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The 100-page Los Angeles Tech Venture Capital Almanac gives a comprehensive view into the growing crop of startups and investors in the LA tech ecosystem. Specifically, the full report covers: -VC Financing Trends in Los Angeles Tech -Exit Trends in Los Angeles Tech -Los Angeles Tech Investor League Tables -The Most Well-Funded Los Angeles Tech Startups A summary of the report can be found here: http://www.cbinsights.com/venture-capital-los-angeles
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Orrick is proud to be a long-standing member and supporter of the Los Angeles venture community. The CB Insights’ Los Angeles Tech Venture Capital Almanac is a valuable resource in assessing trends, and we are pleased to sponsor it. The Almanac contains an array of interesting data points about the Los Angeles venture market, but there are a couple particular points to note that are indicators of its consistency and breadth. First, the Almanac reports that Los Angeles tech startups have closed thirty or more venture deals in each of the past six quarters. Second, the data indicates that not only is seed/early stage funding surging in LA, but that the number of later-stage venture deals is on the rise as well. These are positive signs of LA’s maturing and healthy venture ecosystem. We look forward to supporting this continued growth in the years ahead. Sincerely,
Daniel M. Friedland Partner, Emerging Companies group, Los Angeles
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This report covers companies headquartered in or around the Greater Los Angeles Area that have seen venture activity since 2009. The areas represented by the companies in this report are listed below in alphabetical order.
Agoura Hills Hollywood OxnardAltadena Huntington Beach PasadenaAnaheim Inglewood Playa del ReyBaldwin Park Irvine Rancho DominguezBeverly Hills Lake Forest RiversideBurbank Long Beach Santa AnaCalabasas Los Angeles Santa MonicaCanoga Park Manhattan Beach Sherman OaksCanyon Country Marina del Rey South PasadenaCosta Mesa Mission Viejo Studio CityCulver City Monrovia TorranceEl Segundo Monterey Park Van NuysEncino Newport Beach VeniceGlendale North Hollywood WalnutHawthorne Northridge West HollywoodHermosa beach Orange Woodland Hills
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Los Angeles is renowned as a digital media and entertainment hub. And over the past four years, LA has also developed a promising tech ecosystem with startups including Snapchat, Nasty Gal and TrueCar calling LA home. Through December, LA tech venture funding and deal activity has already hit a five-year high in 2013.
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Venture capital deals to LA tech startups have risen steadily over time. In fact, LA has seen 42% more tech VC deals in the first three quarters of 2013 than in all of 2009. Each of the past six quarters has seen 30 or more venture deals to LA tech startups.
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In a sign that LA tech startups are seeing healthy follow-on financing activity, mid-stage funding share (Series B/Series C) has taken just over half of all funding in 2013 YTD. Late stage funding has taken over 1/4 of share in 2013 after capturing just 14% of total funding share last year.
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Seed deal share in LA has jumped from 10% in 2009 to 43% in 2012. Early-stage startups (Seed/Series A) took over 70% of all deals in 2012 and continue to see strong deal activity in 2013 YTD.
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The Internet sector has taken over half of all venture funding to LA tech companies in each year since 2009. But 2013 has seen a funding boom within mobile startups, which have taken nearly 1/4 of all LA tech VC funding dollars in the year to date.
Since the start of 2010, Internet and mobile startups have garnered over 4/5 of all VC deals in the greater LA area. The mobile sector has taken nearly 1 in every 5 deals in Los Angeles in 2013 YTD and has already hit its highest deal tally since 2009.
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Since 2011, there have been 59 venture-backed tech exits in Los Angeles. Among the largest LA-based venture-backed tech exits in recent years were Bessemer Venture Partners-backed Cornerstone OnDemand (IPO) and Benchmark-backed Riot Games (acquired by Tencent).
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Since 2009, Rustic Canyon Partners leads the list of investors who have realized the most LA-based tech exits including GaiKai and Savings.com. Other investors who have notched a handful of LA exits include Benchmark Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners.
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About Orrick Emerging Companies Practice
– Recognized by Chambers and the Legal500 as one of the top firms in the U.S. and UK for our venture capital and emerging companies practice
– With a culture built around innovation and collaboration, Orrick understands the strategic goals of our emerging technology clients and regularly partners with market-recognized sector leaders
2012 Crunchies Best Education Start-up 2012 Forbes “30 Under 30: Tech”
2013 CRN 10 coolest virtualization apps
2011 VentureWire FASTech 50
2012 SXSWi Breakout Digital Trend 2011 Crunchies Best New Start-up
2013 Red Herring 100 2009 CNET Webware 100
2012 OnMedia 100, 2011 Time Top 50 Web Sites 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 2010 OnMedia 100 2010 VentureWire 50 Start-Ups to Watch
Greentech Media Top 50 Startups GoingGreen Global 2011-2012
2012 Deloitte "Tech Fast 500"
2012 Forbes “30 Under 30: Tech”
2012 Forbes “30 Under 30: Tech”
AlwaysOn Global 250 - 2011 2010 Red Herring 100
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About Orrick – Overview 1,100 Lawyers » 25 Offices
• Focus on emerging companies
– More than 1,300 emerging company clients
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in all major global technology markets
– Relationships with more than 100 venture
capital funds
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Upfront Ventures is the most active investor in Los Angeles-based tech startups since 2009. The top 3 most active investors are rounded out by 500 Startups and Greycroft Partners.
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From Upfront Ventures to Crosscut Ventures, 4 of the top 7 most active LA tech seed investors are headquartered in Los Angeles, a testament to the strong presence of local investors.
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Between 2009 and November 2012, 11 VC investors seeded 5 or more unique LA-based tech companies. Of these active seed investors, Lerer Ventures had the highest seed follow-on investment rate, followed by Upfront Ventures and Founder Collective.
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There are a number of investors who have completed multiple late-stage investments in LA tech companies. The list is led by Accel Partners and Azure Capital Partners.
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500 Startups is the most active investor in Los Angeles-based Internet startups since 2009. Greycroft Partners, Siemer Ventures and Mark Suster s Upfront Ventures take the next three spots.
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NY-based early stage fund Founder Collective is the most active investor in LA-based mobile companies with active mobile seed investments including Pose and Burstly. Double M Partners, 500 Startups and Upfront Ventures are also active on the mobile front in LA.
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TrueCar and SolarFlare lead the list of most well-funded, still private Los Angeles tech startups. The much talked about Snapchat comes in at number four.
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These are VCs who invest prior to this VC investing in the company. These frequently represent sources of dealflow.
These are investors who invest in the same round as the VC.
These are the investors who tend to invest in this VCs portfolio companies after their investment.
The trend line indicates when deals were done. A trend such as the one above indicates a strengthening relationship between the firms as more activity has occurred recently.
This number indicates the number of financing deals that the two investors have participated in.
This graph shows you the rounds that the investors participate in together.
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Investor ▸ Super Angel
500 Startups500startups.com 444 Castro Street
1200
Mountain View 94041
California
United States
500 Startups is an early-stage seed fund and incubator program located in Mountain View, CA. We invest primarily in
consumer & SMB internet startups, and related web infrastructure services. Selected areas of interest include financial
services & e-commerce, search/social/mobile platforms, personal & business productivity, education & language, family
& healthcare, web infrastructure, and tribbles. The firms' initial investment size is typically $25K-$250K.
509 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Colingo - Seed VC (Nov 21, 2013): $2.4M with Atlas Venture, Crosslink Capital, Social Leverage, Morado
Venture Partners, Kibo Ventures and Havoc Capital.
34 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Chalkable (Acquired) on Dec 2, 2013 for $10M by STI.
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Enrique Allen, Dave Mcclure and Christine Tsai
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 6Latest: 500 Startups III ($0M) on Oct 16, 2013.
20 Most recent Investments 509 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Nov 21,
2013
Colingo Seed
VC
Atlas Venture, Crosslink Capital, Social Leverage, Morado
Venture Partners, Kibo Ventures and Havoc Capital
$2.4M
Nov 20,
2013
CapLinked Series
A - III
FF Angel and Subtraction Capital $1M
Nov 13,
2013
Carousell Seed
VC
Rakuten, Golden Gate Ventures, Darius Cheung and Danny Oei
Wirianto
$0.8M
Nov 4,
2013
MediaSpike Series
A
Google Ventures, CMEA Capital, Naval Ravikant, Andreessen
Horowitz, Othman Laraki, Jonathan Abrams, Rick Marini,
Raptor Ventures and Inspovation Ventures
$5.2M
Oct 30,
2013
Runnable Seed
VC
Sierra Ventures, Angelpad, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc and Isaac
Roth
$2M
Oct 29,
2013
PlateJoy Seed
Oct 29,
2013
LaunchTrack Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Cityblis Seed
Oct 29,
2013
3Sourcing Seed
Oct 29,
2013
moj.io Seed
VC
BDC Venture Capital and Relay Ventures $2.3M
Oct 29,
2013
OLSET Seed
Oct 29,
2013
ZBoard Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Goods
Platform
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Splendid
Labs
Seed
500 Startups 500startups.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Oct 29,
2013
Builk Seed
Oct 29,
2013
WePlann Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Anyadir
Education
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
ViralGains Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Populr Seed
Oct 29,
2013
uBiome Seed
500 Startups 500startups.com
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Double M Partnersdoublempartners.com Los Angeles
California
United States
Double M Partners is a $7.2MM early stage venture fund based in Los Angeles and formed in August 2012. The Fund
invests in Internet, Media and Communications ("IMC") companies who primarily are either business to business
infrastructure, software, management platform and/or technology focused companies. The Fund is managed by Mark
Mullen who has more than 20 years of investing and investment banking experience across the IMC sector. The Fund's
current portfolio is comprised of 19 companies primarily in Southern California, but also including companies in San
Francisco, Oregon and Canada. It is estimated the Fund will have a total of approximately 25 investments in the range of
~$200,000-$500,000. The Fund is supported by a premier group of investors, as well as fund advisors who are all
successful entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.
