Investors in Los Angeles, CA

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Tech Coast Angels

Tech Coast Angels is an Irvine, California-based angel investor group and one of the largest in the United States, with more than 300 members across five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, the Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Members fund and mentor early-stage, high-growth companies across a broad range of sectors including life sciences, biotech, information technology, software, hardware, internet, financial services, consumer products, services, and cleantech, primarily in the United States and Canada. The group provides capital and guidance, leveraging an extensive network to help portfolio companies access potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been recognized by CB Insights as a top U.S. angel group and for network centrality, reflecting its breadth of connections in the early-stage ecosystem.
Made 7 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto–based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology companies across enterprise software, B2B and B2C platforms, healthtech, sustainability, fintech, edtech, and blockchain. Founded in 2008, the firm pursues a disciplined, decision-science approach to investing, evaluating risk-reward trade-offs and reducing cognitive bias, often co-investing with other angels or VCs to deploy between $500k and $1M per opportunity. Ulu prioritizes diverse founder teams, including women, minority, URM, and immigrant founders, and supports bold ideas with strong growth potential from seed onward. Based in the Bay Area, it has backed a broad portfolio, including unicorns, reflecting a track record of helping startups scale. The firm emphasizes technology-enabled services and internet-centric opportunities.
Made 4 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Slow Ventures

Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based generalist early-stage venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests across security, fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, supporting founders developing technology-driven businesses at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture. The firm emphasizes long-term growth and a conviction-driven approach, offering resources, connections, experiences, and empathy to help build resilient companies. Notable investments include Airtable, Gusto, OpenPhone, Ro, Solana, and Teamshares.
Made 8 investments in Los Angeles, CA

BoxGroup

BoxGroup is a New York-based venture capital firm that supports early-stage technology companies through pre-seed to Series A rounds. Founded in 2009, the firm invests across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and software sectors, seeking teams capable of leading category-defining movements. Although it makes opportunities globally, BoxGroup maintains a focus on New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles, with geography not a constraint. The firm generally takes a hands-off approach to governance, not demanding board seats, and aims to back entrepreneurs at the start of meaningful market shifts. Through its early-stage investments, BoxGroup looks for disruptive technology, health and biotech, SaaS, e-commerce, and related areas with potential for scale. The objective is to support ambitious founders with visions to create the next generation of market leaders.
Made 1 investment in Los Angeles, CA

Innovent Capital Group

Innovent Capital Group is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, founded in 1999. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology, fintech, blockchain and decentralized finance, climate tech, and real estate.

Elysian Park Ventures

Elysian Park Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Los Angeles Dodgers Ownership Group, based in Los Angeles and with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. Founded in 2014, it invests across stages from seed to growth in sports-related companies at the intersection of health, culture, commerce, technology, and media, including new media, lifestyle brands, performance and health innovations, blockchain-enabled commerce, and immersive digital fan experiences. The firm emphasizes thesis-driven, domain-focused investing and leverages a global network spanning professional and youth sports, media, and tech to create lasting value.

Walkabout Ventures

Walkabout Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, California. It concentrates investments in financial services and information technology, with a particular focus on seed-stage opportunities within the financial services startup ecosystem. The firm emphasizes active support for founders by providing guidance throughout their entrepreneurial journey to foster innovation and growth in fintech and related technologies.

Group 11

Group 11 is a Beverly Hills, California-based venture capital firm focused on technology startups at the seed, post-seed, and early stages, with a particular emphasis on financial technology and fintech-powered innovations. Founded in the early 2010s, the firm typically leads or co-leads rounds and aims to be a major investor on the cap table, providing not only growth capital but also strategic support through go-to-market guidance, operating advice, and a broad network of advisors. Group 11 backs companies across the United States, including Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and maintains a pathway to international opportunities, leveraging its experience to help portfolio founders scale. Its portfolio includes noteworthy fintech and tech companies that illustrate its track record of backing category leaders, while maintaining hands-on involvement and the potential for board participation to help shape their growth. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious teams delivering scalable technology and strong business models, offering long-term engagement beyond capital.

