Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Los Angeles.
Investor, agent and advisor. Now Broad Beach Ventures; co-founded @creative-artists-agency (CAA)
http://michaelovitz.blogspot.com/
Managing Dir/Senior Portfolio Manager @wells Fargo Private Client Group; True Active American Angel for 13+ years; Hard Work + Sweat Equity = Sucess
Partner @CrossCut Ventures. Early stage VC. SQUARE ENIX former COO, GC, head of business development, mobile, social, online. Advisor, Investor, Friend.
Chris works directly with Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle to manage their venture capital fund, A-Grade Investments.
Co-Founder/Partner at @science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. a few startups - @photobucket, @billshrink, Color.
Always the first on the dance floor.
Over $1B in exits - Angel in GoodReads, HelloSociety, Klout, DogVacay, DollarShaveClub, MakerStudios, DocStoc, Userplane - Current CEO @science
Investor - GP at Susa Ventures, 9 years at the Richemont Group
Managing Partner Reinmkr Inc.
Investor in Betterment, Vidyard, Curebit, Adstage, FOBO, TaptoLearn & Multiple YC Companies.
Partner at MESA+, Managing Partner at MESA
Founder @dreamhost, Musician, Interested in talking to music startups, Investor @realitycap, @trov-3, @earbits-yc-w11
Partner at @lowercase-capital
Founder: Atom Factory Fund
Co-Founder of StyleSaint and Co-Founder of seed fund CrossCut Ventures
Co-Founder, Mucker Capital; formerly Harrison Metal, TripAdvisor, eBay, etc.
CMO @partnered. Investor in edu startups (@learn-capital), writer (@change, @incmagazine + more), Live in the Mission, SF.
GP at Susa Ventures, previously founding exec @factual. Serial entrepreneur, worked at GOOG, Youtube, Applied Semantics. On the board of First Descents, Iridescent. Harvard, Cornell.
@transmedia-capital, early stage in commerce and digital media. Avid cyclist, urban farmer, health & fitness junkie. Founder of The Last Mile
seed/series-a with @Karlin Ventures
Before this: helped launch @Built In Los Angeles and operations at @excelerate
General Partner, @karlin-ventures. Worked at McKinsey & Co and founded online textbook retail company. @stanford-graduate-school-of-business MBA.
AF Square is an angel fund and tech consultancy managed by Troy Carter.
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of @slated . General Partner of @actarus-funds. Co-founder and Chairman of PalmStar Entertainment. Co-founder of @theglobe-com
See @branchout.com/Lee.Ann.Daly...Mommy, brand diva, Hoosier-Gothamite, foodie, fan of Frank Todaro, Chatelaine @ Self Inflicted Productions.
Accomplished media and technology Executive, Entrepreneur and Investor based in Los Angeles. @scopely @zynga @the-walt-disney-company @playdom
Investor and incubator of start-ups at CAA. Former VC in Tel Aviv.
CEO at @charlie
Chairman Taylor Asset Management, Inc.
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of @siemer-ventures. Founder of Frontera Group, @sitestar & @interfoods.
http://vator.tv/news/contributors/EricManlunas
Technology Risk Management.
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IT-Audit-Security-2359303/about
Superpreneur. Multi-Lingual. Personal investor in numerous startups. Strong Asian network.
http://www.scrapsentral.com
Entrepreneur at heart. Passionate Technologist. Founder @dandelion . Previously @mojiva and @mocean-mobile (acquired), raised over $45 million
Founder @tentpole-ventures • Worked at @overbrook-entertainment • Studied at @georgia-institute-of-technology, @harvard-business-school
Recovering entrepreneur. Founder of @peoplepc, @spotrunner, @firefly-networks. Founding partner @TenOneTen Ventures.
Investor @theorem-ventures, EVP and tech practice lead at Grayling. Formerly co-founder & CEO Atomic, acquired by Grayling.
http://www.theoremventures.blogspot.com
Angel Investor, real estate develop/design/build firm, art collector/curator/consultant
Worked at @crosscut-ventures
Entrepreneur. Advisor. Angel Investor.
Founder/Managing Partner @scout-ventures; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @mit-sloan-school-of-management '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Founder @rainforest-la; Vice President Tech Coast Angels @ Los Angeles
Investor @styleseat, @rescale • Studied at @ucla-anderson-school-of-management-1
Founder @cross-campus • Worked at @jpmorgan-chase, @maxim-commercial-capital-llc
Worked at @mckinsey-company, @sony-pictures-entertainment • Studied at @columbia-university
Founder & CEO of JOBTRAK, acquired by Monster.com. Founder of GoodSearch.com. Los Angeles-based angel investor.
