Emanuel Pleitez
Investor @ East Los Capital
Los Angeles, United States
Emanuel Pleitez is a seed investor at East Los Capital in Los Angeles focused on Software and Beauty. Emanuel is a founding partner of East Los Capital, a technology-enabled private equity firm. Prior to East Los Capital, he invested at Sunstone Partners focusing on cloud, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, internet, and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he was a Commissioner for Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions.Emanuel's early career experiences include stints at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Emanuel’s public sector experiences include serving in the U.S. Army and as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.Current investments of East Los Capital team: 66Degrees (66degrees.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Bump by Ownors (usebump.com), Caylent (caylent.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Everyset (everyset.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finix.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Functional Finance (functionalfi.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), Lorals (mylorals.com) Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurpose.com), Revry (revry.tv), Rosalind Bio (rosalind.bio), Sabio (sabio.la), Signalwire (signalwire.com), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), Tradewell (tradewell.app), TRM Labs (trmlabs.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)Team exited investments: Basepaws (Zoetis acq), Capillary Biomedical (Tandem Diabetes Care acq), IKizmet (ClubReady acq), Passfolio (SproutFi acq), Pasturebird (Perdue Farms acq)
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Emanuel Pleitez invests in
Stages Emanuel Pleitez invests in
Countries Emanuel Pleitez invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$4.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (25%)
- Beauty 1 (13%)
- Retail 1 (13%)
- Fashion 1 (13%)
- FinTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Private Equity 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
- Mexico 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| IO Connect Services is a company specializing in Cloud Technology Consultancy Services. All their team members have one thing in common: their enthusiasm for technology and their passion for customer service excellence. They provide services in all North America and Latin America. Their headquarters are located in the NYC metropolitan area, andthey have offices in Guadalajara. | $7.2M / Private Equity / Nov 01, 2023 | ||
| ZenHub is project management software that is intended to assist developers in improving the software development lifecycle. The company's software assists businesses in planning their projects within GitHub and automating workflow to eliminate redundancies, extra steps, and hand-off delays, using live data to identify risks and bottlenecks,and creating a project's real-time roadmap, allowing clients to spend more time working on code and less time managing the work.ZenHub was established in 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia by Matthew Butler. | $4.7M / Seed / Feb 23, 2021 | ||
| Sabio.la is a software development shop that offers software solutions and conducts trainings to developers. It delivers in-person, software-engineering programs in Los Angeles.The trainings focus on sharing knowledge related front-end development: HTML5, CCS3, JavaScript, Angular/Knockout.js, jQuery, and Client side MVC; back-enddevelopment: RESTFUL API development, MVC, data access, fundamental principles of object-oriented design, singleton, caching strategies, fundamentals of database design and architecture, key table design considerations, query structure and optimization, stored procedures, Python and PHP, and Ruby and C#/.Net: API+ tools: AWS, SendGrid, Google API’s, Git, Trello, and Twilio; and soft skills: agile and scrum methodologies, technical project management, product development, and team and project-based learning.Sabio.la was co-founded by Gregorio Rojas and Liliana Monge in 2013 and is based in Culver City, California. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 19, 2020 | ||
| Order aggregation for restaurants, and the leading virtual restaurant company. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $120M / Series C / Oct 27, 2020 | ||
| In-hoome & virtual wellness services platform The best place to find certified wellness, beauty & health professionals in Latin America | Seed / Dec 04, 2018 | ||
| Nadine West is a personalized styling platform for the everyday woman. Members receive an outfit personalized to their style each month and have 3-5 days to decide what items they want to keep. | $200K / Seed / May 31, 2018 | ||
| Finix is a developer of a B2B payment processing platform designed to let businesses own, manage and monetize their payments. Their platform uses modular, workflow-driven architecture and a real-time interface to track transactions, consolidate disparate payment processor data and underwrite merchant accounts, enabling banks, acquirers, andenterprises to send money anywhere in the facilitate push payments over debit cards. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 10, 2017 | ||
| Nadine West is a personalized styling platform for the everyday woman. Members receive an outfit personalized to their style each month and have 3-5 days to decide what items they want to keep. | $250K / Seed / Jul 06, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About East Los Capital
East Los Capital is a tech-enabled lower middle market private equity firm making the world more productive through technology. We are operationally-focused, research-driven, and technology-enabled. We invest in successful companies where our capital, talent, and analytics can drive the most value. We focus on consumer, healthcare, internet, media,services, and software.Current investments of the team: Basepaws (basepaws.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Capillary Biomedical (capillarybio.com), Castifi (castifi.com), Caylent (caylent.com), Cloudbakers (cloudbakers.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finixpayments.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Form Energy (formenergy.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), iKizmet (ikizmet.com), Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), OnRamp Bio (onramp.bio), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), Passfolio (passfolio.com), Pasturebird (pasturebird.com), Qwinix (qwinix.io), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurposecompostables.com), Revry (revry.tv), Sabio (sabio.la), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)Our investment and operations team has experience at Accenture, Amazon, Disney, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Intel, KKR, McKinsey, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Symantec, TCW, and Vista Equity.Past investments of the team: Abbot, Amazon, Amgen, Archer Daniels Midland, Baidu, Baxter, Boston Scientific, Boyd Gaming, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardinal Health, Carnival, CBS, Charter, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Conagra, Ctrip, Discovery, Disney, DreamWorks, Lilly, Entravision, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Hilton, Home Depot, IAC, IMAX, IGT, JNJ, Kimberly-Clark, Lamar, Las Vegas Sands, LinkedIn, Lionsgate, Marriott, McKesson, Medtronic, Merck, MGM, Netflix, Penn National Gaming, Pepsi, Pixar, Priceline, P&G, QuinStreet, Royal Caribbean, Scientific Games, Sina, SiriusXM, Time Warner, TripAdvisor, Unilever, UnitedHealthcare, Viacom, VistaPrint, Walmart, Weibo, Wynn, Yahoo, Yelp, Youku.
East Los Capital Contacts
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FAQ
What does Emanuel Pleitez invest in?
Emanuel Pleitez invests primarily in Software, Beauty and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Emanuel Pleitez invest in?
Emanuel Pleitez typically joins rounds of $200k–$4.7M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Emanuel Pleitez's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Emanuel Pleitez took part in.
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When did Emanuel Pleitez last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Emanuel Pleitez closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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