16 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: MomentFeed - Series A (Dec 11, 2013): $5.5M with DFJ Frontier, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus
Ventures and Daher Capital.
2 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: Gradient X (Acquired) on Sep 5, 2013 by Amobee Media Systems.
1 Key Person ....................................................................................................... 0Mark Mullen
16 Investments
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 11,
2013
MomentFeed Series
A
DFJ Frontier, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures
and Daher Capital
$5.5M
Jul 12,
2013
Mover Seed
VC
Yaletown Venture Partners, Jarl Mohn, Amplify L.A., Dennis
Phelps, Medra Capital and Rick Barry
$1M
Jul 8, 2013 IdeaLists Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Paul Bricault, 500 Startups, Clark Landry,
Pegasus Capital Group and Csaba Konkoly
$1.7M
Jul 2, 2013 Kaleo
Software
Seed
VC - II
Greycroft Partners and TenOneTen Ventures $1.5M
May 20,
2013
Prevoty Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Paige Craig, Plus Capital and Eric
Hann
$0.7M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser,
Hank Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc, Karlin
Ventures, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Jan 31,
2013
MomentFeed Seed
VC - III
DFJ Frontier, Gold Hill Capital, Gil Elbaz, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Draper Nexus Ventures and Daher Capital
$1.8M
Jan 16,
2013
ChowNow Series
A
Upfront Ventures, Daher Capital and Velos Partners $3M
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Valuation:
$4.8M
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Baroda Ventures,
Upfront Ventures, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Daher Capital,
Karlin Ventures and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
the Run
Seed
VC - II
Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, CrossCut
Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Newport Coast Investments and
Selena Gomez
$1.3M
Oct 23,
2012
Tradesy Seed
VC
Rincon Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Launchpad LA, Daher
Capital, Bee Partners and Dany Levy
$1.5M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, 500
Startups and Launchpad LA
$2.1M
Oct 12,
2012
Plum TV Series
D
Greycroft Partners, Baroda Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani, Roy
Essakow, Clive Ng, Derek Norton and Jonas Svensson
$4.4M
Double M Partners doublempartners.com
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Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Jul 18,
2012
Retention
Science
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Paige Craig, Bong
Koh, Clark Landry, Mike Greenfield and Kunal Anand
$1.3M
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures,
CrossCut Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark
Landry, Walter Kortschak and Jim Willenborg
$3.75M
Jul 11,
2011
MomentFeed Seed
VC
DFJ Frontier, Gold Hill Capital, Auren Hoffman, Gil Elbaz, Clark
Landry, Walter Kortschak, Draper Nexus Ventures and Daher
Capital
$1.2M
Double M Partners doublempartners.com
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Upfront Venturesupfront.com
Phone: 310-785-5100
Fax: 310.785.5111
2121 Avenue of the
Stars
Suite 1630
Los Angeles 90067
California
United States
Uprfront Ventures, formerly GRP Partners (Global Retail Partners) was formed in 1996 and has invested in some of
leading global brands and companies that are household names today. With professionals in Los Angeles and London,
Upfront Ventures manages over $1 billion on behalf of more than 150 limited partners in North America and Europe.
161 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: MakeSpace Labs - Seed VC - II (Dec 9, 2013): $0.7M with High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital
and Collaborative Fund.
38 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Gradient X (Acquired) on Sep 5, 2013 by Amobee Media Systems.
10 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0Herv Defforey, Steven Dietz, Yves Sisteron Esq., Herv J. F., Kelly Hwang, Dana Kibler, Dave Lin, Brian Mcloughlin,
Yves Sisteron and Mark Suster
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7Latest: GRP Partners IV ($148.6M) on Oct 31, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 161 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 9,
2013
MakeSpace
Labs
Seed
VC - II
High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and
Collaborative Fund
$0.7M
Dec 3,
2013
DataSift Series
C
Insight Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Northgate
Capital, IA Ventures, Daher Capital and Cendana Capital
$42M
Nov 21,
2013
Eagle Crest
Energy
Series
C - III
Wexford Capital and Brock Capital Group $3.1M
Nov 5,
2013
Seriously Seed
VC
Sunstone Capital $2.35M
Oct 7, 2013 Copilot
Labs
Series
A - II
Alsop-Louie Partners $0.8M
Sep 26,
2013
MakeSpace
Labs
Seed
VC
High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and
Collaborative Fund
$1.3M
Sep 19,
2013
Deliv Series
A
RPM Ventures $6.85M
Sep 12,
2013
Maker
Studios
Series
C - II
Time Warner Investments, Northgate Capital, Greycroft Partners,
Canal+, SingTel Innov8, Lakestar, Daher Capital, Ynon Kreiz,
Downey Ventures, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Landau, FUEL: M+C
and Astro
$26M
Sep 3,
2013
Combat
Gent
Seed
VC - II
Maveron $0.6M
Aug 13,
2013
Kyriba Series
B
Iris Capital, BRED Banque Populaire and Daher Capital $18.24M
Jul 9, 2013 Adore Me Series
B
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Mousse Partners and Redhills
Ventures
$8.5M
Jun 6, 2013 ChowNow Series
A - II
Kensington Capital Partners $1.2M
May 27,
2013
Adly Series
C
Siemer Ventures $2M
May 10,
2013
uParts Series
A
Kamran Pourzanjani and Fraser McCombs Capital $2.05M
Upfront Ventures upfront.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Apr 25,
2013
Moonfrye Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Daher Capital $2.5M
Apr 2, 2013 DailyLook Seed
VC
Novel TMT Ventures, RRE Ventures, SV Angel, Matt Coffin,
Thomas McInerney and Rachel Zoe
$2.5M
Mar 5,
2013
Epoxy Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Greycroft Partners,
Paige Craig, Allen DeBevoise, Advancit Capital, Gordon
Paddison, Ynon Kreiz and Yoel Flohr
$2M
Feb 7, 2013 Melian
Labs
Seed
VC
Jason Calacanis, 500 Startups, Ben Smith, Brian Lee, BoxGroup
and Greg Badros
$3M
Feb 6, 2013 Health Data
Vision
Series
A
Redhills Ventures $2.8M
Jan 16,
2013
ChowNow Series
A
Double M Partners, Daher Capital and Velos Partners $3M
Upfront Ventures upfront.com
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Siemer Venturessiemervc.com
Phone: 310-861-2100
1333 Second Street
Suite 600
Santa Monica 90401
California
United States
Siemer Ventures is a boutique, early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping motivated entrepreneurs build
sustainable technology-related businesses. The firms 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. The firm, which was formed through the combination of Frontera Group and Siemer & Associates' venture
capital practice, predominantly invests in technology companies run by remarkable entrepreneurs with deep domain
expertise. We invest in early-stage enterprise and consumer-facing businesses that are positioned for rapid growth.
These companies typically target large, fragmented and high-growth markets with unique and differentiated products
and services.
44 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: Kalibrr - Series A (Dec 4, 2013): $1.9M with Omidyar Network, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Learn Capital
and Kickstart Ventures.
5 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: My New Financial Advisor (Acquired) on Oct 29, 2013 by Invested.in.
