socalTECH

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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Commerce Artificial Inteligence Seed Funding Santa Barbara 124

socalTECH

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. Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2013

The app--which is free--is the brainchild of David Rabie and Joe Sarafian, two Santa Monica entrepreneurs who were born and raised in Los Angeles. The two were roommates at UC Santa Barbara and hatched the idea because they are diehard sports fans.

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Santa Monica Santa Barbara Statistics Seed Funding 227

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch , a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding round. in funding, including an earlier seed funding. The round came from Rincon Venture Partners. The company said it has now raised $2.7M

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Search Engine Optimization Marketing Santa Barbara Seed Funding 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group announced today that it has named the incoming Presidents of its area networks, with Steve Flaim in San Diego, John Glanville and Jeff Kurfess in Santa Barbara, Stu Roberts in Orange County, Scott Sangster in Los Angeles, and John Tillquist in the Inland Empire. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

Both Sides of the Table

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. just to name a few!

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. Sam Angus (NorCal … Fenwick & West). Scott Alderton (LA … Stubbs Alderton).

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

I can't tell you how many people, on a weekly basis, from those funds are in our offices asking us what we're looking at here. What's interesting, is you have four or maybe five, institutionally backed, seed funds in LA, and maybe ten others. It's developed quite a bit from when we first conceptualized the firm in 2008.

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Invest Framework Coach Startup 113

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. If you follow me on Twitter ( @johngreathouse ) I promise I’ll never tweet you about Santa Barbara surf conditions or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate.

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Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. 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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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. billion).

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