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SoundCommerce is a one-stop shop for any e-commerce company trying to manage multiple points of sale across Amazon, a website, and a traditional storefront. The software aggregates data across the tens of vendors any one company might be using, like site builder Shopify or returns processing software Returnly, to manage parts of the business to…

The round was led by Defy Partners, with participation from Advancit Capital and FJ Labs. Early Skubana backer Brian Lee  — who co-founded The Honest Company, ShoeDazzle and LegalZoom, and is also involved as a Defy Sage — is joining Skubana’s board of directors.

“SoundCommerce is poised to capitalize on the value of operations data, beginning with the massive and growing consumer goods and D2C industries,” said Neil Sequeira, Co-founder and Managing Director at Defy Partners. “While everyone else prioritizes marketing, Amazon.com has proven that modern, intelligent operations are paramount to retail success.”

The intersection of computer science and the life sciences creates an enormous opportunity.

Trae Vassallo, Defy managing director, joins ‘Fast Money Halftime Report’ to discuss early stage investing and the state of venture capital.

Fundamentally, you need to be passionate about an idea, market or team before starting any business.

There truly is no typical career path in venture capital anymore. VC was once a cottage industry that sprung up from executives at leading companies like Fairchild Semiconductor. Then for a number of years, many of the best VCs like John Doerr, Jim Breyer, and Peter Wagner usually attended Stanford or Harvard for undergraduate and…

“Some of the coolest companies are ones where the technology is not rocket science, it’s really well understood in one technology industry, and then you sort of borrow it and you marry it with a market that’s just never seen anything like it before,”

“As a former founder, operator, and executive from startup creation through IPO, I deeply understand and appreciate all of the ups and downs along the entrepreneurial journey,” Rothenberg wrote on Defy’s website.

“Having been a founder myself, at the Series A is when you start to see the growth levers emerging,” he said. “But what a Series A was 10 years ago is not what it looks like today. I’ve seen a lot of companies that are overfunded at the Series A, which on the surface seems…