LA Venture

LA Venture

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LA Venture episodes

  • Julie Wroblewski -- Magnify Ventures
    Julie's new fund, Magnify, is writing $1.5M - $2.5M checks into companies that will transform life, work and care for modern families. Julie talks about very relatable themes like the relentlessness of modern parenting and household optimization.
    24 min
  • Brianne Kimmel -- WorkLife Ventures

    Brianne Kimmel is the founder of WorkLife Ventures and an early investor in Hopin, Pipe, Webflow, Tandem and many others.

    We had a great discussion on how she gets into rounds, how she established herself as a top angel investor and then transitioned into a fund manager and her thoughts on work and life.

    30 min
  • Drew Taylor -- Digitalis Ventures

    Drew Taylor is a partner at Digitalis Ventures. Digitalis has a $100M human health fund, a $100M pet health fund and $30M for venture creation. We also discuss being part of a family business and why founders in pet health are great people to work with.

    25 min
  • Justin Fishner-Wolfson -- 137 Ventures

    Justin Fishner-Wolfson is the cofounder and managing partner at 137 Ventures.

    137 has more than $1.5B assets under management and is known for investing in growth-stage companies by providing custom liquidity solutions to founders.

    30 min
  • Carey Ransom -- Operate

    Carey Ransom runs the Operate Studio and is one of the best known startup investors in Orange County. Carey challenges us all--from LPs to GPs--to think harder about how we are measuring success and supporting the communities we live in.

    25 min
  • Daniel Leff -- Waverley Capital

    From sitting on the Roku board from 2011 - 2018, Daniel Leff saw disruption in the media industry first hand. He says that, unlike in tech, disruption in media comes from working with the incumbents rather than working against them.

    30 min
  • Raina Kumra -- The Fund LA

    Raina is a partner at The Fund LA along with Anna Barber, Josh Jones, and Austin Murray.

    We talk about The Fund, ethics in tech, the benefits of daily turmeric and more.
    22 min
  • Mike Jones -- Science
    I could have talked with Mike for many more hours.. about building Science, building consumer brands, NFTs, social networks, parenting and much more. Worth a listen even if just for inspiration on building better social networks for our children.
    35 min
  • Anna Barber -- M13
    Anna Barber is a partner at M13 where she is launching consumer startups. She's also a partner at The Fund LA, an LA-focused pre-seed fund. Anna tells us about the difference between launching companies (narrowing the focus) and accelerating companies (widening the aperture), doing Series A investments and much more.
    25 min

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We talk to Southern California VCs to get to know them, their funds, and their advice for entrepreneurs.

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