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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.
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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.
Mucker Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
Mahway is a venture builder with the aim to build dozens of high-growth, unicorn-potential businesses over the next decade. We pair experienced founders and operators with proven growth playbooks, to solve some of our world’s most important problems. Unlike VC firms who invest in other people's startups, or venture studios who help build startup ideas that other people bring to them, we create the ideas ourselves and then hire people to scale the company once we've gotten it from zero to one.
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.
<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>
<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 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">About Fina V Capital</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Fina V Capital is a boutique venture capital firm founded by Keith Gilabert. The firm advises mergers and acquisitions, buyer and seller representation, capital planning, financial restructuring, securitization transactions, and credit rating advisory services. Additionally, it offers structuring, target valuation, fixed income and equity offerings management, capital structure analysis, and deal negotiation services. <br>Target clients range from emerging growth companies led by dedicated entrepreneurs to late-state, established companies seeking cash-flow for expansion. We give our clients access to our contacts of Fortune 500 companies which will add diversity to their product lines and help fuel growth. There are less than a dozen consulting firms worldwide that can offer this level of service.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Our mission is to build world-class companies by providing early-stage investment and operational guidance to distinctive entrepreneurs. </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 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 can have influence on the Board of Directors as well as outside this formal channel through direct ties to the leadership team.</span></p>
<p class="homebody" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.25em; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 14px;">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.</p><p class="homebody" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.25em; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 14px;">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.</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>
Arena Ventures is a founder-focused venture firm making seed and growth investments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. We're the first VC firm fully integrated with AngelList, empowering individual investors around the world to participate in our deals.
CSC Generation is saving retail. In just four years, we’ve acquired and turned around several brands to get to a $500M run rate. We’ve also saved over 1,000 jobs, several companies from liquidation, and have over one million happy customers and counting. Starting with DirectBuy Home Improvement Inc in 2017, our acquisition of Z Gallerie in 2019, and our recent acquisitions of One Kings Lane, and Sur La Table, we're consolidating the home furnishings industry, while driving growth through digital. Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.
<div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.66666603088379px;">Founders: Albert Litewka, Barbara Glazer, Bob Israel and Mike Greenfeld</div><div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.66666603088379px;"><div class="mvm uiP fsm" style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"><span class="fwb" style="font-weight: bold;">Mission</span></div>To provide capital and also make available our collective years of experience and expertise to people who are passionate about their work and seeking to take their businesses to the next level.</div><div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.66666603088379px;"><div class="mvm uiP fsm" style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"><span class="fwb" style="font-weight: bold;">Company Overview</span></div>AngelVision Investors seeks to invest capital in businesses within the entertainment, marketing and new media communities. AngelVision is interested in startup and emerging growth-oriented companies that can achieve a well-defined market position, sustainable competitive advantage, profitability and scalability.<br><br>AngelVision works hand-in-hand with the companies in which it invests, adding value including strategic thinking, in-depth operating experience, a comprehensive knowledge of entertainment and marketing and a network of valuable industry relationships.</div><p> </p>
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
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Impact investors focused on small businesses and technology. Founder is HBS graduated and former venture capitalist.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">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, financial, software, media, consumer products and tech startups. TCA members give companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners and management talent. TCA has more than 250 members, including its venture capital affiliates, in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Westlake/Santa Barbara and the Inland Empire. </span></p>
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