<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>