LA Venture Capital Almanac

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Orrick is proud to be a long-standing member and
supporter of the Los Angeles venture community.
The CB Insights’ Los Angeles Tech Venture Capital
Almanac is a valuable resource in assessing
trends, and we are pleased to sponsor it.
The Almanac contains an array of interesting data
points about the Los Angeles venture market, but
there are a couple particular points to note that are
indicators of its consistency and breadth. First, the
Almanac reports that Los Angeles tech startups
have closed thirty or more venture deals in each of
the past six quarters. Second, the data indicates
that not only is seed/early stage funding surging in
LA, but that the number of later-stage venture
deals is on the rise as well. These are positive
signs of LA’s maturing and healthy venture
ecosystem. We look forward to supporting this
continued growth in the years ahead.
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This report covers companies headquartered in or around the Greater Los Angeles Area that
have seen venture activity since 2009. The areas represented by the companies in this report
are listed below in alphabetical order.
Agoura Hills
Altadena
Anaheim
Baldwin Park
Beverly Hills
Burbank
Calabasas
Canoga Park
Canyon Country
Costa Mesa
Culver City
El Segundo
Encino
Glendale
Hawthorne
Hermosa beach
Hollywood
Huntington Beach
Inglewood
Irvine
Lake Forest
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Manhattan Beach
Marina del Rey
Mission Viejo
Monrovia
Monterey Park
Newport Beach
North Hollywood
Northridge
Orange
Oxnard
Pasadena
Playa del Rey
Rancho Dominguez
Riverside
Santa Ana
Santa Monica
Sherman Oaks
South Pasadena
Studio City
Torrance
Van Nuys
Venice
Walnut
West Hollywood
Woodland Hills
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Los Angeles is renowned as a digital media and entertainment hub. And over the past four
years, LA has also developed a promising tech ecosystem with startups including Snapchat,
Nasty Gal and TrueCar calling LA home. Through December, LA tech venture funding and
deal activity has already hit a five-year high in 2013.
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Venture capital deals to LA tech startups have risen steadily over time. In fact, LA has seen
42% more tech VC deals in the first three quarters of 2013 than in all of 2009. Each of the
past six quarters has seen 30 or more venture deals to LA tech startups.
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In a sign that LA tech startups are seeing healthy follow-on financing activity, mid-stage
funding share (Series B/Series C) has taken just over half of all funding in 2013 YTD. Late
stage funding has taken over 1/4 of share in 2013 after capturing just 14% of total funding
share last year.
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Seed deal share in LA has jumped from 10% in 2009 to 43% in 2012. Early-stage startups
(Seed/Series A) took over 70% of all deals in 2012 and continue to see strong deal activity in
2013 YTD.
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The Internet sector has taken over half of all venture funding to LA tech companies in each year
since 2009. But 2013 has seen a funding boom within mobile startups, which have taken nearly
1/4 of all LA tech VC funding dollars in the year to date.
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Since the start of 2010, Internet and mobile startups have garnered over 4/5 of all VC deals in
the greater LA area. The mobile sector has taken nearly 1 in every 5 deals in Los Angeles in
2013 YTD and has already hit its highest deal tally since 2009.
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RRE Ventures
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Portfolio Manager
Telefonica
Ventures
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Corporate Development
Cisco
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Partner
Greycroft Partners
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Investor
SAP Ventures
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Greg Bae
Investments & Biz Dev
Comcast Ventures
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Since 2011, there have been 59 venture-backed tech exits in Los Angeles. Among the largest
LA-based venture-backed tech exits in recent years were Bessemer Venture Partners-backed
Cornerstone OnDemand (IPO) and Benchmark-backed Riot Games (acquired by Tencent).
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Since 2009, Rustic Canyon Partners leads the list of investors who have realized the most LAbased tech exits including GaiKai and Savings.com. Other investors who have notched a
handful of LA exits include Benchmark Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners.
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2012 Forbes “30 Under 30: Tech”
2010 Red Herring 100
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AlwaysOn Global 250 - 2011
2013 Red Herring 100
2009 CNET Webware 100
Greentech Media Top 50 Startups
GoingGreen Global 2011-2012
2011 VentureWire FASTech 50
2013 CRN 10 coolest virtualization apps
2012 SXSWi Breakout Digital Trend
2011 Crunchies Best New Start-up
2012 Deloitte "Tech Fast 500"
2012 OnMedia 100,
2011 Time Top 50 Web Sites
2011 AlwaysOn Global 250
2010 OnMedia 100
2010 VentureWire 50 Start-Ups to Watch
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Upfront Ventures is the most active investor in Los Angeles-based tech startups since 2009.
The top 3 most active investors are rounded out by 500 Startups and Greycroft Partners.
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From Upfront Ventures to Crosscut Ventures, 4 of the top 7 most active LA tech seed investors
are headquartered in Los Angeles, a testament to the strong presence of local investors.
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Between 2009 and November 2012, 11 VC investors seeded 5 or more unique LA-based tech
companies. Of these active seed investors, Lerer Ventures had the highest seed follow-on
investment rate, followed by Upfront Ventures and Founder Collective.
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There are a number of investors who have completed multiple late-stage investments in LA
tech companies. The list is led by Accel Partners and Azure Capital Partners.
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500 Startups is the most active investor in Los Angeles-based Internet startups since 2009.
Greycroft Partners, Siemer Ventures and Mark Suster s Upfront Ventures take the next three
spots.
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NY-based early stage fund Founder Collective is the most active investor in LA-based mobile
companies with active mobile seed investments including Pose and Burstly. Double M
Partners, 500 Startups and Upfront Ventures are also active on the mobile front in LA.
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TrueCar and SolarFlare lead the list of most well-funded, still private Los Angeles tech
startups. The much talked about Snapchat comes in at number four.
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Will Porteous
General Partner
RRE Ventures
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market view.”
Jack Leeney
Portfolio Manager
Telefonica
Ventures
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and detailed investment
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powerful tool for our team's
research needs.”
Nate D’Anna
Corporate Development
Cisco
“They have the best quality data
in the market for anyone looking
to get an inside look at private
company financings.”
Ian Sigalow
Partner
Greycroft Partners
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Kevin Diestel
Investor
SAP Ventures
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Greg Bae
Investments & Biz Dev
Comcast Ventures
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These are VCs who invest prior
to this VC investing in the
company. These frequently
represent sources of dealflow.
The trend line indicates when
deals were done. A trend such
as the one above indicates a
strengthening relationship
between the firms as more
activity has occurred recently.
These are investors who invest
in the same round as the VC.
This number indicates the
number of financing deals that
the two investors have
participated in.
These are the investors who
tend to invest in this VCs
portfolio companies after their
investment.
This graph shows you the
rounds that the investors
participate in together.
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Investor ▸ Super Angel
500startups.com
500 Startups
444 Castro Street
1200
Mountain View 94041
California
United States
500 Startups is an early-stage seed fund and incubator program located in Mountain View, CA. We invest primarily in
consumer & SMB internet startups, and related web infrastructure services. Selected areas of interest include financial
services & e-commerce, search/social/mobile platforms, personal & business productivity, education & language, family
& healthcare, web infrastructure, and tribbles. The firms' initial investment size is typically $25K-$250K.
509 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Colingo - Seed VC (Nov 21, 2013): $2.4M with Atlas Venture, Crosslink Capital, Social Leverage, Morado
Venture Partners, Kibo Ventures and Havoc Capital.
34 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Chalkable (Acquired) on Dec 2, 2013 for $10M by STI.
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Enrique Allen, Dave Mcclure and Christine Tsai
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 6
Latest: 500 Startups III ($0M) on Oct 16, 2013.
500 Startups
500startups.com
20 Most recent Investments 509 total
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Nov 21,
2013
Colingo
Seed
VC
Atlas Venture, Crosslink Capital, Social Leverage, Morado
Venture Partners, Kibo Ventures and Havoc Capital
Nov 20,
2013
CapLinked
Series
A - III
FF Angel and Subtraction Capital
Nov 13,
2013
Carousell
Seed
VC
Rakuten, Golden Gate Ventures, Darius Cheung and Danny Oei
Wirianto
$0.8M
Nov 4,
2013
MediaSpike
Series
A
Google Ventures, CMEA Capital, Naval Ravikant, Andreessen
Horowitz, Othman Laraki, Jonathan Abrams, Rick Marini,
Raptor Ventures and Inspovation Ventures
$5.2M
Oct 30,
2013
Runnable
Seed
VC
Sierra Ventures, Angelpad, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc and Isaac
Roth
$2M
Oct 29,
2013
PlateJoy
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
LaunchTrack
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Cityblis
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
3Sourcing
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
moj.io
Seed
VC
Oct 29,
2013
OLSET
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
ZBoard
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Goods
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Splendid
BDC Venture Capital and Relay Ventures
Funding
$2.4M
$1M
$2.3M
Platform
Seed
Labs
2
500 Startups
500startups.com
Date
Company
Round
Oct 29,
2013
Builk
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
WePlann
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
Anyadir
Seed
Oct 29,
2013
ViralGains
Seed
Oct 29,
Populr
Seed
uBiome
Seed
Co-Investors
Funding
Education
2013
Oct 29,
2013
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Investor ▸ Venture Capital
doublempartners.com
Double M Partners
Los Angeles
California
United States
Double M Partners is a $7.2MM early stage venture fund based in Los Angeles and formed in August 2012. The Fund
invests in Internet, Media and Communications ("IMC") companies who primarily are either business to business
infrastructure, software, management platform and/or technology focused companies. The Fund is managed by Mark
Mullen who has more than 20 years of investing and investment banking experience across the IMC sector. The Fund's
current portfolio is comprised of 19 companies primarily in Southern California, but also including companies in San
Francisco, Oregon and Canada. It is estimated the Fund will have a total of approximately 25 investments in the range of
~$200,000-$500,000. The Fund is supported by a premier group of investors, as well as fund advisors who are all
successful entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.
