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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles and New York-based venture firm M13 has managed to nab former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner and the head of its internal venture studio, Launchpad. The starting gun for M13’s Launchpad program was in 2019 and the program currently has managed to spin up three startups.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

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Mercato operates in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where the company is headquartered. The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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“ In 2019 and 2020 we’re going to see a lot of these… we’re going to see a lot of people putting out a lot of stuff.” ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at “We understand how much money you can make from the IP.