Sound Ventures

http://www.sound-ventures.com/

Last activity: 01.05.2023

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Oct 17, 2018	YC Top Companies List - 2018	We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest...
Oct 17, 2018	YC Top Companies List – 2018	We’re excited to share a list of Y Combinator’s top companies. The top 100 YC companies are listed by valuation1 (including the top 12 exits), as of October 16, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest...
Jul 13, 2018	Term Sheet – Friday, July 13	EDUCATION Happy Friday. Polina returns Monday. Reach me [email protected]. Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop Today, Austin-based pi-top, a learn-to-code startup, raised $16 million in funding led b...
May 23, 2018	How [and why] I invest in startups	Ashton Kutcher Contributor Share on Twitter Ashton Kutcher is an actor and investor. He is the co-founder of Sound Ventures. This post was originally published on Atrium. A lot of people ask me how I choose to invest in startups. Stage? Rev...
Mar 10, 2018	LearnLux wins PerfectPitch competition, gets $400,000 from Sound Ventures and Marc Benioff	Sound Ventures held its PerfectPitch startup competition at SXSW in Austin, Texas today. Five early stage founders pitched in front of a star-studded jury panel that included Sound Ventures founding partner Ashton Kutcher, actor Matthew McC...
Mar 10, 2018	LearnLux wins PerfectPitch competition, gets $400,000 from Sound Ventures and Marc Benioff	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Sound Ventures held its PerfectPitch startup comp...
May 16, 2017	Neighborly Raises Series A	Today we’re thrilled to announce that Neighborly raised a $25 million Series A round to further our mission of modernizing public finance. The investment was led by Joe Lonsdale at 8VC, Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective, with follow...
Mar 30, 2017	Term Sheet — Thursday, March 30	THE WRONG KIND OF RETURN Last year Cerilli, who disagreed with the political stances of Trump and was uncomfortable with Kushner’s role the presidential campaign, did something unusual. He gave the money back. You can read the details of ho...
Mar 29, 2017	Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures Adds Two	Sound Ventures, the Los Angeles, CA-based venture capital firm founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, has added Effie Epstein as Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer and Maaria Bajwa as an Associate. In this role, Epstein will be...
Mar 29, 2017	Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures hires a new managing partner and COO	Sound Ventures, the venture firm founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, has hired a new managing partner and COO. Effie Epstein, who most recently led global strategy at Marsh & McLennan subsidiary Marsh, will be joining the firm to ...
Jan 9, 2017	Online grocery GrubMarket breaks even, and wants to go public in 2018	Despite the copious amounts of venture funding that have flowed to them in recent years, food tech startups haven’t had an easy time of it especially in the food delivery game. Since 2015, GoodEggs, Zesty and Munchery have shuffled their ex...
Nov 23, 2016	App intelligence startup Apptopia raises $2.7 million from Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, others	Apptopia, an app intelligence startup based in Boston, has raised a $2.7 million seed round of funding from Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures VC firm, existing investor Mark Cuban, 500 Startups, and a handful of other VC firm...
Nov 23, 2016	App intelligence startup Apptopia raises $2.7 million from Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, others	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Apptopia, an app intelligence startup based in Boston, has raised a $2.7 million seed round of funding from Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Os...
Nov 21, 2016	Apptopia Raises $2.7 Million	Apptopia, the mobile app intelligence provider, today announced its second round of seed funding led by Ashton Kutcher's and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures. The round of $2.7 million brings Apptopia's total funding to $5 million and included t...
Aug 11, 2016	Fundings-in-Brief: Startup Manufacturing Wine without Grapes Raises $2.7m, Ashton Kutcher Invests in Farm-2-Consumer Startup, Vestaron Raises $18m, lots more	Alternative Wine Startup Ava Winery Raises $2.7m Seed Round with Horizon Ventures Ava Winery, a startup engineering wine without grapes or fermentation, has raised $2.7 million in seed funding in a round led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-s...
Aug 4, 2016	GrubMarket raises $20 million to expand its online farmer’s market	Forget food delivery. Just the organic slice of the grocery delivery business remains competitive in the U.S. with giants from the brick and mortar world, tech titans and upstarts all muscling in for a piece of an annual market that sees mo...

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Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Sound Ventures, among them “YC Top Companies List - 2018” (Oct 17, 2018) and “YC Top Companies List – 2018” (Oct 17, 2018).

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Sound Ventures is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 1, 2023.