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"seed" Definitions
  1. [countable, uncountable] the small hard part produced by a plant, from which a new plant can grow
  2. (North American English) (also pip especially in British English) [countable] the small hard seed that is found in some types of fruit
  3. [countable, usually plural] seed (of something) the beginning of a feeling or development that continues to grow
  4. [countable] (especially in tennis) one of the best players in a competition. The seeds are given a position in a list to try and make sure that they do not play each other in the early parts of the competition.
  5. [uncountable] (old-fashioned or humorous) semen
  6. [uncountable] (literary) all the people who are the children, grandchildren, etc. of one man

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The bracket-busting continued, with #13-seeded Florida State defeating #21 seed Gonzaga, #21-seed Kansas State defeating #2343 seed Kentucky, and #11-seed Loyola-Chicago defeated #7-seed Nevada.
Indeed pre-seed, seed and seed extension all seem to have specific dynamics.
In Shaka Smart's first season as head coach, Texas has lost to Washington and TCU, but it has also beaten No. 1 seed North Carolina, No. 2 seed Oklahoma, No. 3 seed West Virginia (twice), No. 4 seed Iowa State, No. 5 seed Baylor, No. 8 seed Texas Tech, and No. 11 seed Vanderbilt.
A seed to plant, a seed to plant, a seed to plant, a trowel to harvest.
The fifth seed will host the eighth seed and the sixth seed will host the seventh.
The one-seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the two-seed plays the other remaining team.
TC: Does YC have concerns about how many outfits are now offering startups seed funding and how many colors of "seed" have emerged, from pre-seed to seed to post-seed, and how that impacts A rounds?
Short answer: Today's seed rounds are yesterday's Series A rounds, and pre-seed is the old seed.
The largest seed vault in the world, the Global Seed Vault, holds more than 983,500 seed samples.
Grocery stores are already carrying items like sunflower seed butter, pumpkin seed butter and even watermelon seed butter.
We looked at all of the AngelList Venture seed deals (investments by syndicates and funds tagged as "Pre-Seed", "Seed", or "Seed+") that closed in the given year-cohort.
SignalFire makes 15 seed deals and an additional five to 10 pre-seed and "exploratory seed" deals per year.
Under the state's seed law, it is illegal to sell or transport seed mixes containing the Palmer amaranth seed.
The No. 2 seed will meet the No. 3 or 4 seed that does not meet the top seed.
On the men's side of the tournament, a 16 seed had never beaten a 1 seed (although in 1998, the 16-seed Harvard women's basketball team upset 1-seed Stanford).
Third seed Stan Wawrinka, sixth seed Kei Nishikori and women's fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska are also in fourth-round action.
They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever.
So far, the first cohort has made roughly 50 seed investments into startups, mostly at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Fifth seed Alexander Zverev, ninth seed Fabio Fognini and 13th seed Borna Coric all progressed with ease although Juan Martin del Potro, the eighth seed, needed five sets to subdue Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka.
On Monday, third seed Angelique Kerber, fifth seed Victoria Azarenka and seventh seed Roberta Vinci were knocked out in the first round.
The researchers ground 300 dried avocado seed husks into powder, which was then processed into seed husk oil and seed husk wax.
In the entry-level package, you'll receive a single EcoQube Sprout grow tray, four seed-pads, a seed-loading spoon, and seed-loader.
To kick things off, it has committed capital to pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, and seed and Series A VC Episode 1.
It was a No. 4 seed, not a No. 3 seed.
The three of us will collaborate across all our seed and early-stage investments, though Omar will be point person on post-seed, and Will and I will continue to focus on pre-seed and seed.
Radwanska, the No. 22 seed, nearly joined No. 221 seed Simona Halep and No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza as a first-week upset victim.
We asked him, for example, about how a glut of seed-stage investment has impacted the way that startups are raising money — often in pre-seed, then seed, then post-seed rounds, before raising Series A funding.
Seed 8 faces seed 4003 in the second heat, and so on.
Especially ironic since the seed entry was SEED ENTRY at 1-Across!
The secret is in the camellia seed oil, or tea seed oil.
"Pre-seed has replaced seed in the venture ecosystem," Banerji tells TechCrunch.
Other first-round winners included No. 4 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, No. 7 seed Sofia Kenin and No. 9 seed Angelique Kerber of Germany.
For the purposes of the chart below, post-seed is synonymous with seed prime, seed extension, top up, build round, or pre A. As the chart shows, there are fundamental differences between a bridge and a post-seed round.
The state of seed Pre-seed investing emerged a couple of years ago as a result of the growing size of seed and Series A deals.
General Catalyst recently "re-committed" to seed with a new seed-stage program.
Yet they couldn't quite pull off the elusive seed-to-seed success story.
But there were berries, hemp seed, flax seed, salty roots… lots of things.
"Pre-seed isn't the new seed," DocSend CEO Russ Heddleston told Business Insider.
Some people call it seed prime, seed extension, top up, build round or pre A. To be clear though, the post-seed round is not a bridge.
She will face 30th seed Timea Bacsinszky in the semis while the other half at least still includes second seed Karolina Pliskova and third seed Simona Halep.
In this apples-to-oranges comparison, seed investors cannot also invest in pre-seed.
Seed stage valuations are lower, which is good for seed stage investors like me.
You can call it pre-seed or seed or angel or whatever you want.
Freshly baked homemade bagels with onion, sesame seed, poppy seed, cream cheese, and butter.
Among them, Montreal counts very few seed-stage investors and no pre-seed ones.
A series of proposed seed/chemical company mergers threatens to reduce farmers' seed choices.
Similar to apple seed, the cherry seed contains amygdalin, which is a cyanogenic glycoside.
"You can't save a hybrid seed," said Lou Maiuri, 91, a local seed saver.
Eighth seed Juan Martin del Potro lost to 10th seed Karen Khachanov on Monday.
In 2011, he fared better, picking correctly in advancing Richmond (a 12-seed), Florida State (a 10-seed), and Gonzaga (an 11-seed) out of the first round.
While we'd been historically more focused on pre-seed and seed, we had also been opportunistically investing in post-seed and early Series A rounds for some time.
The Pac-28 was a bit of an RPI darling this year, and it's what helped the league get a lot of quality seeds—Oregon as a No. 26 seed, Utah as a No. 19993 seed, Cal as a No. 21999 seed, Oregon State as a No. 219 seed, Colorado as a No. 22016 seed, etc.
We're pretty sure it's not in pre-seed or seed, though there is some CVC fund of fund activity into seed funds, but that's not reflected in this data.
And, in 2010, when a 10-seed, an 11-seed, and a 12-seed all made their way to the Elite Eight, POTUS picked, again, zero of those upsets.
"More money is available at earlier stages — pre-seed, seed and series A," says Shah.
For more on seed relabeling, check out the Farmers Business Network's 2018 Seed Relabeling Report.
Specifically, I'm told Speedinvest x will make pre-seed, seed and early Series A investments.
PW: As you know, "pre-seed" is a thing now, as are "seed plus" financings.
VC is focusing on seed rounds that are slightly larger than your typical seed round.
And in recent years, seed swaps and seed libraries in particular have grown in popularity.
Which leads me to ... No. 218 seed Yale beat No. 33 seed Baylor on Thursday.