Parker89

Parker89 is the corporate venture capital arm of First American Financial, based in Los Angeles. It invests in and supports companies reimagining the future of residential and commercial real estate, focusing on technologies and business models that streamline property transfer and enable new ownership and financing structures. Parker89 targets areas such as tech-enabled brokerages, mortgage software, and fractional home ownership, leveraging First American's resources and network to accelerate growth and collaboration with founders developing disruptive real estate solutions across transactions, mortgage technology, and related services.

Bojiang Capital

Bojiang Investment Management Limited, commonly known as Bojiang Capital, is a prominent financial services institution in China, established in September 2005 and headquartered in Hangzhou. The company specializes in investment banking, wealth management, and a global financial trading platform, targeting diverse sectors including big data, technology, healthcare, and environmental protection. With a registered capital of 100 million yuan, Bojiang has expanded its presence internationally, with offices in major cities such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley. The firm manages assets exceeding 45 billion yuan and focuses on various investment stages, from seed to later-stage companies, providing a comprehensive range of financial products and services.

Ophir Capital Group

Ophir Capital Group is a private investment firm and venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2012, it engages in a broad range of investment activities including private equity, venture capital, real estate, and other alternative investments.

Struck Capital

Struck Capital is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2014. It concentrates on B2B and technology investments, including software, fintech, and cryptocurrency, and supports companies from Seed through Series A and beyond. The firm distinguishes itself as founder-first and acts as an extension of a portfolio company's team, providing hands-on help with hiring, customer introductions, partnerships, PR, marketing, and fundraising, drawing on the experience of its former founders and operators. It emphasizes a collaborative founder community and offers the Capital Studio, which provides research, validation, and product design to help turn innovative ideas into venture-scale ventures. The firm operates with a global perspective from Los Angeles and focuses on delivering value to portfolio companies through active, practical support.

TheoremOne

TheoremOne is an innovation and engineering company that advises clients on product strategy, engineering, design, and culture and partners with them to build and launch technology-driven solutions to their most complex problems. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, TheoremOne brings together engineers, designers, technologists, researchers, strategists, and advisors to help clients design and build products, modernize technology infrastructure, and enter new markets with new offerings. The company covers the full product development lifecycle from engineering to marketing, helping clients make informed decisions and achieve measurable results across industries such as consumer electronics, automotive, manufacturing, supply chain, healthcare, finance, and entertainment.

Bengal Capital

Established in 2006, Bengal Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the cannabis industry since 2013. The company provides seed stage and growth capital alongside traditional advisory resources to its operators across various sectors of the cannabis industry.

Mystic Ventures

Mystic Ventures is an early-stage biotechnology venture fund based in Los Angeles that backs pre-seed and seed-stage startups at the intersection of psychedelic medicine, consciousness expansion, AI, and longevity. It focuses on developing novel psychedelic therapies, digital therapeutics, and clinical infrastructure to advance mental health solutions, with emphasis on precision neuromedicine and machine learning to address conditions such as depression, PTSD, and addiction. The firm supports innovative companies building therapeutics, infrastructure, and consumer products that enable safer, scalable access to transformative mental health care.

Blockhead Capital

Blockhead Capital is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, that focuses on blockchain technology and digital infrastructure.

Sidespin Ventures

Sidespin Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, established in 2019. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology-driven sectors, particularly machine learning and artificial intelligence, and supports entrepreneurs building transformative technology companies through capital, mentorship, and hands-on assistance at the pre-seed and seed stages.

Accelerator Ventures

Accelerator Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes seed and early-stage investments in technology companies. The firm backs startups across sectors such as fintech, virtual and augmented reality, data security, e-commerce, marketing technology, and HR tech, with a particular emphasis on pre-seed and seed rounds. It leverages its network to provide strategic guidance, introductions, fundraising support, and talent recruitment to portfolio companies. The firm operates across the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Los Angeles, and has a track record of supporting portfolio exits including Braze, Zappos, and Nutanix. The team includes experienced partners and advisors with backgrounds in startup building and angel investing.