First Angel Investor and Co-founder in Tuenti (sold to Telefonica), @border-stylo, and @youzee
CEO of Raynforest, Strong sales and marketing background, influencer, Author of SOCIALIZED! Forbes Columnist
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/
Founder at Hone - www.gohone.com. Partner at Workhouse Capital. Founder of Brightfield Energy. Angel Investor. Start up Advisor. South American Focus.
Started @expensecloud (Sold to @trinet ) Worked at Aperture (Acq. by EMR), Systinet (Acq. by HP), webMethods (Acq. by SoftwareAG) & Forte (Acq. by Sun)
Managing Partner at @bayspring-ventures
Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.
Principal of Reinmkr + Reinmkr Satsang
Brad Hively is the Senior Vice President, Operations, at Heritage Provider Network. Prior to HPN, Brad was a private equity investor at TA Associates.
Sales Chemist
@ the Fastest Growing Internet Service in the US:
1) Manage 32 with $21m goal
2) Hired 20+ Sales Hunters since inception of @edgecast-acquired-by-verizon
3) Built the Client Services Team (Account Managers) and Sales Ops Team
3) Run product
President, Crescent Ridge Partners. Med Device VC & Startup experience.
Managing Director, Lambert Media Group
Entrepreneur, investor with background in VC/PE (The Chernin Group; Mumbai Angels, Naspers/MIH/DST), Corp Dev/Strategy (Hulu, BBC iPlayer, etc.) across the US, UK/EU and India.
New Ventures at Idealab. Worked at @esolar, World Bank, and Inv Banking. Stanford MBA.
http://www.idealab.com
Results driven, strategic, General Manager and C-level officer with consumer and technology product expertise
Vice President of Sales at Localytics
Worked at @ascend-ventures • Studied at @stanford-graduate-school-of-business, @university-of-california-berkeley
Big Data Monetization, SocialMedia, Analytics, Digital, Adv, Marketing, Advisor, Speaker, Alum of HBS, Nielsen, IPG, Co-founder of 2 start ups & 2 amazing kids
Co-Founder of VanceInfo (now Pactera after merger of equal with hiSoft)
Principal at Mesa West Capital
& Investor
• • Hustle in my DNA
• • CEO of @justgo
• • Worked at @us-senate @lehman-brothers , @dubai-international-capital , @gi-partners
Seed stage investor $50-250k. Managing Director at Darling Ventures, focused on young entrepreneurs taking a mobile native approach.
Gabriele Gresta is a world-renowned speaker and considered an expert in digital media and associated technologies, Participative Tv and Finance
Director of Ad-Ventures @carrot-creative . Before: Corporate Development @ @kit-digital. 4 years: ~100-1500 people, NASDAQ IPO, 12 acquisitions, 4 Secondaries.
http://garysheynkman.com
Vice President, @warner-bros Entertainment; @harvard-business-school ; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Investor, entrepreneur
Founder Royal Poinciana Holdings
Co-Founder and Partner at Lotus Service Business Co.ltd
Previous partner at Asiana Fd
Founder @flare, @particle • Worked at @yahoo, @apple. Best drawer in class since kindergarten. Designer focused on product concept, strategy, development, and user experience.
http://ericsond.tumblr.com/
co-founder Activision ATVI $14B cap, founder @acclaim-games (sold to @playdom). Founder and managing partner @startenginela LA's largest accelerator.
Founder and CEO @InsuranceAgents.com, @DebtSolutions.com • Studied at @Capital, @university of Dayton
Founder @citizen-spaces, @blue-monitor-systems • Worked at @universal-music-group, @destiny-media-technologies • Investor @citizen-space, @blue-monitor-systems • Studied at @trade-technical
http://citizenspace.us/blog
Co-Founder @independence-brewing-co; Angel Investor & Board Member @pogoseat & @chaldal-com ; Angel & Advisor @swarm-mobile; Principal @christina-development
Co-founded @downey-ventures with Robert Downey Jr. to invest in digital media start-ups and incubate consumer entertainment technology companies.
Angel, attorney, inventor, writer, @apple fanboy, comic book lover.
Investor @doctorbase, @gablit
Founder Stimulate Media & Intabank. Advisory Board Nearmap. Former CEO VIAP, SVP Telstra, VP Yahoo!, VP IMG, BSkyB.
http://intabank.com
Co-Founder @youbetme (Social Bet, Inc.), Advisor @keen-home, Advisor @kinvolved, Entrepreneur In Residence @nyupoly-incubators
PhD @university-of-washington, Postdoc @university-of-pennsylvania /CHOP, Professor @university-of-southern-california, Founded Tute
VP of Talent @originate, Founder at LassenGroup
Life is a video game with no respawn.