No. 303 seed Kentucky (22-10) advances to face No. 9 seed Alabama (217-22).
Funds at these sizes are mostly focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A deals.
TC: Cherry invests at pre-seed and seed stage (and occasionally Series A) across Europe.
The country's primary maize seed manufacturer, Seed Co, has invested in new drought-resistant varieties.
Maybe this is the year a No. 16 seed finally defeats a No. 1 seed.
Y Combinator (YC) is a seed accelerator that provides seed funding and advice to startups.
Similarly, companies at the pre-seed and seed stage tend not to be revenue-generating.
Helena Ostapenko plays fourth seed Aryan Sable while second seed Elian Svitolina plays Dulia Putintseva.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway received its 1 millionth seed variety on Tuesday.
He's alerted his seed dealer that he may need more corn seed and less soy.
Say you have to decide between the No. 10 seed and the No. 5443 seed.
That means farmers do not save seed from their harvest to plant again, and seed companies must cross the parent materials every season to produce new hybrid seed for planting.
Origami Labs is backed by its crowdfunding and seed investment from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Seed Fund.
Until a No. 277 seed beats a No. 266 seed, you won't see a bigger one.
The company is still pre-seed, Kong said, but hopes to raise a seed round soon.
NVP will invest $85k into pre-seed companies and up to $250k into seed stage companies.
The amount of capital entering the early stage — meaning pre-seed and seed — market is immense.
Second seed Stan Wawrinka and third seed Kei Nishikori will meet in Saturday's other semi-final.
Tuesday's winner meets either No. 2 seed Georgia or seventh seed Belmont in the second round.
The pre-seed and seed investor had already sold a minority of its holding in January.
Second seed Alexander Zverev and third seed John Isner will also begin their campaigns on Tuesday.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that three Indian seed makers - Ajeet Seeds, Kaveri Seed Co Ltd KVRI.
Thursday's winner plays either sixth-seed Maryland or 11th-seed Xavier in the second round Saturday.
Wichita State and Middle Tennessee were shafted a bit at 10 seed and 12 seed, respectively.
On Sunday, the No. 4 seed Maccabees defeated the No. 2 seed Purchase College, 87-81.
You pick a No. 16 seed over a No. 1 seed Look, we know it's tempting.
Fourth seed Alexander Zverez and seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov each needed three sets to advance while ninth seed David Goffin was upset by South Korean Hyeon Chung 63-5 6-3.
Defending champion and third seed Gael Monfils — the highest seed left in the tournament after top seed Daniil Medvedev was ousted on Wednesday — plays fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon later on Thursday.
By now it's clear that seed is the new Series A. Seed rounds have tripled in size and companies have been around for 103 years before they raise a seed round.
While the US proliferation of seed funds and micro VC from 2011 onwards powered startups with seed funding, series A investors were not keen and it became cheaper to get seed funding.
The most popular winners after Villanova, in order, are 1 seeds North Carolina and Kansas, then 2 seed Duke and 3 seed U.C.L.A. The fourth No. 1 seed, Gonzaga, is only sixth.
This seed turns out to be an actual seed, because from it a flower sprouts and blooms.
The post-seed round isn't necessarily an alternative to raising extra seed money or expanding your syndicate.
They eat that part of the seed, then chuck the seed somewhere far once they eat it.
Meanwhile, American third seed Madison Keys overcame fifth seed Petra Martic of Croatia 6-3 6-4.
Over these same years, the number of combined angel, pre-seed and seed deals climbed roughly sixfold.
This brings the total number of seed samples now stored at the Svalbard Seed Vault to 930,821.
A real post-seed round is the final seed money before a "super-sized" Series A round.
While a traditional seed firm may invest $500,000, a seed investor on AngelList may invest only $5,503.
Fund details: It will invest at the pre-seed or seed stage, up to $100,000 per startup.
The icing is made with beets and topped with a sesame seed, sunflower seed, and cinnamon brittle.
Texas A&M (210-213), the 21th seed, will face sixth-seed Mississippi State on Thursday evening.
Others reaching the third round were Italian fifth seed Sara Errani and American seventh seed Sloane Stephens.
The winner advances to face either No. 5 seed Charleston or No. 4 seed Colorado State. 2.
Remove the seed but leave the hard outer coating beneath the seed that's attached to the fruit.
This fund will do stipends, pre-seed, seed and Series A investing in all our companies globally.
TC: A lot of seed and pre-seed deal flow comes to investors from Series A investors.
A No. 218 seed had never beaten a No. 211 seed in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.
Round 2 is also single elimination: 3 plays lowest remaining seed, 4 plays next-lowest remaining seed.
You can also make sunflower seed butter, which is basically peanut butter, but more sunflower seed tasting.
The winner plays either No. 3 seed Providence or No. 6 seed Creighton in Friday's semifinals. 2.
Second seed Alexander Zverev and third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas play their respective first round matches on Tuesday.
Italian Matteo Berrettini, the 11th seed, and No. 13 seed David Goffin of Belgium also moved on.
Morphine and codeine are both present in commercially sold poppy seeds, albeit in traces amounts, but their concentration varies greatly from seed to seed, depending on factors like seed type and harvesting time.
To help with its mission, Lingokids, which already counted 500 Startups as a "pre-seed" backer, has raised $4 million in seed or post-seed funding, depending on how you classify these things.
"As much as our food system is broken, our seed system is also broken," said Mehmet Oztan, who co-owns a small seed company in West Virginia and started a seed preservation library.
This year, Green Cover Seed, their company, will sell enough seed to cover 257,2000 acres in cover crops.
The winner will meet either third-seed Indiana or No. 6 seed Georgia Tech in the second round.
In addition, it will invest in seed and pre-seed stage companies through MuckerLab, a new accelerator program.
Together they launched Loom in mid-2016, raising a pre-seed and seed round amounting to $4 million.
As fund sizes scaled, seed investors were forced to write bigger checks, pushing seed rounds closer to $5M.
SG: We like doing small seed investments of $20173,000 to $8 million in seed and Series A deals.
The winner will advance to the second round against either fifth-seed Virginia or 12th-seed UNC-Wilmington.
In the bubble, more startups received seed funding because so many new seed venture firms entered the business.
Back before there were a lot of seed funds, it was mostly standard VC firms doing seed deals.
VC wants to do less but larger seed investments than perhaps some other small seed firms in Europe.
The other semi-final pits Argentine fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro against American 14th seed John Isner.
The Cyclones are the No. 10 seed and will open the tournament Wednesday against the No. 7 seed.
German Zverev, the fifth seed, upset third seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-4 6-4.
This year, the No. 2 seed in the quadrant of the top overall seed, Duke, is: Michigan State.
Some farmers wanted to take seed deliveries early, and most seed is now in farmers' hands, he said.
Federer had to win five-setters against No. 22 seed Kei Nishikori and No. 4 seed Stan Wawrinka.
Its path could include a regional semifinal game against No. 5 seed Tennessee or No. 4 seed Louisville.
Stan Wawrinka, the No. 873 seed, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the No. 287 seed, are possible quarterfinal foes.
If that results in us getting the No. 1 seed, getting the No. 2 seed, 3 or whatever.
