L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Seed-stage companies in Los Angeles received a total of $369 million in funding in 2016, according to report from Venice tech accelerator Amplify.LA.

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Seed Funding Venice Funding Los Angeles 235

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based AllVoices , a new startup which helps companies collect anonymous feedback on such areas as harassment, bullying, bias, and other problems in their organizations, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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Seed Funding Report Venture Capital Los Angeles 113

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MARCH 20, 2017

Pasadena-based ShadeCraft , which is developing a "smart" sunshade/umbrella which tracks the sun, absorbs solar energy, and includes built in speakers, a camera, and smartphone charger, has reportedly raised $2M in a seed funding. Source and details of that funding have not been announced.

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Report Seed Funding Pasadena Activity 113

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The startup raised $2.75M in seed funding last June. The company, founded by Luca Zambello and David Phillips, says its technology is now being used by 500 units across eight cities, with more than 70,000 guests served.

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Seed Funding Report Venture Capital Los Angeles 100

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Toba Capital , the venture fund run by former Quest Software founder Vinny Smith, has backed reporting and analytics dashboard software developer Grow.com in a $16M Series B funding round. The funding also included Peterson Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Kickstart Seed Fund, and HubSpot.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 27, 2018

in seed funding; and WME expands its podcast portfolio. 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

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Social Network Seed Funding Networking Report 100

Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices.

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San Diego Seed Funding Southern California Report 74

L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 30, 2017

raises $24 million, Amplify raises $10 million seed fund, and more. Facebook cloning efforts appear to curb Snapchat, Bouqs Co.

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Snapchat Seed Funding Report Funding 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The firm also reports that partnerships span 25 categories with more than 600 leading brands including Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Sephora, Nordstrom, Pier 1 Imports, Red Envelope, Harry and David, Wayfair and the GAP and its user base has doubled every 2 months since launch. Doubling user base & top-tier clients.

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Seed Funding Product Draper Develop 79

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Boston-based WiGo (Who Is going Out), a developer of mobile apps to help college students coordinate their social lives, has scored seed funding from Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, the two local entrepreneurs behind hit app Tinder. According to reports, the two were among a number of angels in a $700,000 seed funding for WiGo.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Mobile Report 138

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

San Diego-based Measurabl , a provider of sustainability reporting software, disclosed this morning that it has raised $2M in a seed funding from CrossCut Ventures. green cleantech capital venture crosscut software reporting sustainability measurable' READ MORE>>.

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Software Seed Funding San Diego Report 113

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

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JUNE 5, 2018

the startup, led by CEO and founder Kyle Slager, develops software which is used for construction workflow management, handling such tasks as daily reporting, time tracking, and safety management. Raken has now raised $12M, including its earlier $2M seed funding announced in March of 2017. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding San Diego Mobile Software 100

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AUGUST 8, 2016

Orbitera was backed by only $2M in a seed funding it received a year ago from Resolute Ventures. 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. The company was founded by Marcin Kurc.

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Google West Hollywood Seed Funding Hollywood 100

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MARCH 12, 2014

TaxJar said that the angels involved in the seed funding included Dan Rose (VP Partnerships, Facebook), Harris Barton (H Barton Asset Management), Roy Rubin (Co-founder, Magento), as well as others.

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Sales Software SaaS Seed Funding 159

TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value. million in seed funding from the Los Angeles-based firms Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures to expand its business (maybe through direct marketing?). They aren’t the only ones. Postie has raised $3.5

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Dollar Shave Club Chief Technology Officer Advertising Los Angeles 232

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MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder , an online crowd funding site headed by Chance Barnett, has raised $400,000 in seed funding, according to reports today.

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Sites Seed Funding Web Los Angeles 174

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MARCH 25, 2013

Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed, but the acquisition of WiFiSlam has been reported to be worth $20M by a number of sources. Sky Dayton is an advisor to WiFiSlam, and one of the initial seed investors in the firm, which has also seed funding from Don Dodge (Google) and Relay Ventures.

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Southern California Seed Funding Acquisition Google 138

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MAY 11, 2015

the developer of a mobile, on-demand marketplace to find dog walkers, said last week that it has raised $2.45M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Freestyle Cpaital, Greylock, Crunchfund, Slow Ventures, Social Leverage, and RRE Ventures. Los Angeles-based Wag! , READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Demand Los Angeles Mobile 100

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. Metaverse play-and-earn company Atmos Labs brought in $11 million in a seed round led by Sfermion.

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Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

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JANUARY 2, 2020

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. Two were sold to public companies and one to a Bain-backed rollup.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But equally some partners joined firms in 2000 and have still never seed any upside in cash since their funds haven’t yet returned the initial capital [note: VC funds usually return all of the capital that they raised first and then share 20% of the profits above this hurdle]. I know for a fact this isn’t true.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As evidence that it does work, CrunchBase reported that more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2023 cohort were funded, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch reported a new high of more than 200 companies in YCombinator’s Winter 2019 cohort, and many were scooped up by VCs even before the Demo Days. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

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JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st.

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Seed Funding Competition San Diego Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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Startup Invest Venture Capital Seed Funding 99

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

“More dollars, fewer deals” has been a prevailing trend in venture funding over the past couple of years, and it was evident again in the three months that ended September 30, according to the latest Venture Monitor report. Venture firms invested $21.5

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Venture Capital Funding Report Capital 66

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. ‘Micromobility winter on steroids’ That’s how RideReport CEO William Henderson described the current state of the micromobility industry in a recent interview with TechCrunch reporter Megan Rose Dickey. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. That''s way high up on our list, because it provides out the team. It''s amazing, because when you attach something like that as a filter to your deals, it really cuts to the chase and cuts through a lot of deals.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 5, 2016

rhubarb studios, the Los Angeles-based venture studio that helps entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life, announced that it raised $1 million in seed funding. rhubarb studios is constantly recruiting engineers, UX designers and product managers to work on multidisciplinary teams creating innovative companies.

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Coach Seed Funding Design Resource 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Good news, Fixed , the San Francisco app that helps drivers fight tickets has just launched in Los Angeles after raising an additional $650,000 in seed funding last February. Yeah, purposefully vague. Fixed claims that 50% of tickets are dismissed when challenged. You know it is bad when the mayor has to refund fake parking tickets.

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Los Angeles Angel Software Review Seed Funding 40

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APRIL 28, 2011

Earlier this month, Fullerton-based HipGeo (www.hipgeo.com) announced a $500,000 funding round from Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham. When you say "records your day", what do you mean?

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eHarmony Seed Funding Yahoo Examples 219

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. You''ve got to do your report every month. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. Tell us about your backers? Getting the talent is an issue.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

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Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

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JANUARY 2, 2019

XCOR filed for bankruptcy in 2017 , after failing to both gain additional investors to fund its development, and also failing to ever launch a single vehicle into space. The Times report says that there are 282 ticket holders hoping for something back from the failed firm. XCOR first received seed funding in 2005.

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Customer Custom Report Seed Funding 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I met with local seed fund investors like Mike Venerable who is the MD of CincyTech (a local seed stage fund), Tony Shipley who is a director of Queen City Angels as well as some local entrepreneurs including Blake Shipley of CoupSmart and Sameer Mungur of ZipScene. I could have easily done a phone call. Or a Skype.

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