LA Tech Week 2025: Tuesday’s Event Lineup

Here's the Tuesday, October 14th lineup for LA Tech Week 2025, organized by location so you can easily explore events that fit your goals and schedule. Dive in and see what’s happening near you!

ARTS DISTRICT

9:00 AM

Fast Track to 2028: Design Clean Mobility with AI: See Details Here
GACC West, German Consulate General Los Angeles, SAP Labs Inc.

BEVERLY HILLS

7:00 AM

Funds & Founders Run Club: See Details Here
Top Netics

2:00 PM

AI+Fashion & Tech Experience “Invite Only”
British American Business Council Los Angeles, Bank of Hope

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

LA & London: Global Experience Leaders: See Details Here
London & Partners, Virgin Atlantic, United Talent Agency

3:00 PM

From Exec to Founder: What Does It Take?: See Details Here
LeadrPro, Inc., Mucker Capital

4:00 PM

Future of Robotics, Semiconductors & Precision Engineering: See Details Here
HQuotient

5:45 PM

Documentary Screening: Any Problem is No Problem: See Details Here
A16z crypto

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Rooted Tech>Extractive Tech: Women: See Details Here
Community 3.0X, LightDAO, Earth Rights Institute, Mission Matters

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

First Look Funder Dinner w/ Cherub, CONCE & Navi: See Details Here
Cherub

6:30 PM

An Intimate Evening with Arre - Finance Leaders
Arre

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Tech Meets Hollywood Dinner: See Details Here
Everybody Ventures, Electric, TriNet

BRENTWOOD

8:30 AM

Watertower Ventures Founder's Breakfast: See Details Here
Watertower Ventures

2:00 PM

Stay Scrappy & Scale: GTM in the Age of AI: See Details Here
LeadrPro, Inc., Mucker Capital

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Stanford + Friends Tennis Live Ball at the Riviera: See Details Here
Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs of Socal

BURBANK

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Montréal X L.A.: The Future of Creative Tech: See Details Here
Montréal International, Invest Quebec (TBC), BDO (TBC), Barnstorm VFX (TBC - venue)

5:00 PM

Burbank Tech Talk: Looking Ahead in Media x LA Tech Week Edition: See Details Here
City of Burbank Tech Talks

8:00 PM

The Little Prince Immersive Experience
Wevr

CENTURY CITY

9:30 AM

AI For Social Good: See Details Here
Goldhirsch Foundation, Bloomberg

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

INVESTOR LUNCH: See Details Here
CBRE, a16z speedrun

CULVER CITY

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Coworking @ Intersections LA: See Details Here
Intersections LA, NodeCRM

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Fractionals Taco Tuesday by KRCG: See Details Here
KRCG

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Startup Grind LA Launch & Happy Hour: See Details Here
Startup Grind

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Mission: Nominal: See Details Here
Nominal

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Securing America’s AI Leadership: Startup Innovation as National Security: See Details Here
AWS, Seed AI

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Litquidity x Harbinger: Motor Mixer: See Details Here
Litquidity Ventures, Harbinger Motors

DTLA

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Per Scholas Los Angeles x Pineapple Women: See Details Here
Per Scholas Los Angeles, Pineapple Women

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Future Forward LA: See Details Here
Per Scholas, Tribaja

3:30 PM

Founders, Investors, and the AI Shift: See Details Here
Harmonious, Clearmatrix, Offit Kurman

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

LGBTQ+ Founder & Ally Happy Hour: See Details Here
Start Out

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Innovators LA Rooftop Mixer: See Details Here
Nitecapp, The Delphi Hotel

ECHO PARK

5:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Chroma Awards - LATW Party (Invite Only): See Details Here
ElevenLabs

EL SEGUNDO

12:00 PM

Securing your First AI Investment: a Walkthrough: See Details Here
Flux AI, Unita Club

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Sports Entertainment LAVA Dutch Dating: See Details Here
LAVA, LA’s Venture Association

5:30 PM

Topgolf & AI in Growth Marketing: See Details Here
Bamboo

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Sunset Mixer with a Mix (DJ set): See Details Here
Vibeset

HOLLYWOOD

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Agentic Connect: Los Angeles: See Details Here
Gainsight

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Future Tech Salon Day: Women in Tech Panels & Mixer Event: See Details Here
Culture // in // Stacks, Motion Creative

INGLEWOOD

3:00 PM

Investor Tip-Off @ Intuit Dome: See Details Here
VC Hoops

LONGBEACH

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Founders + Tech Professionals Speed Networking Mixer: See Details Here
Startup Oasis

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Find a Cofounder, Help or Join a Startup: See Details Here
Startup Oasis

Marina del Rey

8:00 AM

Cold Plunge + Sauna: See Details Here
Simple Closure

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

The New Growth Playbook: Lessons from the World’s Most Vital Companies: See Details Here
Workday, Globalization Partners, Boston Consulting Group

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

USC ISI Lab Tours: See Details Here
USC Information Sciences Institute

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Inside the Minds Building the Machines: See Details Here
USC Information Sciences Institute, Newmark

