Meet the Associates from LA's Top Funds and Accelerators!

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Meet and get to know the associates from some of LA's top Venture Funds and Accelerators!

• Arteen Arabshahi from Karlin Ventures (http://karlinvc.com/)

• Chris Olson from Amplify.LA (http://amplify.la/)

• Austin Clements from TenOneTen Ventures (http://tenoneten.net/)

A little background about what associates at venture funds do:

According to a great blog post by Mark Suster (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/01/08/please-help-me-congratulate-jordan-hudson-as-upfrontvcs-newest-investment-principal/), associates have different functions at different VCs. Usually there roles are a combination of:

• Deal sourcing for partners
• Deal screening
• Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering
• Portfolio company support & analysis
• Portfolio community building
• Industry reviews
• VC firm admin
• VC firm policy or fund analysis
• Helping be the VC “presence” at key events
• Alumni activities