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Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data

SoCal CTO

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on Start CTO Salary and Equity at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year. Southern California - my primary location - looks to be about the middle of the pack. He agreed to make this data public which is awesome.

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CTO Equity and Compensation at Venture Backed Companies

SoCal CTO

Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners was nice enough to compile some data on CTO Equity and Compensation at Venture Backed Companies for the LA CTO Forum and present last year. Southern California - my primary location - looks to be about the middle of the pack. He agreed to make this data public which is awesome.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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When Does a Private-to-Private Merger Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Actually, it came through an introduction from our friends at Partners Group who knew that the company was raising capital. So as Kara, Soleil and I debated the future we realized we’d have to fund the company to build out its product lines to drive more repeat consumption. Along came Seedling.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets. Let me not bury the lede.

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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”. He then said EXACTLY what he was going to be shipping first: A 100% online, fully-accredited Masters in Education degree with the University of Southern California.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.