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LA Tech Week 2025: Tuesday’s Event Lineup

Grace Lee
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

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

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

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

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

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CULVER CITY

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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

3:30 PM

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

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ECHO PARK

5:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

HOLLYWOOD

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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

LONGBEACH

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Marina del Rey

8:00 AM

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

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

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

MID CITY

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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

4:30 PM

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

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

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

5:30 PM

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

SANTA MONICA

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

1:00 PM

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

2:30 PM

  • Flip the Funnel: Marketing for Female Producers
    Marketing with Mari

2:30 PM

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

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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

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

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

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

  • Demo day LA
    Yeyzer Inc.

6:00 PM

6:00 PM -8:00 PM

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

6:00 PM

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

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

6:00 PM

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

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

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

6:00 PM

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

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

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

SOUTH LA

8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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

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

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

4:30 PM

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

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

VIRTUAL (LA)

8:30 AM

9:00 AM

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

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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From Rocket Motors to Consumer AI

Grace Lee
From Rocket Motors to Consumer AI

🔦 Spotlight

Happy Friday,

This week, one company moved deeper into rocket propulsion while another pushed further into consumer AI. Different industries, different stakes, same underlying shift: technology is moving further into the infrastructure of defense and entertainment.

In defense, Mach Industries acquired Exquadrum, a 24-year-old rocket and propulsion company based in Victorville. The deal was worth $50M in cash and equity and brings Exquadrum’s IP, facilities, business lines and 85 employees into Mach’s operation.

Mach, based in Huntington Beach, has raised nearly $200M and is building autonomous aircraft and weapons systems. Exquadrum gives the company deeper control over solid rocket motors, propulsion testing and one of the more constrained parts of the defense supply chain. The company will now operate as Mach Energetics.

For companies building unmanned systems, hypersonics and missile-defense technology, the hard parts are still very physical: propulsion, testing, manufacturing and production capacity. Mach’s deal shows how much of the defense tech race now depends on owning more of that stack.

In entertainment, Paramount brought in former Google executive Barak Turovsky as EVP and Head of Consumer AI. In his LinkedIn post announcing the move, Turovsky said AI is beginning to reshape how consumers discover, engage with and experience content, especially across platforms like Paramount+ and Pluto TV.

The hire comes as Paramount pushes deeper into AI, product and streaming technology under David Ellison. It also reflects a broader shift in Hollywood: studios are no longer just competing on content libraries. They are competing on discovery, personalization, engagement and the consumer experience around that content.

The common thread is infrastructure. In defense, that means propulsion, testing and supply chain control. In entertainment, it means AI, product leadership and smarter consumer platforms. Both stories show how quickly traditional industries are becoming more technical, more integrated and more dependent on teams that can modernize the systems underneath them.

Now onto this week’s LA venture deals, fund announcements and acquisitions.

🤝 Venture Deals

    LA Companies

    • Clouted raised a $7M seed round led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo’s Z VC, Gondor Capital, Iterative, AppWorks, Peak XV’s Surge and a16z Speedrun. The company is building a “Distribution Intelligence” platform that uses AI agents to help consumer and entertainment brands plan, execute and optimize viral marketing campaigns across UGC, clipping, fan pages, influencer seeding, paid ads and social platforms. Clouted says the new funding will support its AI infrastructure, creator network growth and expansion into gaming and streaming. - learn more
    • El Segundo-based Amca raised a $300M Series B led by Caffeinated Capital, with major participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and continued backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Construct Capital and House Capital, valuing the aerospace and defense manufacturer at more than $1B. The company builds critical aerospace and defense components by combining engineering, qualification testing, technical data and certified manufacturing into one platform, and plans to use the funding to expand its AI-powered RAPID system, acquire and build more factories nationwide and increase production capacity for major defense and aviation customers. - learn more
    • Kin Health raised a $9M seed round led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundry Square Capital, Pear VC, The Family Fund and several individual investors, including GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek. The company is building a free AI-powered notetaker for healthcare visits that records appointments and turns them into plain-language summaries, next steps and shareable context for patients and caregivers. - learn more

