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Fund size: $400M (Fund VI) Managing Partners: Mark Suster, Yves Sisteron Partners: Greg Bettinelli, Kara Nortman, Kobie Fuller, Kevin Zhang Investment interests: Seed or A-Round investments with a median check size of $2.8 Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. We sat down with TX Zhuo , who is heading up the firm's venture investments, about the fund and his path here after a recent stint at Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors fund in Palo Alto.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. I wanted to go back to both, with an operation and investment focus. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house. What is Science?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Anna Barber is the Managing Director at Techstars LA where she invests in B2B and B2C early stage startups.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. We're here as a support ecosystem, to help founders build their companies.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Bay area venture capital firm Mayfield Fund appears to be eyeing more investments in the Los Angeles area, with the addition of Sean Moriarty , the former CEO of Ticketmaster, as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the firm. billion under management, and has investments in such firms here as Rubicon Project and Inphi.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. The company that owned the brand was Provide Commerce, and the brand was Proflowers, which they owned along with a couple of other brands. In 2014, there were a few hundred stores running on Shopify, as the e-commerce market was quite fragmented.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Darren Lit: My background is as a tech entrepreneur. On the customer side, there's been such a massive boom in and around e-commerce, with so many people looking for marketing talent, there's a huge ecosystem of customres and companies, which has allowed us to grow rather quickly. The other has been the growth in e-commerce.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team.

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MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Where are you planning making investments? Derek Norton: We're investing in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and New York. Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) announced its third, venture capital fund--a continuation of an investment theme very much centered around the growth of Southern California, and in particular, the Silicon Beach startup ecosystem. Any change to your investment thesis from your last funds?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Essentially, we are giving the control back to them on the e-commerce channel, to make sure they are making the right sales, to the right places, to the right people, and to lock down an optimized sales channel through their partners. The first piece of this is getting really great visibility of the landscape of e-commerce.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Last week, Fika Ventures , LA's newest venture fund, announced its formation, led by tech investment veterans Tx Zhuo and Eva Ho. We sat down with Tx Zhuo to chat about the new fund, what investments it hopes to make, and what kind of entrepreneurs the fund is looking to invest in. Have you started making investments yet?

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MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. Because of that, you get to meet slots of people in the community, because there's such a prolific number of entrepreneurs.

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MAY 11, 2010

Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment. Jody Sherman: I've been an entrepreneur since I got out of the military.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. You have a unique position, being both in the investment banking as well as being an early stage investor.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Also, because of the internal dynamics of the talent pool, it effectively lead to more companies in the preponderant areas, which at the time were e-commerce, ad-tech, and disruptive media or media-related companies�such as game companies, companies that were in music, or companies related to the distribution of content.

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JULY 9, 2015

(www.science-inc.com) inked a business deal together, including both investment and major collaboration. The second piece that we spend time on, is understanding commerce. We believed that this was a unique way to continually connect influencers with their fans, through commerce, which is exactly how Quarterly is built.

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JULY 11, 2014

The content is really amazing, and leverages the power of social, and applies that towards e-commerce and deals. We''re making a significant investment now to just understand our own data, and what''s happening on our site. We''re also investing in marketing, as the company has grown up until now entirely through viral growth.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We're lucky to get him, and he's an incredible young entrepreneur. We actually reached out to them, because we were fascinated with the e-commerce space. We were able to bring them in through a straight investment, and they're now working in our offices, and frankly really getting good growth after we engaged with them.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

It''s all over the map, from content moderation for applications like Whisper and Tinder, to photo retouching for e-commerce websites. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. Before that, I was in New York, City. That was really what did it.

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JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles has always been a major market for launching products, and in the era of e-commerce has become highly attractive for its large consumer population, a technology-savvy population, and affinity for new products and services. We''re not an e-commerce company. What is H.Bloom? Bryan Burkhart: H.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. It looks like you have a special session on female entrepreneurs again this year? On Tuesday, we have a program regarding female entrepreneurs. First of all, what's new with your conference this year?

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JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Many businesses we were investing in were seeing their acquisition costs increase, and I met Emad, who saw that figuring out CLV was the only way out of this acquisition cost hole. We work with any B-to-C company with over 10,000 customers, such as retailers and e-commerce. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina.

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APRIL 5, 2017

How is it you made it to $100M in revenues without outside investment? There are something like 110 different ways for someone to make money, whether that might be investing in the stock market or real estate, building a Silicon Valley company and flipping it. Thanks, and good luck!

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Those retailers look over at the online world, and wish they had the same kinds of tools that e-commerce retailers had to help them improve their business. If you are in the e-commerce business, you can see people logging into your website, and you can use cookies to track them and know everything about them.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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JULY 5, 2017

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Shaan Sethi to hear more about the startup, as well as Shaan's journey from investment banking to running an apparel startup. In the early 2000's, I'd worked as a consumer, retail investment banker. There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. What is Jaanuu?

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JULY 25, 2012

One of the things we really wanted to do was address that, and make our platform more flexible and versatile to help artists and others monetize this without having to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars up front. You will also be letting other people be selling t-shirts? was community and content, we think Web 3.0 READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. That's important, because it allows marketers to re-invest and give credit to that marketing event, so they can buy more of it and get more customers.

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JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. One day, after they made their first investment, a six-figure sum, we figured out we needed to take this money seriously and not be in school. What was your decision to focus on food?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. At the end of the 90's, I had the opportunity to launch Bugleboy.com, an e-commerce enabled site, which we launched a week fore Gap.com. What is Dentistry.com? I ran Bugleboy.com for a couple of years, and then I moved into purely online marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

where if you're doing anything with mobile commerce in the U.S. Rahul Sonnad: I think what we've realized, is that there are lots of people who want to do commerce on mobile phones. So, our feeling is that mobile operators, who have millions of customers, makes the opportunity versus the time invested a much greater return.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce. What verticals are you thinking about?

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JANUARY 17, 2017

We can see marchan transactions, and if they are making e-commerce transactions, if they are paying things at small kiosks. Shivani Siroya: I started out pretty traditionally in investment banking, doing equity research at UBS. We can see location information, payroll data, bank balances, and savings data. I love LA now.

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