LA Venture

Will Schmitt is Head of Venture Strategy at Miroma Ventures.  Miroma recently announced a $100M commitment to fund the next generation of consumer brands and media platforms.     Miroma has worked with companies from McDonald's to Netflix to Masterclass and Spotify.  They invest at the seed or Series A stage and aim to bring that expertise to earlier stage companies.

Today Marlon talks about MAC Ventures and how he, Mike Palank, Adrian Fenty and Charles D. King tap into their deep networks to identify shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

TX Zhuo joins today to talk about starting Fika with Eva Ho with the goal of giving back to the community. TX has an amazing story of dropping out of school to start his first business and how his approach to investing is evolving as the venture market evolves.

Jeremy Milken is a partner at Watertower, a serial entrepreneur, and just a lot of fun to talk to.   We talk about his own journey, his views on deploying money into the venture asset class, his partner Derek and his wife, the flexible neurotic.

Nick believes VC has become a very reactive business. He explains how he and Nate Redmond set out to build Alpha Edison as a proactive, knowledge-driven fund.

So much fun talking with Rob Dyrdek about everything from his $450M in exits to his multiple world records to his thoughts on building self-belief!   Rob has built a system for it all at the Dyrdek Machine, his venture creation studio.

Sanjay tells us about Unlock Fund II, his Southern California focus, advice for startups on finding good bankers and much more.

Vik is a partner at Dreamers VC, a $55m fund co-founded by Will Smith. Vik explains the world of influencers, talent fees, production fees, and how warrants are effective when working with influencers.   Unlike what every other VC says, Vik does not aim to be the founders first call at 2am when something goes wrong.

My partner Gil Elbaz joins to talk about his passion for data, building AdSense, selling to Google and then building Factual. He also explains why founders should mentally commit 10 years to their startup before beginning.

We talk with Scott Lenet of Touchdown Ventures about the pros and cons of corporate venture... and how Touchdown is trying to do it right.   Touchdown already has 45 people on the team, and they're actively hiring!