David Bohnett co-founded GeoCities and sold it to Yahoo in a multibillion-dollar deal, giving him a founder-operator perspective that he now applies as an investor at Baroda Ventures, which he built as a family office meets early-stage VC using capital from that exit. He tightly integrates his venture investing with his philanthropy through the David Bohnett Foundation, explicitly looking for technology and teams that can create positive societal impact while maintaining a historically informed view of online communities that contrasts the grassroots ethos of early GeoCities with today's social web.
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Baroda Ventures
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SaaS, Consumer, Ecommerce, Web3 / Crypto, Media
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Seed - Series B+
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$1M - $5M
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Baroda Ventures is a Beverly Hills-based pre-seed and seed fund founded by David Bohnett, the openly gay internet entrepreneur who created GeoCities and sold it to Yahoo!, giving the fund rare large-scale consumer internet operating experience. The fund explicitly prioritizes "integrity, temperament, and background of the entrepreneurs" over business models, focuses on "scrappy entrepreneurs" in Los Angeles, and has been one of the most active early-stage investors in the LA startup ecosystem since 2013.
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