20 Most recent Investments 44 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 4,
2013
Kalibrr Series A Omidyar Network, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Learn
Capital and Kickstart Ventures
$1.9M
Sep 17,
2013
StrikeAd Series B SoftTech VC, DFJ Esprit, Canyon Creek Capital, Karlin
Ventures and Scentan Ventures
$7M
Jul 8, 2013 IdeaLists Seed VC Paul Bricault, 500 Startups, Clark Landry, Double M
Partners, Pegasus Capital Group and Csaba Konkoly
$1.7M
Jun 27,
2013
Ranker Series A - II Tech Coast Angels, Rincon Venture Partners, Pasadena
Angels, Lowercase Capital, Bullpen Capital, Draper
Associates, Data Collective and TenOneTen Ventures
$2M
Jun 25,
2013
The Bouqs
Company
Seed VC Quest Venture Partners, Andy Dunn, Mich Mathews,
Dennis Phelps and Brian Spaly
$1.1M
Jun 18,
2013
Ayannah
Information
Solutions
Seed VC - II Undisclosed Angel Investors and Golden Gate Ventures $1M
May 29,
2013
Ardent
Capital
Unattributed
VC
GMO VenturePartners and Recruit Strategic Partners
May 27,
2013
Adly Series C Upfront Ventures $2M
May 21,
2013
Uncovet Seed VC Javelin Venture Partners and Paige Craig $1.3M
May 1,
2013
My New
Financial
Advisor
Series A $1.1M
Apr 15,
2013
20Jeans Seed VC Baroda Ventures, Paige Craig, Dennis Phelps and Plus
Capital
$1M
Apr 3, 2013 EAT Club Series A August Capital, First Round Capital, LaunchCapital,
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Tekton Ventures, Great
Oaks Venture Capital, Brian Lee, Michael Kinsbergen,
Mark Vadon, Niren Hiro and Aki Sano
$5M
Mar 19,
2013
Rexter Seed VC Jarl Mohn, Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz and Sean Moriarty $1.5M
Siemer Ventures siemervc.com
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Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Feb 7, 2013 Club W Series A CrossCut Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and
Adam Goldenberg
$3.1M
Feb 6, 2013 P4RC Series A Tech Coast Angels and Jeff Lapin $0.67M
Feb 5, 2013 Kout Seed VC - II Draper Associates, Emil Michael, MicroVentures
Marketplace, Naguib Sawiris and Winston Ibrahim
$1.6M
Jan 31,
2013
TakeLessons Series A - II SoftTech VC, Crosslink Capital, Triangle Peak Partners
and Tim Kendall
$4M
Jan 22,
2013
Optim.al Series B Silicon Valley Bank, Stonnington Group, WGI Group, Neu
Venture Capital, Social Starts, DoubleRock Venture
Capital, Signal Ventures, Social Internet Fund, John
Pappajohn, Warren Adelman and James Altucher
$7M
Nov 29,
2012
CapLinked Series A Peter Thiel, FF Angel, 500 Startups, Alexsis de Raadt-St.
James and Andrej Henkler
$1.6M
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
the Run
Seed VC - II Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, CrossCut
Ventures, Newport Coast Investments, Selena Gomez
and Double M Partners
$1.3M
Siemer Ventures siemervc.com
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
CrossCut Venturescrosscutventures.com
Santa Monica 90405
California
United States
CrossCut Ventures, launched in 2008, is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith.
CrossCut looks to invest between $250,000 and $750,000 in the equity of start-up companies that have the potential to
achieve $50 - $100 million in revenue in the next five years. Their area of greatest interest is in digital media, and the
infrastructure and analytics associated with new media. Crosscut Ventures typically co-invests with other seed-stage
funds or angel investors for a total initial raise of $1- 2 million.
15 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: Club W - Series A (Feb 7, 2013): $3.1M with Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and Adam Goldenberg.
3 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: DocStoc (Acquired) on Dec 4, 2013 for $50M by Intuit.
2 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Brian Garrett and Rick L. Smith
15 Investments
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Feb 7, 2013 Club W Series
A
Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and Adam
Goldenberg
$3.1M
Nov 29,
2012
Plyfe Bridge Undisclosed Angel Investors $0.75M
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
the Run
Seed
VC - II
Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, Siemer Ventures,
Newport Coast Investments, Selena Gomez and Double M
Partners
$1.3M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, 500 Startups, Launchpad
LA and Double M Partners
$2.1M
Jul 27,
2012
Pop-Up
Pantry
Seed
VC
Upfront Ventures, Adam Goldberg and Michael Daher $1.7M
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures,
Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
$3.75M
Jun 4, 2012 Eventup Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Pritzker Group Venture Capital,
Lightbank and Science Media
$1.8M
May 22,
2012
StyleSaint Seed
VC
General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Brian Lee,
Dennis Phelps and MuckerLab
$1.5M
Nov 7,
2011
Postcard on
the Run
Seed
VC
Jarl Mohn, Kamran Pourzanjani, Brian Lee, Mike Jones, Aber
Whitcomb, Yves Sisteron, Brian Fitzgerald, Ryan Steelburg,
Colin Digiaro, Chris DeWolfe and Selena Gomez
$0.75M
Feb 2, 2011 SHIFT Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Matt Coffin, Founder
Collective, Thrive Capital, Stephano Kim and Lerer Ventures
$2M
Jul 23,
2010
Ze Frank
Games
Seed
VC
Joshua Schachter, Jordan Greenhall, Betaworks, First Round
Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Gary Vaynerchuk,
Founder Collective, Michael Herf and Lerer Ventures
$0.5M
Dec 16,
2009
Affordit.com Seed
VC
Founders Fund and FF Angel $0.6M
Nov 20,
2009
Zadspace Debt DFJ Frontier $0.3M
CrossCut Ventures crosscutventures.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Feb 6, 2009 Zadspace Series
A
Gideon Hixon Fund and DFJ Frontier $1.4M
Nov 23,
2007
DocStoc Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Robin Richards and Matt Coffin $0.75M
CrossCut Ventures crosscutventures.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Baroda Venturesbarodaventures.com
Phone: 3102760005
245 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills 90212
California
United States
Baroda Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm founded in 1998 by philanthropist and technology
entrepreneur David C. Bohnett, the founder of GeoCities, an Internet-based media company, publicly traded on
NASDAQ and subsequently acquired by Yahoo! We are focused on early stage venture investments (Seed and Series A)
in the consumer internet, SaaS, and digital media industries ranging from $100K to $5M with a particular focus on Los
Angeles and Southern California based companies.
32 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: ID90T - Series B (Jun 11, 2013): $3M with Thayer Ventures, Gerbera Capital and Mexico Ventures.
6 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: Gradient X (Acquired) on Sep 5, 2013 by Amobee Media Systems.
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Liz Atherton, David C. Bohnett and Peter Lee
20 Most recent Investments 32 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Jun 11,
2013
ID90T Series
B
Thayer Ventures, Gerbera Capital and Mexico Ventures $3M
May 8,
2013
Chromatik Series
A
Rustic Canyon Partners, 500 Startups, Learn Capital, Plus Capital
and Will Smith
$5.72M
Apr 15,
2013
20Jeans Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Paige Craig, Dennis Phelps and Plus Capital $1M
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Valuation:
$4.8M
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Upfront Ventures, Clark
Landry, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher Capital, Karlin
Ventures and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce Seed
VC
Zelkova Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, 500 Startups, Launchpad
LA and Double M Partners
$2.1M
Oct 12,
2012
Plum TV Series
D
Greycroft Partners, Kamran Pourzanjani, Double M Partners, Roy
Essakow, Clive Ng, Derek Norton and Jonas Svensson
$4.4M
Jul 18,
2012
Fab.com
Valuation:
$600M
Series
C
Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, Docomo Capital, Pinnacle
Ventures, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico,
Troy Carter and RTP Ventures
$105M
Jul 18,
2012
Retention
Science
Seed
VC
Mohr Davidow Ventures, Paige Craig, Bong Koh, Clark Landry,
Mike Greenfield, Double M Partners and Kunal Anand
$1.3M
Jul 11,
2012
Change
Series
A
Google Ventures, First Round Capital and Scott Banister $5M
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X Seed
VC
Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures,
Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
$3.75M
Jun 6, 2012 Surf Air Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, TriplePoint Capital, Anthem Venture
Partners, Gil Elbaz, Siemer Ventures, Paige Craig, Jeff Stibel,
Jared Leto, Eytan Elbaz, Rick Caruso, Mike Walsh, Aviv Grill and
Bill Woodward
$3.76M
Apr 19,
2012
LifeCrowd Series
A
Prism VentureWorks, Lightbank, Bullpen Capital and MuckerLab $5M
Baroda Ventures barodaventures.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Mar 19,
2012
DogVacay Seed
VC
First Round Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Benjamin Ling,
Thomas Ryan, Thomas McInerney, Brian Lee, Ted Rheingold,
Dennis Phelps and Science Media
$1M
Dec 8,
2011
Fab.com Series
B
Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, Andreessen
Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher, A-Grade and Guy Oseary
$40M
Dec 2,
2011
SteelHouse Series
B
Greycroft Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SV Angel and
LIghthouse Venture Group
$6.3M
Nov 8,
2011
Change
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Scott Banister, David
Sacks, Kamran Pourzanjani, Mike Jones and Alan Braverman
$1M
Sep 26,
2011
SteelHouse Series
A
Rincon Venture Partners $3.81M
Sep 23,
2011
LifeCrowd Seed
VC
Prism VentureWorks and Bullpen Capital $2M
Jul 27,
2011
Fab.com Series
A
Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, Kevin Rose, First Round Capital,
Zelkova Ventures, SV Angel, Dave Morgan, The Washington Post
Company, Ashton Kutcher, Thrive Capital, Benjamin Ling, David
Tisch, A-Grade, Guy Oseary, Jon Anderson, Don Baer and Jason
Goldberg
$8M
Jul 18,
2011
nProgress Seed
VC
Jarl Mohn, SV Angel, Jeff Pulver, Kevin Wall, Gordon Crawford,
Activation Media Partners and Richard Crowells
$1.79M
Baroda Ventures barodaventures.com
3
Investor ▸ Super Angel
SV Angelsvangel.com 588 Sutter Street
#299
San Francisco 94102
California
United States
Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley-based angel investor, and founding partner of SV Angel. As founder and Managing
Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, he was an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal, which was
sold to online auctioneers eBay in July 2002 for $1.5 billion. Conway previously worked with National Semiconductor
Corporation in marketing positions (1973 - 1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979
- 1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991 - 1995).