To upgrade to hybrids means changing to a system where new seed has to be bought every year, because the plants that grow from hybrid seed do not produce seed of the same sort.
Sidelined for almost a year after undergoing foot surgery, Stephens returned at Wimbledon and has been on a tear ever since, knocking off 11th seed Dominika Cibulkova, 30th seed Julia Goerges and 16th seed Anastasija Sevastova and twice U.S. Open champion and ninth seed Venus Williams en route to the final.
Third seed Stan Wawrinka, the 2015 champion, faces a tricky match against Italian 28th seed Fabio Fognini and Japanese eighth seed Kei Nishikori is expected to advance at the expense of South Korea's Chung Hyeon.
"With the faith of a pumpkin seed-sized mustard seed," references the Bible's Matthew 17:20, in which Jesus tells his disciples that faith the size of a mustard seed is enough to move mountains.
In fact, one study found that morphine concentration can range from anywhere between two and 251 times from seed to seed, and Seinfeld has done little to help the perception of the little black seed.
Among the other big names in action on Day Three of the year's final Grand Slam are Australian second seed Ash Barty, Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova and men's fifth seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia.
The 7th and 8th seed would play a game for ownership of the 7th-seed slot, and the loser of the game would play the winner of the 9th- and 10th-seed play-in game.
It taught me that within every obstacle is a seed of opportunity and that seed became Maison de Morgana.
Monsanto consolidated the specialty chemicals and seed markets, buying up DeKalb Genetics and cotton-seed maker Delta & Pine Land.
Demand to invest at the seed stage increased The demand to invest at the seed stage has consistently grown.
The success of the model led to a rise of new seed funds and seed-focused fund-of-funds.
It had previously raised around $410,000 in pre-seed funding, including from U.S.-based seed fund SparkLabs Global Ventures.
Pre-seed investment isn't an option bet to preempt the seed or Series A; it's their bread and butter.
The latest 15 companies (pre-seed and seed) to join the Seedcamp portfolio include: Alterest Investment – Investment management platform
Joining the Canadian in the third round were Spanish fifth seed Rafa Nadal and Japanese second seed Kei Nishikori.
The winner of Tuesday's contest will meet either No. 2 seed Florida or No. 7 seed North Florida. 2.
In addition, certain Bayer seed treatment products will be offered for sale instead of Monsanto's NemaStrike seed treatment brand.
The company has raised $450,000 in pre-seed from angels and are looking to go to seed in April.
Detroit (43-38) will be the No. 8 seed and will open the playoffs at No. 103 seed Cleveland.
Elsewhere, women's fifth seed Petra Kvitova and men's seventh seed Marin Cilic are also in action in the evening.
The summer playoffs winner gets the top seed and the winner of the regional qualifier is the second seed.
Through its four-month seed program, the Silicon Valley seed fund invests $150,000 in exchange for 6 percent equity.
Our focus is being first institutional investor post seed, and on occasion, will co-invest at the seed stage.
Currently they say it can take seed companies between six and eight years to develop a new seed variety.
It includes meadowfoam and grape seed oil to help with frizz and sunflower and jojoba seed oils for moisture.
Xavier's victory makes this the 213th straight year that a No. 213 seed has defeated a No. 218 seed.
A No. 16 seed has never beaten a No. 1 seed, but a few have put scares into them.
In October 2016, the Dutch organization Hivos hosted a conference on open-source seed systems in Ethiopia, attracting farmers, community seed bank operators, and representatives of governments, non-governmental organizations and seed companies from around East Africa to learn about the open-source seed movement and the global shift toward patenting seeds.
Investigators are interviewing individuals, including some at seed companies, as well as analyzing seeds and mixes, and checking the accuracy of seed labels, said Clifford Watrin, a supervisor of seed law at the state's agriculture department.
In a just world, Wichita State would be a No. 3 seed, while Vanderbilt would be a No. 7 seed.
Relying on just one or two seed funds increases your odds of starving to death in the post-seed gap.
Yastremska next faces top seed Kiki Bertens, who beat eighth seed Vekic on Tuesday, for a place in the semis.
The other species, called Vilevolodon diplomylos, had similar molars to modern seed-eating squirrels, suggesting a more seed-based diet.
Greenpeace blamed an "extremely lax and disorganized" seed market management system for the production and sale of illegal seed varieties.
CF: We're going to be pre-seed and seed, which is where we started as investors and where we've stayed.
The company said the patents protected its inventions that facilitate accurate seed placement, uniform seed spacing and even crop emergence.
Greenpeace blamed an "extremely lax and disorganised" seed market management system for the production and sale of illegal seed varieties.
Versus like, I was the only seed fund outside of True Ventures to invest in the seed round of HashiCorp.
Last week, Watrin told native seed suppliers and planters in a letter that extra monitoring of seed supply was needed.
Think: The formula features macadamia seed oil, sunflower seed oil, and hyaluronic acid as part of the superstar ingredient list.
Seed and early-stage investment in real estate have grown in recent quarters, even as overall seed-stage rounds declined.
All infested Minnesota conservation plantings used seed from Cottonwood, Minnesota-based Green Valley Seed, the department said in a statement.
Mayer, the fifth seed, beat Frenchman Gilles Simon while American seventh seed Johnson proved too sharp for Russian Daniil Medvedev.
She joined fifth seed Angelique Kerber and 29th seed Caroline Wozniacki and 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko through the exit door.
A No. 16 seed has never beaten a No. 1 seed since the tournament expanded in 1985 to 64 teams.
His new company Findo, has now closed $1M in further seed funding, taking it's total Seed funds to $7 million.
We've got a nice caramelized onion and poppy seed variety, a regular poppy seed one, and another with chocolate chips.
Not to mention that a 16th seed has never beaten a first seed in the tournament's 79 years of existence.
Whether mustard seed, celery seed or celery itself belongs in the stuffing depends on the version you grew up eating.
The top overall seed, Louisville, lost in the regional final to the No. 2 seed in its quadrant: Michigan State.
The other semifinal will feature a pair of Americans, No. 13 seed Madison Keys and No. 10 seed Sloane Stephens.
British 10th seed Konta used an aggressive game plan to overcome Danish 12th seed Wozniacki on the Crandon Park hardcourt.
So that nut or seed milk formula can become rose almond milk, black sesame milk or cardamom-pumpkin seed milk.
Federer was the 34th seed in 22008 when he beat Sampras, the top seed and a seven-time Wimbledon champion.
Williams beat Australian 17th seed Ashleigh Barty in the second round and turned on the style against 11th seed Goerges.
As average and median seed fundings keep rising, seed is increasingly looking like the new Series A. "Startups are raising more seed tranches and closing larger Series A rounds when they do," said CrunchBase CEO Jager McConnell.
Germany-based Bayer, which acquired seed and pesticides maker Monsanto in a $63 billion deal last year, is the world's largest seed and pesticides company by sales, leading the market in corn, soybean and cereal seed sales.
The report highlighted that while growth-stage investments in California were hitting record highs, total deal count and seed investing — both in terms of total seed dollars and seed deal count — were at their lowest points since 2012.
Lickable Cherry Massage Oil This oil is a Lovehoney fan favorite, made with a combo of almond oil, grape seed Oil, apricot oil, hemp seed oil, avocado oil, sesame seed oil, and rosemary oil to nourish the skin.
