Raising your Seed round in the US - Lessons from LA Venture Capitalist
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Fusion LA is happy to invite you to a special meetup with Derek Norton, Founder and Managing Partner at Watertower Ventures – an LA-based seed and early-stage venture capital fund actively investing in and supporting entrepreneurs and their companies through a collaborative, partnership-approach. Their investment size ranges between $100,000 – $500,000.
The event will take place at the Dizzy Frishdon, Dizengoff 121 st. Tel Aviv, at 18:00pm on June-23rd (Sunday). Talk will start at 19:00.
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*** About Derek Norton ***
Derek is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist with over 25 years of business building, operational, and investing experience in the technology, internet and digital media industries. Derek is the founder and managing general partner of the Watertower Ventures Early Access Fund, a seed and early stage venture capital fund investing in innovative entrepreneurs building products and services for the connected consumer. He is also the founder and managing partner of Watertower Group, an industry leading boutique investment bank advising technology, internet and digital media companies through a differentiated approach to fund raising and M&A.
In his role at Watertower Group, Derek has advised over 200 companies including Widevine, ExtendMedia, Envivio, Riot Games and Machinima through their business building processes and has been an active investor for over 18 years. Prior to founding Watertower Group, Derek was a partner at Entertainment Media Ventures, a Michael Milken backed, $120 million seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on investments in the broadband infrastructure, consumer internet and digital media sectors.
Before EMV, Derek founded both Jeffries Technologies, which became one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, and Digital Boardwalk, which became Netscape’s second commercial application partner.
More about Derek and WTV: http://watertowerventures.com/
The event will take place at Dizzy Frishdon, Dizengoff 121 st. Tel Aviv.
18:00 – Doors open, 19:00 – talk starts.
** Fusion LA **
Fusion LA is the first accelerator for Israeli start-ups in Los Angeles. We selectively accept ~6 teams every 6 months to go through our intensive mentorship-driven program. We help our portfolio companies commercialize their products, “Americanize” their value propositions and adapt their go-to-market strategies to the US market. During the program, we facilitate meetings between our Israeli founders and Venture Capitalists, tech executives & like-minded entrepreneurs in LA and Silicon Valley. Our vision is to support a long-term bridge of innovation between the LA & Israeli tech ecosystems. To date, Fusion LA has invested in 27 companies in 18 months.
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Meetup – https://www.meetup.com/Fusion-LA-Israel
*** Apply for the next batch of Fusion LA: http://fusionlabs.la/apply-to-fusion-la/ ***
Raising your Seed round in the US - Lessons from LA Venture Capitalist