16 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: MomentFeed - Series A (Dec 11, 2013): $5.5M with DFJ Frontier, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus
Ventures and Daher Capital.
2 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
Latest: Gradient X (Acquired) on Sep 5, 2013 by Amobee Media Systems.
1 Key Person ....................................................................................................... 0
Mark Mullen
Double M Partners
doublempartners.com
16 Investments
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 11,
2013
MomentFeed
Series
A
DFJ Frontier, Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures
and Daher Capital
Jul 12,
2013
Mover
Seed
VC
Yaletown Venture Partners, Jarl Mohn, Amplify L.A., Dennis
Phelps, Medra Capital and Rick Barry
$1M
Jul 8, 2013
IdeaLists
Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Paul Bricault, 500 Startups, Clark Landry,
Pegasus Capital Group and Csaba Konkoly
$1.7M
Jul 2, 2013
Kaleo
Seed
VC - II
Greycroft Partners and TenOneTen Ventures
$1.5M
Software
Funding
$5.5M
May 20,
2013
Prevoty
Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Paige Craig, Plus Capital and Eric
Hann
$0.7M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium
Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser,
Hank Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc, Karlin
Ventures, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Jan 31,
2013
MomentFeed
Seed
VC - III
DFJ Frontier, Gold Hill Capital, Gil Elbaz, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Draper Nexus Ventures and Daher Capital
$1.8M
Jan 16,
2013
ChowNow
Series
A
Upfront Ventures, Daher Capital and Velos Partners
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Baroda Ventures,
Upfront Ventures, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Daher Capital,
Karlin Ventures and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Seed
VC - II
Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, CrossCut
Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Newport Coast Investments and
Selena Gomez
$1.3M
Valuation:
$4.8M
$3M
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
Oct 23,
2012
Tradesy
Seed
VC
Rincon Venture Partners, 500 Startups, Launchpad LA, Daher
Capital, Bee Partners and Dany Levy
$1.5M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, 500
Startups and Launchpad LA
$2.1M
Oct 12,
2012
Plum TV
Series
D
Greycroft Partners, Baroda Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani, Roy
Essakow, Clive Ng, Derek Norton and Jonas Svensson
$4.4M
the Run
2
Double M Partners
doublempartners.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Jul 18,
2012
Retention
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Paige Craig, Bong
Koh, Clark Landry, Mike Greenfield and Kunal Anand
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures,
CrossCut Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark
Landry, Walter Kortschak and Jim Willenborg
$3.75M
Jul 11,
2011
MomentFeed
Seed
VC
DFJ Frontier, Gold Hill Capital, Auren Hoffman, Gil Elbaz, Clark
Landry, Walter Kortschak, Draper Nexus Ventures and Daher
Capital
$1.2M
Science
Funding
$1.3M
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Upfront Ventures
upfront.com
Phone: 310-785-5100
Fax: 310.785.5111
2121 Avenue of the
Stars
Suite 1630
Los Angeles 90067
California
United States
Uprfront Ventures, formerly GRP Partners (Global Retail Partners) was formed in 1996 and has invested in some of
leading global brands and companies that are household names today. With professionals in Los Angeles and London,
Upfront Ventures manages over $1 billion on behalf of more than 150 limited partners in North America and Europe.
161 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: MakeSpace Labs - Seed VC - II (Dec 9, 2013): $0.7M with High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital
and Collaborative Fund.
38 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
10 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
Herv Defforey, Steven Dietz, Yves Sisteron Esq., Herv J. F., Kelly Hwang, Dana Kibler, Dave Lin, Brian Mcloughlin,
Yves Sisteron and Mark Suster
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7
Latest: GRP Partners IV ($148.6M) on Oct 31, 2012.
Upfront Ventures
upfront.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 9,
2013
MakeSpace
Seed
VC - II
High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and
Collaborative Fund
$0.7M
Dec 3,
2013
DataSift
Series
C
Insight Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Northgate
Capital, IA Ventures, Daher Capital and Cendana Capital
$42M
Nov 21,
2013
Eagle Crest
Series
C - III
Wexford Capital and Brock Capital Group
$3.1M
Nov 5,
2013
Seriously
Seed
VC
Sunstone Capital
Oct 7, 2013
Copilot
Series
A - II
Alsop-Louie Partners
$0.8M
Seed
VC
High Peaks Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and
Collaborative Fund
$1.3M
Labs
Energy
Labs
Funding
$2.35M
Sep 26,
2013
MakeSpace
Sep 19,
2013
Deliv
Series
A
RPM Ventures
Sep 12,
2013
Maker
Series
C - II
Time Warner Investments, Northgate Capital, Greycroft Partners,
Canal+, SingTel Innov8, Lakestar, Daher Capital, Ynon Kreiz,
Downey Ventures, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Landau, FUEL: M+C
and Astro
$26M
Sep 3,
2013
Combat
Seed
VC - II
Maveron
$0.6M
Gent
Aug 13,
Kyriba
Series
Iris Capital, BRED Banque Populaire and Daher Capital
Labs
Studios
2013
$6.85M
$18.24M
B
Jul 9, 2013
Adore Me
Series
B
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Mousse Partners and Redhills
Ventures
$8.5M
Jun 6, 2013
ChowNow
Series
A - II
Kensington Capital Partners
$1.2M
May 27,
2013
Adly
Series
C
Siemer Ventures
May 10,
2013
uParts
Series
A
Kamran Pourzanjani and Fraser McCombs Capital
$2M
$2.05M
2
Upfront Ventures
upfront.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Apr 25,
2013
Moonfrye
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Daher Capital
$2.5M
Apr 2, 2013
DailyLook
Seed
VC
Novel TMT Ventures, RRE Ventures, SV Angel, Matt Coffin,
Thomas McInerney and Rachel Zoe
$2.5M
Mar 5,
2013
Epoxy
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Greycroft Partners,
Paige Craig, Allen DeBevoise, Advancit Capital, Gordon
Paddison, Ynon Kreiz and Yoel Flohr
$2M
Feb 7, 2013
Melian
Seed
VC
Jason Calacanis, 500 Startups, Ben Smith, Brian Lee, BoxGroup
and Greg Badros
$3M
Series
A
Redhills Ventures
Series
A
Double M Partners, Daher Capital and Velos Partners
Labs
Feb 6, 2013
Health Data
Vision
Jan 16,
2013
ChowNow
Funding
$2.8M
$3M
3
Siemer Ventures
siemervc.com
Phone: 310-861-2100
1333 Second Street
Suite 600
Santa Monica 90401
California
United States
Siemer Ventures is a boutique, early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to helping motivated entrepreneurs build
sustainable technology-related businesses. The firms founders are start-up entrepreneurs themselves who have built
successful businesses in the past, providing them with a thorough understanding of the nuances of early-stage
companies. The firm, which was formed through the combination of Frontera Group and Siemer & Associates' venture
capital practice, predominantly invests in technology companies run by remarkable entrepreneurs with deep domain
expertise. We invest in early-stage enterprise and consumer-facing businesses that are positioned for rapid growth.
These companies typically target large, fragmented and high-growth markets with unique and differentiated products
and services.
44 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Kalibrr - Series A (Dec 4, 2013): $1.9M with Omidyar Network, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Learn Capital
and Kickstart Ventures.
5 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
Latest: My New Financial Advisor (Acquired) on Oct 29, 2013 by Invested.in.
