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Create a company profileCie 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.
Mucker Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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 focus on two sectors, which we believe will produce the most transformative commercial advances of our time: Internet & Digital Media Energy & Efficiency 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. Rustic Canyon was launched in 1999 by Founding Partner Tom Unterman, and is led by Managing Partner Nate Redmond. 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. To submit your disruptive idea for consideration, email your business plan to [email protected].
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.
Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and assist them as they build world class businesses. Start-up founders are the heroes of our stories: we serve in supporting roles to help them achieve success.We invest in early stage web-based businesses that are founded by experienced and cohesive teams, employ proven business models and have a clear path to profitability with modest capital requirements. We invest nationally, with an emphasis on Southern California.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Clay Burnett Group is a top executive search firm in California based in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County area. Our accomplished headhunters (executive recruiters) will find the most qualified candidates for every situation. Executive Search Firms Los Angeles
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.
Structure is an advisory and venture investment company that helps established start ups grow from seed stage to institutional stage. 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.
Greycroft Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on investments in the Internet and mobile markets.
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
We believe that by leveraging our extensive network of investors and contacts we can provide significant value to entrepreneurs and grow with them to achieve mutual success.
Anthos Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on sourcing proprietary opportunities. We focus a large part of our efforts on finding and investing in exceptional, rapidly-growing consumer brands. Past investments include Trunk Club, Honey, MachineZone (Game of War/MobileStrike), and GoPuff.
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.
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
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