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Watertower Ventures

风险投资与私募股权管理人

Los Angeles，California 1,442 位关注者

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A venture capital fund for today’s creative set, the builders, doers and makers of tomorrow's industry defining consumer technology and enterprise software companies. We are a seed and early stage fund actively investing in and supporting entrepreneurs and their companies through a hands-on, partnership-driven approach. We look to lead or play a meaningful role in your syndicate and reserve an equal amount of capital to support our founders as their companies evolve and grow. We invest in mission driven founders who are creating tomorrow's industry defining businesses that make people and work better. We focus on daily-use, vertical applications and platforms that facilitate commerce, collaboration, new forms of ownership, and authentic trusted communities across the Enterprise and Consumer. We are located in Los Angeles and invest in companies throughout Southern California, New York, the Bay Area, and Utah as well as other emerging U.S. tech regions.

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https://www.watertowerventures.com
所属行业
风险投资与私募股权管理人
规模
2-10 人
总部
Los Angeles，California
类型
合营企业
创立
2017

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  • SourceMedium is leveling up the customer support game with their new data infra product and strategic partnership! ?? Excited to support their continued growth. #ecommerce #customersupport #infrastructure #data #omnichannel #SourceMedium

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    Feifan Wang

    Founder @ SourceMedium.com | Turnkey BI for Ambitious Brands

    The ability to see your customer support metrics is a superpower. ?? Until today, your customer support data lived in isolation. ??? We're thrilled to announce our official integration with Gorgias, the CS platform most requested by our customers. This integration transforms siloed support data into actionable insights through our analytics-ready models in BigQuery and includes a pre-built, open source dashboard template for immediate visualization. No more blind spots in your support operations. Our unified dashboard reveals critical metrics like: → Ticket volumes across channels → Messages per ticket → CSAT ratings → Time to resolution → Agent and team performance metrics → Support metrics by customer segments (subscribers, first-time buyers, high LTV customers) What this means for your team today: ?? For CS Leaders: Track performance metrics with our ready-built dashboard template, filter by agent or team to visualize individual and group efficiency, and generate board-ready reports in 3 clicks, not 3 days ???? For Data Teams: Access clean, analytics-ready support data in BigQuery alongside your other metrics with 60%+ reduction in data wrangling time and seamless connection to Shopify customer data ?? For Executives: Make data-driven decisions with a clear view of your customer support operations and understand how different customer segments experience your support The magic? It works with your existing stack:? ? Pulls live data from Gorgias daily ? Integrates seamlessly with your pre-existing BI tools ? Uses SourceMedium's battle-tested unified data models for comprehensive analysis ? Connects with your customer data model for full journey visibility This isn't just another dashboard - it's an extension of our proven metrics framework that's helped 100+ brands scale. ?? Special shoutout to our early design partners - Drink LMNT, cpap.com, Fuel Meals, and ZBiotics - for providing invaluable feedback that helped shape this integration. Already a SourceMedium customer? Reach out to our support team to enable this integration today. What customer support blind spot are you looking to illuminate? Comment below or DM me to learn how we can get you set up quickly. #ecommerce #gorgias #shopify

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    Idan Levy

    Watertower Ventures | Venture Capital, Early Stage, Tech-oriented

    On My Mind: Idan's Thought of the Week I like to say: deals come in waves. You go from 0 investment opportunities for consecutive weeks to 5 live deals the next week. There are several countering elements that go into diligencing potential investments. MOVE FAST, BUT IT'S LONG TERM: Fundraising is a distraction from the business. I understand why founders want VCs to close it out quickly. However, once you bring on an investor, they are with you for the rest of the journey which is often 5-7-10 more years. Through the process, we get to know deeply the person we are backing, and I encourage founders to do the same with their potential investors. SIGNALS, BUT IT'S A NEW SPACE: We are investing at the earliest stages in the future, in potential markets or workflows that often don't exist yet. I like to see early signals of a hypothesis working, even at a micro-scale. But the reality is any quantitative analysis is going to be loaded with assumptions because the data just isn't there yet. CAN'T REPLACE IN PERSON: When the venture industry found a new normal post-covid, investing via zoom unlocked access to capital and reaching founders all over the map. However, you still can't replace meeting somebody in person. We have expanded our geos, but we have not made an investment without meeting the founder(s) in person. It is a long journey and there is a lot of capital at stake, you just can't be skipping these crucial steps. Let me know your thoughts! (Week 7/52) #venturecapital #vc #investing #earlystage #startups #founders #diligence