Siemer Ventures
siemervc.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 4,
2013
Kalibrr
Series A
Omidyar Network, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Learn
Capital and Kickstart Ventures
$1.9M
Sep 17,
2013
StrikeAd
Series B
SoftTech VC, DFJ Esprit, Canyon Creek Capital, Karlin
Ventures and Scentan Ventures
$7M
Jul 8, 2013
IdeaLists
Seed VC
Paul Bricault, 500 Startups, Clark Landry, Double M
Partners, Pegasus Capital Group and Csaba Konkoly
Jun 27,
2013
Ranker
Series A - II
Tech Coast Angels, Rincon Venture Partners, Pasadena
Angels, Lowercase Capital, Bullpen Capital, Draper
Associates, Data Collective and TenOneTen Ventures
Jun 25,
2013
The Bouqs
Seed VC
Quest Venture Partners, Andy Dunn, Mich Mathews,
Dennis Phelps and Brian Spaly
Jun 18,
2013
Ayannah
Seed VC - II
Undisclosed Angel Investors and Golden Gate Ventures
Company
Funding
$1.7M
$2M
$1.1M
$1M
Information
Solutions
May 29,
2013
Ardent
Unattributed
VC
GMO VenturePartners and Recruit Strategic Partners
Capital
May 27,
2013
Adly
Series C
Upfront Ventures
May 21,
2013
Uncovet
Seed VC
Javelin Venture Partners and Paige Craig
May 1,
2013
My New
Series A
$2M
$1.3M
$1.1M
Financial
Advisor
Apr 15,
2013
20Jeans
Seed VC
Baroda Ventures, Paige Craig, Dennis Phelps and Plus
Capital
$1M
Apr 3, 2013
EAT Club
Series A
August Capital, First Round Capital, LaunchCapital,
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Tekton Ventures, Great
Oaks Venture Capital, Brian Lee, Michael Kinsbergen,
Mark Vadon, Niren Hiro and Aki Sano
$5M
Mar 19,
2013
Rexter
Seed VC
Jarl Mohn, Ted Meisel, Gil Elbaz and Sean Moriarty
$1.5M
2
Siemer Ventures
siemervc.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Feb 7, 2013
Club W
Series A
CrossCut Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and
Adam Goldenberg
Feb 6, 2013
P4RC
Series A
Tech Coast Angels and Jeff Lapin
Feb 5, 2013
Kout
Seed VC - II
Draper Associates, Emil Michael, MicroVentures
Marketplace, Naguib Sawiris and Winston Ibrahim
Jan 31,
2013
TakeLessons
Series A - II
SoftTech VC, Crosslink Capital, Triangle Peak Partners
and Tim Kendall
$4M
Jan 22,
Optim.al
Series B
Silicon Valley Bank, Stonnington Group, WGI Group, Neu
$7M
2013
Funding
$3.1M
$0.67M
$1.6M
Venture Capital, Social Starts, DoubleRock Venture
Capital, Signal Ventures, Social Internet Fund, John
Pappajohn, Warren Adelman and James Altucher
Nov 29,
2012
CapLinked
Series A
Peter Thiel, FF Angel, 500 Startups, Alexsis de Raadt-St.
James and Andrej Henkler
$1.6M
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
Seed VC - II
Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, CrossCut
Ventures, Newport Coast Investments, Selena Gomez
and Double M Partners
$1.3M
the Run
3
CrossCut Ventures
crosscutventures.com
[email protected]
Santa Monica 90405
California
United States
CrossCut Ventures, launched in 2008, is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith.
CrossCut looks to invest between $250,000 and $750,000 in the equity of start-up companies that have the potential to
achieve $50 - $100 million in revenue in the next five years. Their area of greatest interest is in digital media, and the
infrastructure and analytics associated with new media. Crosscut Ventures typically co-invests with other seed-stage
funds or angel investors for a total initial raise of $1- 2 million.
15 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Club W - Series A (Feb 7, 2013): $3.1M with Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and Adam Goldenberg.
3 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
Latest: DocStoc (Acquired) on Dec 4, 2013 for $50M by Intuit.
2 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Brian Garrett and Rick L. Smith
CrossCut Ventures
15 Investments
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Feb 7, 2013
Club W
Series
A
Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Amplify L.A., Brener
International Group, Guild Capital, Csaba Konkoly and Adam
Goldenberg
Nov 29,
2012
Plyfe
Bridge
Undisclosed Angel Investors
Nov 15,
2012
Postcard on
Seed
VC - II
Miramar Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, Siemer Ventures,
Newport Coast Investments, Selena Gomez and Double M
Partners
$1.3M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, 500 Startups, Launchpad
LA and Double M Partners
$2.1M
Jul 27,
2012
Pop-Up
Seed
VC
Upfront Ventures, Adam Goldberg and Michael Daher
$1.7M
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures,
Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
Jun 4, 2012
Eventup
Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Pritzker Group Venture Capital,
Lightbank and Science Media
$1.8M
May 22,
2012
StyleSaint
Seed
VC
General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Brian Lee,
Dennis Phelps and MuckerLab
$1.5M
Nov 7,
2011
Postcard on
Seed
VC
Jarl Mohn, Kamran Pourzanjani, Brian Lee, Mike Jones, Aber
Whitcomb, Yves Sisteron, Brian Fitzgerald, Ryan Steelburg,
Colin Digiaro, Chris DeWolfe and Selena Gomez
$0.75M
Feb 2, 2011
SHIFT
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Matt Coffin, Founder
Collective, Thrive Capital, Stephano Kim and Lerer Ventures
Jul 23,
2010
Ze Frank
Seed
VC
Joshua Schachter, Jordan Greenhall, Betaworks, First Round
Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Gary Vaynerchuk,
Founder Collective, Michael Herf and Lerer Ventures
$0.5M
Dec 16,
2009
Affordit.com
Seed
VC
Founders Fund and FF Angel
$0.6M
Nov 20,
2009
Zadspace
Debt
DFJ Frontier
$0.3M
the Run
Pantry
the Run
Games
Funding
$3.1M
$0.75M
$3.75M
$2M
2
CrossCut Ventures
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Feb 6, 2009
Zadspace
Series
A
Gideon Hixon Fund and DFJ Frontier
Nov 23,
2007
DocStoc
Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Robin Richards and Matt Coffin
Funding
$1.4M
$0.75M
3
Baroda Ventures
barodaventures.com
Phone: 3102760005
245 South Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills 90212
California
United States
Baroda Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm founded in 1998 by philanthropist and technology
entrepreneur David C. Bohnett, the founder of GeoCities, an Internet-based media company, publicly traded on
NASDAQ and subsequently acquired by Yahoo! We are focused on early stage venture investments (Seed and Series A)
in the consumer internet, SaaS, and digital media industries ranging from $100K to $5M with a particular focus on Los
Angeles and Southern California based companies.
32 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: ID90T - Series B (Jun 11, 2013): $3M with Thayer Ventures, Gerbera Capital and Mexico Ventures.
6 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Liz Atherton, David C. Bohnett and Peter Lee
Baroda Ventures
barodaventures.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Jun 11,
2013
ID90T
Series
B
Thayer Ventures, Gerbera Capital and Mexico Ventures
May 8,
2013
Chromatik
Series
A
Rustic Canyon Partners, 500 Startups, Learn Capital, Plus Capital
and Will Smith
Apr 15,
2013
20Jeans
Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Paige Craig, Dennis Phelps and Plus Capital
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Upfront Ventures, Clark
Landry, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher Capital, Karlin
Ventures and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Valuation:
$4.8M
Funding
$3M
$5.72M
$1M
Oct 15,
2012
Lettuce
Seed
VC
Zelkova Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, 500 Startups, Launchpad
LA and Double M Partners
$2.1M
Oct 12,
2012
Plum TV
Series
D
Greycroft Partners, Kamran Pourzanjani, Double M Partners, Roy
Essakow, Clive Ng, Derek Norton and Jonas Svensson
$4.4M
Jul 18,
2012
Fab.com
Series
C
Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, Docomo Capital, Pinnacle
Ventures, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico,
Troy Carter and RTP Ventures
$105M
Seed
VC
Mohr Davidow Ventures, Paige Craig, Bong Koh, Clark Landry,
Mike Greenfield, Double M Partners and Kunal Anand
$1.3M
Valuation:
$600M
Jul 18,
2012
Retention
Jul 11,
2012
Pocket
Series
A
Google Ventures, First Round Capital and Scott Banister
Change
Jun 21,
Gradient X
Seed
Rincon Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures,
VC
Siemer Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter
Kortschak, Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
Science
2012
$5M
$3.75M
Jun 6, 2012
Surf Air
Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, TriplePoint Capital, Anthem Venture
Partners, Gil Elbaz, Siemer Ventures, Paige Craig, Jeff Stibel,
Jared Leto, Eytan Elbaz, Rick Caruso, Mike Walsh, Aviv Grill and
Bill Woodward
$3.76M
Apr 19,
2012
LifeCrowd
Series
A
Prism VentureWorks, Lightbank, Bullpen Capital and MuckerLab
$5M
2
Baroda Ventures
barodaventures.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Mar 19,
2012
DogVacay
Seed
VC
First Round Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Benjamin Ling,
Thomas Ryan, Thomas McInerney, Brian Lee, Ted Rheingold,
Dennis Phelps and Science Media
Dec 8,
2011
Fab.com
Series
B
Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, First Round Capital, Andreessen
Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher, A-Grade and Guy Oseary
$40M
Dec 2,
2011
SteelHouse
Series
B
Greycroft Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SV Angel and
LIghthouse Venture Group
$6.3M
Nov 8,
2011
Pocket
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Scott Banister, David
Sacks, Kamran Pourzanjani, Mike Jones and Alan Braverman
Sep 26,
2011
SteelHouse
Series
A
Rincon Venture Partners
Sep 23,
2011
LifeCrowd
Seed
VC
Prism VentureWorks and Bullpen Capital
$2M
Jul 27,
2011
Fab.com
Series
A
Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, Kevin Rose, First Round Capital,
Zelkova Ventures, SV Angel, Dave Morgan, The Washington Post
Company, Ashton Kutcher, Thrive Capital, Benjamin Ling, David
Tisch, A-Grade, Guy Oseary, Jon Anderson, Don Baer and Jason
Goldberg
$8M
Jul 18,
2011
nProgress
Seed
VC
Jarl Mohn, SV Angel, Jeff Pulver, Kevin Wall, Gordon Crawford,
Activation Media Partners and Richard Crowells
Change
Funding
$1M
$1M
$3.81M
$1.79M
3
svangel.com
SV Angel
588 Sutter Street
#299
San Francisco 94102
California
United States
Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley-based angel investor, and founding partner of SV Angel. As founder and Managing
Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, he was an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal, which was
sold to online auctioneers eBay in July 2002 for $1.5 billion. Conway previously worked with National Semiconductor
Corporation in marketing positions (1973 - 1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979
- 1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991 - 1995).
