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JUNE 4, 2015

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , a developer of a cloud-based software product to help companies the sales of cloud-based software and services, including managing leads, trial subscriptions, billing, and operations, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company disclosed the funding Thursday.

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JULY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based Harper Wilde , an online bra startup, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Charles River Ventures (CRV). Harper Wilde was founded by Jenna Kerner and Jane Fisher, and has its offices in Culver City.

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MARCH 19, 2019

The company said it has named Joseph Drambarean as Chief Technology Officer and Dave McCutcheon as Vice President Sales. McCutcheon was most recently Head of Sales and Alliances at FloQast. Morgan, and received its seed funding round back in December of 2018. Drambarean was previously at Capital One.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to the company, it has now raised $23M in total funding. The company said the new funds will go towards expansion of its sales and marketing efforts, as well as for product development.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

In Q4 consumers saved more than $25 per transaction on average and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales performed three times better than the industry average, driving 250 percent increase in additional retailer sales. Doubling user base & top-tier clients.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Milk and Eggs , a new grocery delivery startup which helps connect consumers with farmers and others who will deliver perishable groceries, has raised $6M in a seed funding round, and launched its services. Source of the seed funding was not announced.

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JULY 7, 2020

According to MemComputing, the funding came from Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, along with IT-Farm. MemComputing says it has now raised over $3M in total funding.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Co-founded by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez, Curri aims to solve one of the major hurdles for local construction suppliers who miss out on sales because of an inability to deliver to contractors when they need it. The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. .

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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. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based Revee , a developer of content analytics software used to help publishers understand their page yield on advertising, has raised $1M in a seed funding round. Source of that seed funding was not announced.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Snipfeed is free to set up, but if you make sales, the company takes 15% — this percentage is inclusive of any transaction fees. Through Snipfeed’s referral program, creators can make 5% of sales from anyone they onboard to the platform (this comes out of Snipfeed’s commission). “We Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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MAY 2, 2019

in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding was co-lead by FINTOP Capital and JPMorgan Chase. According to Trovata.io, the funding will go towards ramping sales and accelerating product development for its treasury management software.

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MARCH 21, 2019

San Diego-based Bitmo , a startup developing a mobile gifting and payment app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday afternoon. Michael Smallwood is the founder and CEO of Bitmo. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. 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.

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MAY 5, 2015

in a seed funding round. Source of that seed funding was not disclosed. Incentive said those funds specifically go towards its U.S.-based based expansion, marketing, sales, and product development efforts. total in funding. Incentive is led by Rickard Hansson, and says it has now raised $3.5M

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Biproxi , a new startup developing a commercial real estate data platform, has raised $10M in a seed funding, the company announced on Tuesday morning. According to Biproxi, the funding was led by Greycroft, and also included Newmark Knight Frank, RPM Ventures, and the National Association of Realtors.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Pasadena-based Episona has raised $4M in seed funding, to go towards expansion of its male fertility testing product, Seed, the company said last week. According to Episona, the funding came from the Pasadena Angeles, as well as other high-net worth individuals from Pasadena and San Francisco.

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JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If we see products are trending, we reach out and strike a deal with the vendor and make it for sale on our platform. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu.

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JULY 1, 2014

Huntington Beach-based Communities For Cause , a startup helping to match nonprofits to businesses, has raised $475,000 as part of an ongoing seed funding round. The company helps businesses by associating them with nonprofits, who they can contribute a percentage of sales to as part of marketing promotions.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Los Angeles-based Retention Science , the big data-focused analytics firm led by Jerry Jao, said this morning that it has raised $750,000 in a new funding round. The funding came from Forerunner Ventures, and comes on top of an earlier, $1.3 million seed funding from Baroda Ventures.

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JULY 19, 2012

Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Fab.com said the new funding round was led by Atomico, and also included Pinnacle Ventures, re-Net Technology Partners, Mayfield Fund, DoCoMo, Menlo VEntures, Andreessen-Horowitz, and First Round Capital.

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APRIL 5, 2022

If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction. million in seed funding from groups like Agya Ventures, Gaingels, Goodwater Capital, Nomo Ventures, PKO Investments and Y Combinator — Playhouse was a member of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. What are the neighbors doing?”.

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JULY 9, 2013

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Double M Capital, Pegasus Capital, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Clark Landry, Paul Bricault, and others. The company, founded by Adam Glickman, said that the new funding is going to automate its processes, sales, and marketing.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Ribbon, the developer of a social commerce platform which lets users list items for sale, distribute that through their social networks like Facebook , and accept credit card payments--said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round.

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JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. Have sales bonus plans based on more than just sales targets. These can’t be the main event – sales are sales after all – but can help shape good behavior. Sales Startup Lessons'

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based BloomNation , one of the companies in the MuckerLab accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $1.65M in a funding round, and also launched its online marketplace for floral creations. The seed funding round came from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab.

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JULY 18, 2013

in a seed funding round, for its interactive mobile magazine. According to the firm, the funding was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Desert Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other independent angel investors. The company said it will use the funding for continued platform expansion and sales and marketing.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Connexity the online advertising startup headed by former Fastclick co-founder Dave Gross, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. Gross said the funding will go towards sales and technology. As part of the funding, John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners has joined the company's board.

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JULY 16, 2010

You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. – This massive increase in seed & angel funding caused Paul Kedrosky to predict that there is a coming seed fund crash. Some seed angles and seed funds clearly get it. That’s OK.

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JUNE 27, 2021

the sale of the company for $1 billion. If you’re a seed fund that takes 5–10% ownership and doesn’t take board seats you might have 50, 100 or even 200 investments. If you’re a later-stage fund that comes in when there’s less upside but a lower “loss ratio” you might have only 8–12 investments in a fund.

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JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. That started to hit home when I was diving into the business, and listening to the inside sales guys making calls to buyers. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing.

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MAY 13, 2020

The company started off as a direct sales business, giving away coffee to friends and friends-of-friends. million in seed funding to date to take its product to market from firms like Kindred Ventures (which has backed companies like Coinbase , Blue Bottle Coffee , Postmates , Zymergen) and individual investors like James Joaquin.

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MAY 28, 2015

The other, was were we able to offer up additional products to customers, in a consultative way, not a pushy way, for additional sale to customers. About 25 percent of our friends and family have participated in sales of additional products, so we were able to check off a lot of those, too. We raised $2.5M

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. The most common question we’ve receive through the years has been “how do you make money?” I’ve also shared a few Tech Cocktail and Tech.Co memories on my personal website.

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JUNE 11, 2012

The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit.

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APRIL 24, 2019

The team is myself and my co-founder, Alex Mostafi, our CTO, and we also have a sales director and director of engineering up north in San Francisco. So what's the status of the company, and what kind of funding have you received? We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round.

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