Portfolio
Companies we are affiliated with or have been affiliated with in the past
Companies we are affiliated with or have been affiliated with in the past
Events
events.com Events.com is a mobile-first, socially-focused suite of cloud-based applications that provides an ideal solution for event organizers and event goers alike. Organizers benefit from a dashboard that features the necessary tools to manage, market and monetize their events—including detailed analytics, robust reporting with actionable insights, integrated marketing and outreach tools, enhanced payment options, and comprehensive functionality to create interactive communities and affinity around their brands. Event goers get access and inspiration via the Events.com site—a place to explore experiences based on interests, discover aggregated social content and share the experiences that matter most to them. |
AiNGEL
AiNGEL.com AiNGEL generates founder-based signals to select the founders and startups to invest in. We partner with data providers and accelerators to find the next hot startups, and with VCs to help the startups get funded beyond seed stage. |
Schiller Bikes
SchillerBikes.com Schiller Bikes has designed and is now manufacturing at scale the most advanced, production water bike in the world - the S1. With over 1 billion bikes built for land on a planet that is 2/3 water, Schiller Bikes is pioneering a new sport, recreational activity and form of water-based transportation that will forever transform the water sports and bicycle industries. Bikes are made in California. The company is presently establishing distribution partnerships and dealerships in key markets around the world. |
Triathlete Magazine
triathletemag.com For over 20 years, Triathlete Magazine has been the worldwide voice of triathlon. Since the beginning, our mission has been to inspire, educate, and motivate triathletes of all levels--not only to achieve their athletic goals, but also to obtain a healthier, richer lifestyle. |
MySwimPro
myswimpro.com MySwimPro is a technology company that creates mobile and wearable apps that help swimmers achieve their fitness and training goals through personalized workouts, training plans, analytics, and coaching. The platform has won international accolades including being named by Apple as the Best App of the Year for the Apple Watch and has been featured on the Home Page of the App Store and in Sports Illustrated. |
The La Jolla Foundation, Inc., & Project Active
lajollafoundation.com projectactive.org The La Jolla Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to hurling snowballs of positive change down mountains of challenge, while providing momentum as support for growth along the way. The La Jolla Foundation is defined by its core values: participation, peace, and knowledge. Every La Jolla Foundation project is rooted in these core values and involves four methods: mentoring, encouragement, equipment and education. With this framework, the foundation will embark on the following projects: |
Project Active is a global mission with a commitment to diffuse world tensions through sport related education, equipment, mentoring and encouragement. Project Active is dedicated to planting the peace-inspiring seed of athletics in the hearts of many--allowing the Human Spirit's incredible resilience to bring joy to areas of the world where it is needed most. |
TEDxLaJolla
tedxlajolla.org TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxLa Jolla, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxLaJolla event, TEDTalks videos and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. |
Successes
Successes.com Successes.com has one simple mission: To share the secrets, techniques, and lessons from the world's most successful individuals. |
B612 Foundation
b612foundation.org B612 is an organization that works towards protection of Earth from asteroid impacts a reality, and to inform decision-making on planetary defense issues. B612 provides a non-governmental voice on the risks, options, and implications of asteroid data. B612 is developing new technologies and leading scientific advancements in the field of planetary defense such as the Gravity Tractor and the Sentinel Space Telescope. The Sentnel Mission was announced in 2012 for the purposes of mapping the trajectories of asteroids that may pose a future danger to humanity — giving us the time we need to deflect them. The Sentinel design is for an infrared space telescope that will orbit the Sun interior to the orbit of Earth. From this vantage point, Sentinel can provide an ideal counterpart to Earth based observatories such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope which will also track asteroids. Together, Sentinel and LSST form an ideal combination for tracking asteroids that will eventually hit Earth. After just a decade of operation, they can find nearly 90% of impacting asteroids larger than the one that struck Tunguska, and provide decades of advance warning before impact. |
431 Time-Lapse Challenge
timelapsechallenge.com Film yourself, tracking the positive changes in your body, over 3, 6, 9, 12 or 24 months and post the results on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and include 431TimeLapseChallenge in the title and hash-tag you post in the body text with: #431TimeLapseChallenge, you will be entered into the 431TimeLapseChallenge. |
The 431 Project
the431project.com The 431 Project is an exclusive group of industry leaders, executives and visionaries that convenes annually to develop actionable plans to increase the physical activity, nutrition and the overall well-being of Americans. |
Arctaris
