Here Are LA's Top VCs, According to Their Peers
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Though Silicon Valley is still very much the capital of venture capital, Los Angeles is home to plenty of VCs who have made their mark – investing in successful startups early and reaping colossal returns for their limited partners.
Who stands out? We thought there may be no better judge than their peers, so we asked 28 of L.A.'s top VCs who impresses them the most.
The list includes many familiar names. Dana Settle, founding partner of Greycroft, and Mark Mullen, founding partner of Bonfire Ventures, garnered the most votes.
Settle manages West Coast operations for Greycroft, a New York firm with $1.8 billion in assets under management. She is one of only nine of the top 100 VCs nationally who are women, according to CB Insights.
Mullen is a founding partner of Bonfire Ventures, which closed a $100 million second fund in September to continue funding seed stage business-to-business (B2B) software startups. Mullen has also been an angel investor and is an LP in other funds focusing on other sectors, including MaC VC and BAM Ventures.
Below is the list of the top ranked investors by how many votes each received from their peers. When there was a tie, they appear in alphabetical order according to their last name:
Mark Mullen, Bonfire Ventures
Dana Settle, Greycroft
Erik Rannala, Mucker Capital
William Hsu, Mucker Capital
Jim Andelman, Bonfire Ventures
Josh Diamond, Walkabout Ventures
Kara Nortman, Upfront Ventures
Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures
Eva Ho, Fika Ventures
Brian Lee, BAM Ventures
Alex Rubalcava, Stage Venture Partners
Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures
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