326 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Crowdtilt - Series B (Dec 16, 2013): $23M with Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant,
Matt Mullenweg, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis Ohanian and Sean Parker.
53 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Moped (Acquired) on Dec 12, 2013 by 6Wunderkinder.
5 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Kevin Carter, Topher Conway, Ron Conway, Mike Ghaffary and David Lee
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 6
Latest: SV Angel IV ($0M) on Aug 30, 2012.
SV Angel
svangel.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt
Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Matt
Mullenweg, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
Ohanian and Sean Parker
$23M
Dec 11,
2013
Leo Me
Seed
VC
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Battery Ventures, Greylock
Partners, Kent Goldman, Freestyle Capital, Elad Gil, Raymond
Tonsing, David King, Steve Lee, Bob Lee, Mike Chu and Sara
Haider
$1.5M
Oct 29,
Frontback
Series
Index Ventures, Michael Birch, Lerer Ventures, Michael Arrington,
A
Charlie Cheever, Initialized Capital and Chris Howard
2013
Funding
$3M
Oct 16,
2013
Usermind
Series
A
Charles River Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Oct 9, 2013
Splice
Seed
VC
Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Seth
Goldstein, David Tisch, Lerer Ventures, Code Advisors, BoxGroup
and Rob Wiesenthal
$2.75M
Oct 2, 2013
UpCounsel
Seed
VC
Bobby Yazdani, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Collaborative Fund,
Haroon Mokhtarzada and Homebrew Capital
$1.6M
Sep 24,
2013
Overlay
Seed
Kickstart Seed Fund, CrunchFund and Peak Ventures
$0.8M
Sep 18,
2013
SnapGuide
Series
A - II
Atlas Venture, Index Ventures, CrunchFund and Slow Ventures
$3M
Aug 28,
2013
Vastrm
Seed
VC
Ignition Partners, Y Combinator, Quest Venture Partners, General
Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Undisclosed Investors,
Start Fund, Will Smith and Columbus Nova Technology Partners
$1M
Aug 27,
2013
Heap
Seed
VC
Ram Shriram, Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, Salesforce,
Pejman Nozad, Sam Altman, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan,
Netprice.com, William Morris Endeavor, Harj Taggar, Joshua
Reeves and RTA Capital
$2M
Aug 15,
2013
Vungle
Series
A
Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital, AOL Ventures and 500
Startups
$6.5M
Aug 15,
2013
Swiftype
Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Ignition Partners, Paul Buchheit, Andreessen Horowitz, Start
Fund, Sam Altman, Alexis Ohanian, Jared Friedman, CrunchFund,
$1.7M
$7.6M
Studio
2
SV Angel
Date
svangel.com
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
Garry Tan, Jared Kopf, William Morris Endeavor, Harj Taggar,
Data Collective, Tikhon Bernstam and Trip Adler
Aug 8,
2013
Aisle50
Series
A - II
August Capital, Origin Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures and Yuri
Milner
$2.6M
Aug 7,
2013
WillCall
Seed
Oliver Jung and Sean Parker
$1.1M
Aug 1,
2013
Albumatic
Series
A
RRE Ventures, Betaworks, Thrive Capital, High Line Venture
Partners, CrunchFund and BoxGroup
$4.2M
Aug 1,
Patreon
Seed
Atlas Venture, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Alexis
$2.1M
VC
Ohanian, Garry Tan, Rothenberg Ventures and Tyler Willis
2013
Jul 29,
2013
Kiwi
Series
A
Sequoia Capital, Omar Hamoui and Charles Huang
Jul 19,
2013
Vamo
Seed
Scott Banister, Keith Rabois, Max Levchin, Hadi Partovi, Ali
Partovi, Fritz Lanman, Dave Morin, Benjamin Ling, David Tisch,
Ruchi Sanghvi, Adam D'Angelo, Hank Vigil, Sam Shank,
CrunchFund, BoxGroup, Jed Stremel, Kevin Colleran, Bono,
Spencer Rascoff, Aditya Agarwal, Adrian Aoun, Akhil Wable,
Charlie Songhurst and Marc Bodnick
Jul 15,
2013
Mark43
Seed
VC
Spark Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Lowercase Capital,
Launchpad LA, Tom Eisenmann and Rough Draft Ventures
$1.95M
Jul 10,
2013
Instacart
Series
A
Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Canaan Partners and Paul
Buchheit
$8.5M
$9M
$1.6M
3
greycroftpartners.com
Greycroft Partners
598 Madison Avenue
New York 10022
New York
United States
Greycroft Partners is a venture capital partnership formed to invest in digital media companies, including both business
and consumer-focused ventures. The firm's $75 million fund includes participation from corporate executives around
the world. Greycroft invests between $500,000 and $3 million at inception, increasing on a staged basis to double that
amount over time. They invest alone or alongside other firms, and will accept a board seat when appropriate, although
this is not a prerequisite when syndicating with others.
164 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Highlight - Series A (Dec 12, 2013): $4M with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Benchmark Capital, Undisclosed
Angel Investors, Dave Morin, CrunchFund and Semil Shah.
23 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Braintree (Acquired) on Sep 26, 2013 for $800M by eBay.
28 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kamran Ansari, Paul Bricault, Alan Gould, Alan Patricof, Bo Peabody, Dana Settle, Kirill
Sheynkman, Ian Sigalow, Ellie Wheeler and Jason Yeh
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 9
Latest: Greycroft Partners III ($175M) on Nov 1, 2012.
Greycroft Partners
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 12,
2013
Highlight
Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Benchmark Capital, Undisclosed Angel
Investors, Dave Morin, CrunchFund and Semil Shah
Nov 20,
2013
Rumr
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Paige Craig
Nov 19,
2013
Plain
Series
A - II
Sequoia Capital and e.ventures
Vanilla
Nov 14,
Knozen
Seed
FirstMark Capital, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup and Brad Brooks
2013
Funding
$4M
$0.8M
$2M
$2.25M
VC
Oct 30,
2013
Trustev
Seed
VC
Mangrove Capital Partners, Enterprise Ireland, ACT Venture
Capital and Wayra
$3M
Oct 29,
2013
Layer
Seed
VC - II
e.ventures, Ash Patel, AME Cloud Ventures and Fuel Capital
$6M
Oct 16,
2013
Nomi
Series
A
Accel Partners, First Round Capital and Forerunner Ventures
$10M
Sep 27,
2013
Fisoc
Series
B
Metamorphic Ventures, Barshop Ventures, DayLight Partners,
KEC Holdings and Wild Basin Investments
Sep 25,
2013
BetterCloud
Series
B
Flybridge Capital Partners, Hallett Capital, BLH Venture
Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners and Bear Creek Capital
Sep 18,
2013
App Annie
Series
C
Sequoia Capital, e.ventures, IDG Capital Partners and Infinity
Venture Partners
$15M
Series
C - II
Time Warner Investments, Northgate Capital, Upfront Ventures,
Canal+, SingTel Innov8, Lakestar, Daher Capital, Ynon Kreiz,
Downey Ventures, Elisabeth Murdoch, Jon Landau, FUEL: M+C
and Astro
$26M
Valuation:
$11.43M
$6M
$100M
Sep 12,
2013
Maker
Aug 26,
2013
Nativo
Series
A - II
Aug 23,
2013
Ceros
Series
B
Studios
$0.95M
Fuse Capital
$2.25M
2
Greycroft Partners
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
Aug 22,
2013
TagMan
Series
C
iNovia Capital
$5M
Jul 23,
2013
Sulia
Series
B
FirstMark Capital, Village Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures and
IA Ventures
$6M
Jul 2, 2013
Kaleo
Seed
VC - II
Double M Partners and TenOneTen Ventures
$1.5M
Seed
VC
MHS Capital, Point Nine Capital, Blazer Ventures, VegasTech
Fund, Naxuri Capital and Jake Bornstein
$1.8M
Series
C
Cardinal Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, Piper Jaffray and
Health Enterprise Partners
$22M
Software
Jun 19,
2013
Combat
Jun 18,
2013
MDx
May 23,
2013
ProdThink
Seed
VC
May 13,
2013
Wochit
Series
A
Gent
Medical
Cedar Fund and Redpoint Ventures
$4.75M
3
foundersfund.com
Founders Fund
One Letterman Drive
Building D, Suite 500
San Francisco 94129
California
United States
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm organized by Managing Partners Peter Thiel and Ken Howery in 2005. It has
raised 3 funds (2005, 2007, 2010) and its investments are multi-stage, multi-sector, and have a focus on what the firm
believes are transformational technologies.
202 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Nanotronics Imaging - Series B (Dec 16, 2013): $7M.
28 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Topsy Labs (Acquired) on Dec 2, 2013 for $200M by Apple Inc..
