Karlin Ventures
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. They are value-add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveragedequity capital.Focus on enterprise software, eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising technology, and education technology but are open to exciting ideas in other verticals. Typical investments range from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Prefer co-investor roles and will participate in follow-on rounds.
- Total investments:
- 52
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Karlin Ventures invests in
Stages Karlin Ventures invests in
Countries Karlin Ventures invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (21%)
- SaaS 8 (15%)
- Internet 7 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (12%)
- Mobile 5 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 22 (42%)
- Series A 19 (37%)
- Funding Round 6 (12%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
- Corporate Round 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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David A. Cohen
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Getlabs
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Getlabs is the leading platform for at-home diagnostics.Healthcare organizations use Getlabs to send mobile phlebotomists to patients’ homes and collect labs, vitals, and advanced diagnostics. By leveraging Getlabs, partners can improve patient adherence and close gaps in care with same-day, nationwide availability.Our team has raised $50M fromstrategic investors including the two largest diagnostic laboratories in the United States, Labcorp and Quest. Getlabs’ mission is to save lives by expanding access to diagnostics for everyone. | $3M / Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | |
ShipHawk
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Headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., ShipHawk is shipping software for high volume shippers. Most businesses spend a ton of time and money trying to ship orders more efficiently. ShipHawk’s shipping software helps automate order fulfillment and eliminate worker decisions so businesses can take control of their warehouse operations. To learn moreabout ShipHawk, please visit https://shiphawk.com. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2020 | |
Pathmatics
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Pathmatics is a marketing platform that gives visibility to the digital ad performance of brands, their competitors, and entire industries. It turns the world’s marketing data into actionable insights as consumption rapidly shifts to digital, media decisions have become too complex and opaque. It brings together display, social, video, mobile, andnative advertising data, helping users to optimize media and marketing decisions. Brands and agencies get access to the creative used by all advertisers, spend and impression data, and path from publisher to viewer. This empowers them to minimize waste from their budgets, better position their marketing, and predict the next moves of their competitors. Pathmatics data powers Nielsen’s digital ad intelligence offering, Kantar Media’s Facebook intelligence, and is used by agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible. Pathmatics was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and is backed by Upfront Ventures, BDMI, and Baroda Ventures. | $3M / Corporate Round / Oct 26, 2018 | |
Bark Technologies
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Bark uses AI to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trustbetween parent and child.Bark Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $9M / Series A / Aug 29, 2018 | |
Embrace
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Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $4.5M / Seed / May 23, 2017 | |
Remedy
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Remedy is an online service that protects people from overcharges that stem from medical bill errors. It reviews past bills, and monitor and reviews news one as they become available. Remedy was launched byJohn Schulte, Victor Echevarria, and Marija Ringwelski (Sedlar) in 2015. | $1.9M / Seed / Sep 29, 2016 | |
Bitium
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Bitium is a Santa Monica-headquartered provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions, including single sign-on, password management, and analytics for small, medium and enterprise businesses. Founded in 2012, the company aims to give growing companies the ability to manage access to all of their web-based applications --including Google Apps and Office 365, as well as social networks and CRM, collaboration and marketing tools -- in one place without hindering employee adoption of these applications. Organizations such as GroupM, Fullscreen, Movember and Demand Media use Bitium for an easy-to-use solution that delivers increased flexibility and security. Bitium is backed by Polaris Partners, Resolute VC, Double M Partners, Karlin Ventures, Social Leverage and a group of strategic investors in the enterprise cloud space. | $6M / Aug 30, 2016 | |
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Bark Technologies
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Bark uses AI to detect and proactively alert parents to issues their children face, such as cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats. By only showing parents potential problems on their children's social media, text messaging, and email accounts, Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trustbetween parent and child.Bark Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $1.4M / Seed / Aug 12, 2016 | |
Crexi
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Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXI) is the commercial real estate industry’s fastest-growing marketplace, advanced technology and data platform dedicated to supporting the CRE industry and its stakeholders. Crexi enables commercial real estate professionals to quickly streamline, manage, grow their businesses, and ultimately close dealsfaster. Since launching in 2015, Crexi has quickly become the most active marketplace in the industry. With millions of users, the platform has helped buyers, tenants and brokers transact and lease on over 500,000 commercial listings totaling more than $1 trillion in property value. Crexi has grown to 150+ employees and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. For more information on Crexi, visit www.crexi.com. | $4.3M / Seed / Feb 26, 2016 | |
Kimono Labs
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Kimono is a way to turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. You don't need to write any code or install any software to extract data with Kimono. The easiest way to use Kimono is to add our bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar. Then go to the website you want to get data from and click the bookmarklet. Selectthe data you want and Kimono does the rest. | $5M / Seed / Feb 15, 2016 | |
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What does Karlin Ventures invest in?
Karlin Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 52 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Karlin Ventures includes David A. Cohen (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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