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Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles (HQ) and New York and a staff of 40, M13 is a consumer technology venture capital firm. We invest in the seed to series A stages of enabling technology startups that power the future of work, health, commerce, and money. M13 is staffed with 2.5 operators for every investor so our founders get access to deep operational expertise, tech tools, and an ecosystem that helps them build faster and better. Where we see whitespace in an industry, our Launchpad develops founding teams, products, and practices to incubate and launch an idea from inception. We believe that advancement is a team mission. Messier 13 (or M13) is one of the brightest star clusters in the Northern sky. It’s full of remarkable individual stars, and when those stars come together, they create something that’s truly greater than the sum of its parts. All of us at M13 contribute to our collective success by being brighter together. Our proven Propulsion platform for success will create more winning companies and demonstrate that when investors and founding teams are aligned on a venture together, we can redefine what’s possible.
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Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures. Cie blends Silicon Valley DNA with the business maturity of serial entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. Combined with the team’s strategic and operational expertise in technology, product development, brand building, and customer acquisition, Cie consistently drives positive outcomes across a wide range of business challenges. Cie’s venture portfolio includes Cie Games (acquired by Glu Mobile), Nativo, ASAP Tire (acquired by Tire Rack), Titan School Solutions (acquired by LINQ), and a growing list of emerging start-ups. Cie’s leadership team has served key roles at transformational companies such as Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Overture, Pepsi, Nestlé, Saks Fifth Avenue, Goldman Sachs, and Internet Brands.
Mucker Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
<p>Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. We are value-add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveraged equity capital.</p><p>Our Investment Criteria:</p><p>Our focus is on education technology, digital media, healthcare, financial services, and consumer goods but we are open to exciting ideas in other verticals.</p><p>We seek investments from $100,000 to $1,500,000 and typically do not take lead investor roles.</p><p>We invest in U.S.-based companies, preferably on the West Coast.</p><p>We look for business models with proof-of-concept in place (post-revenue or with secured contracts) that are requiring less than $5,000,000 and three years to reach break-even point.</p>
<p>Alcatel Ventures is a value added venture capital partnership that invests in privately held companies which command unique technology. Alcatel Ventures invests primarily in US technology companies that address large or rapidly growing market opportunities related to hardware and software–wireless communications, computer networking, telecommunications infrastructure, optical components and networking, the Internet, and unique semiconductor chips.</p><p>Alcatel Ventures is primarily focused on investing in early stage technology companies, although it will consider later stage investments where a minimum return of five times or more is likely. Alcatel Ventures’ typical investments are between $500K to $6 million in any given round. Alcatel Ventures is headquartered in Los Angeles and has offices in Silicon Valley, San Diego, Boston and Seoul, Korea.</p>
Summation Health Ventures invests in start-up, privately held, early- to mid-stage information technology, technology enabled device and services companies with proven and experienced management teams, revenue growth potential, and offerings that improve performance and achieve success in today’s health systems and physician organizations.
Venture Capital that does Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage Venture Investments.
An angel investment company that provides angel investment & entrepreneurial experience to companies in the interactive entertainment & technology markets.
CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency. Corporate Venture Capital that does Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage Venture Investments.
Fifth Wall Ventures is a venture capital firm concentrating on technology for the built world. We are connecting the world’s largest owners and operators of physical space with the entrepreneurs and innovators redefining how the world uses and interacts with their environments.
Next 10 Ventures is a leading venture group solely focused on the global Creator economy. We provide advisory services, invest in early stage startups, and incubate new businesses from our offices in Los Angeles and Singapore. Our team brings decades of decades of digital experience from the earliest global disruptors in content, media and commerce
Boosting startup success with no fee charged and no equity taken! We are a global tech startup pre-accelerator aimed at working with great early-stage entrepreneurs to prepare them for accelerator programs, seed investment, and revenue through a six-week part-time program. Growing Globally 2018!