  • Watertower Ventures转发了

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    Idan Levy

    Watertower Ventures | Venture Capital, Early Stage, Tech-oriented

    On My Mind: Idan's Thought of the Week VC investing is a fast-paced environment. In a single week we go through 10s if not 100s of companies, dive in deep into a handful, and have numerous discussions about the future of different industries. Taking a step back, there are some overarching themes I am thinking about: AI IS IN EVERYTHING: At Watertower Ventures we talk about AI as the third and largest technological transformational wave. Like the invent of the Internet (1), followed by the expanse through Mobile (2), and now the permeation of AI/ML (3). Every company is an AI company. VERTICAL > HORIZONTAL: I believe there are cycles, probably spanning 10-20 years, of what type of solutions companies seek. The custom-built & workflow-specific solutions from the 90s/00s were replaced by flexible & scalable systems in the late 00s/10s that could be used for many use-cases. I believe in the 20s we are now seeing a shift back to Vertical solutions that are built for specific workflows and industries again, powered by AI and modern tech stacks that enable this to scale. With the tech market flooded with options, wouldn't you select the one that was designed for your use-case? As an investor, the question quickly evolves to what is the market size for this Vertical AI startup. More importantly I ask, is the market growing? Let me know your thoughts! #AI #venture #vc #verticalai #b2b #saas #software #tech #technology #innovation #future #marketsize #vertical #horizontal #startups (Week 6/52)

  • Watertower Ventures转发了

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    Brenna Turner

    Owner of Sake High!, MBA Candidate UCLA Anderson '26

    Excited to announce I'm joining the Watertower Ventures investment team! While continuing to lead Sake High!, I look forward to supporting fellow entrepreneurs through their highs and lows. ? Founder friends ?? If you're working on your round in?2025, get in touch! We're a generalist fund committed to mission-critical?platforms, investing in the connected consumer, evolving enterprise, and transformative infrastructure. Grateful to Idan Levy, Ana Carolina Scalercio, Derek Norton, and Jeremy Milken for this opportunity to make an impact in the startup ecosystem. ?? https://lnkd.in/gpEA2ec7

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    Last night, we hosted our?Annual Next Gen Investor Dinner, bringing together the future leaders of the LA venture ecosystem. It was inspiring to see such a dynamic group of rising stars, passionate about shaping the next era of innovation and investment. Special thanks to our speaker,?Jeff Ponchick, for sharing his founder journey and providing invaluable insights into what founders like him gravitate toward when seeking the right investor. Your perspective added incredible value to the evening. A huge thank you to our partners,?Gunderson Dettmer?and?Customers Bank, whose support made this night possible. We’re grateful for your commitment to fostering community and collaboration. We’re excited about the opportunities ahead and look forward to the next one! Idan Levy Ana Carolina Scalercio #VentureCapital #Startups #Entrepreneurship #StartupEcosystem #FounderStories #EarlyStageInvesting

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    Congratulations to DocJuris on the announcement of their latest fundraising round! We first invested in DocJuris in 2021 and are proud to partner with Henal Patel and team on this journey. DocJuris is the leading AI-powered contract negotiation platform.?Since launching, the DocJuris platform has analyzed 20,000+ contracts and built 200+ playbooks for their customers including Fortune 500 companies such as Siemens, Dell, FedEx, Toyota, and Duke Energy. https://lnkd.in/g7RZWBA8 #aicontracting #legaltech #venture #vc #startup #ai #fundraising

