LA Venture TenOneTen

Another great example of top Silicon Valley talent moving to LA!
 
Kyle Lui was a partner at multi-billion dollar DCM until he left to join Ben Ling at Bling Capital.  He shares thoughts on how a small fund can still build best in class playbooks and processes to support founders.
 

Paige Craig shares his amazing story of sneaking into Iraq dressed as a CNN reporter, how he built a private military from scratch inside Baghdad and then how he parlayed that exit into an incredible investing career that includes Wish, Scale, Gusto, AngelList and many others.

Corporate venture capital is becoming a first choice option for founders seeking the value-add that corporates can bring in an industry.
 
This is the thesis of Laurent Grill as he seeks to build the #1 choice PropTech fund at JLL Spark.
 

Cannabis is still a schedule 1 narcotic (cocaine is a less serious schedule 2).  
 
Cannabis plants have RFIDs on them and are tracked from seed to sale.
 
Casa Verde's Karan Wadhera tells us why he sees this and other regulations as an opportunity and why he and Snoop set up Casa Verde to invest from $1M to $15M in cannabis startups.

Do you feel good about the purchases you make and the trash you generate as a consumer?
 
Dan Fishman believes in empowering consumers and he shares perspective for startups and brands that are being built to serve our new regenerative future.

 

Maureen Klewicki heads up investing at Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures, the venture arm of Cedars-Sinai. Cedars-Sinai is a top 10 hospital in the US that serves more than 1 million people each year with over 4,500 physicians and nurses.
Maureen discusses opportunities she sees for startups to be created to address issues in care delivery, the labor shortage crisis, and the move to value-based care.  She shares go to market strategies in healthcare and much more.