Angel or VC Firm Startups Los Angeles

The UCLA Venture Capital Fund is a community of UCLA alumni and friends whose core purpose is to support and promote entrepreneurship at UCLA. The VC Fund mentors faculty and students, fosters the growth of UCLA companies, and connects entrepreneurs with an interest in UCLA. Members have the opportunity to advise campus entrepreneurship initiatives...

Curious Minds is a hybrid incubator-accelerator-angel investor firm designed for startup founders with entrepreneurship in their DNA. We nurture great ideas into Minimum Viable Products and then into independent revenue-generating companies.

Our approach to business development is based on Eric Ries' Lean Startup method. According to Ries, startups...

TYLT Lab is a venture capital and venture advisory group based in Santa Monica, California with a focus on building innovative companies capable of producing outsized returns for investors.  The partners are entrepreneurs themselves and have a hands-on approach to working with founders.  Focus areas are consumer lifestyle products, mobile platforms...

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...

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,...

Our mission is to build world-class companies by providing early-stage investment and operational guidance to distinctive entrepreneurs. 

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...

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,...

Since 1999, the Redpoint team has been partnering with visionary founders who create new markets or redefine existing ones. From the earliest stages, we have supported MySpace, Netflix, TiVo, Juniper, RightMedia, Zimbra, LifeSize, Fortinet, HomeAway, among many others, helping them transform their industries. Redpoint invests in seed, early and...

Provenance Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on developing seed and early-stage social technology companies. The firm places value on the building of sustainable, high growth businesses through partnerships with entrepreneurs and operational execution.

We invest in private, venture stage companies that possess innovative technologies...

Rustic Canyon helps standout seed and growth-stage entrepreneurs leverage technological innovation to create and commercialize disruptive change. 

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. 

We...