Halogen Ventures

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer technology startups led by women, with a focus on consumer tech and B2B software. It supports pre-seed through Series A companies, combining capital with hands-on guidance across the product and founding lifecycle. The firm helps founders build networks, gain brand exposure, recruit talent, secure follow-on funding, and chart paths to acquisition or IPO. It emphasizes diversity and inclusion in the venture ecosystem and relies on a network of advisors to provide strategic guidance and resources that drive growth and valuation.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital alongside strategic guidance to a select set of companies across information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, supporting them from early ideas through growth and even IPO stages. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, working closely with leadership teams on product development, company building, and market expansion. Sequoia pursues opportunities at seed, early, and growth stages and maintains a global reach, investing in companies across the United States and other major markets, with interests in AI and other emerging technologies.
Made 9 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Alpha Edison

Alpha Edison is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage and growth technology companies, with a focus on software/AI, fintech, and deep-tech. It partners with entrepreneurs to build industry-changing technology platforms, helping founders create new markets, unlock latent demand, and scale by sharing research and expertise in business model innovation. The firm provides more than capital, offering strategic guidance, data-driven analysis, and collaborative support through a diverse team that includes investors, operators, data scientists, and behavioral scientists. Alpha Edison maintains an office in Los Angeles with an additional office in Santa Monica, and concentrates on technology-driven innovation to drive long-term value across its portfolio.
Made 4 investments in Los Angeles, CA

TSVC

TSVC is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2010, that concentrates on early-stage investments in deep technology companies across the United States, Canada, and Asia. The firm backs technically oriented founders in areas such as software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, and semiconductors, as well as robotics, advanced manufacturing, and energy systems. TSVC has invested in more than 200 early-stage companies and helped build several unicorns, emphasizing close collaboration with founders to translate complex technical ideas into scalable businesses. Its focus aligns with the so-called Physical AI economy, where intelligent machines and autonomous infrastructure reshape the real world. TSVC aims to support entrepreneurs who can define the next generation of technology-driven products and services from Silicon Valley to global markets.
Made 2 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Threshold Ventures

Threshold Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that backs early-stage technology companies across sectors including software, consumer platforms, fintech, and healthcare. The firm provides capital at seed and Series A stages and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance, operational input, and access to a broad industry network. It pursues hands-on, active partnerships, helping founders with product development, market positioning, hiring, and go-to-market planning to address evolving market needs and enable scalable growth.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire. It connects accredited individual investors with startup deals and co-invests alongside established venture capital firms across multiple stages, from seed to growth. The firm provides access to diversified portfolios through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, supported by a large network of community members and individual investors. It invests across sectors and geographies, with a focus on transparency and due diligence in collaborative investments with leading firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator. Alumni Ventures operates internationally with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo and has raised substantial capital to back founders with strategic capital and resources.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Staley Capital

Staley Capital is a Massachusetts-based growth equity firm that targets technology-enabled B2B companies across North America, with a focus on software, fintech, and other technology-enabled services. It looks for recurring revenue models and strong product propositions that can scale through improved sales and marketing. The firm engages in growth equity and buyouts, typically providing capital in the low to mid-teens millions and often taking majority or minority stakes, with the aim of adding value through strategic guidance, operational support, and executive talent. It emphasizes hands-on partnerships to help portfolio companies accelerate growth, enhance go-to-market capabilities, and scale revenue while preserving core product vision and culture. The investment scope includes B2B technology, services outsourcing, marketing tech, and related enterprise software segments in North America.

Moonshots Capital

Moonshots Capital is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017. It focuses on seed and early-stage technology startups with moonshot potential, investing in areas such as dual-use technologies, fintech, consumer internet, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. The firm emphasizes a disciplined investment process to identify founders pursuing large, growing markets and products with the potential to redefine their sectors. Moonshots Capital operates as a registered investment adviser, aligning its practices with investor interests and maintaining a rigorous, research-driven approach to opportunity evaluation. The firm backs teams seeking ambitious, scalable solutions that can transform work and everyday life.

