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JANUARY 8, 2021

San Diego-based Blacksmith Medicines, a new biotechnology company focused on creating medicines for immuno-oncology and inflammatory diseases by targeting human metalloenzymes, has raised a round of seed funding, and announced a research deal with Lilly. Financial details of that seed funding were not announced.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. The company says it has raised $700K in that pre-funding. in seed funding. The company said it is in the midst of raising $2.5

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JUNE 9, 2020

Santa Monica-based Grow Credit , a startup which helps people establish credit by paying for subscriptions to services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and Spotify, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The funding came from Mucker Labs.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Beverly Hills-based APX Platform, a developer of cloud-based software for the aesthetic industry, says it has raised what it calls an "oversubscribed seed round" for its company. Size of the seed funding was not announced.

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JUNE 29, 2021

a second seed funding. The funding came from MetaProp and Allegion Ventures, plus Singtel Innov8, Greycroft, and ANIMO Ventures. The company said the seed II fund brings its total raised to $9.5M, including a $3M funding round in February of 2020.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is one of the investors in a $3.29M seed funding round for Able, a developer of financial management tools for independent workers and freelancers. According to Moonshots Capital, the funding came out of its Fund II.

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JULY 22, 2020

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and angels. Los Angeles-based Swoop , a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers, has raised $3.2M

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

million in a pre-seed funding round for a new venture called CATCH'N Ie Cream. The influener said the new company will open an "experiential" ice cream store in New York City with the funding, which came from Chris Camillo (co-foudner of Dumb Money), Joanne Molinaro (The Korean Vegan), Milad Mirg, and Anthony Baroud, among others.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

When I first became a VC, seed rounds were typically $500k – $1.5 There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). Why the latter? So back to reality.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

A new, Los Angeles startup, Whatnot , which operates a online live stream shopping service and marketplace for collectors, said late Thursday that it had raised $4M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Scribble Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Operator Partners, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures, and others.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Santa Monica-based Luxury Travel Hackers said today that it has launched a new company, focused on helping the "mobile millennial" book "influencer-curated" trips via social media, with a seed funding. Size of the funding was not announced.

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JULY 16, 2020

in a seed funding round, and officially launched. The company said the funding was led by Craft Ventures, the venture firm founded by David Sacks, and also included Abstract VC and Wonder Ventures, as well as other angels, including Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

in a seed funding. The funding came from Mercury Digital Assets and Miami International Holdings, Inc. Los Angeles-based fintech startup Vesica Technologies, a developer of a product which provides information on financial markets, including daily market movements, volatility, and major trades, has raised $2.1M

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based NXCR, a new, subscription car startup led by automotive startup veteran Scott Painter, has raised $30M in a seed funding, based on an internal employee email obtained by socaltech. According to the email from Painter, the funding is the company's first external equity financing.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

According to ventureLab, it will provide seed funding, along with product, marketing, and opertional support to its companies. The company did not say how much funding it intends to provide to startups. venturelab startup incubator studio incubation incubate seed funding mike prasad' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

AllVoices, an app that enables employees to anonymously report harassment and other workplace issues, raised $3 million in seed funding.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

announced $3 million in seed funding. Holographic technology startup PORTL Inc.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

million in seed funding. Santa Monica real estate software developer HomeLister Inc. has raised $4.5

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. And with so many new funds in the market and looking to put capital to work it’s no surprise that there was an even bigger boom in the numbers of deals being funded in the early-stage markets. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing).

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MARCH 19, 2021

Online fundraising startup Pledge announced that it had raised $3 million in new seed funding to finance the launch of a new virtual fundraising platform.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

million seed funding round for software company Balloon. Wavemaker Partners and Launch co-led a $2.1

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

in an initial funding. The company said the funding came from Jaycen Joshua (owner of Canton House Studios), and Steve Miller, (co-founder of Anomaly Create). Los Angeles-based VYRNT, a startup developing an e-commerce platform for NTFs, says it has raised $1.5M

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JUNE 8, 2021

San Diego-based Emerged, a new startup which provides qualified leads to healthcare organizations, says it has raised a seed round of funding. The funding came from Round One Capital. Emerged said the new funding will go to scale its software platform and for sales and marketing. Size of the investment was not announced.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Los Angeles- and Palo Alto-based MaC Venture Capital has launched a new, $103M seed stage investment fund today, saying it plans to invest in technology startups across the fintech, e-commerce and marketplaces, interactive media, connectivity, enterprise SaaS, space and aerospace, logistics, and other sectors.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

in a Seed funding round, the company announced this morning. The company said the funding came from InReach Ventures and Taggia Investments, the personal investment vehicle of former Balderton Capital founder Barry Maloney. The startup is led by co-founder and CEO Paul Yarwood.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. How Does the Industry Really Work? So it’s about 20%.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Thanks to a flood of upstart rocket manufacturers in recent decades, sending objects into space is easier than it has ever been.

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MAY 25, 2021

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Curate Capital. Los Angeles-based Park Place Payments, a fintech startup focused on payment processing, disclosed on Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M Park Place is led by founder and CEO Samantha Ettus. The company's payment processing workforce is mostly women.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

San Diego-based Gretel has raised a seed round of funding, to go towards its development of software which helps developers and engineers access and share anonymized data for developing applications. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Greylock Partners and Village Capital.

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MAY 9, 2017

million in seed funding, according to a statement released Tuesday. Cover Technologies Inc., a prefab building company that designs and manufactures backyard studios, has raised $1.6

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MARCH 15, 2018

The funding was led by TPG Growth, and also included Science Inc. The startup, led by CEO Steve Gatena, has been based at California Lutheran University's Hub101 Incubator, and received a stealth seed funding round last year from Science and Greylock, which had not previously been announced. and Greylock Partners.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes.

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JULY 23, 2014

” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago.

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APRIL 27, 2018

in a seed funding round, as it prepares to launch its service. Maverick, founded by Brooke Chaffin and Catherine Connors--both former Disney executives--said the seed funding came from Matt Robinson of Heroic Ventures plus Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures and Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

million in seed funding. Santa Monica real estate software developer HomeLister Inc. has raised $4.5

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APRIL 24, 2018

The startup, led by CEO and founder Allen Kamrava, says it is backed by $2M in seed funding, which was raised back in September of 2017 through mostly friends and family. Euso says it is building building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life.

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