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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Watson--along with his co-founders, John Myers, Ali Golshan and Laszlo Bock--were engineers and developers who had worked for the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services.

Seed Funding

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M. READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding

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MAY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder , an online crowd funding site headed by Chance Barnett, has raised $400,000 in seed funding, according to reports today.

Sites

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APRIL 30, 2013

in funding, including an earlier seed funding. Coryat founded ValueClick and took it public in 2000; before ValueClick, he had founded online directory firm AAA Internet Promotions, and search engine optimization company Web-Ignite. The company said it has now raised $2.7M

Search Engine Optimization

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

Tech Coast Angels

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JUNE 4, 2015

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , a developer of a cloud-based software product to help companies the sales of cloud-based software and services, including managing leads, trial subscriptions, billing, and operations, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company disclosed the funding Thursday. READ MORE>>.

West Hollywood

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. ShopNation's web site allows users to find fashion products, including clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and lingerie, sort-able by brand, features, price, and other options.

Sites

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

Startup

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JANUARY 14, 2011

QR codes are three dimensional barcodes which can be recognized by mobile phones to connect users with web sites and other information. Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes.

Seed Funding

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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. in seed funding in Weblife only 11 months ago, with a 30 percent stage--giving it a 690% annualized ROI on the acquisition. READ MORE>>.

Seed Funding

Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 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.

Web

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1

Venture Capital

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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. Financial details of the deals were not annoucned. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Of course, there's still hard work to be done to as the bad news is that its hard finding good Web Development in Los Angeles and certainly its tough Finding Developers Here in Los Angeles.

CTO Hire

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

in a "pre-seed" funding round, the company announced on Wednesday. According to the company, it will use the funding to develop and launch its platform. The company says it plans to launch its web-based platform in Q4 2020, with plans for mobile apps in the future. The CEO and Co-Founder of Vurbl is Audra Gold.

Seed Funding

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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. READ MORE>>.

Funding

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APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round.

Sites

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month.

Venture Capital

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Hypemarks is a social way to share and find content on the web. They were graduates of Start Engine's first batch and now reside at Idea Lab in Pasadena, CA after receiving 350k in seed funding. Join Poly Founders as we host Tim Sae Koo, the founder and CEO of Hypemarks for a night of stories, questions, and networking.

Pomona

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Finally, some solid relief.

Web

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JUNE 5, 2015

Diffbot , the developer of artificial intelligence, visual recognition, and natural language processing software for interpreting web pages which is backed by Sky Dayton , has scored $500,000 more in funding, the company said this week. The funding--a continuation of the firm's seed funding--came from Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence

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JULY 24, 2012

The firm, headed by Josh Payne, develops a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their websites.

Draper

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

million in seed funding, Snipfeed plans to build out its e-commerce tools so that creators can sell physical products on their link-in-bio (Beacons and Linktree are also working on this with their recent funding rounds — but Beacons’ and Snipfeed’s seed rounds are small compared to Linktree’s Series B ).

Platform

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JUNE 1, 2012

For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket.

CTO Coach

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AUGUST 19, 2014

We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. could use it as an enterprise, to allow them to do what they do on social, mobile, and the web more interactive, and have greater interaction with their viewers.

Commerce

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Filed under: Accelerator , Blogging , Branding , Design Agency , Digital Strategy , Entrepreneurs , Founders , Responsive Design , Seed Funding , Startup , User Experience , Venture Capital , Web Design Tagged: Amplify , Eric Garcetti , Greenberg Glusker , NextSpace , Social media marketing , Sony Interactive , Staples Center.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

Resource

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. That was left to the realm of friends and family. Early-stage startup.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as shared facilities and space. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

Incubator

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web. It looks like you guys only raised less than a million in seed funding? Did you ever think you'd make it this far on only that small amount of seed?

Mobile

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

Entrepreneur

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JUNE 25, 2013

What are the details on your seed funding? However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers. That''s for folks who like to have fresh flowers on their table every week, or for businesses who want to regularly freshen up their waiting room.

Services

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? Brian Garrett: Fundraising was absolutely brutal, and still is.

Southern California

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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.

Technical Advisors

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Good news, Fixed , the San Francisco app that helps drivers fight tickets has just launched in Los Angeles after raising an additional $650,000 in seed funding last February. Yeah, purposefully vague. Fixed claims that 50% of tickets are dismissed when challenged. You know it is bad when the mayor has to refund fake parking tickets.

Los Angeles