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CARI Health Connects With $2.3M

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in a seed funding round. The funding came from the San Diego Angel Conference, NuFund Venture Group, Cove Fund, Chemical Angel Fund, Medical Devices of Tomorrow, along with other individual investors. The company said the funding will go towards in-patient clinical studies.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). What gives?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. So it’s about 20%.

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Labrador Systems Finds $2M For Elder Care Robots

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Los Angeles-based Labrador Systems , a new startup developing assistive robots for helping with home health and assistive living, has raised $2M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding was led by SOSV, and its hardware accelerator HAX, along with Centrica Hive, Amazon's Alexa Fund, iRobot Ventures, and iD Ventures America.

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Angel Funding Advice

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I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. Deals are getting done with a lot less capital which is creating a healthy debate in the industry. People like Fred Wilson who say let all the small companies fund and bloom, create more jobs, etc. Minutes 8 – 10.