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Founders & Funders on the Coast with Qapita: See Details Here
Qapita

5:30 PM

Behind the Scenes of the Biggest Crypto Heist Ever: See Details Here
TRM Labs, Initialized Capital

6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

NBA Foundation & BlackTech Meetup Present: VC and Founder Reception @ Sawubona: See Details Here
Sawubona

7:00 PM

AI LA Salon w/ PostHog: See Details Here
AI LA

MID CITY

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

AI Growth Engines & Coffee: See Details Here
Migrate AI

10:00 AM

Maple & Palm: Canada x LA Black Tech Connect “Invite Only”
Black Operator Ventures, Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

ChargerHelp Reliability Revolution: See Details Here
Charger Help

4:30 PM

Write Your Book. Give Your TEDx Talk.: See Details Here
The Future We Build

PASADENA

11:00 AM

The Future of Family Building: Tech, Fertility & Equality: See Details Here
Hera Family Planning

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Designing the Climate Future for Pasadena: See Details Here
Innovate Pasadena, City of Pasadena

PLAYA VISTA

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

B2B Growth Playbook: Buyer Journey: See Details Here
Mucker Capital

11:00 AM

Longevity Tech: Executive Edge Mode: See Details Here
The Reason Longevity AI, Monarch Athletic Club

11:00 AM

A Piece of the Internet to Realize Your Vision: See Details Here
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

From 0-1: Early Stage Founder Panel: See Details Here
Mucker Capital

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Cocktails and Startup Dreams: See Details Here
Opps AI, Verizon Wireless

5:30 PM

a16z American Dynamism x LA Tech Week 2025 “Invite Only”
Andreessen Horowitz, Apex

SANTA MONICA

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Sunrise Yoga: See Details Here
Sound Money

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Grappling with Vector Databases: See Details Here
Pinecone

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Cafecito LA Tech Week: See Details Here
LaFamilia Foundation, Act One Ventures, Origin Ventures, 2045 Ventures, Chingona Ventures

8:30 AM

The Future of Work - Founders & Fractionals Breakfast: See Details Here
Founders, Funders, & Fractionals (F3), Superbloom Strategies, Next Wave Marketing

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Southern California AI Showcase: See Details Here
Aquillius

9:00 AM

FIGuring It Out: The Future of RCM “Invite Only”
Candid Health Events Team

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

AI and Advertising: Don't get in trouble: See Details Here
Social Media Club of LA

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

GPs + LPs Breakfast: See Details Here
Mercury, Reveille VC, Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Scale Smart: How to Build Without Overhiring: See Details Here
Urgent Partners

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Growth in the AI Era: Practical Strategies for AEO: See Details Here
M13, Graphite

10:00 AM

Unlock Apple's Corporate Advantage for your Startup: See Details Here
iStore by St. Moritz

10:00 AM

Reimagining E-Commerce: How AI is Transforming Brand Growth: See Details Here
Genus AI

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Musa Labs Hackathon LA Sponsored by Azure: See Details Here
Musa Capital, Microsoft Azure

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Get in the Game - LA Chamber Procurement Series: See Details Here
Get in the Game - Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation

10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

GOLDEN GOES GLOBAL: K-pop & Beauty Hunters vs. Global Tech: See Details Here
Nuleep, LAVA

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Early Stage Investor Brunch: See Details Here
TenOneTen, Companyon VC, Signal Peak Ventures

10:30 AM - 4:00 PM

VIP Creative Tech Driving Experience: See Details Here
J.P. Morgan, CAA, Cooley LLP

11:00 AM

From Vision to Value: The Guide for Executives to Building an AI Roadmap: See Details Here
Streamlogic LTD

11:00 AM

Mastering Viral Content for Startups: See Details Here
Content Camp

11:00 AM

Game Developer Lunch & Learn: Scaling, Discovery, and the Future of Play: See Details Here
Xsolla

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

IMPACT & INNOVATION | FUTURE OF VENTURE: See Details Here
Syndicate AI, Hustle Fund, Hollo AI

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Deep Tech, Defense, + The Future of Governance: See Details Here
Rho

12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Founders Scaling in AI: See Details Here
Amplitude, Blaze

1:00 PM

De-Escalation & Business Safety: See Details Here
Braav

2:00 PM

How I barely survived live ent. and how tech saved me. Book launch: See Details Here
Good Publishing

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Prediction Markets: See Details Here
Fifty-One Alpha, Blondie Predicts

2:30 PM

Flip the Funnel: Marketing for Female Producers
Marketing with Mari

2:30 PM

Spill the Tea: See Details Here
BySengo, Ocean AI

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

From Chaos to Capital: Navigating Fundraising in the Age of AI: See Details Here
PwC, Cooley LLP, Marsh, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

From Seed to Scale: Growing Your Customer Base hosted by Snapchat: See Details Here
Snapchat, Snap

3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketing Exec Roundtable: B2B Thought Leadership: See Details Here
LinkedIn

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

3D Happy Hour: See Details Here
Uthana

4:00 PM

WeAreLATech: LA Tech Community Beach Walk 🌊🚶: See Details Here
WeAreLATech.com

4:00 PM

SaaS/AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour See Details Here
NachoNacho, Deel, Ancient

