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in a seed funding round, to go towards its development of tools to power apps and games for 5G and augmented reality (AR), the company said on Tuesday. Smith--said that the funding was led by SIP Global Partners (SIP GP), which invested $2.0M in the seed funding. The startup--led by CEO and founder David A.

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San Diego-based Pack, a developer of e-commerce tools, says it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Alpaca and Vanterra Ventures. The company said the funding goes towards engineering, product, design, and go-to-market.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

La Jolla-based Aira.IO , a developer of software tools which use Google Glass to help the blind and low-vision individuals, has raised $790,000 in a seed funding round, the company said this morning.

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in a seed funding round. The funding came from Allegro Venture Partners, Brett Hurt (Bazaarvoice), Ed Snider (Comcast Spectacor), Nick Gross (STRZ Enterprises), as well as others. The company--which was formerly called twtMob--said the funding will go to extend its offerings. Speakr is led by Marco Hansell. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Santa Monica-based Workast , a developer of applications that run on the popular Slack chat platform, has raised $1.85M in a seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included Spider Capital, Mucker Capital, and Dream Incubator. Workast is led by CEO Guillermo Gette.

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APRIL 15, 2014

The startup--founded by Nick La Maina, Kurt Braget, and Kevin Donovan--says its tool is designed to bringing information on future releases and upcoming events to communities of people very soon. The company is seed funded by Lionsgate. The company is seed funded by Lionsgate. READ MORE>>.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2015

Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the developer of social aggregation tools for music and entertainment brands, has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round, the company said Friday. tool aggregation social gocke jeremy startup funding seed capital venture fliptu' READ MORE>>.

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Size of the seed funding round was not announced. Trousdale said that the seed funding will go to further develop Preamble's platform, as well as for collaboration with non-profits. The company said that Preamble's software is used to help prevent amplification of harmful content.

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JULY 3, 2018

in a seed funding. The funding was led by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures. Postie says its tools use machine learning to provide automation of direct mail, handling everything from testing and optimization to audience modeling and attribution.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based startup Trellis Research , which is developing decision making tools and maintains a database of California court records, said on Wednesday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. Source of the funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. With its $5.5

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MAY 18, 2020

TRASH says it has raised $2.25M in pre-seed funding from Precursor, Dream Machine, and other institutional venture funds. According to TRASH, its new AI software makes it easy to create and share videos from your phone, using the AI to automatically edit those videos.

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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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Los Angeles-basd SourceAudio , which provides music licensing search and distribution tools and services, said Monday that it has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Emerson Investment Group.

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The company, led by CEO Michael Amori, said the funding will go towards expanding its team and deployment of new functionality. It's unclear if the round includes the $3M announced by the company in a seed funding in January or is all new capital. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based Ferret, a startup working on artificial inteligence software to help people determine who they can trust, has raised $4M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company said it is developing machine learning algorithms which help users determine who they can trust in real time.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

The company said the redesign came after finding that users were interested in using its tools to create blog-like travel and trip journals, rather than the original, animated slideshows the tool provided.

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MAY 23, 2011

Los Angeles-based Unsocial , a newly launched, location-based business networking service, said today that it has scored a seed round of funding, and launched its product. The funding came from un-named, accredited individual investors. Amount of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Newport Beach-based Givsum, a developer of an online platform to help charitable organizations with fundraising, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by SteelBridge Labs. According to the company, it will use the funding to accelerate its growth.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Those tools—artificial intelligence and machine learning, respectively—have been around for decades, but in recent years have become faster and cheaper, accelerating their use by those in the business of discovering and developing new drugs. Andreessen Horowitz, also.

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JULY 3, 2018

Using the service, customers can access demographic, interest and behavioral data of over 320 million people; can use retargeting to provide direct mail campaigns and integrates with existing customer relationship management tools. They aren’t the only ones. Postie has raised $3.5

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney).

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MAY 27, 2021

Los Angeles-based Topia, a startup which is developing video chat tools that work inside what it says are "fully customizable virtual worlds", has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said late Wednesday. The company said it will use the funding to build out its team and invest in its "creator economy."

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JANUARY 25, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which operates an online software tool to help people create their own estate plans, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company disclosed this week.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. The firm announced its seed funding in April. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Instead, he''s one of the key angel investors in a new, crowdfunding site called Ramen , which launched this week at Calacanis'' Launch Conference, saying that it has raised a seed funding from Calacanis, Naval Ravikant (AngelList), and Matt Cutler, to bring its online crowdfunding service for software projects to market. READ MORE>>.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Threatcare says it provides breach and attack simulation, antivirus assessment, credit card exfiltration, and many other simulations to help organizations evaluate cybersecurity software--to see how effective those tools are, before an actual breach. seed funding in that firm. Moonshots led the $1.4M

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APRIL 24, 2019

The second part of the platform addresses other aspects of recruitment, including prequalification, and the other is around engagement, where we've just launched a LinkedIn plug-in that's an engagement tool. I was inspired looking for a tool to increase output as an agency, and decrease our costs. That's an engagement tool.

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MAY 15, 2019

in its seed funding round, to help it expand its development of personalization technology for online grocers. According to Halla, the funding was led by E&A Venture Capital, an early stage food industry investor, and also included SOSV. The company said it has now raised a total of $1.9M READ MORE>>.

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in a seed funding round. Source of the seed funding was not announced. The disease can be spread by beekeepers moving equipment and tools between hives. Los Angeles-based Dalan Animal Health, which is developing vaccinations for one of the major diseases that impacts honeybees, American Foulbrood, has raised $1.9M

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MAY 25, 2021

Monrovia, California-based SiLC Technologies, a developer of machine vision tools, says it has raised $17M in a Series A funding round. The company says it has now raised $30M in total, including an earlier, $12M seed funding last year.

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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. We did that, and to bankroll that effort we went out to raise a very small, pre-seed round. Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. What is Fliptu?

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MAY 14, 2019

Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. 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. Curtail is led by CEO Frank Huerta.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Los Angeles-based Afterparty, which is developing an platform which the company says helps creators launch their own NFTs, says it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The company says its tools provide creators with the tools to launch NFTs and gain direct artistic and financial control of their fan relationships.

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