Mana Ventures

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage artificial intelligence and deep-tech companies disrupting traditional industries and building frontier technologies. The firm supports portfolio companies beyond capital with services such as business development, customer introductions, and fundraising guidance. Mana Ventures also operates The Collective, a network of experienced founders, investors, and industry experts that is leveraged to help portfolio companies grow. The investment focus spans sectors including AI, software, space, healthtech, biotech, robotics, and autonomy, with emphasis on teams pursuing ambitious, technology-driven breakthroughs.

Refactor

Refactor is a seed-stage venture firm based in Burlingame, California. Led by Zal Bilimoria as a solo general partner, it makes first-dollar investments of about 1–2 million per company across five funds totaling roughly 50 million in committed capital. The firm backs US-based hard-tech startups that build physical systems in aerospace, energy, bio, critical materials, immune health, and AI infrastructure, emphasizing durable moats, long development cycles, and sticky customer value. Its portfolio includes Solugen, Astranis, PathAI, Knowde, Clover Health, Berkeley Yeast, and others, with notable exits such as Uniform Teeth’s acquisition by Impress and Kip’s acquisition by Modern Health, and Clover Health’s public listing, illustrating a track record of meaningful exits and scale. Refactor originated as one of the first spinouts from a16z’s Bio Fund in 2015 and maintains a founder-first approach, inviting ambitious teams to pitch directly to Zal.

PLG Ventures

PLG Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, that backs technology-enabled startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. Founded in 2015, it emphasizes hands-on partnership and supports founders by developing leadership skills and laying a scalable foundation for growth. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies and assists portfolio companies with fundraising, strategic planning, and business development to navigate early challenges and accelerate progress toward milestones.

AVAC

AVAC is a Canada-based venture capital firm established in 1997 and based in Calgary, Alberta, that targets early-stage opportunities in agricultural technology, clean tech, and life sciences. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies, focusing on pre-commercial to seed-stage and growth ventures, with a preference for agrivalue companies, medical devices, agriculture research, and life science products. In information and communications technology it covers areas such as animal health, crop genetics, biomass, big data, precision farming, and smart farming applications, while in life sciences it backs new or enhanced foods, nutraceuticals, therapeutics, devices, and health-related products. AVAC typically invests modest amounts and seeks active board participation, sometimes pursuing royalties in pre-commercial deals, and it has historically operated with emphasis on opportunities in Alberta and the western Canada ecosystem. The firm may also provide grants to public research and not-for-profit entities supporting agrivalue innovation.

Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with offices in Boston and New York. It makes investments across seed, early-stage, and growth rounds in a broad range of sectors, including consumer, software, fintech, media, and internet services. The firm backs ambitious founders and supports product development, market fit, and long-term growth, often taking board seats in portfolio companies. Its track record includes high-profile platforms such as Twitter and Discord, reflecting a history of backing influential consumer and technology ventures. Spark Capital emphasizes an independent, founder-friendly approach and a belief that there are no universal playbooks for success. The firm operates primarily in the United States and partners with teams across major hubs, including the West Coast, New York, and the Boston area.
Made 4 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Rocana Venture Partners

Rocana Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer brands, with a focus on food and beverage, beauty and personal care, wellness, and other consumer packaged goods. The firm seeks disruptive, mission-driven brands that offer better living choices and supports them beyond capital with go-to-market strategies, distribution, production, brand building, and sourcing to accelerate growth. It operates within the global wellness economy, backing brands poised for scale through strategic guidance and industry connections.
Made 1 investment in Los Angeles, CA

Sand Hill Angels

Sand Hill Angels is a member-driven angel investor group based in Mountain View, California, with a 60-plus member network that supports early-stage technology startups. Founded around 2000, the group provides seed to Series A funding, mentorship, and meaningful connections to customers, partners, and venture capital firms to help startups scale. Typical investments range from $300,000 to $500,000 in rounds with pre-money valuations under $5 million, and it backs companies across sectors such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as clean technology, internet, information sciences, and life sciences including medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels collaborates with other venture funds and angel organizations to foster the Bay Area ecosystem and broader North American tech growth, sourcing deals and building long-term partnerships.
Made 5 investments in Los Angeles, CA

