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- Jamie Montgomery -- March Capital
Fantastic chance to get to know Jamie Montgomery. Jamie shares how he's built such strong relationships, delivered outsized returns for March Capital, his approach to philanthropy and his high school fire extinguisher business.
For more, tune in March 3rd and 4th to the 18th annual Montgomery Summit.28 min - Kerry Bennett -- Upfront Ventures
Loved talking with Kerry about how startups should think about their marketing org and how that has changed.
Also fun to hear about Upfront's brand and the brand of the partners at Upfront.26 min - Zach White -- Sinai VenturesGreat talk with Zach White about managing Sinai Venture's $600M Fund II. We talk about investing in Pinterest, buying secondary shares, and independent thinking in the venture business.29 min
- Sean Harper -- Westlake Village BioPartners
With their recently raised $500M, Westlake Village BioPartners is catalyzing the LA biotech ecosystem. Sean Harper, former Head of R&D at Amgen, tells us about his focus on therapeutics to improve human lives and starting Westlake Bio with Beth Seidenberg.
32 min - Gil Demeter -- Pontifax AgTech
Great discussion about next gen robotics and next gen bioscience with Gil Demeter from Pontifax AgTech. With over $465M in AUM, Pontifax is one of the largest food and agtech funds in the world.
29 min - Shahin Farshchi -- Lux Capital
Lux invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what is possible.
Lux will write $10- 15M checks and they are not afraid to invest pre-product and sometimes pre-company. Shahin has fascinating insight on automation, autonomous cars, AI and more.25 min - LA Venture -- 2020 HighlightsWhen we started this podcast people asked if we'd run out of guests after a year of weekly episodes with LA VCs. Not even close. Hope you enjoy a few highlights from LA venture and hope we get to see more of each other in 2021!16 min
- Tracy Gray -- The 22 Fund
Tracy shares insights on manufacturing, why exports matter, industry 4.0, and the state of diversity in venture today.
26 min - Scott Stanford -- ACME
Scott has invested in Uber, Facebook, Slack, Square, Robinhood and others... there was probably more than 30 mins worth of stuff I could have learned.
Before starting ACME, Scott was the co-founder of Sherpa Capital and before that he was head of Internet investment banking at Goldman Sachs. And now proudly part of the LA venture community!33 min - Dan Zinn -- Rivonia Road
If you have any questions if debt can help your startup, feel free to give Dan Zinn a call.
Dan's firm, Rivonia Road, provides a much more bespoke solution than traditional venture debt. We also talk about how Dan built a billion dollar hedge fund and XPRS, a small business lender.29 min
About LA Venture
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We talk to Southern California VCs to get to know them, their funds, and their advice for entrepreneurs.
Hosted by Minnie Ingersoll from TenOneTen, an LA-based seed fund investing in b2b software.
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