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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. We decided to formalize our investing in October, and call it TYLT Labs, so here we are. Why not Los Angeles?

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MAY 15, 2019

in its seed funding round, to help it expand its development of personalization technology for online grocers. According to Halla, the funding was led by E&A Venture Capital, an early stage food industry investor, and also included SOSV. The company said it has now raised a total of $1.9M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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JUNE 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based fintech startup Eusoh , which is offering up an alternative to insurance for veterinary care, said this week that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. Eusoh says the new funding round will go to further scale its technology and marketing operations.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding. Founded by Arjun Mehta, Shray Bansal, and Nigel Egrari, the company grew out of work the three men did while attending the USC Jimmy Iovine & Dr. Dre Academy for the Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. .

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MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. Is it possible to use technology to replace the age-old system currently in use in insurance?

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JUNE 18, 2022

Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. follow the money. the week in web3.

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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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AUGUST 8, 2016

Google said it will continue to make Orbitera available to other software vendors, in addition to using the company's technology to improve the support of software vendors on Google Cloud Platform. Orbitera was backed by only $2M in a seed funding it received a year ago from Resolute Ventures.

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JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. There is real technology underneath the hood for a personalized experience at Tapiture. If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform. We put products they can purchase in the mix.

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MAY 17, 2013

In some what-did-our-spam filter eat-recently funding news, Santa Monica-based Privlo recently raised $2.1M in a seed funding round, for its online marketplace for private mortgage loans. Privlo, which was founded by Michael Slavin, said the new funding came from QED Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Vadio , the developer of a platform which helps match music videos and ads with streaming music , said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, which included Mucker Capital, Amplify.LA, as well as other LA investors. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. of the fund.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

San Diego-based Open Listings says it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, for the company's home buying service. The funding came from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, ChinaRock Capital, I/O Ventures, Joe Montana & Liquid2 Ventures, Kevin Hale, Josh Guttman, Kevin Moore, along with angels. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2017

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From state-of-the-art clean energy solutions to breakthrough podcasting platforms, here are six tech startups you should be keeping an eye on in 2023, and beyond. The Palo Alto-based company uses emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology to tackle pressing questions in cancer care.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. “We saw the impact that the rise of mobile was having on linear. .” Its show, the Danogs, has 4.5

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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. . Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack. Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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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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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. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. “A

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Via has two sides of its business: a consumer-facing shuttle and a “partnerships” division that sells its software platform to cities and transit authorities that allows them to deploy their own shuttles. Two existing investors, Millennium Technology Value Partners and DSC Investment, also participated in the round.

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JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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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. My actual background is in film and technology, and that's where the technology aspect came in. The idea was born in Vegas.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

For example, if you are watching the World Cup streaming from ESPN or your favorite WB show, you can grab your favorite moments and share them across any medium, whether that''s a chat platform, Snapchat, or anywhere. Mauhan Zonozzy: Our team has lal worked in the technology and media industry in the past.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was over 11 years ago that I saw a need to better connect startups and innovators with the communities around them so they could connect for partnerships, funding, amplification, and support. Our dream went beyond monthly cocktail events, and together we created a new vision for how we could help innovators everywhere.

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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. It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform. What is BloomNation?

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. All investors should be considered exactly that.

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JULY 20, 2010

It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. However, they had a lack of technology vendors in the cloud. CSK Ventures in Japan is on eof the largest data center operators, and they have their own venture capital firm, which provided us with our seed funding.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jeff told us of his life-long passion for technology and start-ups, which spoke volumes about the drive, dedication and focus needed to make any business a success. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff Solomon holding court in the kitchen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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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. Large technology firms who are training sums of talent, check; one box filled on the startup ecosystem checklist.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform. We want to shepherd in a new era of technology, and be part of that process. from Moonshots.

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