World number one Nadal faces big-serving Argentine third seed Juan Martin del Potro while sixth seed Novak Djokovic meets Japanese 21st seed Kei Nishikori bidding to secure a seventh trip to the showcase match at Flushing Meadows.
Seventh seed Tomas Berdych, like Tsonga a former semi-finalist here, beat Tunisian Malek Jaziri 26-26 2-6 6-2 6-4 while 63th seed David Goffin and 13th seed Dominic Thiem, both advanced in straight sets.
The last time an Ivy team received a No. 16 seed was 1989, when Princeton lost to Georgetown by a point — as close as any bottom seed has come to beating a top seed in 128 such matchups.
The 10th seed will play Caroline Wozniacki in Saturday's final after the Danish 12th seed won an even longer semi-final, 5-7 6-1 6-1 against second seed Karolina Pliskova to kick off the day's action.
Date: March 16, 2018What made the moment: In March 2018, UMBC became the first No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the men's NCAA tournament, taking down overall top seed UVA in the first round.
The No. 1 seed Serena Williams and the No. 5 seed Maria Sharapova were among those who reached the third round.
They came within three points of knocking off No. 2 seed Oklahoma, and lost to eight-seed Texas Tech by eight.
Monsanto will continue to sell sorghum seeds via its Asgrow, Dekalb and Channel seed brands and through regional seed dealer networks.
A seed was planted for Loma but, having no prior MMA experience, she wasn't sure how to make the seed grow.
Today's seed investments are being made into much more mature and valuable companies than seed-stage investments made several years ago.
Despite the Flyers' jump to the No. 7 seed—compared to their No. 11 seed for the past two years—No.
Rumblings persist that pre-seed investing is a flash in the pan that will collapse into standard seed investing soon enough.
Investments from the firm range from pre-seed capital commitments of $50,000 to seed-stage investments of up to $2 million.
AH: Naturally, there's fallout from seed to A, and that's good; that means risk is being taken at the seed stage.
We removed seed deals, given there's been some major schizophrenia among venture firms that waded into seed deals, then pulled out.
Second seed Karolina Pliskova's match went according to form, the Czech beating Kazak 27th seed Yulia Putintseva 7-5 6-3.
No. 1 seed North Carolina is still in the hunt after almost blowing a big lead against No. 8 seed Arkansas.
For example, you could draft four #1 seeds and one #16 seed, or four #3 seeds and one #8 seed team.
Under the Kenya Seed Company effort, the firm has attached stickers inside bags of seed that contain a scratch-off code.
The seed stage has become pretty crowded, so pre-seed is an area where new firms can find some open space.
That tech also attracted a $3 million seed round led by prestigious VC Sequoia, its first seed investment of the year.
Eze Vidra: Remagine Ventures invests independently in seed and pre-seed startups at the intersection of entertainment, tech, data and commerce.
The winner will return to the court Saturday to face either top seed Villanova or No. 5 seed Seton Hall. 2.
Stine Seed is preparing to launch products that will compete with Xtend soy and also works with Monsanto on seed technology.
Petra Kvitova, the No. 8 seed and a two-time Wimbledon champion, was eliminated by the No. 30 seed, Ekaterina Makarova.
Sixth seed Venus, twice the champion in New York, faces Karolina Pliskova, the big-serving 10th seed from the Czech Republic.
Unfortunately their concentrations differ widely, even from seed to seed, making them dangerous even in the hands of experienced traditional herbalists.
No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal and No. 5 seed Juan Martín del Potro had little trouble in their second-round matches.
The Wolverines, the eighth seed in that tournament, won four straight games to earn a No. 7 seed in this one.
North Carolina will be the second seed, and Duke will be the No. 22 seed for the ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
No. 24 seed England took over the lead in Pool A thanks to a sweep of No. 43 seed Chinese Taipei.
Through its four-month seed program, the 500 Startups seed fund invests $150,000 in participating companies in exchange for 6% equity.
While the advanced stats see the Shockers as a No. 2 seed (or a No. 3 seed before the tournament started), their "resume" earned them a No. 11 seed and a spot in Dayton for a First Four game.
The latest draft of the new seed policy, however, acknowledges that "although quality of seed and yields in the informal seed system are low, saving of traditional varieties increases diversity and also provides breeders a resource for genetic material".
Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas is the top seed in the singles with Kevin Anderson, runner-up at Wimbledon last year, the second seed.
These pre-seed deals are being done at the $2-5 million dollar range that used to be typical for all seed.
The round was led by European VC firm Creandum, with participation from pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, and previous backer Founders.
Seed coatings are not considered a "pesticide application" akin to spraying, because farmers buy the coated seed and then just plant it.
Since we already raised our seed and you do post-seed, we thought you would be ideal to speak to about this.
Seed money General Catalyst, a well-known venture capital firm, is diving more seriously into the business of funding seed-stage business.
Today the company announced an $8 million Series A led by seed investor Google Gradient Ventures, who also led the seed round.
Redkix burst out of the gate two years ago with a $17 million seed round, a hefty seed amount by any measure.
If you're a startup in the pre-seed/seed stage and want to meet GC (and you should), get your application in.
Seventh seed Gavrilova dropped only five points on serve in the first set in a solid performance against Garcia, the fifth seed.
A pre-seed check is typically under $1 million, or, in other words, the size a seed deal was a decade ago.
Previously, Argentina's seed law allowed farmers to use second-generation seeds in perpetuity without paying royalties, which seed-producing companies fiercely opposed.
Nymphs, which are "about the size of a poppy seed," and adults, which are "about the size of apple seed," also feed.
It made sense that the Huskies beat No. 16 seed Robert Morris by 52 and even No. 9 seed Duquesne by 46.
The program, called The EduCator Incubator, planned to seed 25 to 40 "emerging video creators" with $25,000 to $75,0003 in seed funding.
The Wildcats, a No. 2 seed from the South Region, had to upset the top seed, Kansas, to reach the Final Four.
No. 1 seed Kentucky (28-5) will face No. 3 seed Arkansas, a 76-62 winner over Vanderbilt, in the championship game.
LISNR received its initial seed investment from CincyTech, a public-private seed stage investor backed with support from the Ohio Third Frontier.
In the second round, the third seed hosts the lowest-seeded first-round winner, and the fourth seed hosts the other winner.
If the time to bring a seed to market is also much faster, we can see the seed market growing in diversity.
Nadal, the No. 4 seed, had already rejected three set-point attempts from his pesky opponent, the No. 24 seed, Lucas Pouille.
If a castor bean seed is swallowed whole without damage to the seed coat, it will probably pass harmlessly through the system.
With the latest shipment, the seed vault now holds nearly 931,000 seed samples of just about every known crop in the world.
More and more firms are setting up shop at the pre-seed stage as competition at the seed stage reaches new heights.
"We can argue about who caused it," said Keith Berns, co-owner of Green Cover Seed, a seed company in Bladen, Neb.
The other semifinal pits defending champion and No. 9 seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus against No. 1 seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia.
And when he was raising his seed round, I said sure, and I remember, this was actually my first-ever seed investment.
They specialize in cheese and poppy seed pastries, including Grittermohn, a bar-like cake with an inch of ground poppy seed filling.
