David Lin

Upfront Ventures Management LLC (Upfront Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Steven J. Dietz and Yves B. Sisteron. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calirfornia.

Founded by James Montgomery in 1986, Montgomery & Co. LLC, formerly Digital Coast Partners LLC, is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm provides a broad range of services including mergers & acquisitions, private placements and strategic advisory services. Montgomery & Co. is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They focus on growth companies in the software, healthcare and media sectors. Within the software sector, the firm focuses on: (1) enterprise software (2) infrastructure software (3) vertical applications including healthcare information technology and human capital management and (4) business intelligence. Montgomery & Co.'s interests within the healthcare sector include: (1) information technology security (2) wireless (3) IP infrastructure and services (4) semiconductors/enterprise hardware (5) technology-enabled services (6) biotechnology (7) healthcare services (8) consumer healthcare (9) specialty pharmaceuticals (10) medical devices (11) tools and equipment and (12) reagents. Within the media sector, the firm focuses on: (1) advertising and marketing services (2) digital media services (3) entertainment, content and distribution (4) mobile media and (5) online services.

Maker Studios, Inc. operates as a media company that enables artists to create, distribute, and monetize their original content on YouTube. It provides development, production, promotion, distribution, sales, marketing, and merchandise services to partners. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA.

PriceGrabber.com, Inc. operates an an online shopping website. It offers clothing, electronics, toys, furniture, auto parts, computers and jewelry and watches. The company was founded in 1999 and its headquarters is located in Los Angeles, CA.

Ziften Technologies, Inc. provides endpoint threat detection solution. Its products include ziften zenith and ziften zflow. The firm’s solutions include IT operations and security operations. The company was founded by Michael Little and Mark Obrecht in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Trousdale Ventures LLC (Trousdale Venture) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2018 by Phillip Sarofim. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Unicorn Venture Management LLC (Unicorn Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Databento, Inc. engages in the provision of platform to manage data products. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Pavemint LLC provides digital parking solutions that streamline payment processing, license plate recognition, and leverage data and analytics to optimize ingress and egress. The private company is based in Houston, TX and was founded by Randall Jamail. The company aims to solve the problem of wasted time and CO2 emissions due to parking, offering flexible parking solutions for payment processing at any scale. Pavemint enables cashless payments, tracking parking analytics and metrics, and provides self-park and on-the-lot tools to manage and enforce parking lot operations. David Lin has been the CEO of the company since 2020.