Industries:
Wearables
Product Management
Sports
Energy
Logistics
Health Care
Hardware
CleanTech
Program Types:
Accelerator
Venture Capital
Micro VC
Program duration:
16 weeksInvestment Stages:
Seed
Debt
MiLA Capital is a high-touch Venture Capital firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The team believes that (1) hardware can be brought to market more frugally than in the past and that (2) Los Angeles has the expertise and best resources to support founders who play in the physical world.
Since 2015, MiLA Capital has seen a gap in SoCal’s startup hard
tech ecosystem; talent was incredible but fragmented while capital was plentiful except for seed stage hardware founders. We addressed that by raising an early stage venture fund, building an innovation lab known as Toolbox LA, recruiting a values-driven community of founders and mentors, and connecting hundreds of talented founders with the resources they need to impact the world. We also operate the Make in LA accelerator to find, nurture, and invest in promising hardware companies at the earliest stages.
We believe that undiscovered hardware founders are too often overlooked, and we are the right team to fund them at the significant inflection point of pre-manufacturing.