Figures from Seed Services, a Zimbabwean institute focused on improving agricultural production, show that in 2016-2017 only 460 hectares of certified sorghum seed were likely to be grown in the country, compared to 400,183 hectares of certified maize seed.
Romanian third seed Halep trailed by a set and 5-1 against the hard-hitting fifth seed but somehow dug herself out of a hole before storming to victory to set up a semi-final against Czech second seed Karolina Pliskova.
British 10th seed Johanna Konta and Australian 14th seed Sam Stosur also won their third round matches, Stosur earning a date with Halep.
"We will consider seed-funding — what we call seed-plus — tickets in the $500,000 range," Deme told TechCrunch on a call from Dakar.
The Global Seed Vault is located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, holding 503,000 seed samples from 234 countries frozen at -27°F.
The Global Seed Vault is located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, holding 215,000 seed samples from 234 countries frozen at -27°F.
The case of Mo and Kings Nower Seed is not the first in which a Chinese company has attempted to steal seed tech.
Fourth seed Alexander Zverev faces Frenchman Nicolas Mahut Over at Louis Armstrong Stadium before second seed Caroline Wozniacki takes on Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
The fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn where he was born and raised.
You can also purchase the C Seed 136, a 213-watt retractable subwoofer, to go along with the C Seed 125 sound system.
Pre-seed stage companies look very different from seed stage companies in that they don't have much traction, revenue, or product/market fit.
It's already raised $680,000 in a pre-seed round a year ago, but will try to raise a seed round early this summer.
That's huge—the difference between a third seed and a seventh seed, and between playing into the summer and ending the year early.
His big upset for 2016 is 13-seed Hawaii over four-seed Cal, a game FiveThirtyEight gives Cal an 86% chance of winning.
The fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn–where he was born and raised.
The seed students' photos were posted next to the slogan to create an association between the anticonflict statement and each seed student's identity.
The USDA told Reuters it was aware of the problem present in seed mixes, but does not monitor seed lots purchased by participants.
The investment comes from pre-seed and seed investor, Seedcamp, alongside various travel operators using the platform, and a number of angel investors.
Nixplay Seed Digital Photo Frame The Nixplay Seed digital photo frame is perfect way to keep faraway friends and family members in sight.
After your initial seed round, you'll usually have to allocate a board seat to the firm or person who led that seed round.
This seed vault essentially functions as a thumb drive for the world's crop supply, housing nearly 900,000 seed samples from around the world.
The plan is to fund about 25 companies through pre-seed and seed per fund, which they'll raise every two to three years.
On Saturday, Loyola, a No. 11 seed, will play third-seeded Michigan, before Villanova, the 2016 champion, faces a fellow top seed, Kansas.
Jigsaw will seek to become "talent investors" by correlating available data on founders at the pre-seed and seed stage to improve outcomes.
Where Shell is placing its betsUnlike Shell's venture arm, Hviid's program is largely unrestricted and focused on pre-seed or seed-stage ventures. 
Wawrinka will meet either German seventh seed Alexander Zverev or 17th seed Andrey Rublev of Russia for a place in the semi-finals.
Rondo's play has been a big reason that the Bulls are threatening to become the first eighth seed to sweep a top seed.
The No. 1 seed will have the choice of facing the No. 3 or No. 4 seed in a best-of-five matchup.
Their brackets were eliminated simultaneously after the No. 13 seed Marshall upset No. 4 seed Wichita State, according to the Omaha World-Herald.
Image: Svalbard Seed Vault/Crop TrustThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle has received a major deposit of nearly 22015,22015 seed samples from around the world, bringing the total number of seeds stored at the remote facility to nearly one million.
The day did not pass without three upsets, however, with defending champion and fifth seed Lauren Davis losing 6-1 6-2 to fellow American Sachia Vickery, while sixth seed Yulia Putintseva and seventh seed Mona Barthel both suffered straight set losses.
Czech third seed Petra Kvitova beat Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia 6-3 43-3 to set up a last-eight clash with Australian 12th seed Ashleigh Barty, a 4-6 6-3 6-2 winner over seventh seed Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.
We noted some examples of this in action at Twilio in our seed memo; here's one case in point: Seed IR memo ~ 25 Seed IR memo ~ 27 Law No. 22009: Offers an amazing user experience for the developer This one is self-explanatory.
The Dow deal, announced in July, includes seed processing plants and seed research centers, a copy of Dow AgroSciences' Brazilian corn germplasm bank, the Morgan seed brand and a license for the use of the Dow Sementes brand for a limited time.
The N.C.A.A. women's basketball tournament began on Friday with a romp by a team not used to being a mere No. 2 seed, and a scare for a No. 2 seed that almost yielded the first-ever victory for a No. 15 seed.
Concerning the universe of Seed deals, here's Feng's key chart: Chart via Eric Feng / Medium Chart via Eric Feng / Medium As you can see, the chart shows that in the pre-2008 era, Seed deals were amply skewed towards consumer-focused Seed investments.
Cotton seed prices have come down drastically in the past few years, but fuel, labor and supply chain costs have risen sharply, squeezing margins of most seed makers, said Kalyan Goswami, director general of the National Seed Association of India producers' body.
Michigan State became the eighth No. 2 seed to ever lose to a No. 15 seed, falling to the Middle Tennessee State, 90-82.
Backers include pre-seed/seed investor Seedcamp, London VCs Index Ventures and Balderton Capital, Venrex, Germany's Point Nine Capital and U.S.-based Ribbit Capital.
That's a lot of seed capital, especially when considering that the average amount of seed funding for a startup in 2010 was $1.3 million.
Diversifying your investors is important because seed funds are unlikely to provide follow-on funding if you get stuck in the post-seed gap.
VTB Kremlin Cup There will be an all-Russian semifinal in Moscow, pitting No. 2 seed Daniil Medvedev against No. 3 seed Karen Khachanov.
When DocSend conducted this study previously, we found that the average length of a Series seed or pre-seed was about 21.2-353 weeks.
Founders are increasingly realizing that seed investors do not write the first check––with most seed capital coming 2.4 years after a company's founding.
Unlike in past years, where Sequoia made seed bets from its main, early-stage funds, it'll be used to invest directly in seed deals.
The winner will meet either No. 1 seed North Carolina or No. 5 seed Indiana in the Elite Eight in Philadelphia on Sunday. 2.
Mannarino's opponent will be Russian No. 26 seed Andrey Rublev, a 23-5, 6-4 winner against No. 3 seed Marin Cilic of Croatia.
Cherop said the phone messaging system also helps Kenya Seed Company track locations where counterfeit seed packets are common, to hone in on offenders.
Andreescu was in her maiden final after stunning top seed Caroline Wozniacki, No. 3 seed Su-wei Hsieh and former No. 1 Venus Williams.
World number one and top seed Johnson beat Spanish 22st seed Jon Rahm 21-up in the 18-hole final at Austin Country Club.
Mo, an employee of Chinese firm Kings Nower Seed, pleaded guilty to stealing seed grown by U.S. firms Monsanto, Dupont Pioneer and LG Seeds.
No. 6 seed Wichita State improved to 21-14 and advanced to a third-round game at No. 43.63 seed Indiana on Tuesday night.
