socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. One day, I was talking with a friend who was trying to develop and app for a school event, and had created his own app creation company. He actually ended up dropping out of law school in his second year to pursue his app company. What''s LawKick about?

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Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 28, 2013

The question was posed by Nolan Simons, an LMU student from Professor David Choi’s Business Incubation class. I was invited along with Kluge’s CEO, Arturo Perez , to listen to five companies from the class pitch their ideas. Ron Conway , for example, is known for investing in the “mega trends” of the Internet.

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Startup LMU Venture Capital Class 45