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Wildfire Systems Aims to Monetize Social Messages

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San Diego-based Wildfire Systems is hoping that consumers will help its clients spread the word out about their products through a new platform it launched today, Wildlink. The startup is backed by Mucker Capital, which led a $2M seed funding round in the company in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum. We syndicate our rounds so that we are typically raising $750,000 to $1.5M

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. 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.