| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.10.2024 | Wildfire Systems Ignites Growth with $16 Million Series B Funding | In the fast-paced world of financial technology, Wildfire Systems has just struck a match. The San Diego-based company has secured $16 million in Series B funding, a significant boost that brings its total funding to $36 million. This round... |
| 29.10.2024 | Wildfire Systems: $16 Million (Series B) Closed To Drive Demand For White Label Loyalty Platform | Wildfire Systems—a financial technology platform that powers loyalty and reward programs, shopping companions, and content monetization—announced that it has secured $16 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Intuit Ventures a... |
| 25.07.2024 | Houston's Innovation Surge: A Glimpse into the Future**
** | ** Houston is a city of dreams, a melting pot of innovation and ambition. In recent weeks, the city has witnessed a surge in technological advancements and financial backing, propelling it into the spotlight. This article explores the lates... |
| 22.07.2024 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: Every week, I introduce you to a handful of Houston innovators to know recently making headlines with news of innovative technology, investment activity, and more. This week's batch includes an e-commerce startup founder, an ... |
| 13.06.2024 | Jurny Introduces Next Generation of AI Multi-Agents: Transforming Property Management with Unprecedented Efficiency and Accuracy | Say Goodbye to 90% of Back-Office Work and Hello to Happier Guests
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 13, 2024–
Jurny, the leading vertical AI platform for automating hotel and short-term rental operations, today announced plans for its next ... |
| 06.04.2024 | Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, has died | Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor, passed away last month at age 41 owing to “complications from a recurring brain tumor,” according to a post attributed to hi... |
| 19.03.2024 | Jurny Introduces Hyperefficient, Collaborative AI Multi-Agents to Automate Hotel and Short-Term Rental Management | Industry’s First Future-Ready AI Ecosystem Leverages Centralized Data to Drive Efficiency Across the Entire Guest Journey
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 19, 2024–
Jurny, the leading vertical AI solution for automating hotel and short-ter... |
| 05.09.2018 | Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service | Alex Canter knows the restaurant business.
The scion of Los Angeles’ famous first family of the deli business — the owners of the eponymous Canters restaurant — Canter has been in the food business longer than many seasoned restauranteurs t... |
| 27.04.2018 |
Why SoCal's VCs Are Ignored On Forbes' Midas List, By The Numbers
| Ever wonder why Southern California venture capitalists rarely, if ever, make it onto the Forbes Midas List of the best venture capitalists? An interesting post by William Hsu of Mucker Capital shows that the list is strongly weighted towar... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 04.03.2017 | Snap’s massive IPO overlooks lack of performance-based advertisers | Snap’s much-anticipated IPO has generated a great deal of enthusiasm in the tech and financial communities, as well as here in Los Angeles, the company’s home town. And, for good reason. It is one of the largest tech IPOs in recent memory, ... |
| 11.02.2017 | We’re not in a bubble — we’re in a revolution | Two hundred twenty nine. That was the number of private companies valued at a billion dollars or more—so-called “unicorns”—worldwide in January 2016, according to a report released by VentureBeat. The Wall Street Journal offered a more cons... |
| 10.11.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: BioConsortia Closes $12m Debt/Equity Round, Privateer Raises $40m, more | BioConsortia, an ag biotech company commercializing and developing microbes for crop enhancement, completed a $12 million raise. This includes an $8 million equity round from bigwig VCs Khosla Ventures and Otter Capital, both existing inves... |
| 03.11.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: TPG ART Invests in Anuvia, Nuritas Receives EU Grant, Omnivore Invests in FR8, more | Anuvia Plant Nutrients, a Florida-based plant nutrient company, has raised $23 million in equity capital from existing investors, led by TPG ART, the growth stage venture vehicle of global private equity group TPG that’s dedicated to renewa... |
| 02.11.2016 | Video: Lightspeed VP, Mucker Capital and Wavemaker Partners on LA startup scene | At Vator Splash LA 2016, panelists:Erik Rannala, Eric Manlunas and Alex Taussig discussed over lunch
At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Jefferson Graham (Columnist, USA Today) moderated the Lunch Time Panel. The panelists of th... |
| 11.09.2016 | How lemming VCs cause venture recessions | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.... |
| 11.09.2016 | How lemming VCs cause venture recessions | The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment of many entrepreneurs on how negative V... |
| 13.05.2016 | In a market slide, a flat 'investment' round is the new up | Our panel at Spash weighed in on whether or not there's a market slide, with most of them saying yes
While Vator always brings on some great keynote speakers, entrepreneurs and CEOs, at its Splash events, we are equally as proud of the pane... |
| 12.05.2016 | See how Vator Splash Spring played out on Twitter | Thank you to all of those who attended Vator Splash Spring and made it great!
Vator held its Splash Spring event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companies great, but so w... |
| 09.05.2016 | Fear and loathing in Silicon Valley? | We will ask the tough questions about the state of the VC landscape at Vator Splash Spring on May 12
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in ... |
| 10.03.2016 |
Mucker Capital Raises $45M Fund, Mucker III
| Los Angeles-based Mucker Capital said this week that it has closed on a new, $45M fund, Mucker III. The fund, run by Erik Rannala and William Hsu, did not detail the limited partners in the new fund. Mucker Capital started fundraising for t... |
| 10.03.2016 | Mucker Capital Closed $45M Third Venture Capital Fund | Santa Monica, CA-based venture capital firm Mucker Capital closed its $45m third fund.