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Creativity in the Age of AI: See Details Here
HSBC Innovation Banking, a16z

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

I've Raised $25M+ And I'm Not AI: See Details Here
Astia, Osborne Clarke

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Founders & Funders: VC and Founder Happy Hour: See Details Here
Punch Financial, Safra National Bank, Connectd

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

AI Agent Connect LA: Founder & Investor Happy Hour: See Details Here
MotionArc

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Crypto Unplugged: A Fireside Chat with a16z + Fenwick: See Details Here
Fenwick, a16z

5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

PitchLive.LA: See Details Here
Gunderson Dettmer, Amplify.LA, Alpha Edison, Bonfire, Fika Ventures

5:00 PM

AI Tech meetup and Networking: “Invite Only”
Soundromeda

5:00 PM

Your Pitch Sucks- How to Make it Better: See Details Here
Live Different Comedy, Tech Pitch Roast Comedy LLC

5:00 PM

M13 x a16z speedrun B2B Seed Investors Mixer: See Details Here
M13, a16z Speedrun

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Video AI in Media & Entertainment Happy Hour: See Details Here
Bluemoon AI

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

TECH WEEK LOS ANGELES PT. 2: See Details Here
CAIPA

5:30 PM

🍹Founder + Investor Mixer: See Details Here
Founders & Builders Connect

5:30 PM

Tech Week Happy Hour Social @ Wearies: See Details Here
Los Angeles Fun Events

5:30 PM

Demo day LA
Yeyzer Inc.

6:00 PM

Space x Aerospace Happy Hour: See Details Here
Charter Space, 615 VC

6:00 PM -8:00 PM

From Hustle to Systems: A female founder panel: See Details Here
Marketing with Mari

6:00 PM

Beacons LA Creator Economy Mixer: See Details Here
Beacons

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

The Founders’ Forum: Unfiltered Conversation: See Details Here
Blake Executive Advisory, Datasent, Women in AI Club

6:00 PM

AI x Health/Bio: See Details Here
LifeX, Ventures

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Emerging Managers + Founding GPs Omakase: See Details Here
Unicorner, Mercury

6:00 PM

Stealth AI Founder Exclusive Dinner: See Details Here
Untapped Ventures

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Silicon LA, Brex+ Sourcery+Cerebral Valley Edition: See Details Here
Brex, Sourcery, Cerebral Valley

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Family Office Panel: See Details Here
Reitler, Entrepreneur Ventures, Flagstar

6:00 PM

AI in Healthcare 2.0 Happy Hour: See Details Here
Fusion Fund, BOLD Capital Partners

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bruin Innovation Happy Hour: See Details Here
UCLA Anderson - Entrepreneur Association, NEXT Membranes

6:00 PM

Credo AI Discovery Day: See Details Here
Credo AI

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Taste of Innovation hosted by J.P. Morgan: See Details Here
J.P. Morgan

6:00 PM

Just Us x Mercury - Beyond the Horizon: Frontier Tech & the Future of Capital: “Invite Only”
Just US, Mercury, Velvet, Status Labs

6:00 PM

Founder Dinner with Bullpen, Bonfire, Citizens Private Bank, and Carta: “Invite Only”
Bullpen Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Citizens Private Bank, Carta

6:00 PM

Secured & Stirred Socket Happy Hour: See Details Here
Socket

6:00 PM

Engineering Leaders × LLMs | Dinner by Optimal AI: See Details Here
Optimal AI

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Supermomos Tech After Hours: Networking Social: See Details Here
Supermomos

6:00 PM

The Future Of Responsible AI: See Details Here
M Studio

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

The LA Grind: Beachfront Dinner w/ Polsinelli, Relay Human Cloud, AE Studio, Talk Shop: See Details Here
The LA Grind, Relay Human Cloud, Polsinelli

6:30 PM

Fundraising with A.I.: See Details Here
Finta

6:30 PM

Beyond The Panel: A Founder-Investor Evening: See Details Here
Pendulum Founder Series

7:00 PM

AI-matched private dinners with TechTable: See Details Here
TechTable by Cyber Pop-up

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

FASHIONVERSE @: See Details Here
HIVE Global Media, Digital Fashion Week, Web 3 LAVA, Pixel Canvas

7:00 PM

Quest 2.0 Launch Party: “Invite Only”
AllFly

7:00 PM

AI Upended: How Counsel Steers the Future: See Details Here
GC AI

7:30 PM

TechFix: Cocktails & Creator Chats: “Invite Only”
Fanfix

7:30 PM

Dating Tech Comedy Oct. 14- Flirt Live: See Details Here
Tech Pitch Roast Comedy LLC

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

GDate x StartupStarter Singles Mixer: See Details Here
GDate, StartupStarter

SOUTH LA

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

COFFEE ON SLAUSON: See Details Here
Slauson & Co.

