03 Nov Effective Advise
Effective advisors are explorers of truth. They humbly share experiences and ask questions to help founders get to insight. Bad advisors share opinions, how-to’s, and believe all they say is true....
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LOVC In the Media
09 Oct Our Investment in IOPipe
IOPipe solves the challenges development teams face when attempting to instrument, observe, and monitor event-driven applications. ...
31 Aug Our Investment in SmartHop
SmartHop automates the route planning and dispatching decision-making process for truckers on the road....
05 Aug The Dark Side of VC
Every investor I meet promotes being founder friendly. Generally I think this is well intended and genuine — amazing founders making the world a better place, backed by helpful investors with aligned interests. This basic idea is what actually attracts me to venture capital....
24 Jul Our Investment in Cypress.io
If software dominates the world, then the most important thing is to build superior software. And that’s exactly what Cypress.io helps developers do....
26 Jun Cypress.io Raises $4 Million for Front End Automated Testing
This infusion of capital will allow us to continue building Cypress for our thriving community of passionate developers....
30 May Plum Raises $10 Million Series B Funding Led By Las Olas
Plum, the company that introduced the first appliance that automatically preserves, chills and serves wine by the glass, today announced a $10 million Series B financing, led by Las Olas Venture Capital....
25 May What’s the Moat of a Venture Capitalist?
The term “moat” was popularized by Warren Buffet, and it generally means the durable ability for a business to increasingly dominate a market without losing profits to competition....
22 Mar Announcing the final closing of our first fund at $28.5M
Las OIas Venture Capital ("LOVC") (lasolasvc.com) announces its final closing of its inaugural venture capital investment fund Las Olas VC I LP at $28.5MM....
14 Mar Simplifying Fundraising, And Keeping Investors Engaged
The fundraising matchmaking process is broken as is. It’s highly inefficient. Is the most clumsy sales process I’ve ever seen, akin to shooting darts using your feet. Many founders haphazardly look for capital knocking all the doors they can find. ...