Since the pandemic, the way companies view childcare benefits has shifted from a “band-aid” solution to a “long-term play,” Upwards founder Jessica Chang told Courtney Vinopal from Morning Brew. Read Jessica’s insights on how return-to-office mandates are creating unprecedented childcare challenges—and why addressing these challenges is essential for talent retention and workforce stability: https://lnkd.in/g484fsXt #Childcare #HR #FutureofWork
M13
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Santa Monica, California 25,193 followers
An early-stage venture firm investing in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses. Based in LA & NYC.
About us
M13 is an early-stage (seed and Series A) venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses. Established in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, we are a full-stack partner that brings a deep bench of full-time operators to help founders outperform and build category-defining companies. Our Propulsion model helps founders execute faster and with less capital towards better outcomes, with 3x people on our Propulsion team for every one investing team member. Our portfolio includes more than 200 direct investments, with 25 exits to date. M13 has seeded seven companies and been in the Series A of five others that went on to achieve unicorn status. Messier 13 (or M13) is one of the brightest star clusters in the northern sky. It’s full of remarkable individual stars, but when those stars come together, they create something that’s truly greater than the sum of its parts—inspiring the M13 philosophy of “brighter together.” We’re proud that M13 has been awarded as a Built In Best Place to Work in both LA and NYC multiple years running.
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http://m13.co
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- Santa Monica, California
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- 2016
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Santa Monica, California 90404, US
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M13 co Allocate is transforming the private market investing experience with a comprehensive platform that helps family offices and RIAs discover, access, and manage private market opportunities. Below, they share recent insights across the private market landscape including how AI is shifting capital needs, how LPs are evolving, innovation rise, and more. #FinTech
March gave us a front-row seat to the evolving shape of private markets. From investor dinners to masterclasses, one theme kept surfacing: LPs and GPs alike are adapting to a new set of realities—ones that demand sharper focus, tighter alignment, and smarter structures. Across hundreds of conversations this month, 5 key insights emerged: 🔹 AI is shifting capital needs Efficiency is up, but so is churn. What looks like ARR may just be "Annual Curiosity Revenue." Sustainable growth still takes real capital—and smarter deployment. 🔹 Liquidity remains a structural tension point The 10-year fund model continues to clash with company timelines. Innovation is rising—continuation funds, secondaries, and reserve strategies are all in sharper focus. 🔹 SPVs are back—but so is LP discipline From stacked carry to adverse selection, LPs are digging deeper. The smartest questions start with incentives and alignment. 🔹 The private market stack is growing up Allocate crossed $1B in AUM/AUA this month—driven by the demand for institutional-grade infrastructure that simplifies discovery, diligence, and allocation. 🔹 LPs are evolving—fast Whether at AltsLA or around the dinner table, one thing is clear: LPs are becoming more agile, informed, and tech-enabled as public and private markets converge. As we head into Q2, the pace is only picking up. We’re proud to be building alongside a community that’s rewriting the playbook with discipline, creativity, and conviction. #PrivateMarkets #VentureCapital #FamilyOffices #WealthManagement #AllocateInsights
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New brand, same great tech. Reintroducing M13 co Prepared, public safety’s partner for innovation. Michael Chime Neal Soni Dylan Gleicher Miranda Lee Josh Keeler Karl Alomar
911 deserves best-in-class solutions to the critical operational challenges that place burden on staff capacity and, ultimately, impact communities. Prepared’s Assistive AI is designed to supplement that capacity, supercharging the incredible work of the unsung heroes of public safety. For 911, assistive AI represents as fundamental a shift in technology as the shift from pen & paper to CAD. To achieve our mission, we’re proud to reintroduce Prepared: public safety’s partner for innovation, focused wholly on your challenges, proven to build products that accelerate change, and dedicated to earning your trust each & every day. Visit us at https://bit.ly/4hVUOIw to see what’s new.
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See how M13 co Polimorphic, led by Parth Shah, is helping towns like Brown Deer Wisconsin and many others streamline local government and build resident-first digital services with AI.