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Code Green: A.I.'s Blueprint for a Sustainable LA: See Details Here
AiMazing Business Solutions, Ventry Group

TORRANCE

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Tech Meets Tide: How Arc is Electrifying the Maritime Industry: See Details Here
Arc

UCLA

1:30 PM

Berkeley BASICS & Defense Tech at the Edge: See Details Here
Berkeley BASICS Incubator, Qluu

VENICE

8:30 AM

Africa Ecosystem Breakfast: See Details Here
EXO AI, Build and Cactus Talent

8:30 AM - 11:00 AM

2025 4th Annual Celebrity Investor Kickoff Breakfast: See Details Here
LAVA (LA Venture Association)

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Creative IP in the Era of Gen AI: See Details Here
FBRC.ai, Perkins Coie

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Coworking @ Day One Partners HQ: See Details Here
Day One Partners

9:00 AM

Breakfast Burritos and Hardware Chat with Trustbridge Design and Manufacturing: See Details Here
Trustbridge Design and Manufacturing

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Caffeine and Critical Industries: See Details Here
Riot Ventures, Space VC, Stifel Bank

10:30 AM

LAVA CPG Expo powered by Nuleep: See Details Here
LAVA (LA Venture Association)

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

BREAKOUTS: HF OFFICE HOURS: See Details Here
Hustle Fund, Join Syndicate

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Newsroom Confessions: Tech Reporters Reveal All: See Details Here
LHPR & Co.

4:30 PM

Finding your style in Tech: See Details Here
What to Where, Cliquebait

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Autonomy, and the Future of Delivery Mixer: See Details Here
Curbivore, Coco Robotics

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Founder Dinner: See Details Here
Hustle Fund

5:30 PM

VioletX x USC CybOrg Mixer
VioletX

6:00 PM

tech & resilience: rebuilding after the fires: See Details Here
Moss Venice, Tenax AI

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Taco Tech Tuesday at Vatom House Venice: See Details Here
The Well Network, Vatom

VENICE BEACH

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

AI Vertical SaaS Breakfast + Panel with olive, Bonfire, Fika, Headline, Tiptop: See Details Here
olive, Bonfire Ventures, Fika Ventures, Headline

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Sunset Cocktails & Gelato | Stifel and Sequoia One: See Details Here
Stifel Venture Banking, SequioaOne

5:30 PM

Swiss Watch AI: The $7B Opportunity - Venice Sunset Dinner: See Details Here
ViviScout

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Shopify In-Session Day 1 After Party: See Details Here
Shopify, The Lighthouse

VIRTUAL (LA)

8:30 AM

Mindfulness Meditation for Founders: See Details Here
Soleil Alma LLC

9:00 AM

Make Your Tech Work Harder for Growth: See Details Here
Axioned

WEST ADAMS

6:00 PM

Engineering The Future: GenAI for Innovators: See Details Here
NSBE Los Angeles, OceanAI, The Gathering Spot

WEST HOLLYWOOD

9:00 AM

From Gut Feelings to Data Points: How Tech is Eating the Nutrition Industry: See Details Here
Supply Change Capital, FTW Ventures

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Tinder & a16z: Solving the Cold Start Problem: See Details Here
Tinder, a16z

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Creators in an AI World presented by Cake Equity, Voice Capital, & Wilson Sonsini: See Details Here
Cake Equity, Voice Capital, Wilson Sonsini

4:00 PM

AI Agent, meet Talent Agent: The Future of Live Events: See Details Here
Gigwell, The Ticket Fairy

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

⚡️AI x LA Talent Management Dinner⚡: See Details Here
Marlo, a16z Speedrun, Penny Jar Capital, M13

WESTLAKE VILLAGE

5:00 PM

The Emerging Biotech Cluster in the Conejo Valley: See Details Here
Hub101, TCA Venture Group, BioScience Alliance

For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

Enjoy LA Tech Week 2025!

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💘Zeitview’s New Valentine : Catching Methane Leaks

Grace Lee

🔦 Spotlight

Hello Los Angeles, happy Friday and happy Valentine’s Day weekend.

While the rest of us are debating flowers vs. gifts vs. reservations, LA’s infrastructure nerds are out here celebrating a different kind of romance: finding leaks before they ghost your entire operation.

Zeitview just made methane a first-class feature

Zeitview has acquired Insight M, folding high-frequency aerial methane detection into its broader “see it, measure it, fix it” play for critical infrastructure. The combined offering pairs methane monitoring with Zeitview’s predictive asset-health and inspection workflows, so operators can spot emissions faster, prioritize repairs, and tie results back to ROI instead of vibes.

What Zeitview actually does, beyond the buzzwords

If you haven’t been tracking them, Zeitview is essentially the operating layer for inspecting big, physical assets using drones, aircraft, and computer vision. They can analyze imagery you already have or capture fresh data, then turn it into inspection reports and analytics through their Asset Insights platform.

Zeitview was previously known as DroneBase and rebranded after raising an expansion round, signaling a broader push beyond “drones” into enterprise-grade infrastructure intelligence across energy and other asset-heavy industries.

