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Silicon Beach Report April 27: K-Swiss Teams With Immortals, $2.7M for Girls’ Social Network, WME Expands Podcast Portfolio

L.A. Business Journal

K-Swiss will introduce an esports shoe in a partnership with esports group Immortals; a new social network for girls founded by former Disney execs gets $2.7M in seed funding; and WME expands its podcast portfolio.

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Curtail, Fresh Off $3.25M Funding, Names VPs

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Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Curtail is developing a network traffic analysis product, aimed at software and DevOps teams. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. READ MORE>>.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount.

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Down bad

TechCrunch LA

We talked through what went wrong on the Celsius network and how it’s surprisingly intertwined with the rest of crypto. Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. Since then, the firm, which claimed to have 1.7 the week in web3.

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How To Identify New Venture Assistance Organizations

Startup Professionals Musings

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Valuations have continued to soar from early stage through later stage at an unsustainable rate, driven by large amounts of available capital, notably the increased presence of seed funds and PE firms in software. Previously he co-founded 3 tech companies, one in computer networks, one in logistics and one in biometric security.

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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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