326 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Crowdtilt - Series B (Dec 16, 2013): $23M with Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant,
Matt Mullenweg, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis Ohanian and Sean Parker.
53 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Moped (Acquired) on Dec 12, 2013 by 6Wunderkinder.
5 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Kevin Carter, Topher Conway, Ron Conway, Mike Ghaffary and David Lee
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 6Latest: SV Angel IV ($0M) on Aug 30, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 326 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Matt
Mullenweg, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
Ohanian and Sean Parker
$23M
Dec 11,
2013
Leo Me Seed
VC
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Battery Ventures, Greylock
Partners, Kent Goldman, Freestyle Capital, Elad Gil, Raymond
Tonsing, David King, Steve Lee, Bob Lee, Mike Chu and Sara
Haider
$1.5M
Oct 29,
2013
Frontback Series
A
Index Ventures, Michael Birch, Lerer Ventures, Michael Arrington,
Charlie Cheever, Initialized Capital and Chris Howard
$3M
Oct 16,
2013
Usermind Series
A
Charles River Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz $7.6M
Oct 9, 2013 Splice Seed
VC
Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Seth
Goldstein, David Tisch, Lerer Ventures, Code Advisors, BoxGroup
and Rob Wiesenthal
$2.75M
Oct 2, 2013 UpCounsel Seed
VC
Bobby Yazdani, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Collaborative Fund,
Haroon Mokhtarzada and Homebrew Capital
$1.6M
Sep 24,
2013
Overlay
Studio
Seed Kickstart Seed Fund, CrunchFund and Peak Ventures $0.8M
Sep 18,
2013
SnapGuide Series
A - II
Atlas Venture, Index Ventures, CrunchFund and Slow Ventures $3M
Aug 28,
2013
Vastrm Seed
VC
Ignition Partners, Y Combinator, Quest Venture Partners, General
Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Undisclosed Investors,
Start Fund, Will Smith and Columbus Nova Technology Partners
$1M
Aug 27,
2013
Heap Seed
VC
Ram Shriram, Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, Salesforce,
Pejman Nozad, Sam Altman, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan,
Netprice.com, William Morris Endeavor, Harj Taggar, Joshua
Reeves and RTA Capital
$2M
Aug 15,
2013
Vungle Series
A
Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital, AOL Ventures and 500
Startups
$6.5M
Aug 15,
2013
Swiftype Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Ignition Partners, Paul Buchheit, Andreessen Horowitz, Start
Fund, Sam Altman, Alexis Ohanian, Jared Friedman, CrunchFund,
$1.7M
SV Angel svangel.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Garry Tan, Jared Kopf, William Morris Endeavor, Harj Taggar,
Data Collective, Tikhon Bernstam and Trip Adler
Aug 8,
2013
Aisle50 Series
A - II
August Capital, Origin Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures and Yuri
Milner
$2.6M
Aug 7,
2013
WillCall Seed Oliver Jung and Sean Parker $1.1M
Aug 1,
2013
Albumatic Series
A
RRE Ventures, Betaworks, Thrive Capital, High Line Venture
Partners, CrunchFund and BoxGroup
$4.2M
Aug 1,
2013
Patreon Seed
VC
Atlas Venture, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Alexis
Ohanian, Garry Tan, Rothenberg Ventures and Tyler Willis
$2.1M
Jul 29,
2013
Kiwi Series
A
Sequoia Capital, Omar Hamoui and Charles Huang $9M
Jul 19,
2013
Vamo Seed Scott Banister, Keith Rabois, Max Levchin, Hadi Partovi, Ali
Partovi, Fritz Lanman, Dave Morin, Benjamin Ling, David Tisch,
Ruchi Sanghvi, Adam D'Angelo, Hank Vigil, Sam Shank,
CrunchFund, BoxGroup, Jed Stremel, Kevin Colleran, Bono,
Spencer Rascoff, Aditya Agarwal, Adrian Aoun, Akhil Wable,
Charlie Songhurst and Marc Bodnick
$1.6M
Jul 15,
2013
Mark43 Seed
VC
Spark Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Lowercase Capital,
Launchpad LA, Tom Eisenmann and Rough Draft Ventures
$1.95M
Jul 10,
2013
Instacart Series
A
Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Canaan Partners and Paul
Buchheit
$8.5M
SV Angel svangel.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Greycroft Partnersgreycroftpartners.com 598 Madison Avenue
New York 10022
New York
United States
Greycroft Partners is a venture capital partnership formed to invest in digital media companies, including both business
and consumer-focused ventures. The firm's $75 million fund includes participation from corporate executives around
the world. Greycroft invests between $500,000 and $3 million at inception, increasing on a staged basis to double that
amount over time. They invest alone or alongside other firms, and will accept a board seat when appropriate, although
this is not a prerequisite when syndicating with others.
164 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Highlight - Series A (Dec 12, 2013): $4M with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Benchmark Capital, Undisclosed
Angel Investors, Dave Morin, CrunchFund and Semil Shah.
23 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Braintree (Acquired) on Sep 26, 2013 for $800M by eBay.
28 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kamran Ansari, Paul Bricault, Alan Gould, Alan Patricof, Bo Peabody, Dana Settle, Kirill
Sheynkman, Ian Sigalow, Ellie Wheeler and Jason Yeh
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 9Latest: Greycroft Partners III ($175M) on Nov 1, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 164 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 12,
2013
Highlight Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Benchmark Capital, Undisclosed Angel
Investors, Dave Morin, CrunchFund and Semil Shah
$4M
Nov 20,
2013
Rumr Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Paige Craig $0.8M
Nov 19,
2013
Plain
Vanilla
Series
A - II
Sequoia Capital and e.ventures $2M
Nov 14,
2013
Knozen Seed
VC
FirstMark Capital, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup and Brad Brooks $2.25M
Oct 30,
2013
Trustev Seed
VC
Mangrove Capital Partners, Enterprise Ireland, ACT Venture
Capital and Wayra
$3M
Oct 29,
2013
Layer Seed
VC - II
e.ventures, Ash Patel, AME Cloud Ventures and Fuel Capital $6M
Oct 16,
2013
Nomi Series
A
Accel Partners, First Round Capital and Forerunner Ventures $10M
Sep 27,
2013
Fisoc Series
B
Metamorphic Ventures, Barshop Ventures, DayLight Partners,
KEC Holdings and Wild Basin Investments
$11.43M
Sep 25,
2013
BetterCloud Series
B
Flybridge Capital Partners, Hallett Capital, BLH Venture
Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners and Bear Creek Capital
$6M
Sep 18,
2013
App Annie
Valuation:
$100M
Series
C
Sequoia Capital, e.ventures, IDG Capital Partners and Infinity
Venture Partners
$15M
Sep 12,
2013
Maker
Studios
Series
C - II
Time Warner Investments, Northgate Capital, Upfront Ventures,
Canal+, SingTel Innov8, Lakestar, Daher Capital, Ynon Kreiz,
Downey Ventures, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Landau, FUEL: M+C
and Astro
$26M
Aug 26,
2013
Nativo Series
A - II
$0.95M
Aug 23,
2013
Ceros Series
B
Fuse Capital $2.25M
Greycroft Partners greycroftpartners.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Aug 22,
2013
TagMan Series
C
iNovia Capital $5M
Jul 23,
2013
Sulia Series
B
FirstMark Capital, Village Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures and
IA Ventures
$6M
Jul 2, 2013 Kaleo
Software
Seed
VC - II
Double M Partners and TenOneTen Ventures $1.5M
Jun 19,
2013
Combat
Gent
Seed
VC
MHS Capital, Point Nine Capital, Blazer Ventures, VegasTech
Fund, Naxuri Capital and Jake Bornstein
$1.8M
Jun 18,
2013
MDx
Medical
Series
C
Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, Piper Jaffray and
Health Enterprise Partners
$22M
May 23,
2013
ProdThink Seed
VC
May 13,
2013
Wochit Series
A
Cedar Fund and Redpoint Ventures $4.75M
Greycroft Partners greycroftpartners.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Founders Fundfoundersfund.com One Letterman Drive
Building D, Suite 500
San Francisco 94129
California
United States
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm organized by Managing Partners Peter Thiel and Ken Howery in 2005. It has
raised 3 funds (2005, 2007, 2010) and its investments are multi-stage, multi-sector, and have a focus on what the firm
believes are transformational technologies.