    ?? Thrilled to announce that DocJuris raised its Series A, bringing in $8m in new capital! At DocJuris, we're changing the game by blending people, process, and cutting-edge AI technology to make contract review lightning-fast and hassle-free. This investment will fuel our mission to empower enterprise teams to optimize legal resources, speed up contract cycles, and mitigate risks on their most critical agreements. We're also excited to welcome five new legal engineers to our team, bringing over a century of combined in-house legal experience for our customers! Congrats Romina P., Mark J. Barak, Maggie Wilensky, Kyle Jones, JD, and Courtney Almy. A heartfelt thank you to our incredible customers like Dell Technologies, Duke Energy Corporation, Quest Diagnostics, Ancestry, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, our dedicated team, and our visionary investors. Together, we're shaping the future of contracting. What's Next? ?? Continue building a comprehensive contract review platform over clunky plugins. ?? Delivering contract collaboration tools that empower legal, sales, and procurement teams. ?? Implementing AI-powered contract playbooks to close deals faster. #LFG

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    Congrats to our friends at Fika Ventures on raising Fund IV! Exciting to see the LA tech ecosystem continue to grow. #LongLA #VC #startups #entrepreneurship #tech #venturecapital

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    Fika Ventures

    5,821 位关注者

    ?? We are excited to share that we have closed Fika Ventures Fund IV at $160 million, and with it, launched a new website (fika.vc) that puts our values at the forefront. This brings our total capital raised to over half a billion dollars. We couldn’t be more grateful and appreciative of the unwavering support of our LPs and all the incredible founders we’ve had the honor of partnering with. While we were extremely privileged to be oversubscribed for Fika IV, we intentionally kept the fund size the same as Fika III. In a landscape where other funds' mandates may have changed with time, keeping the fund size consistent was critical to maintaining our disciplined investing approach, our commitment to our team culture and values, and our incentive alignment with the early-stage founders we have the opportunity to work with. What matters most to us is building relationships with extraordinary entrepreneurs and working tirelessly to help them succeed. With Fika IV, we will continue to lead pre-Series A rounds in B2B technology companies within vertical SaaS, fintech, AI, commerce enablement, healthcare, and marketplaces. If you are an entrepreneur tackling a meaningful problem in the B2B ecosystem, we want to hear from you! To our founders, LPs, and the entire Fika community: thank you for your continued trust and support. We couldn't have done it without you and can't wait to see what we will build together next! Read more about our Fund IV announcement in the post below. #startups #venturecapital? #B2B #software #VerticalSaaS #Fintech #AI #eCommerce #healthcare #marketplaces

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    We just published a new blog on AI Trust & Safety! AI is transforming industries, but its success hinges on security, safety, and trust. Our latest post explores how startups are leading the charge in tackling these challenges, creating solutions that ensure AI can be adopted at an enterprise level responsibly and at scale. Take a read and let us know what you think: https://lnkd.in/gH_z4wM6. Idan Levy, Sam Gansler, Caroline Doyle #venturecapital #vc #ai #llm #trust #cybersecurity #safety #infrastructure #startup #entrepreneurship #tech

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    Last week, Watertower Ventures had the pleasure of co-hosting an Investor and Founder Dinner with Fika Ventures. It was truly special to bring together such a remarkable group of founders and continue nurturing the vibrant LA community. A massive thank you to everyone who attended—your energy made the evening unforgettable! The vibes were truly impeccable. A big shoutout to our amazing sponsors, Gunderson Dettmer, J.P. Morgan, and Escalon Services, Inc., for making this event possible. We're excited to make this a recurring gathering! If you're interested in joining us for the next one, please reach out. Idan Levy Ana Carolina Scalercio Arteen Arabshahi

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    Last week, Watertower Ventures had the pleasure of co-hosting an Investor and Founder Dinner with Fika Ventures. It was truly special to bring together such a remarkable group of founders and continue nurturing the vibrant LA community. A massive thank you to everyone who attended—your energy made the evening unforgettable! The vibes were truly impeccable. A big shoutout to our amazing sponsors, Gunderson Dettmer, J.P. Morgan, and Escalon Services, Inc., for making this event possible. We're excited to make this a recurring gathering! If you're interested in joining us for the next one, please reach out. Idan Levy Ana Carolina Scalercio Arteen Arabshahi

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