word processor, spreadsheet editing, and presentation software. 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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AUGUST 11, 2021

million in seed funding, Snipfeed plans to build out its e-commerce tools so that creators can sell physical products on their link-in-bio (Beacons and Linktree are also working on this with their recent funding rounds — but Beacons’ and Snipfeed’s seed rounds are small compared to Linktree’s Series B ).

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AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another.

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MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)

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AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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