Why Insight M fits, and why this isn’t just “climate tech”

Methane is the rare climate problem that also hits the P&L, because a leak is both emissions and lost product. Insight M has built credibility around methane monitoring that’s meant to be operational, not just observational, and that plugs neatly into Zeitview’s inspection footprint.

Put together, this looks less like a single acquisition and more like a workflow upgrade: one system that finds a problem, quantifies it, routes it to the right team, and proves it was fixed. The least romantic Valentine’s message of all, maybe, but also the most adult: “I noticed something small, and I handled it before it became expensive.”

Keep scrolling for the latest LA venture rounds, fund news and acquisitions.

🤝 Venture Deals

LA Companies

HAWKs (Hiking Adventures With Kids), a nature-based children’s enrichment brand founded in Los Angeles, secured a strategic investment from Post Investment Group to accelerate its nationwide franchise expansion. The company plans to scale its mobile, outdoor-program model (after-school adventures, camps, and weekend sessions) by opening franchise territories across the U.S. while using Post’s franchising platform to build the operational infrastructure and support system for new operators. - learn more

LA Venture Funds

Allomer Capital Group participated in TRUCE Software’s newly closed Series B, a round led by Yttrium with additional backing from New Amsterdam Growth Capital. The company did not disclose the amount, but says it will use the funding to scale go-to-market for two mobile-first product suites: an AI video telematics platform for commercial fleets that runs on standard smartphones, and TRUCE Family, a software approach to limiting student phone distractions in K–12 schools. - learn more

Wonder Ventures participated in The Biological Computing Company’s $25M seed round, which was led by Primary Venture Partners alongside Builders VC, Refactor Capital, E1 Ventures, Proximity, and Tusk Ventures. The startup is commercializing “biological compute,” connecting living neurons to modern AI systems to make certain tasks dramatically more energy-efficient, and says its first product shows a 23x retained improvement in video model efficiency while also helping discover new AI architectures. - learn more

Bonfire Ventures co-led Santé’s $7.6M seed round, with backing from Operator Collective, Y Combinator, and Veridical Ventures. Santé is building an AI- and fintech-driven operating system for wine and liquor retailers that brings POS, inventory, e-commerce, delivery orders, and invoice workflows into one platform to replace a lot of manual, fragmented processes. - learn more

B Capital co-led Apptronik’s initial 2025 Series A and participated again in the company’s new $520M Series A extension, bringing the total Series A to $935M+ (nearly $1B raised overall). The company says it will use the fresh capital to ramp production and deployments of its Apollo humanoid robots and invest in facilities for robot training and data collection, with the extension also bringing in new backers like AT&T Ventures, John Deere, and Qatar Investment Authority alongside repeat investors including Google and Mercedes-Benz. - learn more

WndrCo participated in Inertia Enterprises’s new $450M Series A, a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with additional investors including GV, Modern Capital, and Threshold Ventures. The company says it will use the milestone-based financing to commercialize laser-based fusion built on physics proven at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including building its “Thunderwall” high-power laser system and scaling a production line to mass-manufacture fusion fuel targets. - learn more

Riot Ventures participated as a returning investor in Integrate’s $17M Series A, which was led by FPV Ventures with participation from Fuse VC and Rsquared VC. Integrate is pitching an ultra-secure project management platform built for classified, multi-organization programs, and says it has become a requirement for certain U.S. Space Force launch efforts. The company plans to use the new funding to ship additional capabilities for government customers and scale go-to-market across the defense tech sector. - learn more

MANTIS Ventures participated in Project Omega’s $12M oversubscribed seed round, which was led by Starship Ventures alongside Buckley Ventures, Decisive Point, Slow Ventures, and others. Project Omega is emerging from stealth to build an end-to-end nuclear fuel recycling capability in the U.S., aiming to turn spent nuclear fuel into long-duration power sources and critical materials, with early lab demonstrations underway and an ARPA-E partnership to validate a commercially viable recycling pathway. - learn more

Plus Capital participated in Garner Health’s $118M round, which was led by Khosla Ventures with additional backing from Founders Fund and existing investors including Maverick Ventures and Thrive Capital, valuing the company at $1.35B. Garner says it helps employers steer members to high-quality doctors using its “Smart Match” provider recommendations and a reimbursement-style incentive called “Garner Rewards,” and it will use the funding to expand its offerings, grow its care team, and scale partnerships with payers and health systems. - learn more

Emerging Ventures co-led Taiv’s $13M Series A+ alongside IDC Ventures, with continued support from investors including Y Combinator and Garage Capital. Taiv says it will use the funding to scale its “Business TV” platform, which uses AI to detect and swap TV commercials in venues like bars and restaurants with more relevant ads and on-screen content, as it expands across major North American markets. - learn more

LA Exits

Mattel163 is being acquired by Mattel, which is buying out NetEase’s remaining 50% stake and valuing the mobile games studio at $318M. The deal gives Mattel full ownership and control of the team behind its IP driven mobile titles, strengthening its in-house publishing and user acquisition capabilities as it expands its digital games business. - learn more

DJ Mex Corp. is set to be acquired in part by Marwynn Holdings, which signed a non-binding letter of intent to purchase a 51% stake in the U.S.-based e-waste sourcing and logistics company. The deal would bring DJ Mex into Marwynn’s EcoLoopX platform to expand its asset-light “reverse supply chain” services for recyclable materials, though it’s still subject to due diligence and final agreements. - learn more

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Skyryse Raised $300M+ to Do What Most Startups Can’t

Grace Lee

🔦 Spotlight

Hello Los Angeles

LA just minted another aviation unicorn, and it is not because someone built a prettier helicopter demo. It's because Skyryse is trying to do the rarest thing in tech: turn software into something regulators will sign their name to, and that pilots will trust when conditions are at their worst.

