The 7 Best LA Venture Podcast Episodes
1) Dana Settle -- Greycroft
Dana is a Founding Partner at Greycroft and heads the west coast office. She invests in seed, series A and out of the Greycroft growth fund. We talk to her about tracker funds, acquirers, her relat...Show More
2) Kara Nortman -- Upfront Ventures
Kara is a partner at Upfront, a founder, and one of the most prominent investors in LA. Kara shares about the Upfront partnership (8 different UIs with the same backend), advice for founders, and her...Show More
3) Dustin Rosen -- Wonder Ventures
Dustin Rosen is the founder and managing partner at Wonder Ventures, a pre-seed fund here in LA.
4) Paul Bricault -- Amplify LA
Paul is founder and managing partner at Amplify. Amplify started as an accelerator, they still have the great office space, but now Paul describes Amplify as "pre-seed with benefits". They have a he...Show More
5) Will Hsu -- Mucker Capital
Will talks to us about Mucker Capital, the early stage venture fund that he and Erik co-founded as well as Mucker Labs, his very well-respected LA accelerator.
6) Laurent Grill -- Luma Launch
Laurent Grill is lead investor at Luma Launch, an LA pre-seed fund that does both B2B and B2C, with a particular interest in storytelling. In addition to funding (average check size $250k), Luma provi...Show More
7) Brian Lee -- BAM Ventures
Brian is the founder of BAM Ventures, ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom, the Honest Company and more. We talked to him about investing out of BAM Ventures where he's not afraid to invest early--$250-500k into a ...Show More
8) Spencer Rascoff -- LA Venture
Everybody is going to have an AI assistant that does top of funnel triage on inbound requests. We talk about what this will look like with Spencer Rascoff, partner at 75 & Sunny and founder of Zillow,...Show More
9) Brian Garrett -- Crosscut Ventures
Brian Garrett wants to get the message out that Crosscut VI is not the same firm that invested in ShoeDazzle and Ipsy in 2009, but they will continue to follow the talent of SoCal into FrontierTech an...Show More
10) Arteen Arabshahi - Fika Ventures
With AI enabling copycat products to be brought to market incredibly quickly, the ability to scale and find unique distribution is the new moat. Arteen explains distribution lessons learned and much m...Show More