    LA Venture Funds
    • Clocktower Technology Ventures participated in Robbin’s $8M seed round, which was co-led by Canary, Atlântico and Caravela, with additional backing from AB Seed, Norte Ventures and Tomorrow Capital. Brazil-based Robbin is building an AI-native B2B payments and credit platform that lets large industrial companies offer co-branded virtual cards and credit products to retailer networks, using Pix rails instead of traditional card networks. The company also structured a separate $100M FIDC credit facility with Augme, an XP Investimentos asset manager, to finance retailer purchases through the platform. - learn more
    • Upfront Ventures led CVRD Health’s $5M seed round, joined by Waterline Ventures and Distributed Ventures. CVRD helps government contractors manage employee benefits, fringe-dollar compliance and audit readiness under Service Contract Act and Davis-Bacon requirements, with the funding going toward platform development, compliance and member advocacy teams, and national expansion across federal contractors. - learn more
    • Sum VC participated in Hellbender’s $12.5M seed round, which was co-led by Magarac Venture Partners and Veredas Partners, with additional backing from Mana Ventures, Gaingels and the Active Angels Network. Pittsburgh-based Hellbender builds physical AI infrastructure and edge computer vision systems for autonomous and industrial applications, with the new funding going toward launching its on-edge AI camera line, expanding product and growth teams, and scaling domestic hardware manufacturing. - learn more
    • Rebel Ventures participated in Leadbay’s $4.2M seed round, alongside Y Combinator, Roosh Ventures, Inovexus Ventures, TS Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Bright Ventures, Transpose Platform, Deel Ventures and founders and executives from Deel, Gusto and Pennylane. San Francisco-based Leadbay is building an AI-powered sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams discover and qualify small and mid-sized businesses with little or no digital footprint, especially in data-scarce sectors like construction, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and B2B services. The funding will support its U.S. go-to-market expansion in San Francisco, AI research partnership with Sorbonne University and engineering growth. - learn more
    • Overture Ventures participated in Recheck’s $2M pre-seed round, alongside ReGen Ventures, Jetstream and MCJ. Recheck is a trust and compliance platform for residential solar that verifies sales reps, assigns portable Recheck IDs and has now launched Recheck Certified, a credential that combines ethical sales training, a code of conduct, background checks and ongoing monitoring to help installers and finance companies identify trustworthy sales professionals. Since launching, the company says it has verified more than 50,000 sales reps and 700 installers and dealers. - learn more
    • CIV co-led Calibre’s $3.3M pre-seed round alongside Vicus Ventures, with participation from I2BF Global Ventures, 9Yards Capital, Jigeum and angel investors including Nikesh Arora. London-based Calibre is building AI infrastructure for the testing, inspection and certification industry, helping automate certification workflows that still depend heavily on manual audits and document review across regulated sectors. - learn more

    LA Exits

    • 32 Flavors, the production company founded by Alex Baskin and known for unscripted franchises including Vanderpump Rules, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Valley, was acquired by Sony Pictures Television, which took a majority stake in the company. Baskin will remain CEO, and the deal expands Sony’s premium nonfiction portfolio while keeping 32 Flavors’ existing leadership team in place. - learn more

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      Heaviside Raises $28M for Autonomous Precision Munitions

      Grace Lee
      Heaviside Raises $28M for Autonomous Precision Munitions

      🔦 Spotlight

      Hey Los Angeles,

      For years, Southern California’s defense tech story has largely been told through satellites, rockets, drones and software. This week, another category stepped into the frame: autonomous precision munitions.

      Los Angeles-based Heaviside Industries emerged from stealth with a $28M Series A led by Interlagos, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures and several individual defense and technology investors. The company, founded in 2024, is building autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces.

      The round will help Heaviside accelerate development, production and delivery of its multi-domain munitions platforms, including its first aerial and underwater systems. According to the company, its products are designed to operate in jammed and GPS-denied environments, where legacy systems can degrade or fail.

      That detail matters. Modern warfare has been reshaped by unmanned systems, contested communications and the growing need for weapons that are not only precise, but affordable enough to be produced and deployed at scale. In other words, the defense tech race is not just about building more advanced systems. It is about building systems that can actually survive the battlefield they are designed for.

      Heaviside has been operating in stealth for more than two years and says it has built a team of more than 50 engineers and operators across Los Angeles and Oslo, Norway. The company also says it already has a roster of U.S. and allied customers, with the new funding going toward expanding production and accelerating deliveries domestically and abroad.