Founder of Appetites and Echograph.
Echograph acquired by Vimeo in 2013
http://nickalt.com
Former top music exec (signed Katy Perry, B. Raitt, Train...) @ Sony, Capitol & Warners. Now in tech/media. Founder Webcastr, Inc. Board/SVP @ Scayl. Investor.
Founder @gelt, Inc., @domuso-inc • Investor @loverly, @gelt • Studied at @university-of-southern-california
Products lead at LiveNation Labs
Former SVP of Technology, @warner-music-group. Advisor to many, friend to some, admire all.
I am an experienced senior executive, legal counsel, enterprise risk officer and corporate compliance officer with broad-based experience leading legal, business, compliance, enterprise risk management and internal audit functions. I have worked for a ran
Co-founder/CEO at @selvz. Co-Founder/CEO @iPing/MrWakeup (acquired by eCal); Investor/Advisor @Conatus Energia (Brazil)
http://mrwakeup.tumblr.com/
Co-Founder of SF MusicTech Fund. Director of @xiph-org Foundation 501(c)(3). Formerly @collecta Real-Time, @whobet, @chesspark, Green Witch Internet Radio.
Love software, technology and startups. CEO of @axosoft. Founder of @az-disruptors incubator.
Entrepreneur. Advisor. Angel Investor. Computer/Data Scientist. MS @new-york-university, @HBOGO, Comcast, @fullscreen @datasimple
Investor in @youbetme -- Interested in all things tech.
Founded Victoria Real (UK business, bought by Endemol Group); President, Virgin Media TV Digital group; CEO Telescope US, MBO backed by HIG Growth Partners
VP of Strategy at Originate. CEO of Lottay.
Principal at @Lux-Capital, @General Motors • Investor @sibeam, @Silicon Clocks • Studied at @berkeley, @ucla
http://shahinfarshchi.wordpress.com/
Investor, Intellectual Property Guru, Smithsonian Laureate CTO at @Majestyk -- founder @instantservice (now Oracle), VirtualOR (now Swedish Medical) -- ingk.com/d
Member of Board of Directors at Vigilistics, Inc.
Data @mattermark | formerly @GoldenGateVC
Worked at @green-dot, @quarterly • Investor @wallaby-financial-1 • Studied at @arizona-state-university
@white-house, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Founder Global Philanthropy www.globalphilanthropy.com, President at G2 Investment www.g2investmentgroup.com
Founder @DSE Consulting • B2B BD Manager @t-mobile, @At&t • Studied at @california State University, Fullerton,@Chapman,MBA Student @ GSB
Former COO/CFO at @william-morris-agency; Retired Partner at @deloitte-touche • Investor @mtime
Founder Accelerated Companies Fund • Studied at @harvard-university
Founder of Lidealist.com, Smartdate, Up&Buzz • 15 years as entrepreneur since 19 • 1 year as an actor, 1 as a writer • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @hec-paris • Member of 6 Boards
http://www.fabriceleparc.com
VC @china-growth-capital , Co-Founder @sinoway-international-education • Worked at @idg-capital-partners • Studied at @university-of-southern-california
http://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/yueyu
I invest in a strong management team.
Investor, Co-founder and CEO of PlusYoou, Co-founder and CTO of CloudApply (acquired). Big data expert.
Partner, Ingk Labs
Founder @integrien • Studied at @pepperdine-university, @oklahoma-state-university
Founder and CEO of HotOffice, MotionPoint and Nutrio.
Angel Investor. President, Dynamic Investments. President, Dynamic Construction Services. Director, Entrepreneurship Village. Tech Coast Angels Investor.
Founder @6th Street Investments, LLC @6th Street Fitness, LLC @Westside Trading Company • Investor @Event Farm @OnFarm Systems @balqon @unvael.fm
Started 1st company in high school. Stong Business/ Web Background, Founder @filmmo-acquired & @sprungg @Pacific LMG, worked @promontory-financial .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwK_8c-ryog&feature=youtu.be
Mr. Smith is the Syndicate Lead for The Exchange Visionary Laboratories, Nonlinear Film Technology and Bitcoin India.
He invests in seed and early stage business ventures with preference towards disruptive technologies
Founder of i2X.
Mentor-driven accelerator & seed-stage investment fund for technology startups.
Founder @lucky-ventures-lucky-vc •
Partner at @synergy-innovations-venture-fund • Investor and Entrepreneur.
http://www.lucky.vc
VC at @upfront-ventures • Previously in strategy & biz dev at Fox • Former tech & media investment banker at GCA Savvian
CMO at mOcean, helped take company form 6 to 200 employees, partner/investor in Need Brands.