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APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. tylt labs venture capital tyltlabs investment silicon beach santa monica interview startup entrepreneur' Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Sound Ventures , the Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm of Ashton Kutcher, is one of the lead investors in a funding round for LearnLux , a startup which develops software that helps employees of companies with financial wellness.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

San Diego-based Grid2Home , a developer of energy management software, said today that it has raised a seed round of funding. The funding was led by Granite Ventures. Financial details of the funding were not disclosed by the company. Granite is represented by Sam Kingsland on Grid2Home's board. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Syndio Solutions , a developer of web-based software to help companies ensure compliance with state and federal equal pay for equal work laws, has raised $650,000 in its seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Frontier Ventures. Syndio is led by CEO Robert Miller.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. in that funding. The company says it is raising $2.5M

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. Over the past 2.5 Some start, some scale, some can do both.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Santa Monica-based Manalto has raised $1M in a seed funding round, for the company''s social media content management software. According to Manalto, the funding came from Europlay Capital Adivsors, Raven Capital, as well as high net worth individuals from Australia. The company is led by Anthony Owen.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Los Angeles-based Mapped, a developer of artificial intelligence-powered software used for industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT), has raised $6.5M a second seed funding. The funding came from MetaProp and Allegion Ventures, plus Singtel Innov8, Greycroft, and ANIMO Ventures.

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APRIL 17, 2013

in a seed funding round. Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps. Gustavson was similarly involved at 5 Desks, One Cloud, Fastpoint, and SOA Software.

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JULY 17, 2014

3TEN8 , a company which is developing software to help mobile network operators visualize and manage their network performance, and which was part of both LaunchpadLA and the SAM Precellerator Programs in Los Angeles, has raised $250,000 in funding. The seed funding came from the Citrix Startup Accelerator Seed Program.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

The funding came from Forerunner Ventures, and comes on top of an earlier, $1.3 million seed funding from Baroda Ventures. Retention Science said the new funds will go towards expanding its product development and sales teams. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Trovata , a company developing cash automation software for the treasury management market, has raised a round of seed funding, led by J.P. Morgan, according to the company. Size of the investment round was not announced.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

in a seed funding. The funding came from Mercury Digital Assets and Miami International Holdings, Inc. The company targets financial traders with its software. MIH), the parent holding company of the MIAX Exchange Group. Vesica's founder and CEO is Saad Hussain. The company's flagship product is SHIFT.

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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. revee venture capital seed content analytics publishing publisher advertising'

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to the company, the funding was spit between a seed round of $4M, and earlier pre-seed and seed funding. The new seed funding was led by Bouyant Ventures, and also included Better Ventures,XYZ Venture Capital, Chingona Ventures, and Starting Line Ventures.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

Los Angeles-based SnapMD , the startup helping to connect patients with doctors via cloud-based telemedicine software, has raised $600,000 in a seed funding round, the firm said Thursday. The funding came from Shea Ventures, the venture capital arm of J.F. The seed funding is the first for SnapMD.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based Bccthis , a startup developing software which connects Microsoft Outlook, Twitter, and BlackBerry smart phones, announced this morning that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding and launched a beta of its service. Source of the seed funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth.

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JULY 16, 2013

San Diego-based CyberFlow Analytics has raised $2M in a seed round of funding, to go towards its software for protecting corporate IP from corporate espionage and malware. The firm said the seed round of funding came from Toshiba America Electronics Components. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2013

In what might be the geographically furthest investment so far by Los Angeles startup accelerator Launchpad LA , the accelerator is one of the investors in a Boston-based startup tackling law enforcement information sharing software. mark43 launchpadla seed accelerator venture capital enforcement software'

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MAY 20, 2013

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a developer of security tools for preventing cross-site scripting (XSS), a security issue for websites, has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the firm disclosed today. The funding came from Plus Capital, MM Capital, Paige Craig, Eric Hann (Netscape), and other angels. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Santa Monica-based Boulevard a developer of cloud-based software used by salons and other appointment-based businesses to automate the process of booking appointments, has raised a seed round of funding, according to one of its investors.

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JULY 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Netki , a startup which is developing blockchain identity management software, has raised $3.5M in a seed funding round.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

in its seed funding round. Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures is the lead investor in a round for a developer of cloud-based, business collaboration software today. The company says it has now raised $7M for the company, including an earlier seed funding. Avalon''s Rich Levandov was involved in the funding effort.

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JUNE 8, 2021

According to Emerged, Jay Love, the co-founder of Round One Capital, will join its board of directors. Emerged said the new funding will go to scale its software platform and for sales and marketing. Size of the investment was not announced. Emerged is led by co-founder and CEO Alison French.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Sugar, which develops software to help manage apartment and residential living, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company develops software for residential communities, handling rent payment and other tasks. The company is led by foudner and CEO Fatima Dicko.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Pasadena-based 17hats , a developer of business automation software, has raised $1.25M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Wavemaker Partners, along with un-named strategic investors and angels. Eric Manlunas of Wavemaker Partners joins 17hats'' board as part of the funding.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Agoura Hills-based Estify , a developer of software to help auto body shops creates estimates on repair for auto insurers, has raised $6.3M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Romulus Capital along with ff Venture Capital. Estify was founded by Jordan Furniss.

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MARCH 25, 2015

in a seed funding. said it is developing artificial intelligence-based, data loss prevention software, which helps prevent data breaches from organizations. The funding round came from Trinity Ventures. Fred Wang of Trinity joins the company''s board with the funding. Harvest.ai READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 16, 2021

SWARM Engineering, a new startup which is focused on developing supply and demand forecasting software for the food supply chain, has raised $2.7M in its seed funding round. Anthony Howcroft is CEO and founder of SWARM Engineering.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round. The firm''s software unifies all of a user''s documents, music, photos, and videos across their various devices, as if those devices were a single device. Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of online, contact and relationship management software headed by Jon Ferrara, the former founder of Goldmine, said last night that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Google Ventures and Mark Cuban. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based BuildOps , a developer of software that provides business process management for subcontractors in the commercial real estate market, has raised $5.8M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Fika Ventures, and also included. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Zapier is a provider of software to map APIs between different web applications; Mover develops a data migration service to move data from one storage system to another. The firm announced its seed funding in April. bitium partnership enterprise application cloud migration software' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based Endgame, a developer of software that links user behavior with sales opportunities, has raised $17M in funding, according to the company. The funding was split between a $12.25M, Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures, and an earlier $5M Series Seed funding which was led by Upfront Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Los Angeles-based Weblife , a developer of secure, employee web browsing software, has been acquired by Proofpoint , in a $66M all cash deal, the companies announced today. Weblife was venture backed by a new, venture capital investment firm in Los Angeles, Nordic Eye, which has offices in both LA and Copenhagen.

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