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<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(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Rustic Canyon helps standout seed and growth-stage entrepreneurs leverage technological innovation to create and commercialize disruptive change. </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 are an early stage firm actively investing out of our third fund, raised in 2007. As the first or second institutional investor in a company, our investments range from $500,000 to $10 million. </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 focus on two sectors, which we believe will produce the most transformative commercial advances of our time: </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;">Internet & Digital Media </span><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;">Energy & Efficiency </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 are one of the largest VC firms in Los Angeles, and we have a strong and growing presence in the Bay Area. We invest primarily in these two regions, but we consider opportunities outside of California when we meet entrepreneurs with the talent and drive to create and capitalize on opportunity. </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;">Rustic Canyon was launched in 1999 by Founding Partner Tom Unterman, and is led by Managing Partner Nate Redmond. </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;">In addition to our core venture platform, we have partnered with the management of US Renewables Group, Rustic Canyon / Fontis and Saints Capital to form new funds that serve to deepen our expertise and extend our reach. </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;">To submit your disruptive idea for consideration, email your business plan to [email protected].</span></p>
<div>ideaTree = id·ea·tr·ee / ˈidəāˌtree – a place or situation that permits and encourages development and acceleration of new ideas and makes them real.</div><div> </div><div>We create valuable mobile & internet companies that disrupt the marketplace when surrounded by our resources and ongoing mentorship.</div><div> </div><div>Our goal at ideaTree is simple: Give extraordinary ideas access to the resources they need to create exceptional technology companies.</div><div> </div><div>This approach helps nurture great ideas into real products which then go on to become independent revenue-generating companies.</div><div> </div><div>ideaTree is building the world’s largest conglomerate of mobile and internet brands by identifying, accelerating new ideas and proven internet business models thereby transferring them to new and untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leaders.</div><div> </div><div>Focused on traditional and disruptive models in mobile and internet space across multiple sectors including financial services, sports, social media, e-Commerce, sports, marketplaces, travel and online dating.</div><div> </div><div>Since 2012, ideaTree has a workforce which operates across 10 countries. The Company is headquartered in Los Angeles and has offices worldwide.</div>
Venture Capital that does Seed, Early Stage Venture, and Later Stage Venture Investments.
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An angel investment company that provides angel investment & entrepreneurial experience to companies in the interactive entertainment & technology markets.
Arena Ventures is a founder-focused venture firm making seed and growth investments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We're the first VC firm fully integrated with AngelList, empowering individual investors around the world to participate in our deals.
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Cadre has been around for 13 years - We are a boutique recruiting and consulting agency that focuses exclusively on emerging growth startup tech companies. Our target markets are SF Bay, LA, and NYC. We are specialists when it comes to helping startups hire engineers, and very niche in the sense that we do not stray to far from our core competency. We have quite a bit of secret sauce + software that enables us to be ultra-efficient while providing a service to candidates that is unparalleled.
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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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Cache ventures builds, advises, and invests in awesome products.
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, formerly New World Ventures, helps entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies at every stage of their growth. Since our founding in 1996, our firm has worked side-by-side with entrepreneurs at more than 100 companies, building partnerships based on trust and integrity. Our proprietary capital structure allows for tremendous flexibility, and our experienced team of investment professionals and entrepreneurs offers companies a vast network of strategic relationships and guidance. Successful exits in recent years include Fleetmatics (NYSE: FLTX), SinglePlatform (acquired by Constant Contact), Zinch (acquired by Chegg), Playdom (acquired by Disney), LeftHand Networks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster).We invite you to learn more about us by checking out our portfolio, our investment criteria and the work we do to support entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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CrossCut is a leading SoCal venture capital fund with more than $225M in AUM across four funds. We believe successful investing is about mentorship, trust, community-building, hard work, shared learning, empathy and a bit of luck. And we use our deep operating and institutional investing expertise to fund early stage companies across the country.
<p><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 65); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Structure is an advisory and venture investment company that helps established start ups grow from seed stage to institutional stage.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 65);"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 65);">Structure provides guidance to entrepreneur-led companies focused on tech, media and real estate via experienced executives and subject matter expertise. Structure also controls an investment fund to invest alongside certain affiliated start ups.</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>
<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><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">INVENT Ventures Invent is a publicly-traded technology venture firm located in Santa Monica, CA that trades as “IDEA” on the OTC market </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 are the only public company in the U.S. that is focused exclusively on building tech startups. The INVENT structure provides all of our stakeholders with access to early stage venture capital through our curated and actively managed portfolio of technology businesses. We are a new type of company, offering unparalleled access to the fastest growing industries.</span></p>
We firmly believe in the power of numbers and networks and it shows in how we invest. We take a portfolio-building approach to early stage (Seed-Series A) investing. We believe that early stage investments are largely unpredictable and binary. That’s why we don’t mind making more bets that most other VC’s.
CSC Generation is saving retail. In just four years, we’ve acquired and turned around several brands to get to a $500M run rate. We’ve also saved over 1,000 jobs, several companies from liquidation, and have over one million happy customers and counting. Starting with DirectBuy Home Improvement Inc in 2017, our acquisition of Z Gallerie in 2019, and our recent acquisitions of One Kings Lane, and Sur La Table, we're consolidating the home furnishings industry, while driving growth through digital. Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.
Disruptive Labs is a Venture Studio focused on building and scaling technology companies. We provide research, talent, infrastructure and skills to help founders and companies minimize risk and time-to-market. We partner with ambitious teams to turn complex problems into creative opportunities. Whatever your goals, we can help you achieve them.
