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AUGUST 3, 2018

Venice, California-based WeeCare , a new startup which is creating a marketplace to help people start and manage their own home daycare, has raised $4.2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Friday. The funding came from Social Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Venice, California-based Bitcoin startup Gem has raised $2M, to make Bitcoin easier to use for developers, the company said this week. bitcoin bitvault venture capital currency cryptocurrency seed' Crypto Currency Partners, QED Associates, and Angel investor James Joaquin. The company was previously known as BitVault.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Venice, California-based GIGXR , a new startup, has acquired the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a unit of publishing firm Pearson, and raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company disclosed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venice, California-based Crexi , a new startup which operates an online, commercial real estate marketplace, has raised $4.3M in a seed funding round, the company said this week.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round. authentication system operating amplify software saas capital venture bitium' Gustavson was similarly involved at 5 Desks, One Cloud, Fastpoint, and SOA Software.

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MAY 31, 2012

Venice-based Grubwithus , which operates a service which helps connect people in real life with others over meals and food, said this week that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The firm said that Mark Suster of GRP Partners will join the company's board along with the funding. Grubwithus previously raised $1.6M

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JUNE 23, 2015

Venice, California-base CrossCut Ventures , one of the region's earliest believers in the potential of Silicon Beach startups, has raised a new, $75M fund, the firm announced this morning. Managing Directors of the new fund are Rick Smith, Brett Brewer, and Brian Garrett, along with new addition Clinton Foy. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Venice-based Altly , the startup headed by Dmitry Shapiro which is developing an alternative to Facebook, has revealed the full list of its seed funding investors today, saying that it raised $1M in funding from Freestyle Capital , Social Leverage , Arthur Bilger, Draper Fisher Jurvetson , Howard Lindzon , Tom Anderson , Alex Bard , Alex Karelin , (..)

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JANUARY 28, 2013

One way might be to try out GrubTonight , a newly launhced iPhone application from Venice-based Grubwithus, which allows users to find organized dinners in a local area, reserve a seat, and meet others at meals. The firm raised $5M in a venture funding round back in May of last year, and earlier had raised $1.6M READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 6, 2016

The seed funding came from Australia angels Mark Moran and Paul Siderovski. Clapit is the second, Australian startup to set up shop in Los Angeles in the last few days; another, social networking app maker from Australia, Bombd, just announced this week that it had set up in Venice Beach. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

in seed funding to make it happen. The Venice-based startup said today that it has raised $1.1M ecommerce ordering deliver capital venture delivery flower online thebouqs' And, it now has $1.1M READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost. And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help.

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APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. Amplify provides seed stage capital to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000 in companies with a viable product that are demonstrating some degree of traction.

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