11 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
Justin Fishner-wolfson, Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Robert May, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek, Sean
Parker, Toby Prosky, Brian Singerman and Peter Thiel
5 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8
Latest: Founders Fund IV ($625M) on Dec 1, 2011.
Founders Fund
foundersfund.com
Date
Company
Round
Dec 16,
2013
Nanotronics
Series
B
Dec 4,
2013
Misfit
Nov 5,
2013
Betable
Imaging
Wearables
Valuation:
Co-Investors
Funding
$7M
Series
B
Norwest Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, Khosla
Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, incTANK Ventures and
Max Levchin
$15.2M
Series
B
Joshua Schachter, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, Howard
Lindzon, Gil Penchina, Auren Hoffman, FF Angel, Start Fund,
Paige Craig, Dave Morin, Arjun Sethi, David Tisch, Bullpen
$18.5M
$90M
Capital, Venture51, Morado Venture Partners, Reece Duca,
Matt Ocko, CrunchFund, Ray Tonsing, Sean Knapp, Scott
Belsky, Josh Spear, Marc Abramowitz, Bjorn Evers, Andrew
Kofman, Chris Larsen, Heather Sue Mercer, John Suliman and
Nick Beim
Oct 28,
2013
Traina
Oct 3, 2013
Series
A - II
New Enterprise Associates, Allen & Company, Khosla
Ventures, Mark Pincus, Marc Benioff, Nirav Tolia, Advance/
Newhouse Communications, Marissa Mayer, Jeremy
Stoppelman, Yuri Milner, Owen Van Natta, American Express
Ventures, Dave Goldberg and Hosain Rahman
Koality
Seed
VC
Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, UJ Ventures,
Kris Duggan and Tien Tzuo
Sep 27,
2013
Declara
Series
A
Peter Thiel and Data Collective
Sep 27,
2013
Palantir
Series
H
Interactive
Technologies
$9M
$1.8M
$5M
$196.5M
Valuation:
$6000M
Sep 26,
2013
NeuroTrack
Sep 25,
2013
Urban
Technologies
Compass
Valuation:
Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors and The Social+Capital
Partnership
Series
A
Goldman Sachs, .406 Ventures, Marc Benioff, Cyrus
Massoumi, FF Angel, Advance Publications, Thrive Capital and
Kenneth Chenault
$2M
$20M
$150M
2
Founders Fund
foundersfund.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Aug 23,
2013
Trusted
Series
A
RRE Ventures, Entrepreneurs Fund, Lauder Partners, 500
Startups, Eric Chen, Real Ventures, Data Collective, Initialized
Capital and Marleen Groen
Aug 8,
2013
Glow
Series
A
Andreessen Horowitz
Jul 30,
2013
Binary
Seed
VC
General Catalyst Partners, Salesforce, Jerry Yang, Innovation
Endeavors, Yuri Milner, Jared Friedman, Dan Rose, John
Suliman, Joshua Reeves and Phil Libin
Jul 18,
2013
Oscar Health
Series
A
Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Undisclosed Angel
Investors, Thrive Capital, Red Swan Ventures and BoxGroup
$40M
$8.3M
Insight
Thumb
Insurance
Funding
$6M
Co.
Jul 5, 2013
Synthego
Series
A
Menlo Ventures
Jul 1, 2013
Outbox
Series
A
Western Technology Investment, Peterson Ventures, TDF
Ventures, Floodgate, Correlation Ventures, Expansion VC and
EMERGE
Jun 26,
2013
Planet Labs
Series
A
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, First Round Capital, Capricorn
Investment Group, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, FF Angel,
Innovation Endeavors and Data Collective
Jun 25,
2013
invino
Series
A
LaunchCapital, DN Capital, Fabrice Grinda, Veddis Ventures,
Jose Marin and Correlation Ventures
Jun 17,
2013
Oculus VR
Series
A
Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation 8
$16M
Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Lerer
Ventures and Zach Nelson
$0.5M
Valuation:
$5M
$13M
$3M
$30M
May 28,
2013
Pando
Seed
VC - II
May 20,
2013
Hampton
Seed
VC - II
Creek Foods
$1M
3
Founder Collective
foundercollective.com
28 W 27th Street
[email protected] 10F
New York 10001
New York
United States
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of entrepreneurs. The firm is headquartered
in New York City and Cambridge, but makes investments all over the world. Founder Collective has created a small fund
($50M) that is dedicated to investing in seed stage deals, expecting to generate returns almost exclusively from seed
stage investments.
202 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: SeatGeek - Series B (Dec 5, 2013): $2.2M.
30 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Stackmob (Acquired) on Dec 17, 2013 by eBay.
6 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Caterina Fake, David Frankel, Gaurav Jain, Zach Klein, Eric Paley and Micah Rosenbloom
2 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8
Latest: Founder Collective II ($70M) on Sep 1, 2012.
Founder Collective
Date
Company
Round
Dec 5,
2013
SeatGeek
Series
B
Dec 2,
2013
Jump Ramp
Seed
VC
Softbank Capital, ENIAC Ventures, Thrive Capital, Bullpen
Capital and KEC Holdings
Nov 22,
2013
See | Me
Seed
VC - III
Joshua Stylman and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Nov 14,
MAKR
Seed
Betaworks, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup and Brooklyn Bridge
VC
Ventures
Seed
VC - II
Elevation Partners, Promus Ventures, Avie Tevanian, Fred
Anderson and Proof Ventures
Series
C
MassVentures, Life Sciences Partners, Mousse Partners, Entree
Capital and Cultivation Capital
Games
2013
Nov 13,
2013
Seamless
Toy
Co-Investors
Funding
$2.2M
$1M
$0.86M
$2.1M
Company
Oct 29,
2013
Harvest
Oct 22,
2013
Happify
Series
A
Brian Bedol, B-2-V Partners, Lewis Katz, Eric Aroesty, Craig
Kallman and David Kleinhandler
$3.8M
Oct 15,
2013
Blue Box
Debt
Voyager Capital
$1.5M
Oct 8, 2013
Domino
Seed
VC
iNovia Capital
Oct 3, 2013
Par8o
Seed
VC
Atlas Venture and CHV Capital
Oct 3, 2013
Tulip Retail
Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, iNovia Capital, Matt Mullenweg, Kima Ventures,
Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup, Promus Ventures and Greg Kidd
Sep 26,
2013
Ad Hoc
Seed
VC
Venrock, David Cohen, 500 Startups and TenOneTen Ventures
Aug 21,
2013
HeartThis
Seed
VC
Aug 1,
2013
Happy
Seed
VC
Automation
$11.75M
Group
Labs
Studio
$2.4M
$2M
$1.95M
2
Founder Collective
Date
Company
Round
Jul 16,
2013
Top 10
Series
A - II
Jun 20,
2013
WiFast
Seed
VC
Jun 6, 2013
Paddle8
Series
B
Mousse Partners, Mellon Family Investment Company, Damien
Hirst, Jay Jopling and Alexander von Furstenberg
$6M
May 23,
2013
LoyalBlocks
Series
A
Gemini Israel Ventures and General Catalyst Partners
$9M
May 22,
YesGraph
Seed
Point Judith Capital
Group
2013
May 20,
2013
Co-Investors
Funding
$0.9M
$1.2M
VC
Seamless
Toy
Seed
VC
$0.83M
Company
3
Lerer Ventures
lererventures.com
Phone: 646-237-4837
560 Broadway
Suite 308
New York 10012
New York
United States
Lerer Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund. The firm invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup's life.
Lerer Ventures respects and seeks out entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and
unwavering ambition. Lerer Ventures also operates SohoTechLabs, an incubator that builds start-ups from the idea up.
189 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Maxwell Health - Series A - II (Dec 17, 2013): $6M with Undisclosed Angel Investors, Catalyst Health
Ventures, Serious Change Fund, Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup and Vaizra Investments.
22 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: Moped (Acquired) on Dec 12, 2013 by 6Wunderkinder.
6 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
Jordan Cooper, Taylor Greene, Eric C. Hippeau, Benjamin Lerer, Kenneth B. Lerer and Kate Shillo
3 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7
Latest: Lerer Ventures III ($36.1M) on Oct 23, 2012.