The Artemis Fund

The Artemis Fund is a venture capital firm that makes seed, early-stage, and Series A investments in technology-enabled companies led by women. It supports female-founded or female-led ventures across the United States, prioritizing fintech, commerce, care, and the future of work, and seeks to help portfolio companies build wealth, mobility, and economic resilience for families and communities. The firm typically commits between $0.1 million and $5 million to each portfolio company and maintains offices in New York, Texas, and Nevada, working closely with founders to accelerate growth.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Assembly Ventures

Assembly Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mobility, investing in companies developing transformative technologies across air, land, sea, and space. Founded in 2020 and based in Detroit, Michigan, with strategic presence in Berlin and Silicon Valley, the firm supports mobility founders at various stages through capital and practical operational guidance. It emphasizes a broad mobility thesis that includes digital and physical mobility of people, goods, data, and energy, and seeks to connect portfolio companies with industry leaders and expert advisors through its network of operating advisers. The firm aims to accelerate global mobility innovation by pairing investment experience with hands-on support to accelerate growth and scale for ambitious mobility ventures.
Made 2 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Abstract Ventures

Abstract Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes seed and early-stage investments across sectors. It is sector-agnostic and focuses on pre-seed, seed, Series A and B rounds, building partnerships with founders through extensive connections with investors, talent, and customers. The firm backs biotechnology, consumer, crypto-blockchain, and enterprise frontier technology companies, and acts as a proactive partner to help founders win.
Made 1 investment in Los Angeles, CA

Red Sea Ventures

Red Sea Ventures is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-enabled startups developing innovative experiences for both consumers and workers. Founded in 2011, the firm focuses on sectors such as AI, fintech, consumer health, next-gen commerce, the future of work, and the future of living. It provides mentorship and hands-on support to founders, helping to build companies with ambitious teams and scalable solutions. The team comprises experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors with backgrounds spanning technology, finance, and consumer goods, and the firm aims to back startups that transform industries and everyday experiences.
Made 1 investment in Los Angeles, CA

Sunstone Management

Established in 2015, Sunstone Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Irvine, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage tech companies within the United States.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Foundry Group

Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that specializes in information technology, Internet and software companies across North America. It funds both early-stage and later-stage ventures and has launched multiple funds, including a fifth fund of about $225 million. Since inception it has invested in more than 100 companies as institutional investors and in more than 50 as angel investors, with a focus on software, digital services and related technology sectors.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Act One Ventures

Act One Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles with presence in San Francisco. It specializes in seed- and early-stage investments in AI-driven enterprise software, fintech, commerce, logistics, and related sectors, prioritizing founders who bring firsthand problem experience. The firm emphasizes hands-on involvement, drawing on the operators' background in pricing, go-to-market strategy, capital planning, and team design to help portfolio companies scale. Act One provides not only capital but strategic guidance and access to an experienced advisor network to support growth from seed toward Series B and beyond. The approach centers on building AI-native platforms that leverage data and automation to rearchitect core business functions, infrastructure, decision-making, and automation. The firm has backed multiple startups since 2016, aiming to partner with teams solving meaningful enterprise problems and enabling outsized outcomes.

Mucker Capital

Mucker Capital is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, that funds early-stage technology companies through seed and Series A rounds. The firm emphasizes incubation and mentorship through its accelerator program, MuckerLab, and targets Internet software, services, and media ventures, including enterprise, fintech, B2B, and consumer products. It typically makes investments ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars up to about one million per deal and focuses on companies in Southern California and other underfunded ecosystems outside Silicon Valley. Founded in 2011, the firm supports portfolio companies with hands-on involvement and a broad network to help growth.
Made 2 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Strong Ventures

Strong Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based venture capital firm that backs seed-stage startups across the United States and South Korea. It provides more than capital by offering hands-on support, mentorship, and access to a broad network to help entrepreneurs scale and compete in global markets. The firm invests across sectors including software as a service, content, mobility, food technology, e-commerce, healthcare, fashion, fintech, blockchain, and gaming, prioritizing practical guidance, strategic thinking, and collaborative execution to build durable companies.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital platform founded by Rocket Internet that invests in early-stage technology companies worldwide. It operates as a globally oriented, stage-agnostic investor, partnering with exceptional founders across sectors and providing support from the initial growth phase through scale. The firm targets high-potential, rapidly expanding ventures and emphasizes impact and feasibility in evaluating opportunities. It is led by investment partners Cedric Asselman, David Sainteff, and Fabricio Pettena.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

