La Focused Funds (62 funds)

75 & Sunny

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A · Series B

A Los Angeles-based venture fund and startup studio where Spencer Rascoff directly incubates proptech and future-of-living startups, offering media...

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Act One Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed/early-stage AI-native business software investor making approximately 7 new investments yearly.

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Alpha Edison

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Alpha Edison is a knowledge-driven venture firm that uses AI, data, and behavioral science to identify "silent suffering" where customers tolerate ...

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Amplify.LA

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed

Pre-seed investor writing the first institutional check, operating a Venice entrepreneurial campus where founders and investors co-work, with Holly...

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Animal Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Seed · Series A

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Anthem Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Series A · Series B

Southern California-focused, contrarian investor pursuing under-the-radar, uncrowded opportunities.

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BAM Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

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Baroda Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Pre-seed and seed investor in Los Angeles, founded by David Bohnett (GeoCities founder).

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Bonfire Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed

Seed-stage AI-powered B2B investor in companies with $300K–$1M+ ARR that leads ~95% of rounds with double-digit ownership.

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Canyon Creek Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Seed · Series A

Invests at the bridge-to-Series A stage for companies with real market adoption, differentiated as a Silicon Beach–focused local champion and commu...

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Chapter One Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

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Crosscut Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A

LA-centered seed-to-growth investor specializing in frontier tech—space, energy, advanced manufacturing, defense, and underwater exploration—offers...

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Crossover VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Backs small founder-led seed funds and follows on into the top 10% of their companies, providing access to consequential operators and curated foun...

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Crush Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Crush Ventures is the investing arm of Crush Music, the management company behind artists like Miley Cyrus, Green Day, and Lorde.

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Dreamers VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Invests in early-stage U.S.

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Fifth Wall

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A · Series B

Fifth Wall pioneered a strategic LP network of 110+ large global real estate owner-operators who invest in the funds and then become structured dis...

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Fika Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Pre-Seed · Series A

Seed-stage, operator-first firm offering deeply embedded weekly working sessions and hands-on hiring, pricing and go-to-market support, backing non...

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Greycroft

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco

Seed · Series A · Growth · Pre-Seed

Early-stage investor combining AI-driven software, sustainability tech, and consumer brands as co-equal focus areas, offering a dedicated internal ...

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JAM Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Solo-GP firm led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen backing underestimated founders with something to prove, unusually active in Latin America and ...

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Jovono

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

LA-based fund backs missionary founders building human-augmenting technologies (AI-native defense, ocean sensor networks), evaluating companies ind...

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K5 Global

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B · Growth

Founded by a former top CAA talent agent and political aide, K5 Global is a media-politics super-connector offering founders celebrity and power-ne...

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KittyHawk Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Frontier seed and pre-IPO secondaries fund investing in N of 1 AI/quantum/aerospace/longevity/advanced materials startups with a focus on Massively...

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M13

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed · Series B · Growth

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MAGIC Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Pre-seed/seed firm operating as a decentralized fund-of-micro-funds run by 10-12+ repeat founder-GPs across regions, emphasizing small check sizes ...

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MANTIS Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Seed · Series A

MANTIS Venture Capital is a venture fund cofounded by The Chainsmokers that focuses on B2B and deeply technical startups like cybersecurity and AI ...

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MaC Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

MaC Venture Capital combines an interdisciplinary founding team of a former Washington D.C.

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MiLA Capital (Make in LA)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chatsworth

Seed

Hardware accelerator offering a four-month, daily-accountability program and access to Toolbox LA's PCB, injection-molding, and CNC manufacturing e...

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Mischief

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early stage venture fund investing in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI, SaaS, Fintech, Enterprise, Health, and W...

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Moonshots Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Austin

Seed · Series A

Seed-stage, veteran-owned fund led by West Point-trained Army intelligence GPs focused on veteran founders, embedding active-duty DoD acquisition o...

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Morpheus Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A

LA-based investor making ~80% of investments outside Silicon Valley, focusing on disruptive tech in under-covered markets and offering hands-on cri...

