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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. Washe currently offers up its services in South Florida, Southern California, Georgia and New Jersey. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 -- How to Prepare for Seed Funding. In this workshop, Doug Giese, Vice President of Seed Track at Tech Coast Angels, will explain their Seed Track program.

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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.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. We started our company in China, however, for two reasons.

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MAY 14, 2020

” After graduating from Y Combinator in the summer of 2019, the company tested its services in the Southern California region. . “ We provide a solution for them to flex up or down and save money.” “Construction has stayed essential through this whole crisis,” said Lafferty.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Rami Rostami: As Gerard mentioned, I grew up in Southern California, in los Angeles, and I think some of this is to help contribute back to the community. And, businesses like Google really have expanded their footprint in the last three or four years. That really is helping to move the ecosystem to the next level.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Irvine-based K5Launch , a new venture accelerator started by angel investors Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, is looking to spawn the growth of startups in Southern California, saying today that it has launched its efforts in the area.

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APRIL 7, 2015

A couple of Southern California investors-- os Angeles-based DreamHost and Rincon Venture Partners --have backed a new OpenStack software startup called Akanda. Dreamhost and Rincon are based in LA, and Double M Partners is among one of the more active investors in Southern California startups. READ MORE>>.

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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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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. I remain VERY bullish on SoCal's tech community. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years.

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JUNE 7, 2016

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Aristos Ventures, private angel investors and investment from serial entrepreneurs, founders and executives from several high tech companies, according to the company. Army Research Office. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

in a seed funding round, from Redpoint Ventures, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, as well as others. Luxe said Thursday that it has raised $5.5M READ MORE>>.

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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. He is the co-founder of the Recurring Revenue Conference, the largest SoCal tech event focused on innovative business models.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Los Angeles-based Statis Labs , a developer of vital signs monitoring equipment, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said last week. The funding was led by RTP-HC, and also included Wonder Ventures, Techstars Ventures, and others.

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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. I predict SoCal will continue to grow, but in 2020 more companies nationwideand herewill not get the funding they need.

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MARCH 25, 2013

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. Sky Dayton is an active angel investor, and has been since he became one of Southern California's first Internet-era successes when he founded Earthlink.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based travel startup Elude said this week that it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The company said the funding came from ATX Venture Partners, and also included Mucker Capital, Unicorn Ventures, Upfront Scout Fund, StartupO, Grayson Capital, Gaingels, Maccabee Ventures and Flight VC.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Venice Beach-based Amplify , a new startup accelerator headed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, has uncloaked itself this morning, the latest in a string of startup accelerators in Southern California. Bricault is a Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners, and Wolpert was most recently at the Mailroom fund. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The TCA is the biggest angel investment group in Southern California, and is among the largest nationally. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

We are fortunate to have great new institutional LPs and investors, including foundations and endowments who are well known in the venture capital industry and have backed some great, high quality funds. We feel this is a great validation for the LA and SoCal venture market place, and for the startups and founders in LA.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Exciting times in the Southern California tech community. K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With some of the nation’s largest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Southern California region is now fertile ground for businesses hoping to tackle what amounts to a trillion-dollar industry. And now Dray Alliance is joining them, trying to take a piece of the market transporting cargo from the docks to logistics centers.

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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. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Exciting times in the Southern California tech community. K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. SoCal is home to some of the greatest startup success stories.

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JULY 15, 2010

Heck, stick around and watch me discuss the seed funding debate that is going on right now and what is happening in the VC industry overall. We talked about the seed fund phenomenon and whether there was a bubble for seed funding as Paul Kedrosky had predicted.

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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. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of StartupBoost LA (our apologies to Matt for the late post, our fault, not his!).

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Today, start-ups have more choices for accessing business resources and seed funding than ever. Thursday, June 30, 2016 -- Alternative Accelerators and Start-Up Resources. This is especially true for first-time and early-stage entrepreneurs not yet ready to pursue venture capital or who lack certain critical capabilities.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Today, start-ups have more choices for accessing business resources and seed funding than ever. Thursday, June 23, 2016 -- Alternative Accelerators and Start-Up Resources. This is especially true for first-time and early-stage entrepreneurs not yet ready to pursue venture capital or who lack certain critical capabilities.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. Winston, nice speaking with you again.

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JUNE 8, 2016

Separately, SPACES said it has raised $3M in seed funding, in a round led by Comcast Ventures, and which also included Boost VC, Canyon Creek Capital, Colopl VR Fund, GREE, Kai Huang, The Venture Reality Fund, the Sinovation Fund, Youku Global Media Fund, and CRCM VC.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. We syndicate our rounds so that we are typically raising $750,000 to $1.5M in initial seed funding for an early stage company.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

I then went on to work for McKinsey for a couple of years, then got involved in Eric Schmidt's seed fund, Innovation Endeavors up in Palo Alto. I have been doing seed stage stuff for a while. We tend to coinvest, and have looked at a couple of deals even with funds like Founders Fund in the Bay.

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JUNE 8, 2016

The company--which is led Dr. Renee Dua--said McCourt was already a founding investor in the company, having invested in the company's seed funding via Jamie Enterprises.

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MAY 26, 2011

Jake Winebaum is a veteran of the Southern California technology industry, having run and sold a number of successful, Southern California startups. So we got going on this, and we've been working on it for two years. We raised funding in January from Mayfield, on top of the seed funding we raised at the onset.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

They were graduates of Start Engine's first batch and now reside at Idea Lab in Pasadena, CA after receiving 350k in seed funding. Hypemarks is a social way to share and find content on the web. link] (more)

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