Investors on Tap: SmartGate VC and Oceanview Capital Partners #EarlyStageLA

​This event will feature a fireside conversation with SmartGate VC and Oceanview Capital PE. We will discuss the differences between venture capital and private equity funding, the opportunities that both provide, and the time and reason to choose one or the other.

​SmartGate VC identifies the next industry-defining ideas on day one and injects the capital, talent, and industry connections necessary for powering their pre-seed to seed transformation. "We invest on the edge where science and entrepreneurship join to disrupt the status quo". Investing at the Intersection of AI with Healthcare, Biotech, Security and IoT, SmartGate VC typically invests in Pre-seed with the potential to follow-on through Series B.

​Oceanview Capital Partners, Inc. (“Oceanview”), with offices in in Las Vegas, NV and Glendale, CA, is a private equity and advisory firm with committed capital and over a dozen portfolio companies. Oceanview provides advisory services to entrepreneur-led companies and invests its own capital in control and non-control investments valued at up to $500 million. Oceanview’s portfolio of companies and advisory clients benefit from the firm’s demonstrated track record in areas of strategic planning, transaction financial structuring and exit planning, liquidity management, and corporate governance.