LA Venture

Ben Savage tells us about Clocktower Ventures.  They are fintech specialists who invest stage-agnostically into financial services innovation ($250k - $2.5m).   Clocktower never leads rounds and Ben suggests that VCs often dont make for the best board members anyhow.     Clocktower Ventures: https://www.clocktowerventures.com/   Pasadena VC/founder event: https://bit.ly/35e5Kxc

Steph Janson joins to tell us about OCV, a $260M LA fund investing into companies that have $5M+ ARR.  He also shares some great stories about Israel's startup ecosystem and his time at OurCrowd.

Halogen Ventures invests ($250k - $1M) in consumer tech companies led by women (The Skimm, Carbon38). Jesse Draper shares her perspective of growing up 4th gen VC, how she learned to be fearless, and much more.

Our guest Matt Kozlov is the managing director of Techstars Space and ran Techstars Health for 3 years before that.   We chat about launching toaster sized objects into space for a couple million bucks, getting non-dilutive grant money, and of course Techstars ($120k and a great program)! 

Today's episode is with Dinesh Moorjani, managing director of LA-based Comcast Ventures.  Comcast's sweet spot is a Series A check ($3-20M) but they are flexible.  Dinesh explains how Comcast operates, tells us about the early days of Tinder, his experience of private equity, and much more.

It was really hard to do a podcast about myself on my own podcast, but my dear friend Steph Hannon was kind enough to interview me.  I tried to give the basics of TenOneTen ($500-$1M into seed rounds), but mostly felt like we chatted about my background and this podcast.

Elaine recently joined Greycroft to co-lead the Albertsons Fund, a $50M fund investing into the future of retail. The Albertsons Fund (ACI Fund) is investing with Greycroft's core fund $2-6M into Series A or seed companies that are redefining the future of retail.

We talk about how Brian has evolved Expert Dojo into a really interesting international accelerator ($100k checks), how lean startup can be misapplied, and how women are better than men :)  Totally worth checking out--both the Dojo and this episode!

Michael is one of the most sought after and prolific angel investors in LA.  One year he invested in 50 companies... and that was before joining a prominent scout program.  We also talk about growing Yelp with his brother Jeremy Stoppelman.

M13 is a $200M LA-based brand development and venture capital firm. Courtney is a co-founder of M13 and an investor in Pinterest, Ring, Lyft and much more. This is a fun one!