      For LA’s hard tech ecosystem, Heaviside adds to a growing defense-tech cluster that is less about splashy software and more about applied engineering. The company’s work sits at the intersection of autonomy, manufacturing and national security, where Southern California’s aerospace and robotics talent has become increasingly relevant.

      Now onto this week’s LA venture deals and fund announcements.


      🤝 Venture Deals

        LA Companies

        • Furientis emerged from stealth with a $5M pre-seed led by Silent Ventures, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel and other investors. Founded in 2025, the defense technology startup is developing cost-effective, ship-based interceptor systems designed for scalable production, with the funding going toward initial production, expanded testing and hiring across engineering, manufacturing and operations. - learn more
        • Rogue raised a $2.5M pre-seed led by Science Inc., with participation from Uncommon VC, Simple Food Ventures and strategic investors, to accelerate its national retail and digital commerce strategy. Built by the team behind Dollar Shave Club and Liquid Death, Rogue makes high-protein chips and puffs with active probiotics, no seed oils and no artificial ingredients, and will launch in 2,800 Walmart stores nationwide in July. - learn more
        • Develo raised $14M led by Blueprint Equity, with participation from Villain Capital, Z21 Ventures and Bienville Capital, to grow its AI-native operating system for pediatric practices. The platform unifies clinical, billing and family engagement workflows beyond the traditional EMR, with the new capital going toward R&D and customer success as Develo expands across pediatric providers nationwide. - learn more
        LA Venture Funds
        • Kinship Ventures participated in Nectar Social’s $30M Series A, which was led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, with participation from True Ventures and GV. Nectar Social is building an agentic social operating system for modern marketing, helping brands manage social intelligence, community engagement, creator workflows and conversational commerce across platforms like Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit and X. The new funding will support engineering and applied AI hiring, deepen platform partnerships and expand Nectar Agent into more brand workflows. - learn more
        • Alexandria Venture Investments participated in CREATE Medicines’ $122M Series B, which was co-led by existing investors Newpath Partners, ARCH Venture Partners and Hatteras Venture Partners. The Cambridge-based biotech is developing in vivo CAR therapies for autoimmune disease and oncology using an mRNA-LNP platform that engineers immune cells directly inside the body, with the funding going toward advancing its CD19-targeted autoimmune program into the clinic, expanding its dual CAR CD19 x BCMA program and continuing work across its oncology pipeline. - learn more
        • Overture Ventures participated in GridCARE’s $64M Series A, which was led by Sutter Hill Ventures with backing from John Doerr, National Grid Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Emerson Collective, Stanford University and other existing investors. Redwood City-based GridCARE is building a physics-based AI platform that helps identify underused grid capacity and accelerate power delivery for AI data centers, compressing interconnection timelines from years to months. The company says it is already engaged in projects across more than a dozen markets representing more than 2 GW of new AI compute capacity. - learn more
        • Taste Tomorrow Ventures invested in Harken Sweets’ seed round, joining Selva and GRTSHT as the early-stage VC firm continues backing better-for-you snack brands. Founded by Katie Lefkowitz, Harken Sweets makes cleaner-label chocolate bars sweetened with whole-food dates instead of refined sugar or synthetic alternatives, and is already sold through retailers including Sprouts, Whole Foods, Kroger, Costco, Walmart, Albertsons and Wegmans. - learn more
        • Bonfire Ventures led Ranger AI’s $8.4M seed round, with participation from 25madison, Inovia Capital and Panache Ventures. Ranger AI is building an agentic revenue operations platform for industrial tendering, helping industrial, manufacturing and supply chain companies automate complex RFP, bid and project workflows. The company says its platform is already being used across more than 1,000 projects and can cut industrial tendering time by up to 50%. - learn more
        • Fika Ventures participated in Outmarket AI’s $17M Series A, which was led by Permanent Capital Ventures, with participation from SignalFire, TTV Capital, Dash Fund and senior insurance industry executives. Outmarket AI builds AI workflow software for insurance agencies and brokers, helping teams automate policy reviews, quote comparisons, renewals, coverage gap analysis, proposal building and other core workflows. The round brings the company’s total funding to $21.7M. - learn more
        • Wedbush Ventures participated in Secludy’s $4M seed round, which was led by Impression Ventures and also included LAUNCH, The Syndicate, Precursor Ventures, Hustle Fund, Script Capital, Mana Ventures and Chispa VC. San Francisco-based Secludy helps banks, payments firms and fintech companies safely use proprietary customer data to train and evaluate GenAI models by generating privacy-protected synthetic data, with the funding going toward hiring, go-to-market growth and expanding its platform across more enterprise AI workflows. - learn more
        • Sound Ventures led a new $17M funding round for Anomaly Insights, joined by Alumni Ventures and existing investors Link Ventures, Redesign Health and RRE Ventures. The New York-based company uses AI to help health systems analyze payer behavior, identify denials, underpayments and contract issues, and strengthen how providers engage with insurers across claims management and managed care negotiations. The new funding brings Anomaly’s total raised to $34M. - learn more
        • B Capital and UP.Partners participated in Havoc’s $100M Series A, backing the company’s push to scale its all-domain autonomous systems for defense operations. Havoc’s autonomy stack is designed to operate across air, sea and land platforms, and the new funding brings its total capital raised to nearly $200M as it expands deployment capacity, engineering and partnerships with defense manufacturers. - learn more
        • B Capital led Star Catcher’s oversubscribed $65M Series A, with the round co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures. The Florida-based company is building what it calls the first power grid in space, using optical power beaming to deliver electricity on demand to satellites and other spacecraft, with the funding going toward orbital demonstrations, engineering and commercial expansion. The round brings Star Catcher’s total funding to $88M. - learn more
        • Interlagos participated in Cowboy Space Corporation’s $275M Series B, which was led by Index Ventures and valued the company at $2B. Formerly known as Aetherflux, the San Carlos-based company is building vertically integrated orbital infrastructure for the AI era, including low-Earth orbit satellites, purpose-built launch vehicles and in-orbit data centers designed to help meet rising demand for AI compute. - learn more