🎉 Now Live: AI Search in Brown Deer, WI! 🎉 Congratulations to the Village of Brown Deer on the official launch of their AI-powered search experience on their website! With this new tool, residents can easily and quickly get answers to questions like: 🔍 “When is my trash picked up?” 🏠 “Can I have a chicken at home?” 📄 “How do I get a building permit?” By making information more accessible and searchable, Brown Deer is leading the way in resident-first digital services. We're proud to support their efforts to streamline local government with AI. ➡️ Try Brown Deer's search here: https://lnkd.in/d6ufpZKz #LocalGov #GovTech #AIinGovernment #ResidentExperience #DigitalTransformation #SmartCities
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Staying true to your customers, keeping California competitive, harnessing innovation, rebuilding Los Angeles, and more. M13 founder Carter Reum x Rick Caruso at the Upfront Ventures Summit: https://lnkd.in/eYcpXN97 #UpfrontSummit
Rick Caruso: Rebuilding Our Cities, Keeping Our State Competitive | 2025 Upfront Summit
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How is AI changing social media advertising? Ad creative—which includes the visual and auditory elements of advertisements—was one of the first areas of social media advertising to be affected by AI. Companies like Butter, Motion (Creative Analytics), and new M13 portco Chord are providing tools for advertisers to both create and measure endless amounts of creative content for merchants. Analytics and targeting are also paramount. Some marketers are leveraging techniques such as DCO (dynamic creative optimization) to build hyper-personalized marketing campaigns to target specific audiences based on profile, geography, and time of day. While proprietary AI marketing products from Google, Meta, and TikTok can be effective tools inside their respective walled gardens, there remains an opportunity for new entrants to own cross-channel capabilities for merchants. At M13, we’re excited by the changing possibilities AI is opening up across advertising and marketing on social and beyond, and how companies like Chord (and founder Bryan Mahoney) are building tools for the new landscape. More from M13's Brent Murri and Whitney Hazard: https://lnkd.in/eQETjp_w
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Brands: are your marketing decisions slowed down by siloed data and clunky tools? Meet Chord🤝 Purpose-built for commerce to simplify multi-channel attribution, fragmented systems, SKU complexity and data. Learn how Chord’s AI-powered CDP helps commerce brands and what excited us about investing in Chord and its founding team: https://lnkd.in/efWFb456 cc: Brent Murri, Bryan Mahoney, Jamie Deveney, Cece L., Christine Hall #ai #commerce #commercedata #seedfunding
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M13 is excited to back Chord, an AI-powered customer data platform built specifically for commerce, helping beloved brands like Sonos and Ruggable turn complex, siloed data into real-time actionable insights and decisions. As former commerce operators, Chord’s team knows the challenges brands face, and its $5.5M fundraise will fuel Chord’s mission to simplify data-driven decision-making and unlock the full potential of first-party data for brands. Read more about Chord’s progress by Richard Collings in Axios: https://lnkd.in/euHKjAn2 cc: Bryan Mahoney, Jamie Deveney, Cece L.
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Gen Z shopping behaviors, how AI is changing ecommerce, building trust, and more from Sixuan Li, Jann Parish, Adam Domian, Kristine Locker, and Samina Virk at the M13 x Google fashion commerce innovation summit ⬇️ #Ecommerce #Fashion #AI
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Shoptalkers, join Anna Barber for the Shark Reef Startup Pitch Competition!
Today is the day! It's time for the Shark Reef Startup Pitch Competition at Shoptalk! It's a time of massive change in the way brands and retailers operate, and consumers shop - with AI disrupting everything from product design and inventory management to brand management and customer discovery. Looking forward to hearing from the next generation of entrepreneurs building new solutions, alongside the rest of the judging panel - 🔹 Deborah Weinswig 韋葆蘭, CEO and founder of Coresight Research 🔹 Matthew Nichols, General Partner at Commerce Ventures 🔹 Jelena Zec, Partner at Citi Ventures The competition will unfold in two rounds— six will advance to the final showdown on March 26, where both the Audience Choice and Judges’ Choice winners will be crowned. Looking forward to hearing from these founders: • Big Sur AI • Lica World • Lumi AI • Veesual • Novel 📲 • PlayAbly • RetailReady • Selectika • Shopeaks • Sotira • Wayvee Analytics 🗓 Round 1: Today | 4:05 PM & 4:55 PM PT 🗓 Round 2 (finals): Tomorrow | 8:55 AM Thanks to the amazing Shoptalk team Joe Laszlo Rocquan Lucas Meredith Hamilton and looking forward to a great day! M13 #shoptalk #retailinnovation #commerce #ai