El Segundo’s newest unicorn is simplifying the cockpit

Skyryse raised $300M+ in a Series C at a $1.15B valuation. The round was led by Autopilot Ventures and returning investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from Qatar Investment Authority, ArrowMark Partners, Atreides, BAM Elevate, Baron Capital Group, Durable Capital Partners, Positive Sum, Rokos (RCM Private Markets Fund), and Woodline Partners, among others.

Image Source: Skyryse

The pitch is bold and deceptively simple. Skyryse is building a “universal operating system for flight,” SkyOS, designed to replace the cockpit’s maze of mechanical controls with a computer-driven system that makes routine flight easier and emergency situations more manageable. The bigger claim is standardization: if you can make the interface and controls feel consistent across aircraft, you reduce training friction, lower pilot workload, and create fewer opportunities for human error when the stakes spike.

The real work starts after the press release

Skyryse says the funding will be used to accelerate FAA certification and scale SkyOS across additional aircraft platforms, including the Black Hawk. That is the hard part, and also the part most startups never reach. Aviation is where software has to prove itself in edge cases, repeatedly, with zero tolerance for surprises, because “mostly works” is another way of saying “eventually fails.”

The bet hiding inside the headlines

If Skyryse clears certification and can port SkyOS across aircraft types the way software ports across devices, it could unlock a new category of safety automation for fleets that cannot afford downtime, confusion, or long training cycles. Emergency response, defense modernization, and industrial aviation are all markets where reliability is the product, and simplicity is the differentiator. In a world obsessed with shipping faster, Skyryse is playing a different game: getting permission to ship at all.

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Accrual announced it has raised $75M in new funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Go Global Ventures, Pruven Capital, Edward Jones Ventures, and a group of founders and industry executives. The company says the raise supports its official launch and continued buildout, alongside early partner firms, investors, and advisors. - learn more

Morpheus Space secured a $15M strategic investment led by Alpine Space Ventures and the European Investment Fund, with continued support from existing investors, to fuel its next phase of growth. The company says it will use the capital to expand mass-production capacity and its team at its Dresden “Reloaded” facility, helping industrialize its GO-2 electric propulsion systems and meet rising demand from large satellite constellations. - learn more

Machina Labs raised a $124M Series C to build its first large-scale “Intelligent Factory,” a U.S.-based production site aimed at rapidly manufacturing complex metal structures for defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility. The company says the funding, backed by investors including Woven Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, and Strategic Development Fund, will help it scale its AI-and-robotics “software-defined” manufacturing approach from breakthrough tech into high-throughput production infrastructure. - learn more

Midi Health raised a $100M Series D led by Goodwater Capital, with new investors Foresite Capital and Serena Ventures joining and existing backers including GV, Emerson Collective, and others returning, valuing the company at over $1B. The women’s telehealth provider says it will use the funding to scale beyond menopause care into a broader, AI-enabled women’s health platform, expanding access and using AI to personalize care and streamline clinical operations. - learn more

Mitra EV raised $27M in financing, combining equity led by Ultra Capital with a credit facility from S2G Investments, to expand its “no upfront capital” fleet electrification model. The Los Angeles-based company says it will use the money to grow its shared charging network, roll out additional fleet solutions, and expand into new markets, positioning itself as a fully managed package that bundles EV leasing, overnight charging, and access to shared fast-charging hubs. - learn more

Plug raised a $20M Series A to scale its EV-first marketplace, following $60M in used EV sales since launching in 2024. The round was led by Lightspeed with participation from Galvanize and existing investors including Autotech Ventures, Leap Forward Ventures, and Renn Global, as Plug positions itself as infrastructure for the coming wave of off-lease EV inventory with EV-native pricing, battery health insights, and faster dealer transactions. - learn more

Breezy, a Los Angeles-based AI operating system for residential real estate professionals, raised an oversubscribed $10M pre-seed round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Fifth Wall, DST Global, Liquid 2 Ventures, O.G. Venture Partners, and others. The company says it will use the funding to strengthen its product and data platform, grow engineering and design, invest in security, and prepare for broader U.S. and international rollout. - learn more

LA Venture Funds

Upfront Ventures participated in Daytona’s $24M Series A, a round led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Pace Capital and existing investors E2VC and Darkmode, plus strategic checks from Datadog and Figma Ventures. Daytona is building “composable computers” for AI agents, essentially programmatic, stateful sandboxes that can be spun up, paused, and snapshotted on demand so agents can safely run code and explore many paths in parallel at scale. - learn more

