Top Los Angeles, CA Angel or VC Firm Companies (65)
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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.
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.
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.Industries of InterestHillcrest Venture Partners invests in companies developing technologies in the following industries:Communications InfrastuctureEnterprise ApplicationsFinancial TechnologyInformation Technology InfrastructureLife Science Research ToolsSemiconductorWirelessCompany StageHillcrest 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.GeographyWhile 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. Disciplined InvestingWe invest according to a thorough methodology that yields an objective assessment of each company. Some of the factors we consider are:Problem Addressed. The company's product or service must address a meaningful problem faced by customers. Value Proposition. The product or service must have clear and material advantages (e.g., cheaper, faster, more convenient) over existing solutions. Market Size. The total addressable market for the product or solution must exceed $500 Million per year. Barriers to Entry. There must be substantial barriers which prevent others from duplicating the product or entering the market. Management Team. The company's management team must have a track record of success or have demonstrated potential for success.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.Focused AssistanceWith 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.
Steamboat Ventures is venture capital firm affiliate of The Walt Disney Company. They invest in early-stage technology companies.
Cache ventures builds, advises, and invests in awesome products.
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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.
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 can reduce risks and expenses by iteratively building products that meet the needs of their early customers. At Curious Minds, we help entrepreneurs to apply these ideas to their own startups, ensuring traction, growth, revenue, and additional funding.
Clearstone has been one of the most active firms in Southern California. We’ve help launch many successful startups. We are the nexus for the entrepreneurial community, with deep connections into Southern California industry. Clearstone embraces a longtime and active role in the Southern California business community as an incubator and financier of early stage startups and continues to incubate companies out of our Santa Monica office
AlumniFunder is a marketplace for ideas, where youthfully minded doers seek biased capital. 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. 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.”Read more: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/alumnifunder
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 backed by seasoned entrepreneurs. Our first fund is focused on media and communication technologies that advance society by capitalizing on emerging platforms and global IP networks.
ideaTree = id·ea·tr·ee / ˈidəāˌtree – a place or situation that permits and encourages development and acceleration of new ideas and makes them real. We create valuable mobile & internet companies that disrupt the marketplace when surrounded by our resources and ongoing mentorship. Our goal at ideaTree is simple: Give extraordinary ideas access to the resources they need to create exceptional technology companies. This approach helps nurture great ideas into real products which then go on to become independent revenue-generating companies. 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. 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. Since 2012, ideaTree has a workforce which operates across 10 countries. The Company is headquartered in Los Angeles and has offices worldwide.
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 and services, home automation, software focused on transactions and engagements, consumer goods, clean technology, e-healthcare, and entertainment. But the firm scope is agnostic and will assess any company that has a great team seeking to intelligently disrupt an industry with great ideas and products. For information or to submit a pitch, please contact: Phone: (310) [email protected]: @TYLTLab
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
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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.
After 17 years we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. What's up with that? Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years and we have too. Wouldn’t we be a bit hypocritical to talk with entrepreneurs about innovation but not be willing to take it on ourselves? 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. Transparency. Candor. Point-of-view. Accessibility. Plus, most of our investments are Seed or A round – so there’s that, too. Having just announced our newest $200 million fund (our 4th fund), we thought it was perfect timing.
Double M Partners, I and II LP are seed and early stage funds of approximately $20MM total based in Los Angeles. Formed in 2012 and 2014, the Funds invest in Internet, Media and Communications ("IMC") companies primarily in Southern California and primarily in B2B deals.
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
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.
Foundry Group invests in technology companies throughout the US and Canada. We also invest in the next generation of venture capital fund managers.
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.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.
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