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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.

  1. 12/05/2024

    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, Hotwire, Pacaso and now HeyLibby.    You can listen to the podcast or chat with Spencer's AI assistant at heylibby.ai/spencerrascoff

    31 min

  2. 11/20/2024

    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 and beyond.   Brian concedes that LA is never going to be the #1 AI hub, but engineers in LA have been building "hard shit" for a very long time. Crosscut VI will invest in space exploration, clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

    29 min

  3. 11/06/2024

    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 more from his vantage as Fika's returning partner.

    33 min

  4. 10/23/2024

    Nanxi Liu -- XFactor Ventures

    Nanxi Liu shares how she deliberately cultivated an extraordinary network. In interviewing, as in networking, Nanxi looks for excellence. This talent for spotting excellence helped lead her to a very successful sale of her first company, Enplug. She's now Co-CEO of Blaze.tech and a Partner at XFactor Ventures.

    29 min

  5. 10/13/2024

    Katia Ameri -- a16z

    LA native Katia Ameri turned her passion for community-building into a dream job at A16Z and then created #LATechWeek, a tech phenomenon. Katia tells the story of what made Tech Week successful and how she and Andrew Chen launched the first tech week in 6 weeks with 30 events and then built a platform that now supports thousands of events in 3 cities just two years later.

    29 min

  6. 09/25/2024

    Mel Tang - Matter Venture Partners

    Matter Venture Partners recently launched their $311M Fund I. Mel Tang was previously CFO at Ring and Demand Media. In this episode he shares why he believes the future of tech lies in hardware and how to set up systems to enable good decision making and successful growth.

    33 min

  7. 08/22/2024

    John Tabis -- M13

    From side hustle to industry disruptor: John Tabis shares how his side hustle turned into Bouqs, a leading flower delivery company. Now at M13, he's helping others bring big ideas to life!

    34 min

  8. 05/31/2024

    Shrina Kurani -- IBank Venture Capital Access

    Shrina Kurani is an investor actively writing checks to help catalyze emerging managers as part of IBank's Venture Capital Access Program.  Shrina and the team at IBank are happy to be a part of a fund's first close and they participate with meaningful capital ($5M-$10M). It is easy to apply to the IBank program and Shrina says that she hopes to be "bombarded" with decks from amazing fund managers.

    27 min
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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.

Information

  • Creator
    TenOneTen
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    211
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    LA Venture