Led by co-founders & managing partners Erik Rannala and William Hsu, Mucker Capital invests in seed and pre-seed stage companies building defensible ... |
| 09.03.2016 | Mucker Capital closes on $45 million for an early-stage LA-based fund | Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III.
The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area.
In... |
| 30.10.2015 | Video: Bubbles, valuations and a guide to fundraising in LA | Vator Splash LA 2015 panel
At Vator Splash LA 2015, Rob Kornegay, Partner at Wilson Sonsini, moderated the panel "Bubbles, valuations and a guide to fundraising in LA". He was joined by panelists, Peter Lee, Partner at Baroda Vent... |
| 15.10.2015 | Healthiest and Kangarootime have won Vator Splash LA! | Congrats to Kanga Technology who has taken home the People's Choice award!
The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have two winners for this year's Vator Splash LA are... Kangarootime and Healthiest!
Kangarootim... |
| 15.10.2015 | Presenting the 8 finalists for Vator Splash LA! | 8 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top tech VCs!
Today, Vator will be holding its annual Splash LA event, where speakers such as Adam Goldenberg, Founder & CEO of JustFab; Brian Lee. Co-Founder & CEO of The Hones... |
| 15.10.2015 | See how Vator Splash LA played out on Twitter | Thank you to all of those who attended Vator Splash LA and made it great!
Vator held its annual Splash LA event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companies great, but so we... |
| 10.10.2015 | Pandas suits and drive-bys: Do’s and don’ts for pitching investors | I never imagined that being an investor would involve dancing pandas. However, I bet most founders never imagined where their journeys as entrepreneurs would take them either.
Now that I have been a participant in more than a few off-the-wa... |
| 10.10.2015 | Pandas suits and drive-bys: Do’s and don’ts for pitching investors | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I never imagined that being an investor would inv... |
| 09.10.2015 | More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup | Erik Rannala Contributor
Erik Rannala is the co-founder and managing partner of Mucker Capital.
Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million dollar allowance an... |
| 18.05.2015 |
Mucker Capital Starts Fundraising On New Fund, Mucker III
| Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital, the seed stage investment fund led by Erik Rannala and William Hsu, has just booted up fundraising efforts for the group's third venture capital fund, Mucker III, L.P. The fundraising effort was first disc... |
| 01.01.2015 | The secret of great product managers: Balancing the worlds of ‘techie’ and ‘fuzzy’ | Microsoft created the “modern” role of product manager 25 years ago, and the job holds an aura of myth even today. Two-and-a-half decades later, the role of product manager is still misunderstood and ill-defined, and the most important qual... |
| 01.10.2014 | Watch Vator Splash LA Live Web stream 10/2 | Jessica Alba, Brian Lee, Michael Heyward, Bill Gross, Mike Jones, Scott Painter, and more
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
Please stay tuned for a live stream of Vator Splash LA with Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, the co-founders of T... |
| 30.09.2014 | Meet LA's most active seed- to late-stage VCs | At Splash LA, meet founders of Greycroft, Wavemaker Partners, Mucker Capital and Anthem
Vator's fourth annual Splash LA event is just two days away now (buy your tickets here!).
And as always, with every Splash event, we work very hard to b... |
| 30.09.2014 | Hear pioneers of the LA pre-seed scene at Splash LA | Meet and listen to founders of LA's studio/incubator model - Bill Gross and Mike Jones
Can you believe that Vator Splash LA is just two days away? Have you bought your tickets yet? If not, then make sure to buy your tickets here! They go up... |
| 29.09.2014 | 10/2 Splash LA Agenda w/ Alba, Lee, Heyward, and more | Need a reason why you can't miss Splash LA on 10/2? Check out the agenda
If you haven't already registered to Vator Splash LA, you better do so quickly. The event is three days away. If you need reasons to attend, just check out the agenda.... |
| 18.09.2014 | Incubated: MuckerLab’s Hands-On Approach To Accelerating Startup Growth | MuckerLab was founded three years ago as one of the first incubators to launch in Los Angeles. With a shared workspace for a relatively small cohort of startups that participate, the accelerator takes a hands-on approach to helping companie... |
| 03.08.2014 | Los Angeles Sees Tech Investments Triple | Recode reported on July 30 that investment in tech, in Los Angeles, has just about tripled as a new report from CB Insights indicates. Specifically, VC funding is up 163 percent and since 2009 the number of deals has gone up 180 percent.
Th... |
| 13.02.2014 | MuckerLab Launches New $20 Million Seed Fund | MuckerLab, a startup accelerator in Los Angeles, has raised a new seed fund, Mucker Capital. We hear the total amount of the fund is $20 million to $25 million.
MuckerLab launched a few years ago as a three-month accelerator based in L.A. T... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Omar Hamoui on Raising Early Capital Outside the Bay Area | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet Omar Hamoui, a partner at Mucker Capital. Hamoui is the founder of AdMob, a cornerstone of modern mobile advertising. He discusses being one of the first apps in the app store, and ea... |