RRE Ventures

RRE Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm with a multi-decade history, investing in early-stage technology companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, fintech, enterprise software, healthcare, hardware, robotics, space, consumer tech, crypto, and climate. Founded in 1994, the firm pursues seed and Series A investments and operates with a boutique approach that emphasizes close founder relationships, long-term backing, and hands-on guidance through all growth stages. It distinguishes itself by leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance due diligence and portfolio management, aiming to support founders with strategic mentorship, loyalty, and adaptable partnerships.
Made 4 investments in Los Angeles, CA

LAUNCH

LAUNCH is a startup ecosystem founded by Jason Calacanis that supports early-stage companies through accelerator programs, venture funds, a syndicate, and a global media network. It has backed more than 1,000 companies, including Uber, Robinhood, Calm, and Superhuman, and runs programs such as Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, Startup Tuneup, and Angel University Global, with cohorts that can be remote or hybrid and demo days that reach a global audience. Its investment path includes accelerator funding and follow-on rounds, complemented by The Syndicate’s capital through a broad investor network. In addition to funding, LAUNCH publishes media for founders and provides resources, connections, and opportunities to help build transformative companies at scale.
Made 5 investments in Los Angeles, CA

SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in seed to early-stage technology startups, with a focus on software and media and telecommunications sectors across the United States. The firm provides strategic support to its portfolio, including business development, financing and mergers and acquisitions guidance, drawing on extensive experience in technology investing. It takes a hands-on approach to help founders scale, offering guidance on growth strategies and connecting companies with opportunities across North America.
Made 5 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Troy Capital Partners

Troy Capital Partners is a Santa Monica-based venture capital firm that partners with technology companies at multiple stages. It provides capital and hands-on support to startups across sectors including software as a service, consumer internet, digital media, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, retail and e-commerce. The firm focuses on helping portfolio companies scale and succeed through strategic guidance and operational involvement.
Made 2 investments in Los Angeles, CA

BMW Group

BMW Group is the world's leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles, with brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad. It operates a global production network across more than 30 sites and a sales presence in over 140 countries, and provides premium financial and mobility services. The group manufactures a wide range of vehicles from luxury cars to touring motorcycles and emphasizes sustainable mobility, digitalisation, and efficient production. Through initiatives like BMW iFACTORY and Battery & Cell centers, it pursues electrification and reduced emissions while optimizing value chains. In 2025 the group delivered about 2.46 million passenger vehicles and over 202,500 motorcycles, generating €133.5 billion in revenue and employing roughly 155,000 people.
Made 2 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Icebreaker.vc

Icebreaker.vc is a Nordic-Baltic early-stage investor backing startups from idea to seed and beyond, with first tickets up to €1.5 million and a focus on Estonia, Finland and Sweden. Since 2017, it has supported over 100 teams across fintech, AI, SaaS, cybersecurity and consumer tech, building a diversified portfolio that includes notable rounds such as ReOrbit’s €45 million Series A, Aibidia’s $28 million Series B, Hoxhunt’s €40 million Series B, Tesseract’s €25 million Series A, Flowhaven’s €16 million Series A, Logmore’s €4.5 million Series A, and Scrintal’s €1 million Pre-Seed, among others. It works with top investors such as DN Capital, Global Founders Capital, Zendesk and Reddit. The team comprises Lasse Lehtinen, Aleksi Partanen and Riku Seppälä as general partners, and Jesse Tinell as partner, providing hands-on support from the idea stage onward.
Made 3 investments in Los Angeles, CA

Great Circle Ventures

Great Circle Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2023 that specializes in early-stage investments across food, beverage, farming, and biotechnology. The firm backs companies developing innovative food systems, agricultural technologies, and health and sustainability solutions, aiming to advance healthier diets, sustainable agriculture, and biotech breakthroughs.
Made 1 investment in Los Angeles, CA