Seventh seed Elina Svitolina, ninth seed Aryna Sabalenka and big-serving American Madison Keys all advanced to the third round behind straight set wins.
The second seed survived a match point to record a 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2 win over Portuguese fourth seed Joao Sousa.
As a reminder, through its four-month seed program, the 500 Startups seed fund invests $150,000 in participating companies in exchange for 6% equity.
The Silicon Valley venture firm that helped popularize seed investing has decided to stop taking outside money, blaming the ballooning size of seed rounds.
" Back to the Seed Journey at hand, Van Dessel says: "The seed ceremonies we host at every stop help to connect all these people.
In 1971, Kodes beat both the top-seed John Newcombe and the third-seed Arthur Ashe before losing to Stan Smith in the finals.
Wozniacki, the No. 103 seed, also arrived Tuesday as the highest seed left in the women's draw after No. 210 Simona Halep lost Monday.
The Musketeers joined Virginia, which was the first top seed to ever lose to No. 2 seed, falling to Maryland-Baltimore County on Friday.
The number of seed funds raised and the total dollars invested in seed rounds were both down roughly 20153% over the same time period.
There was the sheer history of being the first No. 2000 seed ever to lose to a No. 21 seed in the men's tournament.
Kvitova, the No. 13 seed and a quarterfinalist here in 2015, had lost her two most recent meetings with Garcia, the No. 18 seed.
Those upsets have historically come down to the No. 15 seed attempting and, more importantly, making more free throws than the No. 2 seed.
Feng dug into the changing ratio between enterprise-focused Seed deals and consumer-oriented Seed investments over the past decade or so, including 33.
Amidst rumors that Seed Beauty and Kylie Cosmetics are faking scarcity, Vanity Fair reached out to Seed Beauty co-founder Laura Nelson for clarity.
The first upset of a number one seed by a 16th seed happened one day after the annual anniversary of Caesar's loss to Brutus.
Picking a 14th seed that wins its first game, some reason, should be worth more than picking a No. 3 seed that holds serve.
Australian No. 7 seed Alex de Minaur blitzed No. 2 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 63-2, 6-2 in the other semifinal.
In 2018 the team became the first No. 1 seed to ever lose to a No. 16 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Clemson, the tournament's No. 4 seed, improved to 23-8 and advanced to play top seed and No. 1-ranked Virginia in Friday's semifinals.
The No. 4 seed from the East, Florida, had little trouble getting past offensively challenged Virginia, the fifth seed, in a 65-39 victory.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed and settled after parents have had their newborns taken away after eating poppy seed bagels or poppy seed dressing.
You can't make innovation happen, but you can like, it's kind of an interesting ... You can seed it, you can stock it, seed it.
The second day of the 2016 NCAA Tournament is in the books, and it was far wilder than the first, as a No. 20163 seed, No. 14 seed and No. 13 seed all pulled off upsets, to go along with a halfcourt buzzer-beater.
Japanese third seed Kei Nishikori beat American qualifier Dennis Novikov 6-4 63-5, ninth seed John Isner fell 7-6(3) 6-7(4) 6-4 to American Ryan Harrison and Canadian fourth seed Raonic beat Taiwan's Lu Yen-hsun 6-3 6-3.
This is from our seed investment memo: Seed investment memo ~ 2009 Seed investment memo ~ 2009 Law No. 8: Democratizes development Developer platforms that enable and empower non-developers are truly a needle in a haystack — but extremely powerful once the core mechanics are working.
The deal includes seed processing plants and seed research centers, a copy of Dow AgroSciences' Brazilian corn germplasm bank, the Morgan seed brand and a license for the use of the Dow Sementes brand for a certain period of time, Dow said on Tuesday.
Two years ago, it won the tournament as a No. 259.2 seed, then lost two starters; returned as the No. 1 overall seed, and then lost a national player-of-the-year finalist, Josh Hart; and is now back as the second overall seed.
If you need more reasons to not pick a No. 73 seed to win in the first round, the average margin of victory for a No. 1 seed over a No. 16 seed has been nearly 30 points in the last two NCAA tournaments.
The Demon Deacons will be the No. 13 seed and play No. 12 seed North Carolina State next Tuesday in the tournament opener in Washington.
It will make pre-seed and seed investments of between €50,000 and €250,000 on average per company, up to €2 million including follow-on investments.
Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS) is a finance service that disperses first-stage, pre-seed and seed funding to companies, including through specific science and creativity grants.
Thiem will now play Argentina's fifth seed Diego Schwartzman who beat French fourth seed Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2 in the other semi-final.
In another series of firsts, No. 3 seed Roger Federer and No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal have yet to face off in the Big Apple.
They will be a 6-seed in the same region as 3-seed Baylor, despite being ranked higher than Baylor, and 11th overall, in KenPom.
"We will consider seed-funding — what we call seed-plus — tickets in the $500,000 range," Deme told TechCrunch for this story on the new fund.
"When people know what you're trying to do, it plants a seed in their brain, and it plants a seed in your own," says Mistal.
Nala plans to leverage the seed funding and exposure from YC participation to raise additional capital to close its first seed round, he told TechCrunch.
The Czech 11th seed was leading by a set and a break of serve when second seed Djokovic withdrew due to an elbow injury [nL4N1K34ST].
A concern is that wheat blast can be seed-borne, meaning the disease could spread unwittingly by farmers while wheat is in the seed state.
The fund does pre-seed, seed and token launches, according to Gupta, who would not disclose the size of the investments the firm is making.
XFactor, the pre-seed and seed-stage VC out of Flybridge Capital, has today announced that it has raised a second fund of $8.6 million.
The president mostly picked favorites to win but penciled in one major upset in his bracket, picking 13th-seed Hawaii to beat four-seed California.
Seed companies "must avail adequate small grain seed for drought-prone areas so that farmers have no excuses not to plant small grains," he said.
Major genetically modified seed companies have largely stamped out the once-common practice of saving seed in the United States over the past two decades.
The startup went without early-stage funding before Tuesday's round even though other startups have been raising seed and pre-seed rounds of increasing enormity.
Spanish twice-champion Rafa Nadal then takes on rising Russian 30th seed Karen Khachanov, before world number one Murray plays Italian 28th seed Fabio Fognini.
The cream uses ingredients like sea whip extract, sunflower seed oil, jojoba seed oil, shea butter, and rosemary leaf extract to hydrate and restore skin.
Nadal, the No. 2 seed and an 11-time champion, and Federer, the No. 3 seed, seem on track for a meeting in the semifinals.
The firm will still be writing $250K to $500K checks for pre-seed, seed and early Series A companies as a participant, not a lead.
Raonic, looking for his first title since January 2016, will face either third seed Tomas Berdych or fifth seed Gilles Simon in Friday's semi-finals.
"For pre-seed and seed companies based in the U.S. and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact," Google AI for Social Good.
The Spanish third seed, who claimed her second grand slam at Wimbledon this year, barely broke sweat on Louis Armstrong Stadium against the 31st seed.
German fifth seed Julia Goerges and Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova, the eighth seed, were tied at 4-4 in the first set when play was suspended.
Fertility tech startup Mojo is coming out of stealth to announce a €1.7 million (~$1.8M) seed round of funding led by Nordic seed fund Inventure.