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          The LA Startup Taking on One of Parenting’s Most Frustrating Problems

          Grace Lee
          The LA Startup Taking on One of Parenting’s Most Frustrating Problems

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          Hello Los Angeles,

          Every parent knows the feeling of becoming an overnight expert in something they never wanted to learn.

          For families navigating developmental delays, behavioral health needs, autism, speech therapy, occupational therapy or pediatric mental health support, that learning curve can become a full-time job. Finding the right specialist is hard enough. Getting those specialists, pediatricians, insurers and families to actually coordinate with each other? That’s often where the system breaks.

          That’s the problem Los Angeles-based Village is trying to solve.

          The specialty pediatrics startup raised $9.5 million in seed funding this week, led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Bling Capital, GTMFund and Perceptive Ventures.

          Its AI-powered platform is designed to bring families, providers, pediatricians and payers into one coordinated care system for children with developmental, behavioral and mental health needs.

          The company was born out of co-founder Brandon Terry’s personal experience navigating care for his daughter after she was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition. Like many parents, his family faced long waitlists, high out-of-pocket costs and a fragmented web of specialists who were not necessarily working from the same playbook.

          The pitch is not simply “find a provider faster.” Village wants to coordinate the entire team around a child, including occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, behavioral therapists and pediatricians. Its AI agent, Vera, is designed to help with the administrative drag that often slows pediatric practices down: scheduling, documentation, billing and care coordination.

          The company’s raise also points to a less flashy, but deeply consequential corner of health tech: making complex care easier to navigate. In specialty pediatrics, the pain point is not always the quality of care itself. It is the space between appointments, referrals, insurance approvals and provider communication where families are often left to connect the dots themselves.

          So far, Village says it has built a network of more than 400 independent pediatric specialty providers in Southern California and has contracts with major commercial insurers including Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare. The new funding will help the company expand across Southern California, into other parts of California and eventually into new states.

          In other words, the next wave of healthcare infrastructure may not look like one giant hospital system. It may look more like a connected network built around the people who have been holding the system together all along: families.

          And yes, in this case, it really does take a Village.

