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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.
Steamboat Ventures is venture capital firm affiliate of The Walt Disney Company. They invest in early-stage technology companies.
Guild Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm. Founded in 2009 by Iain Shovlin, Guild typically backs founders as their first institutional investor, actively partnering with them to assist in crafting growth strategies, architecting high-performance teams, creating distinctive brands, and embracing metric-driven management.
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.
Sunstone Management is a private capital management and investment firm offering comprehensive wealth management solutions to its worldwide clients, focusing on investments in U.S. based small businesses and lower middle markets. Investment offerings range from short term senior debt products to equity, growth capital, and VC investment strategies.
Immeasurable is a Los Angeles-based investment team focusing on education, health, communications, and financial technology. We believe in the value of what can't be measured: traits like character, determination, and adaptability. We invest in companies and founders when we share their vision for success and can understand a practical plan for moving forward.
<p>Siemer Ventures is a boutique, early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping motivated entrepreneurs build sustainable technology-related businesses. Our founders are start-up entrepreneurs themselves who have built successful businesses in the past, providing them with a thorough understanding of the nuances of early-stage companies. We invest in early-stage tech companies positioned for rapid growth that are run by remarkable entrepreneurs with deep domain expertise. These companies typically target large, fragmented and high-growth markets with unique and differentiated products and services. We prefer to work with emerging companies that have already taken their product or service to market, or are on the verge of doing so. We seek out companies that have outstripped the funding capabilities of their early investors but aren’t yet ready for a conventional venture capital funding round. We are comfortable in bridging this funding gap that most emerging companies experience in their early evolution, having experienced it ourselves in our former operating lives. As such, we typically invest up to $750K per venture, with our initial investment size ranging from $150K to $350K, as part of a larger investment syndicate.</p><p> </p><div>Additionally, Siemer Ventures co-founded and sponsors a Singaporean incubator fund, WaveMaker Labs, which is an Approved Technology Incubator under the Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS) of the Singaporean government’s National Research Foundation (NRF). WaveMaker aims to catalyze the formation of value-creating technology businesses right at the heart of Southeast Asia’s 600 million consumers and the 2 billion more in nearby India and China. WaveMaker is supported by Siemer & Associates, enabling WaveMaker to support its startups throughout their life cycle from incubation to follow on funding to exit.</div>
<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>Susa Ventures is an early stage technology fund investing in entrepreneurs building defensible products, technologies and tools that create, capture, distribute and leverage proprietary and unique data. For many of our investments, data is an enabling platform as well as a monetization engine.</p>
A-Grade Investments is a venture capital fund founded by long-time friends Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle.
<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>
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Evolution is a boutique coaching, consulting and venture capital firm that partners and invests with startups and high-growth companies to develop consciousness across all dimensions of the business — individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole. We work with our clients to support them becoming iconic, world-enriching entities.
<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>
Lurkin is a venture company. Our ventures range from technology startups, to motion pictures, and everything in between. We understand growth, take manageable risks, and go against the grain. For us, there is no impossible. Lurkin.com
<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>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">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 growth stages, with a focus on companies providing new distribution platforms, next gen media and media distribution business, infrastructure technologies for data processing, and companies focused on enterprise, cloud and mobile. </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;">Redpoint partners have many decades of experience and success in technology investing. Combined with this foundation, the firm is able to leverage a thriving network of entrepreneurs, partners and industry experts to accelerate building marketing-leading companies. </span></p>
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Venture Capital Firm specializing in pre-growth SaaS companies. We primarily focus on SaaS companies who have some proof of market validation which typically means between $500k+ in ARR. You still aren't at the "growth stage" yet - you still have plenty to figure out and need to build a highly scalable team.
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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.
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 10px !important; line-height: 1.5 !important; font-size: 14px !important;">We are a seed-stage venture capital firm that uses our expertise and network to help passionate entrepreneurs build great companies.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 10px !important; line-height: 1.5 !important; font-size: 14px !important;">We are focused on investing in and growing capital-efficient, Internet-enabled companies in the underserved and growing Southern California market.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-bottom: 10px !important; line-height: 1.5 !important; font-size: 14px !important;">You will not find a VC firm in the country with deeper operating expertise AND a track record for managing institutional money.</p>
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