Starr Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship, which includes extensive training, seed funding, and advising for young social entrepreneurs.
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In 2010 they raised seed funding and then Series A funding later in 2010.
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So seed funding for us is absolutely critical to our ability to build this company.
Apart from the initial seed funding and branding from Citi, the fledgling venture was on its own.
CityPockets received seed funding from Launchbox Digital, a start-up accelerator, and are currently raising an angel round.
Angelique Mannella, CEO and founder, started the company last June with 25, 000 Euro in seed funding from Nokia.
Meanwhile, entrepreneurship accelerator Bizdom offers seed funding to help grow tech-based local startups.
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Pair has seed funding from SV Angel, Crunchfund and Dave Morin of Path.
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The fund offers seed funding for new endeavours and will help emerging initiatives with advice, hands on support and mentoring.
He founded Y Combinator, the accelerator that has provided seed funding for several well-known startups, such as Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb.
Goldman raised Unigo's seed funding by starting with financial professionals in New York whose names appeared in the Wesleyan alumni directory.
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Dr Sindi also founded Sonoptix Technology, Cambridge, with Saudi Arabian seed funding, and led the development of a cost effective measurement technology for application in clinical diagnostics.
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Menlo has always had a strong enterprise portfolio and in the last two years has built out its consumer portfolio, particularly with its Menlo Talent Fund for seed funding, he says.
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Tapiture is currently raising a round of seed funding.
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There is also the caveat that the nature of VC deals is shifting and the old demarcations between seed funding and the next level up, Series A funding, may be less clear.
The news is timed one month after another couch surfing website, Tripping.com, announced it had secured over a million in seed funding from Quest Venture Partners and a group of undisclosed angel investors.
These 10 competitors were selected through an online contest that showcased 25 semi-finalists of the fellowship program run by Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs.
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It is hard not to feel nostalgic for the days when Computer.com (a website for novice users of technology) was able to spend 60% of its seed funding on a 90-second ad during the 2000 Superbowl.
Like Y-Combinator, TechStars and other U.S. incubators, Innovation Works attracts top entrepreneurs and engineering talent with seed funding, office space and high-profile mentoring from the likes of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Guitar Hero founders Kai and Charles Huang.
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Nasa too will want to review the flight data before deciding whether to release more seed funding to Orbital, and to clear the company for a Cygnus freighter demonstration mission to the ISS. All being well, this next demonstration could occur in late June or early July.
Peek, backed by seed funding from SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Jack Dorsey and Eric Schmidt, launched in October with a feature called Perfect Days, where celebrities such as Tory Burch, Piers Morgan and French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth, could suggest favorite things to do in a city.
So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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With the glut of seed stage funding for startups, is there room for another early stage fund?
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Another contributing factor to this crunch is the ratio of seed stage funding and Series A investments.
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The BOA's Olympic coaching programme, led by Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward, will receive "seed corn funding" from the deal.
Private investors are to provide seed and growth funding, while universities teach social entrepreneurs business skills and corporations offer them pro-bono services.
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Most funding in seed science goes towards genetically modified varieties that are resistant to herbicides.
With a goal of total transparency and trust-building, employees knew every funding detail from seed round to bridge to A round.
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But while big companies can help scale up existing companies, the latest data show some troubling signs for entrepreneurs looking for seed or early-stage funding in green tech.
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