          Venture deals follow below.👇


          🤝 Venture Deals

            LA Companies

            • MOSH, the brain health nutrition brand co-founded by Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger, raised a $13M Series A led by Main Street Advisors to expand nationally across grocery retailers and accelerate product innovation. The Los Angeles-based company plans to use the funding to grow its retail footprint, including an upcoming Target launch, while expanding its lineup of brain-focused nutrition products with new high-protein bars designed to support both cognitive and physical performance. - learn more
            • Spring Labs raised $5M to expand its AI-native compliance platform for banks and fintechs, with the funding led by BankTech Ventures and Haymaker Ventures. The Marina del Rey-based company is building AI agents that automate complaint handling, dispute resolution, and other compliance workflows, helping regulated financial institutions scale operations more efficiently while maintaining oversight and auditability. - learn more
            • FlowPrompt.ai secured a strategic seed investment from ART Fund SP, part of ChainBLX SPC, as the company expands its AI orchestration platform designed to help developers build and manage complex AI workflows through a visual interface. Alongside the investment, the companies also launched a global AI hackathon and builder program that will give selected founders access to funding opportunities, platform tools, and a live investor pitch event in Los Angeles later this summer. - learn more
            • Chance Studios raised $3.2M to build a unified platform for trading card game collectors, aiming to bring inventory management, marketplace activity, and community features into a single ecosystem. The round was co-led by Makers Fund and Hashed, with participation from Arbitrum Gaming Ventures, GAM3GIRL VC, and others, as the company looks to modernize how collectors buy, track, and interact around physical and digital TCG assets. - learn more

            LA Venture Funds
            • Rebel Fund participated in Moritz’s $9M seed round, backing the AI-native law firm as it looks to automate large portions of routine corporate legal work. The company combines software with experienced attorneys to speed up contract drafting and review, and says it has already handled more than $2 billion worth of contracts across over 100 companies since launching earlier this year. - learn more
            • Rebel Fund participated in Corvera’s $4.2M seed round, backing the AI-native supply chain platform as it automates back-office operations for consumer packaged goods brands. The Y Combinator-backed startup is building AI agents that can handle workflows like order processing, invoicing, and demand planning across fragmented enterprise systems, helping brands scale operations without significantly increasing headcount. - learn more
            • Chaac Ventures participated in Astrocade’s $5.6M funding round, backing the gaming startup as it builds a social gaming platform centered around community-created interactive experiences. The company is focused on blending gaming, streaming, and creator tools into a more collaborative entertainment platform, and plans to use the funding to expand development and grow its creator ecosystem. - learn more
            • Fusion VC participated in MSICS Pharma’s $3.6M funding round, backing the biotech company as it advances psilocybin-based treatments for PTSD, depression, and OCD. The company is developing medical-grade psychedelic compounds and plans to use the funding to expand production, accelerate clinical trials, and prepare for broader commercialization as interest in psychedelic therapies continues to grow. - learn more
            • JAM Fund participated in Fun’s $72M Series A, backing the payments infrastructure startup as it scales its platform for moving money across fintech and digital asset applications. The round was co-led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire, and the company plans to use the funding to expand internationally, pursue acquisitions, and deepen its infrastructure stack as demand grows for faster global payment systems. - learn more

            LA Exits

            • Tapin2 was acquired by Greater Sum Ventures, joining MyVenue as part of GSV’s expanded point-of-sale technology platform for stadiums, arenas and live entertainment venues. Tapin2 provides self-service, suite catering and mobile ordering technology for high-volume sports and entertainment venues, while MyVenue offers cloud-native POS software across concessions, premium seating, retail, in-seat ordering and other venue operations. Together, the companies say their technology is used in more than 70% of MLB and NFL stadiums. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. - learn more
            • Motiv Space Systems signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Rocket Lab, bringing its space robotics, motion control systems and precision spacecraft mechanisms into Rocket Lab’s growing space systems business. Motiv’s technology has supported major missions including NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and lunar rover programs, and the company will be rebranded as Rocket Lab Robotics after the deal closes, which is expected in the second quarter of 2026. - learn more
            • Robyn was acquired by Los Angeles-based Tot Squad, bringing its AI-powered doula tool into Tot Squad’s broader support platform for expecting and new moms. Robyn’s AI was trained on more than 70,000 de-identified messages between parents and doulas, and the acquisition will help Tot Squad offer free, around-the-clock pregnancy and early motherhood guidance alongside access to human experts like doulas, lactation consultants and sleep coaches. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. - learn more

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