Lerer Ventures
lererventures.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 17,
2013
Maxwell
Series
A - II
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Catalyst Health Ventures,
Serious Change Fund, Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup
and Vaizra Investments
$6M
Dec 10,
2013
Doctor On
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Venrock and Andreessen
Horowitz
$3M
Nov 14,
2013
MAKR
Seed
VC
Betaworks, Founder Collective, BoxGroup and Brooklyn
Bridge Ventures
$0.86M
Nov 14,
2013
Knozen
Seed
VC
FirstMark Capital, Greycroft Partners, BoxGroup and Brad
Brooks
$2.25M
Oct 29,
2013
Frontback
Series
A
Index Ventures, SV Angel, Michael Birch, Michael Arrington,
Charlie Cheever, Initialized Capital and Chris Howard
Oct 21,
2013
Soylent
Seed
VC
Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital
Oct 15,
2013
Mic Network
Seed
VC - II
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Advancit Capital and Red Swan
Ventures
Oct 11,
2013
TheDodo.com
Seed
VC
Softbank Capital
Oct 9, 2013
Splice
Seed
VC
Union Square Ventures, True Ventures, First Round Capital,
SV Angel, Seth Goldstein, David Tisch, Code Advisors,
BoxGroup and Rob Wiesenthal
Oct 3, 2013
Tulip Retail
Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, iNovia Capital, Matt Mullenweg, Kima Ventures,
Founder Collective, BoxGroup, Promus Ventures and Greg
Kidd
Sep 18,
2013
Into The
Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors and Forerunner Ventures
$2M
Sep 16,
2013
ActionX
Series
A
Softbank Capital, Verizon Ventures and Golden Venture
Partners
$3M
Sep 10,
2013
Songza
Series
A
Amazon, Metamorphic Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Troy Carter, Scooter Braun and William Morris
Endeavor
Health
Demand
Gloss
Funding
$3M
$1.5M
$3M
$1.2M
$2.75M
$2.4M
$4.7M
2
Lerer Ventures
lererventures.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Aug 29,
2013
VHX
Series
A
Union Square Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Alexis Ohanian
and William Morris Endeavor
$3.2M
Aug 27,
2013
Carnival Labs
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Michael Lazerow, BoxGroup, Bowery Capital and
Jos White
$2.4M
Aug 8,
2013
Dragon
Series
A
Flybridge Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Foundry Group,
Undisclosed Angel Investors and BoxGroup
$2.8M
Aug 5,
2013
Maxwell
Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors, David Kidder, TiE Angels,
Tribeca Venture Partners, BoxGroup and Vaizra Investments
Jul 31,
2013
Le Tote
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, 500
Startups and Joanne Wilson
Jul 30,
2013
Bottlenose
Series
A
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Stage One Capital, Transmedia
Capital, ff Venture Capital, Advancit Capital, Social Starts and
Social Internet Fund
$3.6M
Jul 25,
2013
JOOR
Series
B
Battery Ventures, Canaan Partners, Advance Publications,
Great Oaks Venture Capital, Landis Capital and Forerunner
Ventures
$15M
Corporation
Innovation
Health
Funding
$2M
3
ff Venture Capital
ffvc.com
989 Avenue of the
Americas
Floor 3
New York 10018
New York
United States
ff venture capital is an early stage VC firm targeting market entry opportunities with initial investments below $1 million.
ff venture capital reserves capital to make follow-on investments in its companies as they grow and provides hands-on
support through its in-house operating team.
96 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Adcade - Series A (Nov 26, 2013): $5M.
7 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
Latest: Infochimps (Acquired) on Aug 7, 2013 by CSC.
3 Key People ....................................................................................................... 0
John F. Frankel, Alex Katz and David Teten
1 Fund ................................................................................................................. 6
Latest: ff Rose Venture Capital Fund, L.P. ($31.33M).
ff Venture Capital
ffvc.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
Nov 26,
2013
Adcade
Series A
Nov 21,
2013
Locality
Series A
Nov 7,
2013
AppeProPo
Seed VC II
Oct 2, 2013
CardFlight
Seed VC
Plug and Play Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable
Accelerator, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Payment
Ventures and Apostolos Apostolakis
$1.6M
Sep 30,
2013
Tackk
Seed VC II
Hatch Partners and Drummond Road Capital
$1.2M
Sep 28,
2013
Estify
Seed VC
Romulus Capital, Amplify L.A. and REES Capital
$0.8M
Sep 3,
2013
Moveline
Debt
Aug 26,
2013
Parsely
Series A II
Grotech Ventures, Blumberg Capital and FundersClub
$5.23M
Aug 15,
2013
InteraXon
Series A
Horizons Ventures, Felicis Ventures, A-Grade, OMERS
Ventures and Bridge Builders
$6M
Aug 12,
2013
Zypsee
Seed VC
Aug 7,
2013
500px
Series A
Harrison Metal, Andreessen Horowitz, Creative Artists
Agency, Rugged Ventures and Dustin Plett
$8.8M
Jul 30,
2013
Bottlenose
Series A
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Stage One Capital,
Transmedia Capital, Lerer Ventures, Advancit Capital,
Social Starts and Social Internet Fund
$3.6M
Jun 19,
2013
Gobbler
Convertible
Note
Sky Dayton
$0.5M
Jun 4, 2013
Infochimps
Convertible
Note - III
Mercury Fund
$5M
Matrix Partners and Cowboy Ventures
$4.3M
$1.5M
$1M
Group
$1.41M
$0.59M
2
ff Venture Capital
ffvc.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
May 29,
2013
Gigit
Seed VC
Paige Craig
May 9,
2013
Plated
Seed VC
TechStars, Paige Craig, Founder Collective, Andrew
McCollum and Alain Bankier
$1.4M
May 9,
2013
ClearPath
Convertible
Note - II
May 8,
2013
Movable Ink
Series B
Intel Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Contour Venture
Partners, Metamorphic Ventures and Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
$11M
Apr 29,
2013
Unikey
Technologies
Convertible
Note
Apr 22,
2013
Voxy
Debt
$0.6M
Contour Venture Partners and Shelter Capital Partners
$1.22M
3
rinconvp.com
Phone: 805-969-5484
Fax: 805-845-2270
803 Chapala Street
Santa Barbara 93101
California
United States
Rincon Venture Partners invests primarily in early stage web-based businesses that are located in Southern California.
Rincon aims to fill the need for more modest first-round funding. The firm's initial investment in a company is typically in
the range of $500,000 to $1.5 million, and Rincon is typically a company's first institutional investor. The firm generally
likes to see a completed offering that has been embraced by early adopters. Rincon generally does not consider seed
investments but will do so when significant effort by either a predecessor entity or a university research program will
dramatically accelerate a young companys progress. Within Southern California, Rincon's focus regionally is the area
bounded by San Luis Obispo, CA to the north, and Orange County to the south. Rincon will consider investments
outside of this area, but generally only in conjunction with co-investors who are located near the company. The firm
believes its primary investment themes span sectors and the themes of focus for Rincon include: (1) the digitization of
communications and content of all kinds; (2) the provision of information technology as a service; (3) the reduction of
fossil fuel consumption; and (4) consumer adoption of technology. As a result of these themes of focus, Rincon Venture
Partners does find its sector focus primarily in digital media, technology-enabled services, cleantech, and consumer
Internet. As with geography, Rincon will consider investments outside our target themes and sectors only in conjunction
with co-investors who have strong relevant expertise. In terms of investment criteria, Rincon looks for the following
attributes in portfolio company investments: (1) Referral from a trusted, informed source; (2) Highly differentiated
approach to a large market opportunity; (3) Compelling core team already in place; (4) Clearly defined milestones and
associated financial plan; (5) Clearly defined routes to market; (6) Attractive plausible exit strategies Rincon generally
makes investments with the following structure: - The firm generally owns a minority interest with executives and
founders controlling their companies - Co-invest alongside partners - Rincon along with its investment partners must
own a meaningful interest in each portfolio company (at least 20%) - Rincon Venture Partners or its investment partners
hold a Board seat - Initial investment can range from $500,000 to $1,000,000 from Rincon in rounds from $500,000 to
$3,000,000
34 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Keen.io - Seed VC - II (Oct 23, 2013): $2.35M with XG Ventures, 500 Startups, Pelion Venture Partners,
Jason Seats, Amplify Partners and Loren Siebert.
3 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
10 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
Courtney Rosen Andelman, Jim Andelman, Brian Bell, John M. Greathouse, Jeffrey Jacobs, Brian Kelly, Lisa
Riedmiller, Troy Ruhanen, Loren Shepard and Chris Weasler
rinconvp.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Oct 23,
2013
Keen.io
Seed
VC - II
XG Ventures, 500 Startups, Pelion Venture Partners, Jason
Seats, Amplify Partners and Loren Siebert
Jun 27,
2013
Ranker
Series
A - II
Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Siemer Ventures,
Lowercase Capital, Bullpen Capital, Draper Associates, Data
Collective and TenOneTen Ventures
Apr 30,
2013
Local Market
Series
A
Apr 17,
2013
Rentlytics
Seed
VC
Mar 18,
2013
Divshot
Seed
VC
Cooley LLP, 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures,
Drummond Road Capital and Eric Hammond
Nov 5,
2012
RingRevenue
Series
B - II
Upfront Ventures
Oct 30,
2012
The
Series
B
Innovation Works, Birchmere Ventures, Salesforce and ff
Venture Capital
$2.1M
Oct 23,
2012
Tradesy
Seed
VC
500 Startups, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher
Capital, Bee Partners and Dany Levy
$1.5M
Aug 16,
2012
Recycled
Seed
VC
Aug 2,
2012
Connexity
Seed
VC
Persistence Partners, Siemer Ventures, Jeff Pryor and Dave
Gross
Jun 21,
2012
Gradient X
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, Siemer
Ventures, Founder Collective, Clark Landry, Walter Kortschak,
Jim Willenborg and Double M Partners
Jun 14,
2012
SHIFT
Series
A
Apr 24,
2012
Datapop
Series
B
MK Capital, Accelerator Ventures, Momentum Venture
Management and IA Ventures
Apr 4, 2012
Wittlebee
Seed
VC
SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Matt Coffin
and Morado Venture Partners
Launch
Resumator
Media
Funding
$2.35M
$2M
$1.5M
$1.1M
$3.25M
$3M
$3.75M
$12M
$7M
$2.5M
2
rinconvp.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 2,
2011
SteelHouse
Series
B
Greycroft Partners, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel and LIghthouse
Venture Group
$6.3M
Nov 23,
2011
Burstly
Series
B
Softbank Capital and Upfront Ventures
$5.5M
Sep 26,
2011
SteelHouse
Series
A
Baroda Ventures
May 6,
2011
The
Series
A
Innovation Works, Paige Craig, Christopher Muenchhoff and ff
Venture Capital
$0.7M
Resumator
Apr 4, 2011
Ranker
Series
Pasadena Angels, Tim Draper, Gil Elbaz, Siemer Ventures and
$1.3M
A
Newport Coast Investments
Seed
VC
Baroda Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Founder
Collective, Thrive Capital, Stephano Kim and Lerer Ventures
Feb 2, 2011
SHIFT
Funding
$3.81M
$2M
3
a16z.com
Andreessen Horowitz
2865 Sand Hill Road
Suite 101
Menlo Park 94025
California
United States
Andreessen Horowitz is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with $2.7 billion under management. The firm invests
in entrepreneurs building companies at every stage – from seed to growth.