202 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Nanotronics Imaging - Series B (Dec 16, 2013): $7M.
28 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Topsy Labs (Acquired) on Dec 2, 2013 for $200M by Apple Inc..
11 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0Justin Fishner-wolfson, Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Robert May, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek, Sean
Parker, Toby Prosky, Brian Singerman and Peter Thiel
5 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8Latest: Founders Fund IV ($625M) on Dec 1, 2011.
20 Most recent Investments 202 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 16,
2013
Nanotronics
Imaging
Series
B
$7M
Dec 4,
2013
Misfit
Wearables
Series
B
Norwest Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, Khosla
Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, incTANK Ventures and
Max Levchin
$15.2M
Nov 5,
2013
Betable
Valuation:
$90M
Series
B
Joshua Schachter, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, Howard
Lindzon, Gil Penchina, Auren Hoffman, FF Angel, Start Fund,
Paige Craig, Dave Morin, Arjun Sethi, David Tisch, Bullpen
Capital, Venture51, Morado Venture Partners, Reece Duca,
Matt Ocko, CrunchFund, Ray Tonsing, Sean Knapp, Scott
Belsky, Josh Spear, Marc Abramowitz, Bjorn Evers, Andrew
Kofman, Chris Larsen, Heather Sue Mercer, John Suliman and
Nick Beim
$18.5M
Oct 28,
2013
Traina
Interactive
Series
A - II
New Enterprise Associates, Allen & Company, Khosla
Ventures, Mark Pincus, Marc Benioff, Nirav Tolia, Advance/
Newhouse Communications, Marissa Mayer, Jeremy
Stoppelman, Yuri Milner, Owen Van Natta, American Express
Ventures, Dave Goldberg and Hosain Rahman
$9M
Oct 3, 2013 Koality Seed
VC
Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, UJ Ventures,
Kris Duggan and Tien Tzuo
$1.8M
Sep 27,
2013
Declara Series
A
Peter Thiel and Data Collective $5M
Sep 27,
2013
Palantir
Technologies
Valuation:
$6000M
Series
H
$196.5M
Sep 26,
2013
NeuroTrack
Technologies
Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors and The Social+Capital
Partnership
$2M
Sep 25,
2013
Urban
Compass
Valuation:
$150M
Series
A
Goldman Sachs, .406 Ventures, Marc Benioff, Cyrus
Massoumi, FF Angel, Advance Publications, Thrive Capital and
Kenneth Chenault
$20M
Founders Fund foundersfund.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Aug 23,
2013
Trusted
Insight
Series
A
RRE Ventures, Entrepreneurs Fund, Lauder Partners, 500
Startups, Eric Chen, Real Ventures, Data Collective, Initialized
Capital and Marleen Groen
Aug 8,
2013
Glow Series
A
Andreessen Horowitz $6M
Jul 30,
2013
Binary
Thumb
Seed
VC
General Catalyst Partners, Salesforce, Jerry Yang, Innovation
Endeavors, Yuri Milner, Jared Friedman, Dan Rose, John
Suliman, Joshua Reeves and Phil Libin
Jul 18,
2013
Oscar Health
Insurance
Co.
Series
A
Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Undisclosed Angel
Investors, Thrive Capital, Red Swan Ventures and BoxGroup
$40M
Jul 5, 2013 Synthego Series
A
Menlo Ventures $8.3M
Jul 1, 2013 Outbox Series
A
Western Technology Investment, Peterson Ventures, TDF
Ventures, Floodgate, Correlation Ventures, Expansion VC and
EMERGE
$5M
Jun 26,
2013
Planet Labs Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, First Round Capital, Capricorn
Investment Group, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, FF Angel,
Innovation Endeavors and Data Collective
$13M
Jun 25,
2013
invino Series
A
LaunchCapital, DN Capital, Fabrice Grinda, Veddis Ventures,
Jose Marin and Correlation Ventures
$3M
Jun 17,
2013
Oculus VR
Valuation:
$30M
Series
A
Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation 8 $16M
May 28,
2013
Pando Seed
VC - II
Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Lerer
Ventures and Zach Nelson
$0.5M
May 20,
2013
Hampton
Creek Foods
Seed
VC - II
$1M
Founders Fund foundersfund.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Founder Collectivefoundercollective.com
28 W 27th Street
Suite 10F
New York 10001
New York
United States
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of entrepreneurs. The firm is headquartered
in New York City and Cambridge, but makes investments all over the world. Founder Collective has created a small fund
($50M) that is dedicated to investing in seed stage deals, expecting to generate returns almost exclusively from seed
stage investments.
202 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: SeatGeek - Series B (Dec 5, 2013): $2.2M.
30 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Stackmob (Acquired) on Dec 17, 2013 by eBay.
6 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Caterina Fake, David Frankel, Gaurav Jain, Zach Klein, Eric Paley and Micah Rosenbloom
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8Latest: Founder Collective II ($70M) on Sep 1, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 202 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 5,
2013
SeatGeek Series
B
$2.2M
Dec 2,
2013
Jump Ramp
Games
Seed
VC
Softbank Capital, ENIAC Ventures, Thrive Capital, Bullpen
Capital and KEC Holdings
Nov 22,
2013
See | Me Seed
VC - III
Joshua Stylman and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures $1M
Nov 14,
2013
MAKR Seed
VC
Betaworks, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup and Brooklyn Bridge
Ventures
$0.86M
Nov 13,
2013
Seamless
Toy
Company
Seed
VC - II
Elevation Partners, Promus Ventures, Avie Tevanian, Fred
Anderson and Proof Ventures
$2.1M
Oct 29,
2013
Harvest
Automation
Series
C
MassVentures, Life Sciences Partners, Mousse Partners, Entree
Capital and Cultivation Capital
$11.75M
Oct 22,
2013
Happify Series
A
Brian Bedol, B-2-V Partners, Lewis Katz, Eric Aroesty, Craig
Kallman and David Kleinhandler
$3.8M
Oct 15,
2013
Blue Box
Group
Debt Voyager Capital $1.5M
Oct 8, 2013 Domino Seed
VC
iNovia Capital
Oct 3, 2013 Par8o Seed
VC
Atlas Venture and CHV Capital
Oct 3, 2013 Tulip Retail Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, iNovia Capital, Matt Mullenweg, Kima Ventures,
Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup, Promus Ventures and Greg Kidd
$2.4M
Sep 26,
2013
Ad Hoc
Labs
Seed
VC
Venrock, David Cohen, 500 Startups and TenOneTen Ventures $2M
Aug 21,
2013
HeartThis Seed
VC
Aug 1,
2013
Happy
Studio
Seed
VC
$1.95M
Founder Collective foundercollective.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Jul 16,
2013
Top 10
Group
Series
A - II
$0.9M
Jun 20,
2013
WiFast Seed
VC
Jun 6, 2013 Paddle8 Series
B
Mousse Partners, Mellon Family Investment Company, Damien
Hirst, Jay Jopling and Alexander von Furstenberg
$6M
May 23,
2013
LoyalBlocks Series
A
Gemini Israel Ventures and General Catalyst Partners $9M
May 22,
2013
YesGraph Seed
VC
Point Judith Capital $1.2M
May 20,
2013
Seamless
Toy
Company
Seed
VC
$0.83M
Founder Collective foundercollective.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Lerer Ventureslererventures.com
Phone: 646-237-4837
560 Broadway
Suite 308
New York 10012
New York
United States
Lerer Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund. The firm invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup's life.
Lerer Ventures respects and seeks out entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and
unwavering ambition. Lerer Ventures also operates SohoTechLabs, an incubator that builds start-ups from the idea up.
189 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Maxwell Health - Series A - II (Dec 17, 2013): $6M with Undisclosed Angel Investors, Catalyst Health
Ventures, Serious Change Fund, Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup and Vaizra Investments.
22 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: Moped (Acquired) on Dec 12, 2013 by 6Wunderkinder.
