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

Michael Chasin: We initially started with $30,000 in angel funding from an entrepreneur here in Los Angeles. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. It sounds like you have some angel funding? They run a few businesses and believed in the concept.

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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. If a particular strategy, product or service is not generating the desired results, a start-up can quickly pivot until they discover what works. “So are there any other tips you can give when pitching VC’s?”

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