arctaris.com ABOUT the Arctaris Income Fund, LP- Arctaris Income Fund is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Launched in January 2009, the fund utilizes an innovative security structure with royalties pegged to future revenue growth instead of dilutive stock or warrants. The managers of the firm have over 50 years of private equity and venture capital experience, having funded more than 3 dozen companies, as well as entrepreneurial, operating investment banking and consulting experience. ABOUT the Arctaris Michigan Income & Principal-Protected Growth Fund, LP-
The Arctaris Michigan Fund is headquartered out of the Detroit, Michigan office. Launched in July 2013 in conjunction with the State of Michigan, the fund seeks to construct a portfolio of secured loans to profitable small businesses that are underserved in the prevailing credit market. The fund uses the same security structure as the predecessor Arctaris Income Fund, and also benefits from a first loss prevision taken by the State of Michigan that provide a credit cushion of up to 20%, protecting our private LPs. |
Competitor Group
competitor.com Competitor Group is the leading media and event entertainment company serving the endurance sports industry including events such as marathons, running, cycling, mountain biking, rock 'n' roll marathons, and triathlons. The Company owns and operates 33 nationally-branded endurance events with over 500,000 participants. Competitor publishes four magazine titles: VeloNews, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon and its namesake publication, Competitor, delivering a combined monthly circulation of almost 1 million readers. Its website platform, Competitor.com, produces and distributes content in radio, television and wireless platforms, and distribution channels and is one of the dominant Internet sites for its sector. |
The Active Network, Inc
active.com The Active Network, Inc., based in Texas, provides application services technology. |
Barnana
barnana.com Barnana is grown in soil alive with nutrients and free of chemicals the way nature intended. Enjoy the taste of raw, organic bananas with no additives, no preservatives, and sweetened by nature. |
MOGL
mogl.com We built MOGL because someone beat us to the punch on the microwave, hula hoop, and cotton gin.In all honesty, we wanted to ensure that you/we never had to reach for a coupon or punch card ever again. As consumers ourselves, we wanted a seamless way to earn cash-back without the hassle. After some research, we found that restaurants were looking for a way to reward their customers and create more loyalty. It seemed like we all wanted the same thing, so we developed MOGL.We mixed in a bulldog, games and that warm feeling you get when you donate to someone in need. Voila, MOGL was born. |
People Who Start Stuff peoplewhostartstuff.com The author of "The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today's Fast-Paced Business Environment"(Lyons Press, 2005) is writing a new book titled "People Who Start Stuff," which is a collection of the secrets and tips from people who changed the world. Ranging from business to athletics to science to personal endeavors and more, "People Who Start Stuff" will leave you feeling inspired and craving more. Coming soon. |
La Jolla Palace
LaJollaPalace.com La Jolla (pronunciation IPA: i.e. "lah-HOY-yah") is a seaside resort community of up to 42,808 residents within the city of San Diego, California. The La Jolla Palace is located on Prospect Street, just steps from La Jolla Cove and in the center of La Jolla Village. The building features three luxury, ocean view, 2 bedroom 2 & ½ bath apartments and a 1 bedroom panoramic ocean view penthouse apartment. It also features an luxurious ocean view office space, with a large balcony and a large high-traffic ground floor retail unit and four boutique style ground floor retail units. |
Peers Network
peersnetwork.org The PEERS Network is a professional non-profit group founded by local entrepreneurs whose aim is to give back to the San Diego Community. |
Mission Skincare
missionathletecare.com MISSION Skincare offers high-performance products—engineered by athletes, for athletes. Some of the world’s most accomplished athletes, including Serena Williams, Steve Nash, Mia Hamm, Ryan Sheckler, and Carmelo Anthony among others, have joined forces with industry leading skincare experts to create MISSION Skincare. MISSION Skincare ensures that consumers can enjoy an active lifestyle while protecting and enhancing their skin. On top of offering products for the professional athlete and the everyday enthusiast, MISSION Skincare proudly supports the charities of its' athletic partners. |
Mojo Pages
mojopages.com San Diego-based MojoPages offers a wealth of word-of-mouth features not found on rival sites like Yelp.com. Users rate the value, service, promptness, and quality of each listed business. And then there are the YouTube-like video postings, which "provide insight into local businesses like never before," says MojoPages founder Jon Carder, whose own revealing weekly videos on the life of a startup made the site a hit even before launch. |
BUMP
BUMP.com BUMP.com is an integrated membership program, including a web and mobile messaging platform, BUMP will be rolling out new services, including roadside assistance and a broad range of benefits, privileges and discounts for BUMP.com members. |
IRONMITCH
ironmitch.com Triathlete Magazine's Mitch Thrower documents his travels and triathlons. See exclusive photos first at IRONMITCH.com, learn inside tips and hear advice and exclusive interviews with triathletes from all over the world. |
ATDynamics, a TV Private Equity Group Investment
ATDynamics.com Advanced Transit Dynamics, Inc. (ATDynamics - formerly Advanced Transit Enterprises, Inc.) provides next generation fuel-saving technology demanded by competitive trucking fleets. ATDynamics’ flagship product is the patented rear-drag reducing aerodynamics technology for tractor-trailers: the ATDynamicsTrailerTail™. |
Blue Tribe
TheBlueTribe.com 250 million miles of the planet finally get an upgrade. |