Todd James

Co-Owner at Santa Monica Daily Press

📍 Santa Monica, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2021
VC🌍 United States
11
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5
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2
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1
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11y
Years active

Portfolio

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Angel Investor
Jun 2021
Croquet is on a mission to enable the rapid multiplayer evolution of the web and gaming. It delivers the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming and its transformational new Synchronized Computation Architecture creates bit-identical user experiences that are synchronized, low latency, low bandwidth and innately multiuser by moving compute from the server "beyond the edge" to user devices. It makes development of multiuser experiences for web and gaming simple for 17M+ JavaScript developers on more than 200,000,000 active websites. Croquet was named "Startup To Watch" at the AWE Conference in May 2022 and received the WEBXR Platform of the Year at the Polys Awards in March 2023. The company was formed in 2019. It is funded by SIP Global Partners and a group of experienced technology and financial industry veterans. Visit croquet.io.
Angel Investor
Apr 2021
Your customers want to be heard, not herded. Throw the infuriating chatbots and painful hold times away. Level up your customer experience and increase your conversions with MagicForm today.
Seed Investor | Board member
Jun 2019
At GIGXR we have a proven track record for recognizing key problems in education and training and unlocking the potential of extended reality (XR) technologies to solve them. We are an energetic and responsive company creating innovative applications to solve perennial problems around visualization and 3D understanding in the education and training market. Our flagship applications, HoloPatient and HoloHuman, facilitate clinical skills practice and anatomy learning. Designed to simulate, enhance and extend already existing pedagogical approaches, our tools support active and collaborative learning, simulation and visualisation of 3D concepts. Connected and powered by our proprietary management platform, these applications provide the ultimate visual tools for education and training in medical, nursing, health science, and anatomy ideal for schools in higher education, vocational education, hospitals, industry, government and college prep markets.
Seed Investor
Dec 2017
Hi there! Were Sphynx, a new beauty brand thats changing things up. We think our routines have gotten way too...routine. Predictable is boring. Cookie-cutter is boring. And conventional beauty products aren’t solving real women’s problems. Our products break boundaries and shake things up. We won’t tell you when or where to use them - we’ll just make them awesome so you’ll want to use them every time. Come along for the ride! xo, Sphynx
early stageManufacturing
Seed Investor
Dec 2017
We know doing it all is harder than you make it look. We believe life should be lived doing the things you truly care about, whatever they are. We don’t want you to feel tied down by your beauty routine, or feel like you have to buy another product just to keep up. At Alleyoop, we believe in doing more with less. Our innovative beauty and body products work overtime, with dual (sometimes triple) benefits, reduced packaging and maximum portability. So you can do what you want with that extra five minutes in the morning, or take them with you when you’re already five minutes late. Elle Future of Beauty Award 🎉 Pure Beauty Global Award 🎉 Womens Health Beauty Award 🎉 Real Simples Smart Beauty Award 🎉 NewBeauty Innovation Award 🎉
early stageConsumer Goods
Seed Investor
Aug 2017
Gigmor is a global music discovery and booking platform connecting musicians, venues and fans. Actively raising on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/gigmor
Seed Investor
Mar 2017
BURST has one simple aim: to make sonic oral care affordable and available to everyone. With the help of the dental community, weve crafted an incredible sonic toothbrush that boasts charcoal nano-particle embedded bristles, 33,000 sonic vibrations and an industry leading lithium ion battery that lasts for 4 weeks on just one charge. In just two years weve amassed hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and more than 35,000 dental professionals in our ambassador community who recommend our products daily. Join the community, recommend affordable yet extraordinary oral care products at a discount to your patients (available exclusively through you!) and earn a little something on the side for your support. Learn more by visiting www.burstambassadors.com
early stageConsumer Goods
Angel Investor
Jan 2017
Cerus Endovascular is engaged in the novel design and manufacturing of innovative intra-saccular technologies for the Neurovascular market place.
Experience · 14 entries
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Board (1)
2024
Partner
Aug 2024
At Tower 25, we elevate brands to the next level through multiple advertising services. Our expertise in SEO ensures your online presence is as effective as it is engaging, while our direct marketing strategies are crafted to deliver targeted, measurable results. We help brands come to life with engaging social media campaigns, website design and combine them with live activations. These all-encompassing brand strategies make a lasting impression with your audience. Tower 25 focuses on creativity and results.
2021
Angel Investor
Jun 2021
Croquet is on a mission to enable the rapid multiplayer evolution of the web and gaming. It delivers the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming and its transformational new Synchronized Computation Architecture creates bit-identical user experiences that are synchronized, low latency, low bandwidth and innately multiuser by moving compute from the server "beyond the edge" to user devices. It makes development of multiuser experiences for web and gaming simple for 17M+ JavaScript developers on more than 200,000,000 active websites. Croquet was named "Startup To Watch" at the AWE Conference in May 2022 and received the WEBXR Platform of the Year at the Polys Awards in March 2023. The company was formed in 2019. It is funded by SIP Global Partners and a group of experienced technology and financial industry veterans. Visit croquet.io.
Angel Investor
Apr 2021
Your customers want to be heard, not herded. Throw the infuriating chatbots and painful hold times away. Level up your customer experience and increase your conversions with MagicForm today.
2019
Seed Investor | Board member
Jun 2019
At GIGXR we have a proven track record for recognizing key problems in education and training and unlocking the potential of extended reality (XR) technologies to solve them. We are an energetic and responsive company creating innovative applications to solve perennial problems around visualization and 3D understanding in the education and training market. Our flagship applications, HoloPatient and HoloHuman, facilitate clinical skills practice and anatomy learning. Designed to simulate, enhance and extend already existing pedagogical approaches, our tools support active and collaborative learning, simulation and visualisation of 3D concepts. Connected and powered by our proprietary management platform, these applications provide the ultimate visual tools for education and training in medical, nursing, health science, and anatomy ideal for schools in higher education, vocational education, hospitals, industry, government and college prep markets.
2018
Santa Monica Daily Press
Co-Owner
Feb 2018
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