6 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0Jordan Cooper, Taylor Greene, Eric C. Hippeau, Benjamin Lerer, Kenneth B. Lerer and Kate Shillo
3 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7Latest: Lerer Ventures III ($36.1M) on Oct 23, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 189 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 17,
2013
Maxwell
Health
Series
A - II
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Catalyst Health Ventures,
Serious Change Fund, Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup
and Vaizra Investments
$6M
Dec 10,
2013
Doctor On
Demand
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Venrock and Andreessen
Horowitz
$3M
Nov 14,
2013
MAKR Seed
VC
Betaworks, Founder Collective, BoxGroup and Brooklyn
Bridge Ventures
$0.86M
Nov 14,
2013
Knozen Seed
VC
FirstMark Capital, Greycroft Partners, BoxGroup and Brad
Brooks
$2.25M
Oct 29,
2013
Frontback Series
A
Index Ventures, SV Angel, Michael Birch, Michael Arrington,
Charlie Cheever, Initialized Capital and Chris Howard
$3M
Oct 21,
2013
Soylent Seed
VC
Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital $1.5M
Oct 15,
2013
Mic Network Seed
VC - II
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Advancit Capital and Red Swan
Ventures
$3M
Oct 11,
2013
TheDodo.com Seed
VC
Softbank Capital $1.2M
Oct 9, 2013 Splice Seed
VC
Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, First Round Capital,
SV Angel, Seth Goldstein, David Tisch, Code Advisors,
BoxGroup and Rob Wiesenthal
$2.75M
Oct 3, 2013 Tulip Retail Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, iNovia Capital, Matt Mullenweg, Kima Ventures,
Founder Collective, BoxGroup, Promus Ventures and Greg
Kidd
$2.4M
Sep 18,
2013
Into The
Gloss
Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors and Forerunner Ventures $2M
Sep 16,
2013
ActionX Series
A
Softbank Capital, Verizon Ventures and Golden Venture
Partners
$3M
Sep 10,
2013
Songza Series
A
Amazon, Metamorphic Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Troy Carter, Scooter Braun and William Morris
Endeavor
$4.7M
Lerer Ventures lererventures.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Aug 29,
2013
VHX
Corporation
Series
A
Union Square Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Alexis Ohanian
and William Morris Endeavor
$3.2M
Aug 27,
2013
Carnival Labs Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Michael Lazerow, BoxGroup, Bowery Capital and
Jos White
$2.4M
Aug 8,
2013
Dragon
Innovation
Series
A
Flybridge Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Foundry Group,
Undisclosed Angel Investors and BoxGroup
$2.8M
Aug 5,
2013
Maxwell
Health
Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors, David Kidder, TiE Angels,
Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup and Vaizra Investments
$2M
Jul 31,
2013
Le Tote Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, 500
Startups and Joanne Wilson
Jul 30,
2013
Bottlenose Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Stage One Capital, Transmedia
Capital, ff Venture Capital, Advancit Capital, Social Starts and
Social Internet Fund
$3.6M
Jul 25,
2013
JOOR Series
B
Battery Ventures, Canaan Partners, Advance Publications,
Great Oaks Venture Capital, Landis Capital and Forerunner
Ventures
$15M
Lerer Ventures lererventures.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
ff Venture Capitalffvc.com 989 Avenue of the
Americas
Floor 3
New York 10018
New York
United States
ff venture capital is an early stage VC firm targeting market entry opportunities with initial investments below $1 million.
ff venture capital reserves capital to make follow-on investments in its companies as they grow and provides hands-on
support through its in-house operating team.
96 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: Adcade - Series A (Nov 26, 2013): $5M.
7 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: Infochimps (Acquired) on Aug 7, 2013 by CSC.
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0John F. Frankel, Alex Katz and David Teten
1 Fund ................................................................................................................. 6Latest: ff Rose Venture Capital Fund, L.P. ($31.33M).
20 Most recent Investments 96 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Nov 26,
2013
Adcade Series A $5M
Nov 21,
2013
Locality Series A Matrix Partners and Cowboy Ventures $4.3M
Nov 7,
2013
AppeProPo Seed VC -
II
$1.5M
Oct 2, 2013 CardFlight Seed VC Plug and Play Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Accelerator, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Payment
Ventures and Apostolos Apostolakis
$1.6M
Sep 30,
2013
Tackk Seed VC -
II
Hatch Partners and Drummond Road Capital $1.2M
Sep 28,
2013
Estify Seed VC Romulus Capital, Amplify L.A. and REES Capital $0.8M
Sep 3,
2013
Moveline
Group
Debt $1M
Aug 26,
2013
Parsely Series A -
II
Grotech Ventures, Blumberg Capital and FundersClub $5.23M
Aug 15,
2013
InteraXon Series A Horizons Ventures, Felicis Ventures, A-Grade, OMERS
Ventures and Bridge Builders
$6M
Aug 12,
2013
Zypsee Seed VC $1.41M
Aug 7,
2013
500px Series A Harrison Metal, Andreessen Horowitz, Creative Artists
Agency, Rugged Ventures and Dustin Plett
$8.8M
Jul 30,
2013
Bottlenose Series A Undisclosed Angel Investors, Stage One Capital,
Transmedia Capital, Lerer Ventures, Advancit Capital,
Social Starts and Social Internet Fund
$3.6M
Jun 19,
2013
Gobbler Convertible
Note
Sky Dayton $0.5M
Jun 4, 2013 Infochimps Convertible
Note - III
Mercury Fund $0.59M
ff Venture Capital ffvc.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
May 29,
2013
Gigit Seed VC Paige Craig
May 9,
2013
Plated Seed VC TechStars, Paige Craig, Founder Collective, Andrew
McCollum and Alain Bankier
$1.4M
May 9,
2013
ClearPath Convertible
Note - II
May 8,
2013
Movable Ink Series B Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Contour Venture
Partners, Metamorphic Ventures and Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
$11M
Apr 29,
2013
Unikey
Technologies
Convertible
Note
$0.6M
Apr 22,
2013
Voxy Debt Contour Venture Partners and Shelter Capital Partners $1.22M
ff Venture Capital ffvc.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Rincon Venture Partnersrinconvp.com
Phone: 805-969-5484
Fax: 805-845-2270
803 Chapala Street
Santa Barbara 93101
California
United States
Rincon Venture Partners invests primarily in early stage web-based businesses that are located in Southern California.
Rincon aims to fill the need for more modest first-round funding. The firm's initial investment in a company is typically in
the range of $500,000 to $1.5 million, and Rincon is typically a company's first institutional investor. The firm generally
likes to see a completed offering that has been embraced by early adopters. Rincon generally does not consider seed
investments but will do so when significant effort by either a predecessor entity or a university research program will
dramatically accelerate a young companys progress. Within Southern California, Rincon's focus regionally is the area
bounded by San Luis Obispo, CA to the north, and Orange County to the south. Rincon will consider investments
outside of this area, but generally only in conjunction with co-investors who are located near the company. The firm
believes its primary investment themes span sectors and the themes of focus for Rincon include: (1) the digitization of
communications and content of all kinds; (2) the provision of information technology as a service; (3) the reduction of
fossil fuel consumption; and (4) consumer adoption of technology. As a result of these themes of focus, Rincon Venture
Partners does find its sector focus primarily in digital media, technology-enabled services, cleantech, and consumer
Internet. As with geography, Rincon will consider investments outside our target themes and sectors only in conjunction
with co-investors who have strong relevant expertise. In terms of investment criteria, Rincon looks for the following
attributes in portfolio company investments: (1) Referral from a trusted, informed source; (2) Highly differentiated
approach to a large market opportunity; (3) Compelling core team already in place; (4) Clearly defined milestones and
associated financial plan; (5) Clearly defined routes to market; (6) Attractive plausible exit strategies Rincon generally
makes investments with the following structure: - The firm generally owns a minority interest with executives and
founders controlling their companies - Co-invest alongside partners - Rincon along with its investment partners must
own a meaningful interest in each portfolio company (at least 20%) - Rincon Venture Partners or its investment partners
hold a Board seat - Initial investment can range from $500,000 to $1,000,000 from Rincon in rounds from $500,000 to
$3,000,000
34 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: Keen.io - Seed VC - II (Oct 23, 2013): $2.35M with XG Ventures, 500 Startups, Pelion Venture Partners,
Jason Seats, Amplify Partners and Loren Siebert.
3 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: Gradient X (Acquired) on Sep 5, 2013 by Amobee Media Systems.
