Just a handful of Bay Area startups announced seed funding deals in the past week.
Among them are one that aims to make life easier for electronics designers and one that's trying to help small and mid-sized businesses create their own machine-learning models.
Here's more on those seed-stage deals:
Flux, San Francisco, $12 million: Outsiders Fund led the round for this developer of collaborative circuit design software. Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC, Liquid2VC and Tom Preston Werner also invested.
Mage Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, $6.7 million: Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, led the round for this developer of a tool used to create machine-learning models. Neo, Designer Fund, Unity CEO John Riccitiello, Behance founder Scott Belsky, Lenny's Newsletter author Lenny Rachitsky, and James Beshara also participated.
Replai, San Francisco, $4.7 million: Hoxton Ventures led the round for this provider of data analysis software for online videos. Sonae IM, Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital and Accel also invested.
SparkPlug, San Francisco, $2.5 million: TenOneTen Ventures, Jason Calacanis and Argonautic Ventures invested in the round for this provider of a sales app for use by retail workers.