As we've previously reported, monster funds are becoming increasingly active at the seed stage, muscling seed funds out of top deals with less dilutive offers.
At the early-stage, the fight for seed deals continued, with larger funds moving downstream to muscle their way into seed and Series A financings.
NEC SEMIFINALS Earl Potts Jr. scored 20 points and grabbed 9 rebounds, and No. 2 seed Fairleigh Dickinson (17-14) edged No. 5 seed Mount St. Mary's (14-19), 80-933, in a Northeast Conference semifinal in Teaneck, N.J. The Knights advanced to play No. 1 seed Wagner (22-9), which defeated No. 6 seed Long Island-Brooklyn (16-15), 81-65, in New York.
To help with the national expansion the company has raised $3.25 million in seed funding from investors including NextView Ventures, who also led the seed round.
So far, 12,450 seed collections representing 8,900 Australian species, all of which are saved in local seed banks, have been duplicated and stored in Kew's MSB.
Second seed Murray, who booked his sixth semi-final in Melbourne, will face Milos Raonic with the Canadian 13th seed in the form of his life.
Innovative strategies, including pre-idea seed rounds and investing in second-tier markets, may rescue seed funds crushed under the weight of Sequoia, Coatue and others.
So far, 12,450 seed collections representing 8,900 Australian species, all of which are saved in local seed banks, have been duplicated and stored in Kews MSB.
Draper Esprit is already an investor/LP in a number of other European early-stage funds, including pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, and Episode 1.
Beat UVA, lose to Wake Forest, upset a one-seed in the NCAA Tournament, then get upset by a 13-seed in the Sweet Sixteen. 2.
The two men envision an investment platform where the incubator can make small pre-seed and seed commitments on which the Urban Us fund will follow.
"Not only can we grow small plants, but we will be able to grow seed to seed," said APH project manager Bryan Onate in a statement.
BASF's acquisition of Bayer's seed business for $7 billion alters industry dynamics as the company moves beyond traditional chemistry lines into seed for the first time.
Denver has a slim chance at the top seed but leads Houston by 1 1/1123 games for the second seed with a game in hand.
Farmers in California might need a seed that tolerates drought, while a Midwestern farmer might want a seed with extra resistance to a particular plant disease.
TC: Visionaries Club has two funds, one for pre-seed/seed and one for later-growth rounds, and plans to invest in B2B startups across Europe.
PD: What's interesting is that CRISPR really brings down the cost of creating a new seed line or incorporating traits from a difficult-to-breed seed.
I wonder out loud how Seedcamp positions itself now it is far from the only value-add European investor at the pre-seed and seed stage.
Officials said the seed multiplication farms now cover all six divisions in the Southwest region, with SOWEDA selling seed to farmers outside the region as well.
That view appeals to DuPont, the American seed giant, which offers Mr. Li and his family discounts on seed, pesticides and fertilizers to cultivate those views.
Hopper bird feeders have an enclosed space for the seed, but are open near the bottom so seed can spill out into some sort of tray.
N.C.A.A. Women's Tournament Bracket UConn, which has been a No. 1 seed every year since 2007, opens up against 16-seed Saint Francis on Saturday morning.
"We have to assume the market (and the flow of follow-on funds, other than seed and pre-seed) will stop for six to nine months."
Somewhere in the NCAA bylaws is a rule that says at least one No. 5 seed has to lose to a No. 12 seed every March.
Using seed provided by the Kenya Forest Research Institute, Kinyanjui researches what trees grow best in each area, then manufactures seed balls designed for that area.
A 16 seed, UMBC was matched up against a No. 1 overall seed Virginia Cavaliers squad that entered March Madness with just two losses all season.
The Minnesota Vikings (10-5) are locked in the NFC's number six seed but the NFC East title and number four seed is on the line.
M Ramasami, chairman of the Federation of Seed Industry of India which represents foreign seed makers, said the Supreme Court ruling would encourage the development of new seed technologies and farm processes which in turn would benefit farmers and improve the competitiveness of India's farm economy.
I bought a bunch of supplies at the grocery store yesterday and blend a morning smoothie (blueberries, peach, strawberries, banana, almond milk, flax seed, chia seed, superfood powder) and a lunch smoothie (half a bottle of Soylent, protein powder, blueberries, strawberries, peach, flax seed) and brew coffee.
Or finally, take a seed-stage company I was talking to a few weeks ago that closed its seed round and then met a top investor just a few days later — and that investor actually wrote another, richer-valued seed check almost immediately after the meeting. Why?
No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee has just pulled off a stunner, knocking off powerhouse No. 2 seed Michigan State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.
For the first two quarters in 2000, startups with a female founder raised $277 million in seed investment, or around 2100 percent of all seed funding dollars.
Russian fourth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat American Alison Riske 6-4 6-0, while sixth seed CoCo Vandeweghe thrashed fellow American Nicole Gibbs 6-0 6-2.
Planting problems mean that growers need less seed and herbicides than expected, which is bad news for salesmen like Greg McKnight of Barman Seed in Woodhull, Illinois.
Bacsinszky has taken down some big names en route to the semi-final, disposing of third seed Agnieszka Radwanska and 16th seed Ana Ivanovic in previous rounds.
Likewise, Marble shared it raised $4 million in its seed funding round this year, and Dispatch received $2 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz last year.
Supply of seed-stage startups increased Although generally new company formation is in decline, the reverse is true for the types of startups that seed investors back.
Accel, for example, made a seed bet in Slack years ago, a huge win for the fund, and now does more than 15 seed investments per year.
The fifth seed will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for the title, after the Russian's opponent, top seed Ashleigh Barty, retired due to injury in the other semi-final.
Pre-seed founders should raise $500K because it's better than bootstrapping, and eliminates the potential for the high valuations and dilution inherent with raising large seed rounds.
On top of working to secure capital for BVP X, the firm announced a $10 million early-stage seed fund, called Deep Health Seed Program, in June.
Danish second seed Caroline Wozniacki beat Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena 6-4 6-1, while Ukrainian fourth seed Elina Svitolina defeated German Mona Barthel 6-4 6-3.
Second seed Simona Halep, who is battling a nagging Achilles problem, faces a qualifier first up while third seed Garbine Muguruza meets 86th-ranked Estonian Annett Kontaveit.
Armed with $1.4 million of seed funding, they're now offering new features for their system to seed investors, including a marketplace for goods sold using the platform.
Seed libraries — where a person can check out different varieties — began to crop up in the US, after the founding of the Seed Savers Exchange in 1975.
There are tons of resources for starting your own swaps and seed libraries online, and the Seed Savers Exchange offers a particularly succinct guide on its website.
Just like you and me, he likes to dabble in the occasional 12-seed upset over a five-seed, but, in general, he steers clear of Cinderella.
Deal details: 90% of the Rippling round comes from investors in the seed round for Zenefits, although Zenefits seed leads Venrock and Maverick Capital did not participate.
He can add to those totals on Friday night, when No. 26 seed Indiana faces No. 21981 seed North Carolina in a Sweet 353 game in Philadelphia.
Next up for Muchova is Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, the eighth seed, who defeated 24th-seed Petra Martic of Croatia 6-4, 6-2 — Field Level Media
And a seed round used to be a couple hundred thousand dollars, and now seed rounds are millions of dollars, or at least have been recently. Yeah.
