Emanuel is a founding partner of East Los Capital, a technology-enabled private equity firm. Prior to East Los Capital, he invested at Sunstone Partners focusing on cloud, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, internet, and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he was a Commissioner for Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions. Emanuel's early career experiences include stints at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs. Emanuel’s public sector experiences include serving in the U.S. Army and as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.Current investments of East Los Capital team: Basepaws (basepaws.com), BeTheBeast (bethebeast.com), Breadware (breadware.com), Capillary Biomedical (capillarybio.com), Castifi (castifi.com), Caylent (caylent.com), Cloudbakers (cloudbakers.com), DiDi (didiglobal.com), dotstudioPRO (dotstudiopro.com), Fernish (fernish.com), Finix (finixpayments.com), FLYR (flyrlabs.com), Form Energy (formenergy.com), Glitzi (glitzi.com.mx), iKizmet (ikizmet.com), Lynx Biosciences (lynx.bio), MagicLinks (magiclinks.com), myLAB Box (mylabbox.com), Nadine West (nadinewest.com), Nevados Engineering (nevados.co), OnRamp Bio (onramp.bio), Orca Inventory (orcainventory.com), Ordermark (ordermark.com), Passfolio (passfolio.com), Pasturebird (pasturebird.com), Qwinix (qwinix.io), RealKey (realkey.com), Repurpose (repurposecompostables.com), Revry (revry.tv), Sabio (sabio.la), Synctera (synctera.com), Tampon Tribe (tampontribe.com), ZenHub (zenhub.com)
Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
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May 31, 2018 | Nadine West | Seed | $200K | E-Commerce | Detail |
Oct 10, 2017 | Finix Payments | Seed | $3.50M | Finance | Detail |
Jul 6, 2017 | Nadine West | Seed | $250K | E-Commerce | Detail |