American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Co-founders of sportsbook FanDuel, Nigel Eccles and Rob Jones, announced this week the public launch of their cryptocurrency casino and sportsbook B etHog and its closing of a $6 million seed funding round.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

One example is whether it’s assumed that seed VCs maximize outcomes by religiously holding their shares until the company itself exits. Ok, so what has changed by opinions about seed stage and secondary and why will the best early stage investors know when to sell , not just when to buy? while you raise new funds.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

Today, the company announced closing $1M in additional seed financing. Clinicians love TrekIT because of its intuitive and predictive interface which serves as a cure for disjointed information systems and a replacement for paper task lists.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

million in an oversubscribed seed round. These numbers indicate the tremendous growth from last October, when Dash first closed its seed round before re-opening after rising investor interest. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019.

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MARCH 18, 2019

At some point, a real seed round needs to get raised—and it needs to get led by someone. Resistor is a bit under the radar as a very cool community—and so being associated with it was a signal that I could have only known about if, again, I spent all of my efforts as a seed investor turning over every rock looking for opportunity.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Observo AI, a leading innovator in AI-powered data pipelines, is experiencing accelerated growth while successfully securing $15 million in seed funding. The post Observo AI Accelerates Growth with Key Executive Hire, Follows $15M Seed Round appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

In the latest development, one such company, Bitmama , has raised a pre-seed extension of $1.65 Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes $2M pre-seed as it scales to new markets by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. The executives say Bitmama is testing this feature with some clients in beta.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Five years from now, will we have more, fewer or the same number of seed funds here in the US. I think the guys at First Republic Bank counted nearly 200 sub $100m funds (not all necessarily seed). Many investors start out doing seed and move up the ladder in terms of assets under management.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. We are proud to announce the close of our 7th early-stage fund with $280 million to invest in seed and early stage founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Seed funding came from venture firms committed to deep tech. Co-founders Halen Mattison and Luke Neise announced the closing of an $8 million seed round for their startup G eneral Galactic , a pioneer in fossil-free fuel generation technology.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 1, 2024

Co-founders brought together technology experts on data privacy, cybersecurity and consumer products Recognizing the hectic nature of family households and activities, Ario, the AI-powered assistant for parents, is now launched in beta with the support of a $16 million seed round.

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Founder Bounty

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Unless you are a seasoned entrepreneur who can raise a seed round its a waste of time to be chasing investors. There are some that are pre seed like Antler but generally the further along you are in building your business the more chance you have of getting investment! Investors will then come to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

She had raised seed funds from a who’s who list of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, Troy Carter and so on. One of her seed investors is Jonathan Triest of Ludlow Ventures who I really enjoy speaking to and trust his input.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Register Authentick has raised a seed funding round that has brought $4 million in capital to the table. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? The funding was led by Menyala, the venture-building platform associated with Singapore’s Temasek.

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Dream It

APRIL 21, 2020

From Pre-Seed to Series E, investors have preconceived notions of what characterizes one round from another. For example, calling your round a “Series A” round is only appropriate if your company has already raised a “Seed” round. The same is true of “Seed” rounds if your company is actually just raising friends-and-family money.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Cake quickly caught the attention of Grad ient , Googles early-stage AI fund, which led the companys recent $13 million Seed round. At Cake, were working to ensure that businesses of any size can confidently deploy the latest technologies, within days, or even hours, and without requiring an army of engineers.

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Source Link

AUGUST 27, 2020

Alejandro Manzanares of the National League of Cities (NLC) shares insights from cities in its third cohort on establishing entrepreneurial seed funds, building innovative workforces and ecosystem mapping. How do other cities build entrepreneurship?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In fact, the only founder I've ever seen completely run the table for a multi-million dollar seed round based off of a Powerpoint is Chantel Waterbury of chloe + isabel. When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice. Seriously, not a single investor turned her down.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds. Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 Nick is an alum of UC Berkeley and Wharton, worked at Warby Parker and then most recently at the venerable LA-based Seed Fund, Crosscut.

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APRIL 1, 2015

Yeah, I wouldn''t have believed it either, but he said he wanted to get back to the roots of investing in pre-seed and seed deals, of focusing on some hands on work with lots of first time entrepreneurs. And that''s when it happened. Marc Andreessen asked to join Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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500

MAY 22, 2019

500 Startups is excited to announce the latest batch from our Seed Accelerator based in Mexico City. The 16-week intensive Seed Program will focus on legal, product, sales, growth, culture, fundraising, and more, in order to prepare the companies for the culminating Demo Day taking place in Mexico City on August 7th.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures alongside Oceans Ventures, Venrex Investment Management, Marlinspike Partners, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many years ago I joined the board of a company after my angel group became the lead investor in the company’s seed financing round. As part of my compensation for being a board member, the company issued me restricted stock.

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Founder Bounty

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Any other accelerator is not the same There is simply nothing else that compares to the quality of these VC's for PRE SEED investment. These VC's will not only help you but will accel your business. Almost every either VC in the wold is involved as these guys have their ears everywhere on what is working and what is not.

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MARCH 3, 2019

If you’re a first check lead VC for pre-seed rounds in New York, you can keep your head on when it comes to price, but in SF if you’re trying to fund companies from YC, good luck with your price discipline. Second, you can only get so many dollars into “cheap” seed shares. That’s not what seed funds are doing.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 21, 2025

If youre a non-technical founder trying to raise a pre-seed or seed round, Id love to talk. Right now, Im practicing what Ive taught so many others: customer discovery. Im having short, no-pressure conversations with folks in our target audience to refine and test our approach. Email me to grab a time Thanks again for cheering me on.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

They already had the reputation for being the most value-added seed investor on the planet--but that didn't seem enough. When I worked at First Round Capital, Josh Kopelman seemed tortured by the question of what more the firm could be doing for entrepreneurs.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

million in pre-seed investment led by Egypt-focused venture capital firm Algebra Ventures. Egyptian online auto parts marketplace Mtor has raised $2.8 Other investors that participated in the round include Dutch Founders Fund (DFF), Aditum Ventures, LoftyInc Capital and other local and global angel investors, the startup said in a statement.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And an insatiable appetite to iterate upon its original seeds for success. A reenvisioned product and customer experience. A mentality to upend, rather than build upon, the restaurant industry’s precedent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many VC teams that have gone to enjoy great success – like Forerunner Ventures, K9 Ventures, and IA Ventures. Thanks to its own backers, Cendana keeps replenishing its supply of investing capital, too.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This is good news for seed and pre-seed founders. A post-seed round is something a new investor has an incentive to be in.”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If any one of my seed investments ever needs to debate whether its worth $40 billion or $20 billion, I’ll take on that headache any day of the week. A lot of people think early stage and seed is really risky, but risk is a function of return—and returns are a function of price.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Navanc, Indias first AI-driven property scoring and stacking system for secured lending and insurance, has successfully secured $1 million in seed funding. The funding round was led by Prarambh Ventures, []

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 20, 2024

With such high-level results, R xDiet gained the support of investors, recently closing a $3 million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures. The post Healthcare Startup RxDiet’s Seed Round Supports AI-driven Food as Medicine appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

Every event, workshop, and conversation is an opportunity to plant seeds for future success, turning bold dreams into flourishing realities. This expanded version of the Seed Capital Pitch competition provides half a million dollars in seed grants to deserving entrepreneurs, reinforcing the forums commitment to real economic outcomes.

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