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">After 17 years we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">What's up with that? </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years and we have too. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Wouldn’t we be a bit hypocritical to talk with entrepreneurs about innovation but not be willing to take it on ourselves? </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">We wanted a new name to signify this change, one that stands for our values and what we feel will be important in our industry for the next 20 years. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Transparency. Candor. Point-of-view. Accessibility. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Plus, most of our investments are Seed or A round – so there’s that, too. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Having just announced our newest $200 million fund (our 4th fund), we thought it was perfect timing. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">AlumniFunder is a marketplace for ideas, where youthfully minded doers seek biased capital.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The company facilitates the connection between funders and doers for specific projects (e.g., social entrepreneurship, campus impact, design, research) and startups within university alumni ecosystems.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">AlumniFunder seeks to enrich the experiential education of students as well as the reach of alumni to execute on worthy projects. Further, the company is building a free platform to support equity investing in startups and technology-transfer initiatives that will launch this summer, alongside a $10MM side-car fund that will co-invest 1/3 with the alumni “crowd.”</p><br><br><br><br><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Read more: <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/alumnifunder#ixzz2RVWue63o" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/alumnifunder</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States. Its members provide funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other investment group. TCA members invest in companies in a wide range of industries, including the life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, consumer products and tech startups. TCA members give companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners and management talent. TCA has more than 250 members, including its venture capital affiliates, in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Westlake/Santa Barbara and the Inland Empire. </span></p>
<p>Hillcrest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that takes a methodical approach to investing. Leveraging our experience with venture capital investing, operating startup companies, strategy development, product management, and investment banking in a structured manner, we help promising entrepreneurs create tomorrow's leading technology companies.</p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Industries of Interest</b><br>Hillcrest Venture Partners invests in companies developing technologies in the following industries:</font></p><ul><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Communications Infrastucture</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Enterprise Applications</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Financial Technology</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Information Technology Infrastructure</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Life Science Research Tools</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Semiconductor</font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Wireless</font></li></ul><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Company Stage</b></font><br><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Hillcrest Venture Partners invests exclusively in companies that are in the seed to growth (i.e., less than $15 Million in revenue) stage of development. We prefer to invest in companies that have at least completed a working prototype of their product.</font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Geography</b></font><br><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">While Hillcrest Venture Partners will consider investing in a company irrespective of the company's location, we prefer to invest in companies that are proximate to one of our offices. </font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Disciplined Investing</b><br>We invest according to a thorough methodology that yields an objective assessment of each company. Some of the factors we consider are:</font></p><ul><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Problem Addressed.</u> The company's product or service must address a meaningful problem faced by customers. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Value Proposition.</u> The product or service must have clear and material advantages (e.g., cheaper, faster, more convenient) over existing solutions. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Market Size.</u> The total addressable market for the product or solution must exceed $500 Million per year. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Barriers to Entry.</u> There must be substantial barriers which prevent others from duplicating the product or entering the market. </font></li><li><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><u>Management Team.</u> The company's management team must have a track record of success or have demonstrated potential for success.</font></li></ul><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2">Hillcrest Venture Partners will make an initial investment between $25,000 to $100,000 in a company and will make a maximum investment of $150,000 over the life of a company.</font></p><p><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="2"><b>Focused Assistance</b><br>With its diversely skilled management team, Hillcrest Venture Partners assists its portfolio companies with numerous aspects of business. From strategy formulation to recruiting personnel to business development, we provide far more than capital to our companies. Furthermore, Hillcrest Venture Partners assigns its managing directors to its companies according to the specific needs of a portfolio company and the particular skills of the managing directors. By doing so, we insure that a portfolio company receives the optimal value from our team. As our companies grow, we provide connections to larger sources of capital, strategic partnerships, potential acquirers or investment bankers.</font></p><p> </p>
Steamboat Ventures is venture capital firm affiliate of The Walt Disney Company. They invest in early-stage technology companies.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Our mission is to build world-class companies by providing early-stage investment and operational guidance to distinctive entrepreneurs. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">We like to get involved early. We are usually the first institutional investor in a company, and our typical initial investment is from $500,000 to $4,000,000. We prefer to take a lead or co-lead position where we can have influence on the Board of Directors as well as outside this formal channel through direct ties to the leadership team.</span></p>
We are a diverse team of innovators, builders and entrepreneurs, developing advanced technologies for practical use in robotics, automation and mobility… to name a few. We partner with corporations to build disruptive technology that will drive future growth. We help partners think & execute like startups.
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We are NAX, the New Asset Exchange, a software and services company that rapidly commercializes consumer and enterprise products to achieve adjacent growth in new markets. Powered by NAX technology and a diverse team of product, technology, and business entrepreneurs, we have built a proprietary platform that discovers products within 90 days and launches them at scale within nine months. We aim to better the world with all of the products we commercialize, and provide the unique opportunity to build corporate-backed, high social impact businesses alongside the world’s leading corporations.
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