We are planning to invest between €500K to €1.5M into great B2B founders in the pre-seed and seed stage taking around 10% ownership in their companies.
But it realized a seed found should be no larger than $23 million so raised a $22 million seed fund and a separate $23 million opportunity fund.
Michigan State lost in of the biggest upsets in March Madness history Friday when 183-seed Middle Tennessee State took down the 2-seed Spartans, 90-81.
Xavier, the second seed in the event, is potentially eyeing a second straight meeting in the title game with top seed Villanova - whom the Musketeers defeated Feb.
Those profits go to the patent-holding company itself, which these days is one of ever-fewer multinational seed conglomerates, while farmers watch their seed prices skyrocket.
The group said is expected to select seed and pre-seed startups with "the optimal conditions for success," including financial investment of up to $1 million each.
In those ten years, the pre-seed and seed investor has backed over 2000 early-stage companies, most notably TransferWise, and has seen 103 exits in total.
Meanwhile, about 65% of the pre-seed companies Precursor backed in its first fund have gone on to get seed-round funding from institutional investors, Hudson said.
Autumn Seed grows mainly white pumpkins and produces five million to six million pounds of seeds annually, most of which they sell to several pumpkin seed brands.
This limited tranche of free tickets ensures that we include more women and people of colour who are specifically "pre-seed" or "seed-stage" tech startup founders.
The deposit will feature over 60,203 seed samples from 36 different groups — the most to send their seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at one time.
There will be a new store, Black Seed Appetizing, from Black Seed Bagels, with smoked fish in sandwiches and by the pound, tinned seafood, salads and pastries.
Second seed Simona Halep, who is battling a nagging Achilles problem, faces a qualifier first up while third seed Garbine Muguruza meets 86th-ranked Estonian Annett Kontaveit.
Although Africa's governments have mostly got out of the seed-production business, governments often subsidise seeds and former state monopolies still dominate the seed trade (see article).
In December, he announced that hulled hemp seeds, hemp seed protein and hemp seed oil could be marketed as long as they made no disease treatment claims.
The Illini (313-10, 13-7) earned the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament, while the Hawkeyes (20-11, 11-9) are the No. 5 seed.
According to PWC and NVCA data, investors poured $375 million in 52 seed deals in the fourth quarter, and the average seed deal rose from $4.1 million in the third quarter to $8813 million in the fourth (which is a lot of money for a seed-stage company!).
The Brain Seed Somehow, thanks to the magical properties of the house, those who enter in search of the puzzle manage to activate a "seed" inside their brain.
IOTA wallets are protected by an 81-digit seed, similar to a password, which can be generated using seed-generators found online, such as on the IOTA website.
The firm said it will invest between $250,000 and $750,000 in seed-round investments and will commit under $100,0000 to the pre-seed participants in its MuckerLab accelerator.
The invoice/seed list may provide a code for each lot, which may be used on the seed packets in lieu of the full list of required information.
Like its second fund, Ludlow Ventures raised $45 million for this fund and intends to use it to keep investing in founders seeking pre-seed and seed funds.
SuperPhone's progress signing up customers hasn't been stellar, though, so the raise is considered a "seed prime" round with only a slightly higher valuation than the 2016 seed.
Studio companies will receive larger investments, taking up about 25 percent of capital, with a large number of small seed and pre-seed investments going to camp graduates.
In an even closer encounter, Swiss 15th seed Timea Bacsinszky survived four match points to beat Dutch 18th seed Kiki Bertens 63-3 5-7 7-6(8).
These were used to create seed banks in Morocco and Lebanon after the region's central seed bank in Aleppo in Syria was damaged during the country's civil war.
Seed amounts in female-only founded startups since 2100 hovered between four and five percent of all seed dollars, with 277 representing six percent with $2100 million invested.
For instance, in 2009, when an 11-seed, three 12-seeds, and a 733-seed all made it to the second round, POTUS picked zero of those winners.
The more and the broader we can share rare and heirloom seed varieties, the more success we will have in saving and propagating seed diversity around the world.
Scenario "C" was the startup with the outlier valuation at their seed stage that raised a $2 million seed round with a post-money valuation of $14 million.
"Canola seed exporters report that Chinese importers are unwilling to purchase Canadian canola seed at this time," it added, but did not give a reason for the move.
The company, which graduated alongside Y Combinator's recent batch of startups, has already received some pre-seed funding on its way to a $1.3 million targeted seed round.
Moreover, Monsanto-Bayer and Dow-DuPont would dominate corn seed, producing 77 percent of that market, and canola seed, selling almost 100 percent of the major crop varieties.
It was still effective enough for him to stun fourth seed Stan Wawrinka in the previous round but against 32nd seed Pouille he was clearly suffering from fatigue.
Vietnam slashed its wheat purchases from Russia a year ago after finding imports contained thistle seed, as it fears thistle seed could spread across Vietnam and damage crops.
The fifth seed would bring a visit to the Dallas Cowboys in the wild-card round of the playoffs, while the sixth seed would send Seattle to Chicago.
Why are you taking it away from teams like maybe a 16 seed, who pretty much probably will only have one or two games, or a 15 seed?
They were the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race, with just a half-game between them and the Atlanta Hawks for the No. 3 seed.
Kansas, the top overall seed, demolished Austin Peay, 105-79, after taking a 20-point halftime lead, and Virginia, another No. 1 seed, coolly dispatched Hampton, 81-45.
Its annual venture competition has yielded an alumnae community of nearly 400 women entrepreneurs, with the 2016 finalists reporting $10+ million raised in seed and pre-seed funding.
Scotts Wizz Hand-Held Seed Spreader, available from Amazon for $18.98 For the outdoor mom, help alleviate back strain and increase productivity with this battery-powered seed spreader.
Spain's fourth seed Muguruza plays Kazakh 27th seed Yulia Putintseva while Mladenovic, seeded 13th, will hope she is not bothered by her back problem against American Shelby Rogers.
Also moving on to the next round are No. 6 seed Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia and No. 8 seed Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine, each winning in straight sets.
DowDuPont developed Enlist E3 soybeans with a smaller seed company called MS Technologies, said Harry Stine, the chief executive of Stine Seed who is affiliated with MS Technologies.
On Saturday, in the men's tourney, Loyola Chicago, a No. 11 seed, will play third-seeded Michigan, before Villanova, the 2016 champion, faces a fellow top seed, Kansas.
These compound seed capsules are often confused with the seed heads of the American sycamore, or its London plane-tree hybrid, but the two are only superficially similar.
Such is the way you can feel about 11th seed Loyola Chicago taking on the historied and 6th seed Miami in their first March Madness appearance since 1985.
He is the third top-10 player to fall in the men's first round after sixth seed Alexander Zverev and seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas bowed out on Monday.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault "offers a safe place for the depositing duplicates of seed samples that are conserved in gene banks all over the world," said Asdal.
Many banks have already lost seeds, so the Svalbard Global Seed Vault offers free-of-charge storage for any seed bank, a program funded by the Norwegian government.
This means that the change to more enterprise deals as a portion of all Seed investments isn't predicated on their number holding steady while Seed deals dried up.

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