290 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Robinhood - Seed VC (Dec 18, 2013): $3M with Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Social Leverage, Tim
Draper and Rothenberg Ventures.
23 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: PiCloud (Acq - Talent) on Nov 17, 2013 by Dropbox.
23 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
Marc Andreessen, Ramu Arunachalam, Ashvin Bachireddy, Morgan Beller, Zal Bilimoria, Connie Chan, Frank T.y.
Chen, Brian Cho, Sebastian Cua, Lars Dalgaard, Chris Dixon, Sam Gerstenzang, Benjamin A. Horowitz, John Jack,
Jeffrey D. Jordan, Scott Kupor, Peter J. Levine, John O'Farrell, Juliet Pullis, Tom Rikert, Gil Shafir, Balaji Srinivasan
and Scott Weiss
7 Funds ................................................................................................................ 8
Latest: Andreessen Horowitz Fund III-Q ($0M) on Feb 29, 2012.
Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 18,
2013
Robinhood
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Social Leverage, Tim Draper
and Rothenberg Ventures
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt
Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Felicis Ventures, Naval Ravikant,
Matt Mullenweg, SV Angel, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
$23M
Dec 12,
2013
Oculus VR
Series
B
Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation 8
$75M
Dec 12,
2013
Coinbase
Series
B
Union Square Ventures, Red Swan Ventures and Ribbit Capital
$25M
Dec 12,
2013
Koru
Seed
VC
Battery Ventures, Maveron, First Round Capital and
Undisclosed Angel Investors
Dec 10,
2013
Doctor On
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Venrock and Lerer Ventures
$3M
Nov 20,
2013
Lytro
Series
B
New Enterprise Associates, North Bridge Venture Partners and
Greylock Partners
$40M
Nov 14,
2013
TinyCo
Series
B
Pinnacle Ventures
$20M
Nov 13,
2013
Quirky
Series
D
Norwest Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
RRE Ventures and General Electric
$79M
Nov 11,
2013
Bitcasa
Series
A - II
Horizons Ventures, First Round Capital, Samsung Ventures,
Pelion Venture Partners and CrunchFund
$11M
Nov 5,
2013
COHO Data
Series
B
Ignition Partners
$25M
Nov 4,
2013
MediaSpike
Series
A
Google Ventures, CMEA Capital, Naval Ravikant, Othman
Laraki, 500 Startups, Jonathan Abrams, Rick Marini, Raptor
Ventures and Inspovation Ventures
$5.2M
Oct 29,
2013
Pixlee
Seed
VC
Ariel Poler, XSeed Capital, Mark Gorenberg and Rothenberg
Ventures
$1.5M
Oct 28,
2013
Openbay
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, Stage 1 Ventures, Jim Pallotta, Boston Seed
Capital and Andy Palmer
Demand
Funding
$3M
$4.35M
2
Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Oct 24,
2013
BloomNation
Seed
VC
Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab
Oct 24,
2013
Highfive
Series
A - II
Google Ventures, Marc Benioff, General Catalyst Partners,
Salesforce, Drew Houston and Aaron Levie
$9.5M
Oct 23,
2013
Pinterest
Series
E
Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Fidelity
Investments and Valiant Capital Partners
$225M
Valuation:
Funding
$1.65M
$3800M
Oct 23,
2013
Bromium
Series
C
Ignition Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Intel Capital and
Meritech Capital Partners
$40M
Oct 21,
2013
Soylent
Seed
VC
Lerer Ventures and Initialized Capital
$1.5M
Oct 17,
2013
Data Elite
Seed
VC
Ron Conway, Anand Rajaraman, The Social+Capital
Partnership and Formation 8
3
dfjfrontier.com
DFJ Frontier
2545 Boatman Avenue
West Sacramento
95691
California
United States
DFJ Frontier is a venture capital firm that typically invests $100,000 to $1,000,000 initial investment, with additional
capital reserved for follow-on investment.
84 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: MomentFeed - Series A (Dec 11, 2013): $5.5M with Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures, Double
M Partners and Daher Capital.
8 Exits .................................................................................................................. 4
Latest: Tioga Energy (Acquired) on Jul 8, 2013 by Sustainable Power Group.
12 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
Frederick Bush, David Cremin, Brian Danella, Frank Foster, Oleg Kaganovich, James Lee, Scott Lenet, Catherine
Hutton Markwell, Tony Perkins, Eric Rosenfeld, Jim Schraith and Lauren Weston
DFJ Frontier
dfjfrontier.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 11,
2013
MomentFeed
Series
A
Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus Ventures, Double M
Partners and Daher Capital
Nov 13,
2013
Zadspace
Option/
Warrant
Connecticut Innovations
Jul 8, 2013
Predixion
Software
Series
C
Palomar Ventures, Miramar Venture Partners, Accenture, Frost
Venture Partners and GE Ventures
Zadspace
Series
Gideon Hixon Fund and Connecticut Innovations
May 3,
2013
Funding
$5.5M
$0.92M
$20M
$1.73M
B - II
Jan 31,
2013
MomentFeed
Seed
VC - III
Gold Hill Capital, Gil Elbaz, Clark Landry, Walter Kortschak,
Draper Nexus Ventures, Double M Partners and Daher Capital
$1.8M
Jan 14,
2013
JanRain
Series
C
Split Rock Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, RPM
Ventures, Epic Ventures, Anthem Venture Partners, Salesforce
and Millennium Technology Value Partners
$33M
Jul 30,
2012
Netpulse
Series
C
August Capital, Javelin Venture Partners and Parkview
Ventures
Jul 26,
2012
Marval
Series
C
Mercury Fund
Jun 27,
2012
Big Frame
Seed
VC
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Anthem Venture Partners, Dan
Murray, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Diego Berdakin, David
Goldberg, Social Starts, Daher Capital, Media Farm, Peter
Gotcher and Adam Lilling
Jun 25,
2012
Swink
Seed
VC - II
Apr 18,
2012
uSamp
Series
C - II
Greycroft Partners and OpenView Venture Partners
Apr 4, 2012
Mogreet
Series
D
Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, Draper
Associates and Bryant Park Capital
Jan 4, 2012
Seismic
Series
A
Tom Matlack
Biosciences
Games
$15.6M
$2.5M
$3M
$0.75M
$6M
$4.1M
$2M
2
DFJ Frontier
dfjfrontier.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
Nov 2,
2011
Marval
Debt
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Oct 4, 2011
Predixion
Series
B
Palomar Ventures and Miramar Venture Partners
$6M
$2M
$1.51M
Biosciences
Software
Sep 22,
2011
Mogreet
Series
C - II
Ascend Venture Group and Black Diamond Ventures
Aug 11,
2011
My Wines
Series
E
New Atlantic Ventures and Abacus Advisors
Aug 10,
2011
Swink
Seed
VC
Aug 10,
2011
Chimeros
Debt V
Prospect Venture Partners
Aug 9,
2011
Prolacta
Series
D
Alta Partners, Gideon Hixon Fund, Arcturus Capital and Health
Evolution Partners
Direct
Bioscience
$1.48M
$0.47M
$1.13M
$15M
3
Resolute.vc
resolute.vc
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Resolute.vc is a seed stage venture capital firm managed by the company's founder, Mike Hirshland.
22 Investments .................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Shop-Hers - Seed VC (Dec 11, 2013): $3.5M with Elevation Partners, Floodgate, High Line Venture Partners,
BoxGroup, Aldo Manzini and Sarah Fiszel.
