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Did someone say, “Yes We Can”? David Turkell, former Field Organizer on the Obama campaign trail & the Director of Communications at ScaleHealth in LA, shared his two cents on budding startups seeking to promote positive change in our recent episode of Demo Day.  ScaleHealth is a global health innovation ecosystem at the nexus of healthcare, government and entrepreneurship.…

Obi Onyejekwe hasn’t just mastered the art of business, he’s a true artist. The two-time founder utilized his rich animation skills to build UNOMI— a software for animators that automatically syncs 2D mouth poses to voice over recordings.  We’ve pulled some of our favorite moments from the episode, but you’ll need to listen to the…

Few have been able to make as big a dent in VC in as short amount of time as Kareem Aly. After starting in investment banking, Kareem made the jump to venture capital and has already seen three of his investments exit within 3 years as a Principal at Thomvest Ventures. He has since moved…

Who said hardware had to be hard? Shaun Arora is the Managing Director at Make In LA (MiLA) Capital, Southern California’s only hardware accelerator— who joined our own Sean at CoEfficient Labs for an enlightening episode of Demo Day.  We explored some of our favorite takeaways from the episode below, but make sure you tune…

An old friend of CoEfficient Labs, Dan Flanegan is the CEO and co-founder of Butter, the social media app taking the world by storm. As an expert in product development, he advises several startups—and joined us for an episode of Demo Day to provide some stellar advice to budding entrepreneurs. Here are some of our…

Laurent Grill, Lead Investor at Luma Launch, is a local friend of ours—with Luma’s office located just a mile from CoEfficient Labs HQ. As an entrepreneur turned investor at the coveted venture-accelerator, Laurent had incomparable insights to share on this episode of Demo Day.  Below are some of our favorite takeaways from the episode, but…

Our very own Sean Goldfaden appeared on serial entrepreneur and rockstar investor Ben Smith’s podcast Chancebending in February 2019. Lucky for us, Ben recently returned the favor by talking business opportunities and becoming one of YouTube’s first business leads in Los Angeles— all on this week’s episode of Demo Day. Here are some of our…

Venture Partner. Founder. CEO. Writer for Forbes. Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Our CoEfficient Labs team first met Lucas Pols last Fall as a partner for Quake Capital. Since then, Lucas has diverted his attention toward his own startup, Spark xyz, and launched the venture fund Amplite. We caught up with Lucas during our Demo…

Demo Day has provided us with an incredible forum to meet new people and get to know their stories. But it has also given us the chance to reconnect with old friends and get an update on their entrepreneurial journeys. Eric Netsch fits firmly in this second category. Eric and Sean have known each other…

When CoEfficient Labs first started discussing our own podcast, one of the things that excited us most was the opportunity to meet incredible VCs and founders. On episode 2 of our Demo Day Podcast, we hosted Anna Barber— former Managing Director of Techstars LA (she has since made a big jump to M13!)— whose keen…