LA Venture

Founder of MiLA Capital, Noramay Cadena, talks with me about the intersection of tech and manufacturing.  Along with partners Carmen Palafox and Shaun Arora, Noramay is writing first checks ($100k-$1M) into "tech you can touch". Shout out to creator, collaborator Z holly and Make it in LA   SoCal Alliance report on SoCal innovation   Kauffman fellows

Great chat with Michael Tam about Craft Ventures ($1-$15M), vertical labor marketplaces, Uber, his partners David Sacks, Bill Lee, Jeff Fluhr, Sky Dayton, and Michael's path into venture.   David Sacks posts: https://medium.com/@davidsacks

We caught up with Derek Norton about Watertower ($100-500k checks with his partner Jeremy Milken), micro M&A, advantages(?) of a hard fundraise, media as IP, and how great we are here in LA :)

Great episode if you like entertaining guests.  Peter invests up to $250k initial checks out of PLG Ventures and is not afraid to invest super-early (pre-product, pre-revenue).   He helps his portfolio companies on all things organizational behavior, but was formerly CEO of AmTrust, the largest privately held bank.

We got a chance to catch up with Erik about Honey's $4B exit, his new partner Omar, his decision-making process and all things Mucker ($100k - $1.5M checks and a lot of elbow grease).

MAC is a $100m fund writing $500k - $1.5m checks. David and I didn't talk much because Mike had so many great stories.  He tells us about his partners Adrian Fenty, Marlon Nichols, Charles King and some of the cool stuff in interactive media today.   Lil Miquela : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE1J9JxqhFo ... makes our podcast guest list look a little dry

Kelly is founding partner of Moonshots Capital where he invests $500k - $1.5M with conviction into extraordinary leadership with a heavy emphasis on leaders with a military background.   We enjoyed talking with him about his experience running a syndicate and winning Season 2 of the Apprentice and working with Donald Trump.

Robert Mai joins us to talk about Scopus Ventures, an early stage fund focused on B2B enterprise software (initial checks $250-$1M).  Scopus is active in LA and Israel.  Robert also educates us on family office investing.

Brian is the founder of BAM Ventures, ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom, the Honest Company and more.  We talked to him about investing out of BAM Ventures where he's not afraid to invest early--$250-500k into a great entrepreneur and an idea.  Also really interesting to learn his approach to launching a brand, shopping at CVS, and whats going on today at BAM labs.

Jay is a partner at Wavemaker 360 Health, a healthcare fund with a liberal definition of what a healthcare company is.  They do seed investing ($100-$500k first check).  Jay is very thoughtful about everything from how he leverages his LPs to the implications of value-based care.