Resolute.vc
resolute.vc
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 11,
2013
Shop-Hers
Seed
VC
Elevation Partners, Floodgate, High Line Venture Partners,
BoxGroup, Aldo Manzini and Sarah Fiszel
$3.5M
Dec 5,
2013
CARD
Series
A
Anthem Venture Partners, QED Investors, Adam Press and
Greg Steiner
$3M
Nov 14,
2013
Greenhouse
Angel
- II
New York Angels, Seth Goldstein, Thomas Lehrman, The
Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Lohse, Nick Ganju and
Thatcher Bell
Oct 30,
2013
Runnable
Seed
VC
Sierra Ventures, 500 Startups, Angelpad, Hiten Shah and Isaac
Roth
Oct 21,
2013
OKpanda
Seed
VC
Kapor Capital, 500 Startups, Roger Dickey, Innovation
Endeavors, Max Burger, Lee Linden and Ilan Abehassera
$1.4M
Jun 4, 2013
Sunrise
Seed
VC
Hunter Walk, SV Angel, Dave Morin, Bill Lee, NextView
Ventures, 500 Startups, David King, John Maloney, Lerer
Ventures, Loic LeMeur, Adam Nash, Andrew Kortina, Elliot
Shmukler, Gustaf Alstromer and Adam Mosseri
$2.2M
Corporation
Atelier
Funding
$2.7M
$2M
May 16,
2013
MessageMe
Series
A
Google Ventures, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, First
Round Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz and The
Social+Capital Partnership
$10M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium
Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser,
Hank Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Double M Partners,
Karlin Ventures, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Apr 9, 2013
BarkBox
Series
A
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, RRE Ventures, Vast
Ventures, Polaris Partners, 500 Startups, Lerer Ventures and
BoxGroup
Mar 19,
2013
MessageMe
Seed
VC
Google Ventures, True Ventures, Greylock Partners, First
Round Capital, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Brian Pokorny,
The Social+Capital Partnership, Hiten Shah, Suleman Ali,
Darian Shirazi, Eric Wu, Rex Ng and Pooj Preena
$1.9M
Mar 5,
2013
Homejoy
Seed
VC
Paul Buchheit, First Round Capital, Bobby Yazdani,
Andreessen Horowitz, Pejman Nozad and Max Levchin
$1.7M
Mar 1,
2013
Reonomy
Seed
VC
High Peaks Venture Partners, KEC Holdings, Tom Falus and
Jeff Parker
$1.5M
$5M
2
Resolute.vc
resolute.vc
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Funding
Feb 18,
2013
Tutorspree
Seed
VC - II
Sequoia Capital, Paul Buchheit, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Geoff
Ralston, Founder Collective, Thrive Capital, Dogpatch Labs,
Lerer Ventures, Adam D'Angelo, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Brady,
Reinmkr Capital and Bubba Muraka
Dec 19,
2012
Signifyd
Seed
VC
Undisclosed Angel Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, QED
Investors, IA Ventures, Tekton Ventures and Data Collective
Dec 17,
2012
Influitive
Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, CommonAngels, Illuminate
Ventures and Relay Ventures
$7.3M
Sep 26,
2012
Happier
Seed
VC
Venrock
$1.2M
Aug 8,
2012
Influitive
Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, First Round Capital,
CommonAngels, Accelerator Ventures, Illuminate Ventures, 500
Startups, Golden Venture Partners and Relay Ventures
Jul 9, 2012
BarkBox
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, RRE Ventures, Gary
Vaynerchuk, Polaris Partners, 500 Startups, Doug Chertok,
Lerer Ventures, Zach Weinberg, Nat Turner, Brian Lee, Aaron
Earls, Mike Jung and Aaron Harris
$1.7M
Jun 28,
2012
Pact
Seed
VC
Mike Dornbrook, TEEC Angel Fund, Alex Rigopoulos and Bob
Mason
$0.85M
Jun 21,
2012
BlockBeacon
Seed
VC
$0.8M
$2M
$3.75M
$0.5M
3
felicis.com
Felicis Ventures
530 Lytton Ave
Suite 305
Palo Alto 94301
California
United States
Felicis Ventures is a boutique venture fund, customizing relationships with each portfolio company in a way that's
meaningful and critical for them. The firm partners with founders and strives to deliver high value help where needed.
Felicis focuses on 5 key areas (mobile, e-commerce, enterprise, education and health) and on what is believed to be
new groundbreaking technologies, such as 3-d imaging, bio informatics, and connected devices. Felicis Ventures has
over $100M in total committed assets: $4.5M angel fund in 2006, $41M super-angel fund raised in 2010 and $70M
boutique VC fund raised in 2012.
209 Investments .................................................................................................. 2
Latest: Planet Labs - Series B (Dec 18, 2013): $52M with Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Yuri Milner and Ray
Rothrock.
51 Exits ................................................................................................................ 4
Latest: The Climate Corporation (Acquired) on Nov 1, 2013 for $930 - $1100M by Monsanto.
12 Key People ..................................................................................................... 0
, , , , , , , , 0 0 0, Sundeep Peechu, Renata Quintini and Aydin Senkut
4 Funds ................................................................................................................ 7
Latest: Clover Fund ($7M) on Oct 21, 2013.
Felicis Ventures
felicis.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Dec 18,
2013
Planet Labs
Series
B
Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Yuri Milner and Ray Rothrock
$52M
Dec 16,
2013
Crowdtilt
Series
B
Doll Capital Management, Naval Ravikant, Matt Mullenweg,
SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Oliver Jung, Elad Gil, Alexis
$23M
Dec 12,
2013
Shopify
Series
C
Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners,
FirstMark Capital, Georgian Partners and OMERS Ventures
$100M
Valuation:
Funding
$1000M
Nov 14,
2013
creativeLIVE
Series
B
Greylock Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership
$21.5M
Nov 5,
2013
CyPhy Works
Series
C
Lux Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors and General
Cannabis
$7M
Oct 9, 2013
Smartling
Series
C
US Venture Partners, Venrock, First Round Capital, Tenaya
Capital, IDG Ventures and Harmony Partners
$24M
Oct 3, 2013
Koality
Seed
VC
Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Undisclosed Angel Investors,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, UJ Ventures,
Kris Duggan and Tien Tzuo
$1.8M
Sep 24,
2013
Practice
Series
D
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, OrbiMed Advisors, Band of
Angels, Deerfield Management and Artis Ventures
$70M
Sep 19,
2013
Plaid
Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Spark Capital, Google Ventures,
BoxGroup and Homebrew Capital
$2.8M
Sep 17,
2013
Distill
Seed
VC
Innovation Works, DN Capital and Undisclosed Angel
Investors
$1.3M
Aug 15,
2013
InteraXon
Series
A
Horizons Ventures, A-Grade, ff Venture Capital, OMERS
Ventures and Bridge Builders
Aug 14,
2013
MeCommerce
Seed
VC
New Enterprise Associates, Novel TMT Ventures, Andreessen
Horowitz, Keith Rabois, Jeff Jordan, Benjamin Ling and Yuri
Milner
$5.6M
Jul 23,
2013
Hall
Series
A
Eric Hahn, Sand Hill Angels, Signia Venture Partners, 500
Startups and PivotNorth Capital
$5.5M
Fusion
Technologies
$6M
2
Felicis Ventures
felicis.com
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Jul 17,
2013
Inkling
Series
C
Sequoia Capital, JAFCO Ventures and Tenaya Capital
$16M
Jul 10,
2013
Tivli
Series
A
New Enterprise Associates, Mark Cuban, CBC New Media
Group, Rho Ventures, William Morris Endeavor and Home Box
Office
$6.3M
Jun 25,
2013
Civitas
Series
B
Austin Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners, First Round
Capital, New Markets Venture Partners and Floodgate
Jun 19,
2013
Pindrop
Series
A
Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Webb Investment
Network and Citi Ventures
$11M
May 28,
2013
Appurify
Series
A
Google Ventures, Foundation Capital, Radar Partners,
Raymond Tonsing, Webb Investment Network, Data
Collective, Jay Jamison, Pavan Nigam and David Auerbach
$4.5M
May 22,
2013
eduK
Seed
Monashees Capital
May 15,
2013
Airware
Series
A
Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Systems
Learning
Security
Funding
$8.75M
$10.7M
3
Karlin Ventures
karlinvc.com
[email protected]
Phone: 310-806-9700
11755 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1400
Los Angeles 90025
California
United States
Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. Karlin is a value-add partner helping
entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures
is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveraged equity
capital.
6 Investments ...................................................................................................... 2
Latest: Gyft - Series A (Sep 25, 2013): $5M with David Sacks, A-Grade, The Social+Capital Partnership and Haas
Portman.
Karlin Ventures
karlinvc.com
6 Investments
Date
Company
Round
Co-Investors
Sep 25,
2013
Gyft
Series
A
David Sacks, A-Grade, The Social+Capital Partnership and Haas
Portman
$5M
Sep 17,
2013
StrikeAd
Series
B
SoftTech VC, DFJ Esprit, Siemer Ventures, Canyon Creek Capital
and Scentan Ventures
$7M
Jul 2, 2013
FIGS
Seed
VC
Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups and Crocs
$2M
Apr 17,
2013
Bitium
Seed
VC
Social Leverage, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Rob Glaser, Hank
Vigil, Michael Lazerow, Hiten Shah, Resolute.vc, Double M
Partners, Alex Bard and Sean Ellis
$2.4M
Jan 10,
2013
Adomic
Seed
VC
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Baroda Ventures, Upfront
Ventures, Clark Landry, Launchpad LA, Double M Partners, Daher
Capital and Andy Rankin
$1.7M
Seed
VC
Siemer Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani, Gordon Crawford, Amplify
L.A., Chris Grey, Mark Schwartz, Michael Liou, Brad Schwartz,
Canyon Creek Capital, David Carter, Chairul Irawan, Steven
Roussey, Alan Stern, Irv Weintraub, Steve Reich, Mark
Kolokotrones and Terry Kay
$0.83M
Valuation:
$4.8M
Nov 1,
2012
Invested.in
Funding
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