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Mucker Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Mucker Capital works with 10–20 companies annually for 12–24 months as an extension of founding teams.

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Muse Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Female-founded venture fund backed by partners from music/tech and luxury/celebrity backgrounds.

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Night Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Okapi Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Newport Beach

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Southern California's original seed-stage venture capital fund, created at the request of local business leaders and structurally intertwined with ...

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Overture VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Led by former Obama White House and U.S.

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PLG Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Pre-Seed · Seed

PLG Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, providing pre-seed and seed capital to technology-ena...

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Presight Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Presight Capital is the international venture fund of entrepreneur Christian Angermayer, operating as a registered investment adviser that can inve...

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Rainfall Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage, concentrated checks from an institutionalized family-office team (social and gaming exits) with operator-empathy, values-driven approa...

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Red Beard Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Brooklyn

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Integrated fund, AngelList syndicate, and Web3 properties that flex between tokens and equity and give portfolio companies immediate access to Web3...

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Riot Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B · Growth

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Rocana Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Exclusively backs health, wellness and sustainable consumer brands, especially better-for-you food and beverage, combining global finance and hands...

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Selva Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A

Invests exclusively in consumer brands improving health, sustainability, and inclusivity; offers access to strategic CPG partners (Unilever Venture...

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Skyview Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Seed · Series A

Targets sub-$100M corporate carve-outs with operational team.

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Slauson & Co

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Bridges historically overlooked, untapped founders to resources and pathways that democratize entrepreneurship and advance sustainable equity and e...

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Stage Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Stage Venture Partners is led by a former value investor who applies value-investing tools like unit economics and downside analysis to seed-stage ...

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Strong Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles, CA & Seoul

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Bi-continental LA–Seoul fund focused on globalizing Korean products—75% Korean/diaspora founders—offering systematic US↔Asia market expansion suppo...

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Struck Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Founder-first investor for innovative entrepreneurs aiming to change the world.

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Supply Change Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology reshaping food systems—prioritizing underserved, culturally driven consumer demand—led by ...

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TenOneTen Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Backed by repeat software founders, TenOneTen Ventures focuses on engineers-turned-entrepreneurs building B2B software, data infrastructure and tec...

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The Chernin Group (TCG)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Growth · Series B · Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Growth-stage investor specializing in sports, media, and passion-driven digital brands.

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The Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Pre-seed, locally-run global network where experienced founders/operators in each city source deals and provide hands-on, community-based support t...

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Trailyn VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed

Invests in early-stage deeptech founders who are untapped and diverse, with an MVP and first revenues from initial customers.

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Trousdale Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Family‑office hard‑tech investor that deployed over $300M in 18–24 months, targeting non‑incremental, seemingly impossible multi‑decade companies w...

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Type One Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

Type One Ventures invests exclusively in technologies that progress humanity toward a self-sufficient, interplanetary Type I civilization, focusing...

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Untapped Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Data-driven search fund led by Yohei Nakajima and Jessica Jackley that proactively sources deals and targets under-networked, execution-focused fou...

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Upfront Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Growth

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Vamos Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

For-profit VC fund investing in seed and early stages focused on U.S.

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Versant Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A · Series B

Creates and seeds about half its portfolio companies from in-house discovery labs (Ridgeline in Basel, Highline in New York), seeding them with ten...

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Walkabout Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

U.S.-focused seed fund targeting very-early technical picks-and-shovels infrastructure and back-office fintech for financial/insurance firms, leadi...

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Watertower Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

First institutional capital ($100k–$1M) post friends-and-family, acting as outsourced corporate development leveraging tech/media relationships and...

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WndrCo

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Beverly Hills

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B · Growth

WndrCo combines three strategies under one platform—Build (acquiring controlling stakes in underappreciated tech companies to operate them), Ventur...

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Wonder Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Wonder Ventures leads pre-seed rounds in LA with $250k–$500k checks, backed by a local founder/operator LP flywheel.

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