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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software to easily create iPhone and other iOS platform games, announced earlier this week that it has improved its overall communications and support tools for its users. GameSalad also has improved its contact forms and customer support and bug handling. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Newport Beach-based Givsum, a developer of an online platform to help charitable organizations with fundraising, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by SteelBridge Labs. According to the company, it will use the funding to accelerate its growth.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Phunware , a developer of mobile advertising, application, analytics, and other tools for brands which has operations in both Newport Beach and San Diego, said this week that it has raised $26.25M in a Series E funding. phunware venture capital mobile advertising analytics software' The company is headquartered in Austin.

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JULY 15, 2013

According to uSamp, the Series D round came from OpenView Venture Partners and DuPont Capital Management, and will go towards accelerating the development of the company''s Instant.ly usamp market research sampling software survey marketing polling venture capital' uSamp has now raised somewhere around $29.0M in funding.

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APRIL 8, 2020

The funding was led by Entrada Ventures, and also included existing investors including Keshif Ventures and Blu Venture Investors. The company said the new funding will go to expand its platform and to fuel growth.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Incidentally, VC’s hate when they hear companies pitching who say, “ I don’t have real competitors &# as I outlined point three in the linked post). I’ll cover “Why Buy Mine&# in a later post, but my quick answer is that referenceability is the most critical tool to solving this problem. Why Buy Now?

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MAY 15, 2019

According to Halla, the funding was led by E&A Venture Capital, an early stage food industry investor, and also included SOSV. in funding for the startup, which it will use for further development of its artificial intelligence tools, scaling out its platform, and to help bring new customers on board. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2015

Readz tools offer up a drag-and-drop driven tools which format content into responsive designs for mobile and other platforms, including PowerPoint-like slideshows, scrolling web magazines, and embedded video. Readz is led by Bart De Pelsmaeker. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital, and also included Serra Ventures, Cove Fund II, 1855 Capital, and Mooring Ventures LLC. San Diego-based Daasity , a startup working on data analytics for direct-to-consumer retailers, has raised $2.3M in a funding round, the company said this week.

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JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. reinforced our reservation regarding trying to sell tools rather than apps. > -jeff.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. And all the platform stuff.

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JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based AdtoApp , a developer of programmatic ad tools for publishers, has raised $6M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Run Capital. The company also has a large suite of tools to deal with global advertisement demand. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. ClickUp has raised $135M in venture capital so far. What is ClickUp?

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JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. It's funny.

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JULY 31, 2015

Los Angeles-based WEVR , which is developing virtual reality capture tools, has raised $10M in funding from HTC , HTC said Thursday. HTC said the investment vies it 15 percent of WEVR. HTC said that it paid $5.7782 per share for 1,730,642 shares of WEVR's Series B preferred stock.

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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. Her newest venture, Moe Assist, claims to be the first project management and payments tool for influencers. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , which says it is developing a "screen optimization platform" aimed at the TV and video ecosystem, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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JULY 1, 2013

According to Harjinder Sidhu, of Jacaranda Ventures,”SeedInvest is opening up new opportunities for a vast population of accredited investors, and will bring enormous amounts of new capital to startups. The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The funding came from Five Elms Capital. The startup, led by CEO Dave Dickman, said it will use the capital to grow and scale its platform, features, and resources. Tagger said it provides tools to brands and agencies to connect with and hire influencers, and plan campaigns. in its Series A funding round.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Santa Monica-based TigerConnect , which provides collaboration and communications tools for the hhealthcare industry, says it has raised $45M more in a Series D funding round, as it has seen surging demand due to the pandemic. The company says the new funding will go towards further investment into its platform to meet surging demand.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Tapcart says its platform allows cusomers to create apps using drag-and-drop, codeless tools which merchants can customize for their customers. The company said it power the mobile apps for such brands as Fashion Nova, Pier One Imports, The Hundreds, Patta, Culture Kings and thousands of other companies.

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APRIL 16, 2015

Stocktwits offers up a Twitter-like platform to trade stock tips and discussions, all linked to public company trading symbols, along with tools to help public companies with getting news out about their companies. stocktwits venture capital stock messaging technology investor relations twitter' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

INVST , a Westlake Village-based startup which offers up an online platform to help alternative investment funds find accredited investors, has signed up three new clients for its service, the company said this week. INVST offers up relationship, tracking and deal management tools for fund managers, third-party marketers and investors.

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MARCH 10, 2021

The funding was led by Battery Ventures, and also included 83North and Ariel Maislos, plus TechAviv Founder Partners. The company says it has more than 1,100 Agile and DevOps team using its platform, which helps measure team and project performance. The company says it has now raised a total of $21 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. But the VC is thinking about the issue whether you address it or not. Deal with your White Elephants.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” Bowery Capital).

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MAY 25, 2018

Greycroft Ventures , which has a big presence in Los Angeles, has backed Silicon Valley-based BlueCart , a developer of machine learning software and other tools for the hospitality industry, to the tune of $5M. BlueCart said this week that it raised $5M in its Series B-1 funding, bringing its total raised to $22M.

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MARCH 5, 2019

efforts to potentially in-license new investigational compounds in development, and also build out its artificial intelligence platform. According to the company, the new funding will to towards. The company is led by executive chairman and co-founder Jonathan E.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Ezoic's software is used by publishers to personalize the placement of ads in websites, using artificial intelligence tools; the company's founder and CEO is Dwayne Lafleur. the company said it will use the funding to expand its platform. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Shipwell combines a marketplace for shippers to connect with freight companies and online tools to manage those shipments. Fifth Wall led the company’s Series A round, which also included the new investor Global Founders Capital and previous investors First Round Capital, Base 10 Ventures, Capital Theory and Village Global.

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MAY 10, 2017

San Diego-based Perspectium Corporation , a developer of enterprise integration, replication and monitoring as a service tools for ServiceNow, has raised $8M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The funding was led by TVC Capital. As part of the funding, TVC's Steve Hamerslag joins the company's board.

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