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Early Money: 8 Bay Area startups, including one offering microbiome tests, just won seed funding


Zeit Medical CEO Orestes Vardoulis
Orestes Vardoulis is CEO of Zeit Medical, a Redwood City startup with a headband that can detect strokes while the wearer is sleeping.
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A sleep headband that detects strokes, a social network for professionals and at-home microbiome tests are a few of the products and services developed by Bay Area companies that raised seed funding in the past week.

Here are the details:

Gamma Tech Inc. (dba Gamma), San Francisco, $7 million: Accel led the round for this provider of presentation creation software. Jeff Weiner and Eric Yuan also invested.

Elotl Inc., San Francisco, $5 million: Vertex Ventures US led the funding for this developer of a service that helps companies manage their use of and spending on cloud computing services. Essence Venture Capital, HearstLab, Telescopic, XYZ, Dan Scheinman and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of Catamorphic Co. (d/b/a LaunchDarkly), also participated.

RightRev Inc., Santa Clara, $5 million: Norwest Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures led the round for this provider of finance and accounting software. Idea Fund Partners, Two Sigma, GoBig.ai and Correlation Ventures also invested.

Atlas Visa Inc. (dba Atlys), San Francisco, $4.3 million: Andreessen Horowitz led the funding of this provider of a service that helps people apply for travel visas. Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC, Long Journey Ventures, South Park Commons Fund and Endeavor Capital also invested.

Remote Students Inc. (dba Ladder), San Francisco, $3.7 million: Forerunner Ventures led the round for this provider of a social networking service for professionals. Seven Seven Six, Pear VC, Scribble Ventures, and Script Capital also invested.

Ex Populus Inc., Berkeley, $3 million: Animoca Brands led the investment in this publisher of games that incorporate blockchain technology. CMS, Enjin, Infinity Ventures, Evernew, Polybius Capital, Decision Tree Ventures, Outlier Ventures and Zipmex also invested.

Quantbiome Inc. (dba Ombre), San Francisco, $3 million: PivotNorth led the round for this provider of at-home microbiome tests and probiotic supplements, which changed its brand name from Thryve. Trail Mix Ventures, Shanda Group, Unilever Ventures, Joyance Partners and Unpopular Ventures also participated.

Zeit Medical Inc., Redwood City, $2 million: SeedtoB and Digilife led the round for this developer of a headband that detects strokes. Y Combinator, Gaingels, Northsouth Ventures, Tamar Capital, Axial and Citta Capital also invested.


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