10 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0Courtney Rosen Andelman, Jim Andelman, Brian Bell, John M. Greathouse, Jeffrey Jacobs, Brian Kelly, Lisa
Riedmiller, Troy Ruhanen, Loren Shepard and Chris Weasler
20 Most recent Investments 34 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Oct 23,
2013
Keen.io Seed
VC - II
XG Ventures, 500 Startups, Pelion Venture Partners, Jason
Seats, Amplify Partners and Loren Siebert
$2.35M
Jun 27,
2013
Ranker Series
A - II
Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Siemer Ventures,
Lowercase Capital, Bullpen Capital, Draper Associates, Data
Collective and TenOneTen Ventures
$2M
Apr 30,
2013
Local Market
Launch
Series
A
$1.5M
Apr 17,
2013
Rentlytics Seed
VC
Mar 18,
2013
Divshot Seed
VC
Cooley LLP, 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures,
Drummond Road Capital and Eric Hammond
$1.1M
Nov 5,
2012
RingRevenue Series
B - II
Upfront Ventures $3.25M
Oct 30,
2012
The
Resumator
Series
B
Innovation Works, Birchmere Ventures, Salesforce and ff
Venture Capital
$2.1M
Oct 23,
2012
Tradesy Seed
VC
500 Startups, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher
Capital, Bee Partners and Dany Levy
$1.5M
Aug 16,
2012
Recycled
Media
Seed
VC
Aug 2,
2012
Connexity Seed
VC
Persistence Partners, Siemer Ventures, Jeff Pryor and Dave
Gross
$3M
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, Siemer
Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter Kortschak,
Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
$3.75M
Jun 14,
2012
SHIFT Series
A
$12M
Apr 24,
2012
Datapop Series
B
MK Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Momentum Venture
Management and IA Ventures
$7M
Apr 4, 2012 Wittlebee Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Matt Coffin
and Morado Venture Partners
$2.5M
Rincon Venture Partners rinconvp.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 2,
2011
SteelHouse Series
B
Greycroft Partners, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel and LIghthouse
Venture Group
$6.3M
Nov 23,
2011
Burstly Series
B
Softbank Capital and Upfront Ventures $5.5M
Sep 26,
2011
SteelHouse Series
A
Baroda Ventures $3.81M
May 6,
2011
The
Resumator
Series
A
Innovation Works, Paige Craig, Christopher Muenchhoff and ff
Venture Capital
$0.7M
Apr 4, 2011 Ranker Series
A
Pasadena Angels, Tim Draper, Gil Elbaz, Siemer Ventures and
Newport Coast Investments
$1.3M
Feb 2, 2011 SHIFT Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Founder
Collective, Thrive Capital, Stephano Kim and Lerer Ventures
$2M
Rincon Venture Partners rinconvp.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Andreessen Horowitza16z.com 2865 Sand Hill Road
Suite 101
Menlo Park 94025
California
United States
Andreessen Horowitz is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with $2.7 billion under management. The firm invests
in entrepreneurs building companies at every stage – from seed to growth.
290 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Robinhood - Seed VC (Dec 18, 2013): $3M with Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Social Leverage, Tim
Draper and Rothenberg Ventures.
23 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: PiCloud (Acq - Talent) on Nov 17, 2013 by Dropbox.
23 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0Marc Andreessen, Ramu Arunachalam, Ashvin Bachireddy, Morgan Beller, Zal Bilimoria, Connie Chan, Frank T.y.
Chen, Brian Cho, Sebastian Cua, Lars Dalgaard, Chris Dixon, Sam Gerstenzang, Benjamin A. Horowitz, John Jack,
Jeffrey D. Jordan, Scott Kupor, Peter J. Levine, John O'Farrell, Juliet Pullis, Tom Rikert, Gil Shafir, Balaji Srinivasan
and Scott Weiss
7 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8Latest: Andreessen Horowitz Fund III-Q ($0M) on Feb 29, 2012.
20 Most recent Investments 290 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 18,
2013
Robinhood Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Social Leverage, Tim Draper
and Rothenberg Ventures
$3M
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant,
Matt Mullenweg, SV Angel, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
Ohanian and Sean Parker
$23M
Dec 12,
2013
Oculus VR Series
B
Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation 8 $75M
Dec 12,
2013
Coinbase Series
B
Union Square Ventures, Red Swan Ventures and Ribbit Capital $25M
Dec 12,
2013
Koru Seed
VC
Battery Ventures, Maveron, First Round Capital and
Undisclosed Angel Investors
$4.35M
Dec 10,
2013
Doctor On
Demand
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Venrock and Lerer Ventures $3M
Nov 20,
2013
Lytro Series
B
New Enterprise Associates, North Bridge Venture Partners and
Greylock Partners
$40M
Nov 14,
2013
TinyCo Series
B
Pinnacle Ventures $20M
Nov 13,
2013
Quirky Series
D
Norwest Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
RRE Ventures and General Electric
$79M
Nov 11,
2013
Bitcasa Series
A - II
Horizons Ventures, First Round Capital, Samsung Ventures,
Pelion Venture Partners and CrunchFund
$11M
Nov 5,
2013
COHO Data Series
B
Ignition Partners $25M
Nov 4,
2013
MediaSpike Series
A
Google Ventures, CMEA Capital, Naval Ravikant, Othman
Laraki, 500 Startups, Jonathan Abrams, Rick Marini, Raptor
Ventures and Inspovation Ventures
$5.2M
Oct 29,
2013
Pixlee Seed
VC
Ariel Poler, XSeed Capital, Mark Gorenberg and Rothenberg
Ventures
$1.5M
Oct 28,
2013
Openbay Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Stage 1 Ventures, Jim Pallotta, Boston Seed
Capital and Andy Palmer
Andreessen Horowitz a16z.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Oct 24,
2013
BloomNation Seed
VC
Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab $1.65M
Oct 24,
2013
Highfive Series
A - II
Google Ventures, Marc Benioff, General Catalyst Partners,
Salesforce, Drew Houston and Aaron Levie
$9.5M
Oct 23,
2013
Valuation:
$3800M
Series
E
Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Fidelity
Investments and Valiant Capital Partners
$225M
Oct 23,
2013
Bromium Series
C
Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Intel Capital and
Meritech Capital Partners
$40M
Oct 21,
2013
Soylent Seed
VC
Lerer Ventures and Initialized Capital $1.5M
Oct 17,
2013
Data Elite Seed
VC
Ron Conway, Anand Rajaraman, The Social+Capital
Partnership and Formation 8
Andreessen Horowitz a16z.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
DFJ Frontierdfjfrontier.com 2545 Boatman Avenue
West Sacramento
95691
California
United States
DFJ Frontier is a venture capital firm that typically invests $100,000 to $1,000,000 initial investment, with additional
capital reserved for follow-on investment.
84 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: MomentFeed - Series A (Dec 11, 2013): $5.5M with Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures, Double
M Partners and Daher Capital.
8 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4Latest: Tioga Energy (Acquired) on Jul 8, 2013 by Sustainable Power Group.
12 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0Frederick Bush, David Cremin, Brian Danella, Frank Foster, Oleg Kaganovich, James Lee, Scott Lenet, Catherine
Hutton Markwell, Tony Perkins, Eric Rosenfeld, Jim Schraith and Lauren Weston
20 Most recent Investments 84 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 11,
2013
MomentFeed Series
A
Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures, Double M
Partners and Daher Capital
$5.5M
Nov 13,
2013
Zadspace Option/
Warrant
Connecticut Innovations $0.92M
Jul 8, 2013 Predixion
Software
Series
C
Palomar Ventures, Miramar Venture Partners, Accenture, Frost
Venture Partners and GE Ventures
$20M
May 3,
2013
Zadspace Series
B - II
Gideon Hixon Fund and Connecticut Innovations $1.73M
Jan 31,
2013
MomentFeed Seed
VC - III
Gold Hill Capital, Gil Elbaz, Clark Landry, Walter Kortschak,
Draper Nexus Ventures, Double M Partners and Daher Capital
$1.8M
Jan 14,
2013
JanRain Series
C
Split Rock Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, RPM
Ventures, Epic Ventures, Anthem Venture Partners, Salesforce
and Millennium Technology Value Partners
$33M
Jul 30,
2012
Netpulse Series
C
August Capital, Javelin Venture Partners and Parkview
Ventures
$15.6M
Jul 26,
2012
Marval
Biosciences
Series
C
Mercury Fund $2.5M
Jun 27,
2012
Big Frame Seed
VC
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Anthem Venture Partners, Dan
Murray, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Diego Berdakin, David
Goldberg, Social Starts, Daher Capital, Media Farm, Peter
Gotcher and Adam Lilling
$3M
Jun 25,
2012
Swink Seed
VC - II
$0.75M
Apr 18,
2012
uSamp Series
C - II
Greycroft Partners and OpenView Venture Partners $6M
Apr 4, 2012 Mogreet Series
D
Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, Draper
Associates and Bryant Park Capital
$4.1M
Jan 4, 2012 Seismic
Games
Series
A
Tom Matlack $2M
DFJ Frontier dfjfrontier.com
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Nov 2,
2011
Marval
Biosciences
Debt Draper Fisher Jurvetson $1.51M
Oct 4, 2011 Predixion
Software
Series
B
Palomar Ventures and Miramar Venture Partners $6M
Sep 22,
2011
Mogreet Series
C - II
Ascend Venture Group and Black Diamond Ventures $2M
Aug 11,
2011
My Wines
Direct
Series
E
New Atlantic Ventures and Abacus Advisors $1.48M
Aug 10,
2011
Swink Seed
VC
$0.47M
Aug 10,
2011
Chimeros Debt -
V
Prospect Venture Partners $1.13M
Aug 9,
2011
Prolacta
Bioscience
Series
D
Alta Partners, Gideon Hixon Fund, Arcturus Capital and Health
Evolution Partners
$15M
DFJ Frontier dfjfrontier.com
3
Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Resolute.vcresolute.vc Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Resolute.vc is a seed stage venture capital firm managed by the company's founder, Mike Hirshland.
22 Investments .................................................................................................... 2Latest: Shop-Hers - Seed VC (Dec 11, 2013): $3.5M with Elevation Partners, Floodgate, High Line Venture Partners,
BoxGroup, Aldo Manzini and Sarah Fiszel.
