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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based MasonHub, a venture-backed provider of fulfillment technology and services, is extending its footprint on the East Coast, saying this morning that it has opened up a 200,000 square-foot East Coast fulfillment center in Wilkes-Barre, PA. MasonHub is backed by $6.5M MasonHub is led by founder and CEO Donny Salazar.

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JUNE 17, 2020

San Diego-based startup Trust & Will , which offers up online estate planning, says it has hit 100,000 members to its service. According to the company, the recent pandemic doubled the volume of individuals seeking its estate planning services.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

San Diego-based Trust & Will , which operates an online estate planning service, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Tuesday. According to the company, it has now raised $23M in total funding.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners , in a deal led by Gregory Milken, has lead a seed funding round in New York-based startup Genvid Technologies. Genvid Technologies said it has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round, which was led by March Capital Partners, and also included OCA Ventures.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday.

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Curtail is led by CEO Frank Huerta. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based GoCoin --one of the first BitCoin startups to emerge out of the Silicon Beach technology ecosystem--said today that it has raised $550,000 in a seed funding round, to develop a platform to enable the purchasing of good and services around the world with Bitcoin.

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MAY 3, 2018

in a seed funding, to help it to "greatly expand" its operation sin Los Angeles, as well as expand into other new markets. The Boca Raton, Florida-based startup said the lead investor in the round was Ron Zuckerman, a technology entrepreneur and investor. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2018

The insurance industry is an old industry, with a lot of contradictions--it's one where the more claims insurers pay to help customers, the less money the insurers make--and it's also one that hasn't been disrupted much yet by technology. Is it possible to use technology to replace the age-old system currently in use in insurance?

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JUNE 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based fintech startup Eusoh , which is offering up an alternative to insurance for veterinary care, said this week that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. The company says it is in the midst of a Series A funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based EngineEars, a new startup that helps connect audio engineers with clients, said on Wednesday that it has raised $1M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding was led by Slauson & Co., The funding was led by Slauson & Co.,

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million in seed funding. Founded by Arjun Mehta, Shray Bansal, and Nigel Egrari, the company grew out of work the three men did while attending the USC Jimmy Iovine & Dr. Dre Academy for the Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. .

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition ) think that its time to take technology where it’s never gone before — into targeted, direct mail campaigns using the best ad-targeting that money can buy.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based TheBouqs (www.thebouqs.com) thinks so, with its new, cut-to-order online flower delivery service for the iPad generation. The third part of this is the subscription service we offer. What are the details on your seed funding? What is the Bouqs? Instead, we offer three types of subscriptions.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

in a seed funding round, to bring remote, technology support to consumers. The startup, led by Richard Wolpert, scored the funding from Upfront Ventures, Accel Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Amplify.LA, Ron Burkle, and others. hellotech hello technology tech support venture capital amplifyla amplify.la READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Other investments include the lab grown diamond manufacturer, Diamond Foundry; the tea company promoting sustainable rainforest preservation, Runa Tea; recycling technology developer, Rubicon; the sustainable meal prep company, Love The Wild; and Magnus, an app that bills itself as a Shazam for art.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

San Diego-based Open Listings says it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, for the company's home buying service. The funding came from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, ChinaRock Capital, I/O Ventures, Joe Montana & Liquid2 Ventures, Kevin Hale, Josh Guttman, Kevin Moore, along with angels. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Bouqs Company thinks that online flower delivery is broken, and that it has what it takes to reshape what consumers expect from online flower delivery services. in seed funding to make it happen. The firm said the new funding will go towards technology, infrastructure, and to help expand its team. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2012

ventura-based NetPlenish , the mobile shopping service startup headed by Dave Compton , said today that it has launched with $1.9M The firm says it automatically place orders on services such as Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens , Drugstore.com, and Sephora. NetPlenish is one of the firms located in the Ventura Ventures Technology Center.

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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. I think it’s a technology that is now wrapping all asset classes,” Dorman said.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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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. The company uses advertising to recommend products and services to users, based on individual interests and what it is calling "audience graph analysis."

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

million in seed funding from David Sacks’ Craft Ventures and has already signed contracts with the toy company Mattel and CMA CGM Group. Cui was brought on board to start developing the technology product — which Wen says is exactly like an Uber for trucking. The company has raised $3.5

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MAY 28, 2015

Almost everyone of a technical bent in the technology industry is familiar with that old routine: your parents, your friends, and your neighbors inevitably calls you for free technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. The service is $79.00 How does HelloTech work?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? We expect some big things in 2019.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Startup incubator seed funding. Corporate seed funds for startups.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Trade equity or services for startup help. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

A city might dedicate its shuttle service to transporting goods or essential personnel. For instance, Berlin converted its 120-shuttle fleet transport to an overnight service that provides free transit to healthcare workers traveling to and from work. Via isn’t the only company shifting its attention to emergency services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates.

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