Second Sight Ventures participated in Willie’s Remedy+’s $15M Series A, a round led by Left Lane Capital to fuel national retail expansion and continued product development for its hemp-derived THC beverages positioned as an alcohol alternative. The company says it has already sold 400,000+ bottles in under a year and claims the top spot for online THC beverage sales as it gears up for broader distribution in 2026. - learn more

Navitas Capital led Cadastral’s $9.5M funding round, with participation from JLL Spark Global Ventures, AvalonBay, Equity Residential, and 1Sharpe. Cadastral says it will use the capital to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market for its vertical AI platform, positioning the product as an “AI analyst in a box” that automates core commercial real estate workflows like underwriting and due diligence. - learn more

B Capital participated in Lunar Energy’s $232M raise, which the company disclosed as two rounds: a $102M Series D led by B Capital and Prelude Ventures, and a previously unannounced $130M Series C led by Activate Capital. The startup says it will use the capital to rapidly scale home-battery manufacturing and deployments, turning those distributed systems into a grid-supporting virtual power plant as electricity demand surges. - learn more

B Capital participated in Goodfire’s $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, a round that also included investors like Juniper Ventures, DFJ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, South Park Commons, Wing, and Eric Schmidt. Goodfire says it will use the funding to scale its interpretability-driven “model design environment,” aimed at helping teams understand, debug, and deliberately shape how AI models behave in high-stakes settings. - learn more

Helena participated in Positron AI’s oversubscribed $230M Series B at a post-money valuation above $1B, alongside strategic investors including Qatar Investment Authority and Arm. The round was co-led by ARENA Private Wealth, Jump Trading, and Unless, and the company says it will use the capital to scale energy-efficient AI inference now and accelerate its next-generation “Asimov” silicon roadmap. - learn more

Smash Capital participated in ElevenLabs’ $500M Series D, which values the company at $11B as it scales its voice and conversational AI products for enterprise use. The round was led by Sequoia Capital with support from existing backers like Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ Capital, plus additional participation including Lightspeed Venture Partners. - learn more

MTech Capital participated in Pasito’s $21M Series A, a round led by Insight Partners with additional participation from Y Combinator. Pasito says it’s building an AI-native workspace for group health, life, and retirement benefits that turns messy, unstructured plan and census data into a unified layer so carriers and brokers can automate workflows end-to-end, from quoting and enrollment to support and claims. - learn more

Rebel Fund participated in Ruvo’s $4.6M seed round, led by 1confirmation with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others, as the Y Combinator-backed fintech expands its cross-border payments infrastructure between Brazil and the U.S. Ruvo says it operates like a U.S. dollar account for Brazilians, combining Pix, stablecoins, ACH/wire transfers, and a Visa card in one app to speed up remittances by reducing intermediaries. - learn more

Rainfall Ventures participated in a seed funding round for Deft Robotics alongside Spring Camp, backing the company’s push to build AI-driven automation tools for manufacturers. The round amount wasn’t disclosed in the announcement, but the funding is positioned to help Deft scale product development and customer deployments in industrial settings. - learn more

Trousdale Ventures participated in CesiumAstro’s Series C by leading the $270M equity portion of a $470M total growth-capital raise, alongside investors including Woven Capital, Janus Henderson Investors, and Airbus Ventures. CesiumAstro says the broader financing also includes $200M from Export-Import Bank of the United States and J.P. Morgan, and will fund a major U.S. scale-up including a new 270,000-square-foot HQ and expanded manufacturing to accelerate deployment of its software-defined, AI-enabled space communications platforms. - learn more

Mucker Capital participated in Linq’s $20M Series A, which was led by TQ Ventures to help the company become infrastructure for AI assistants that run directly inside messaging apps. Linq’s platform lets developers and businesses deploy assistants through channels like iMessage, RCS, and SMS, and the company says the funding will go toward expanding the team, building a go-to-market motion, and continuing to develop the product. - learn more

Sound Ventures participated in Day AI’s $20M Series A, which was led by Sequoia Capital with additional participation from Greenoaks, Conviction, and Permanent Capital. Day AI says the funding will help scale its AI-native CRM platform and support its move into general availability, positioning “CRMx” as a faster, context-driven alternative to legacy systems that turn simple questions into slow projects. - learn more

Chaac Ventures participated in Arbor’s $6.3M seed round, which was led by 645 Ventures with additional backing from Next Play Ventures, Comma Capital, and angel investors. Arbor is building an AI interview and research platform that captures frontline employee and customer conversations and turns that qualitative “ground truth” into structured operational intelligence leaders can act on quickly, without slow surveys or pricey consultants. - learn more

B Capital participated in When’s $10.2M Series A, a round co-led by ManchesterStory and 7wire, with new investor Mairs & Power Venture Capital and returning backers Enfield Capital Partners, TTV Capital, and Alumni Ventures. When says it helps employers and departing or transitioning employees navigate health coverage changes by steering people to more affordable alternatives to COBRA through an AI-powered marketplace and targeted reimbursements, with the new capital going toward team growth and expanding into more transition scenarios like Medicare eligibility and early retirements. - learn more

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$100M and a Space Force Deal: Northwood’s One-Two Punch

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The most underrated part of the space boom isn’t what gets launched, it’s what happens after. A satellite can be flawless in orbit and still be functionally useless if you can’t talk to it fast, often, and reliably, especially when something breaks.