20 Most recent Investments 22 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 11,
2013
Shop-Hers Seed
VC
Elevation Partners, Floodgate, High Line Venture Partners,
BoxGroup, Aldo Manzini and Sarah Fiszel
$3.5M
Dec 5,
2013
CARD
Corporation
Series
A
Anthem Venture Partners, QED Investors, Adam Press and
Greg Steiner
$3M
Nov 14,
2013
Greenhouse Angel
- II
New York Angels, Seth Goldstein, Thomas Lehrman, The
Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Lohse, Nick Ganju and
Thatcher Bell
$2.7M
Oct 30,
2013
Runnable Seed
VC
Sierra Ventures, 500 Startups, Angelpad, Hiten Shah and Isaac
Roth
$2M
Oct 21,
2013
OKpanda Seed
VC
Kapor Capital, 500 Startups, Roger Dickey, Innovation
Endeavors, Max Burger, Lee Linden and Ilan Abehassera
$1.4M
Jun 4, 2013 Sunrise
Atelier
Seed
VC
Hunter Walk, SV Angel, Dave Morin, Bill Lee, NextView
Ventures, 500 Startups, David King, John Maloney, Lerer
Ventures, Loic LeMeur, Adam Nash, Andrew Kortina, Elliot
Shmukler, Gustaf Alstromer and Adam Mosseri
$2.2M
May 16,
2013
MessageMe Series
A
Google Ventures, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, First
Round Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz and The
Social+Capital Partnership
$10M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser,
Hank Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Double M Partners,
Karlin Ventures, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Apr 9, 2013 BarkBox Series
A
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, RRE Ventures, Vast
Ventures, Polaris Partners, 500 Startups, Lerer Ventures and
BoxGroup
$5M
Mar 19,
2013
MessageMe Seed
VC
Google Ventures, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, First
Round Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Brian Pokorny,
The Social+Capital Partnership, Hiten Shah, Suleman Ali,
Darian Shirazi, Eric Wu, Rex Ng and Pooj Preena
$1.9M
Mar 5,
2013
Homejoy Seed
VC
Paul Buchheit, First Round Capital, Bobby Yazdani,
Andreessen Horowitz, Pejman Nozad and Max Levchin
$1.7M
Mar 1,
2013
Reonomy Seed
VC
High Peaks Venture Partners, KEC Holdings, Tom Falus and
Jeff Parker
$1.5M
Resolute.vc resolute.vc
2
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Feb 18,
2013
Tutorspree Seed
VC - II
Sequoia Capital, Paul Buchheit, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Geoff
Ralston, Founder Collective, Thrive Capital, Dogpatch Labs,
Lerer Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Brady,
Reinmkr Capital and Bubba Muraka
$0.8M
Dec 19,
2012
Signifyd Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, QED
Investors, IA Ventures, Tekton Ventures and Data Collective
$2M
Dec 17,
2012
Influitive Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, CommonAngels, Illuminate
Ventures and Relay Ventures
$7.3M
Sep 26,
2012
Happier Seed
VC
Venrock $1.2M
Aug 8,
2012
Influitive Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, First Round Capital,
CommonAngels, Accelerator Ventures, Illuminate Ventures, 500
Startups, Golden Venture Partners and Relay Ventures
$3.75M
Jul 9, 2012 BarkBox Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, RRE Ventures, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Polaris Partners, 500 Startups, Doug Chertok,
Lerer Ventures, Zach Weinberg, Nat Turner, Brian Lee, Aaron
Earls, Mike Jung and Aaron Harris
$1.7M
Jun 28,
2012
Pact Seed
VC
Mike Dornbrook, TEEC Angel Fund, Alex Rigopoulos and Bob
Mason
$0.85M
Jun 21,
2012
BlockBeacon Seed
VC
$0.5M
Resolute.vc resolute.vc
3
Investor ▸ Super Angel
Felicis Venturesfelicis.com 530 Lytton Ave
Suite 305
Palo Alto 94301
California
United States
Felicis Ventures is a boutique venture fund, customizing relationships with each portfolio company in a way that's
meaningful and critical for them. The firm partners with founders and strives to deliver high value help where needed.
Felicis focuses on 5 key areas (mobile, e-commerce, enterprise, education and health) and on what is believed to be
new groundbreaking technologies, such as 3-d imaging, bio informatics, and connected devices. Felicis Ventures has
over $100M in total committed assets: $4.5M angel fund in 2006, $41M super-angel fund raised in 2010 and $70M
boutique VC fund raised in 2012.
209 Investments .................................................................................................. 2Latest: Planet Labs - Series B (Dec 18, 2013): $52M with Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Yuri Milner and Ray
Rothrock.
51 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4Latest: The Climate Corporation (Acquired) on Nov 1, 2013 for $930 - $1100M by Monsanto.
12 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0, , , , , , , , 0 0 0, Sundeep Peechu, Renata Quintini and Aydin Senkut
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7Latest: Clover Fund ($7M) on Oct 21, 2013.
20 Most recent Investments 209 total
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Dec 18,
2013
Planet Labs Series
B
Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Yuri Milner and Ray Rothrock $52M
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Naval Ravikant, Matt Mullenweg,
SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
Ohanian and Sean Parker
$23M
Dec 12,
2013
Shopify
Valuation:
$1000M
Series
C
Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners,
FirstMark Capital, Georgian Partners and OMERS Ventures
$100M
Nov 14,
2013
creativeLIVE Series
B
Greylock Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership $21.5M
Nov 5,
2013
CyPhy Works Series
C
Lux Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors and General
Cannabis
$7M
Oct 9, 2013 Smartling Series
C
US Venture Partners, Venrock, First Round Capital, Tenaya
Capital, IDG Ventures and Harmony Partners
$24M
Oct 3, 2013 Koality Seed
VC
Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, UJ Ventures,
Kris Duggan and Tien Tzuo
$1.8M
Sep 24,
2013
Practice
Fusion
Series
D
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, OrbiMed Advisors, Band of
Angels, Deerfield Management and Artis Ventures
$70M
Sep 19,
2013
Plaid
Technologies
Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, Google Ventures,
BoxGroup and Homebrew Capital
$2.8M
Sep 17,
2013
Distill Seed
VC
Innovation Works, DN Capital and Undisclosed Angel
Investors
$1.3M
Aug 15,
2013
InteraXon Series
A
Horizons Ventures, A-Grade, ff Venture Capital, OMERS
Ventures and Bridge Builders
$6M
Aug 14,
2013
MeCommerce Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Novel TMT Ventures, Andreessen
Horowitz, Keith Rabois, Jeff Jordan, Benjamin Ling and Yuri
Milner
$5.6M
Jul 23,
2013
Hall Series
A
Eric Hahn, Sand Hill Angels, Signia Venture Partners, 500
Startups and PivotNorth Capital
$5.5M
Felicis Ventures felicis.com
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Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Jul 17,
2013
Inkling
Systems
Series
C
Sequoia Capital, JAFCO Ventures and Tenaya Capital $16M
Jul 10,
2013
Tivli Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Mark Cuban, CBC New Media
Group, Rho Ventures, William Morris Endeavor and Home Box
Office
$6.3M
Jun 25,
2013
Civitas
Learning
Series
B
Austin Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners, First Round
Capital, New Markets Venture Partners and Floodgate
$8.75M
Jun 19,
2013
Pindrop
Security
Series
A
Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Webb Investment
Network and Citi Ventures
$11M
May 28,
2013
Appurify Series
A
Google Ventures, Foundation Capital, Radar Partners,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, Data
Collective, Jay Jamison, Pavan Nigam and David Auerbach
$4.5M
May 22,
2013
eduK Seed Monashees Capital
May 15,
2013
Airware Series
A
Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz $10.7M
Felicis Ventures felicis.com
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
Karlin Ventureskarlinvc.com
Phone: 310-806-9700
11755 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1400
Los Angeles 90025
California
United States
Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. Karlin is a value-add partner 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
capital.
6 Investments ...................................................................................................... 2Latest: Gyft - Series A (Sep 25, 2013): $5M with David Sacks, A-Grade, The Social+Capital Partnership and Haas
Portman.
6 Investments
Date Company Round Co-Investors Funding
Sep 25,
2013
Gyft Series
A
David Sacks, A-Grade, The Social+Capital Partnership and Haas
Portman
$5M
Sep 17,
2013
StrikeAd Series
B
SoftTech VC, DFJ Esprit, Siemer Ventures, Canyon Creek Capital
and Scentan Ventures
$7M
Jul 2, 2013 FIGS Seed
VC
Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups and Crocs $2M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser, Hank
Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc, Double M
Partners, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Valuation:
$4.8M
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Baroda Ventures, Upfront
Ventures, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher
Capital and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Nov 1,
2012
Invested.in Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani, Gordon Crawford, Amplify
L.A., Chris Grey, Mark Schwartz, Michael Liou, Brad Schwartz,
Canyon Creek Capital, David Carter, Chairul Irawan, Steven
Roussey, Alan Stern, Irv Weintraub, Steve Reich, Mark
Kolokotrones and Terry Kay
$0.83M
Karlin Ventures karlinvc.com
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