Torrance is proving the next space race is won on the ground

Northwood Space, operating out of a 35,000-square-foot facility in Torrance, just landed a rare one-two punch: a $100M Series B and a roughly $49.8M U.S. Space Force contract tied to upgrades for the Satellite Control Network, the system that supports launches, early operations, tracking and control, and emergency support when satellites go sideways. The Series B was led by Washington Harbour Partners, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, and included participation from Alpine Space Ventures, Founders Fund, StepStone, Balerion, Fulcrum, Pax, 137 Ventures, and others.

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What’s intriguing here isn’t just the dollars, it’s the thesis. Northwood is arguing that the next wave of space companies won’t be constrained by rockets, but by operations and connectivity, meaning the ground layer becomes the strategic choke point. Their approach combines vertically integrated ground infrastructure with phased-array systems (“Portal”) that can steer multiple beams electronically and support missions across LEO, MEO, and GEO, aiming to make ground access feel less like bespoke aerospace procurement and more like scalable infrastructure.

Why this matters right now

In a market where “space” headlines often center on what’s above the atmosphere, this week’s signal is that the decisive advantage may live down here. If Northwood can make satellite communications more frequent, more flexible, and easier to scale, it doesn’t just help one mission, it changes the economics of operating entire fleets.

Scroll on for the latest LA venture rounds, fund news and acquisitions.

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Origin, a pelvic floor physical therapy and women’s musculoskeletal care provider, raised a Series B led by SJF Ventures with participation from Blue Venture Fund and Gratitude Railroad, plus financing from California’s IBank and several angel investors. The company says it will use the funding to expand access to its hybrid model of in-person clinics and nationwide virtual care, and to invest in AI-enabled clinical tools, clinician training through Origin University, and additional clinical research. - learn more

OpenDrives announced new funding led by IAG Capital Partners to support growth of its software platform for video data management used by media, sports, and enterprise teams. Alongside the investment, the company named longtime COO Trevor Morgan as CEO as it continues shifting from a hardware-first business to a software-focused platform. - learn more

LA Venture Funds

MANTIS Venture Capital participated in Rogo’s $75M Series C, a round led by Sequoia that values the AI “agent” platform at about $750M. The company says it will use the new funding to scale its AI system for investment-banking workflows and accelerate its European expansion, including opening its first international office in London. - learn more

B Capital led PaleBlueDot AI’s $150M Series B, pushing the AI compute platform’s valuation to over $1B. The company says it will use the funding to deepen its core tech and platform engineering, expand go-to-market, and scale across North America and Asia to meet rising enterprise demand for cost-efficient AI infrastructure. - learn more

Rebel Fund participated in Modelence’s seed round, which raised $3M and was led by Y Combinator alongside other investors. Modelence is building an all-in-one TypeScript toolkit that bundles essentials like auth, databases, hosting, and LLM observability to reduce the “stitching things together” headaches that come with vibe-coding and modern app infrastructure. - learn more

Alexandria Venture Investments participated in TRexBio’s oversubscribed $50M financing alongside several new investors and existing backers. The company says it will use the funds to advance TRB-061, its TNFR2 agonist designed to selectively activate regulatory T cells, in an ongoing Phase 1a/b study for atopic dermatitis, and to move preclinical programs TRB-071 and TRB-081 toward the clinic. - learn more

Bonfire Ventures led Risotto’s $10M seed round to help the startup bring AI into help desk workflows and make ticketing systems easier to use. Risotto aims to autonomously resolve support tickets by sitting between tools like Jira and a company’s internal systems, using an AI layer designed to keep model outputs reliable and controlled. - learn more

Calibrate Ventures participated as a returning investor in Grid Aero’s $20M Series A, which was co-led by Bison Ventures and Geodesic Capital. The aerospace and defense startup says it will use the funding to move its Lifter Lite autonomous aircraft from testing into operational deployments, supporting major exercises and early customer use cases as it scales long-range, low-cost autonomous airlift for contested environments. - learn more

LA Exits

Bridg is being acquired by PAR Technology (from Cardlytics) in a deal valued at $27.5M in PAR stock, with the price potentially adjusting up to $30M, and it’s expected to close in Q1 2026. PAR plans to integrate Bridg’s identity-resolution capabilities so restaurants and retailers can unify loyalty and non-loyalty purchase data, recognize previously anonymous customers, and run and measure marketing more effectively. - learn more

Assembly, an employee recognition and rewards platform founded in 2018 and used by 500+ organizations, is being acquired by talent-management provider Quantum Workplace. The deal adds built-in rewards to Quantum Workplace’s suite and is intended to connect recognition data with engagement, performance, development, and retention insights so leaders can better spot impact, reinforce values, and invest in keeping top talent. - learn more

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