Capital is not enough.

Capital
is not
enough.

East Los Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm making the world more productive through technology. We are operationally-focused, research-driven, and technology-enabled. We invest in successful companies where our capital, talent, and analytics can drive the most value. We focus on consumer, healthcare, internet, media, services, and software.

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East Los Capital Exits Investment in Caylent

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caylent, an AWS Premier Service Partner, previously received a $16 million growth equity investment from tech-focused private equity firm East Los Capital in June of 2021. The majority investment was premised on East Los...

Capital is not enough.

Capital
is not
enough.

East Los Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm making the world more productive through technology. We are operationally-focused, research-driven, and technology-enabled. We invest in successful companies where our capital, talent, and analytics can drive the most value. We focus on software, services, internet, healthcare, consumer, and media.

Latest

East Los Capital Exits Investment in Caylent

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caylent, an AWS Premier Service Partner, previously received a $16 million growth equity investment from tech-focused private equity firm East Los Capital in June of 2021. The majority investment was premised on East Los...

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Managing Partners

Emanuel has more than 15 years of experience working inside high performing organizations in various industries including private equity, software, consumer internet, tech-enabled services, investment banking, management consulting, and the public sector.

Prior to East Los Capital, he was an investor at Sunstone Partners where he focused on lower middle market businesses in cloud and enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, and internet and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he served as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions and Head Business Development for Qlovi, an edtech startup. Before Qlovi, Emanuel was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles and Chief Strategy Officer at Spokeo.

Emanuel’s private sector experience also includes being a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs. In the public sector, Emanuel served as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Designated Federal Officer of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB).

Emanuel is currently a soldier in the U.S. Army Reserve and the Chairman of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.

Anthony has more than 25 years of investing experience in the public and private markets, including U.S Equities, international/emerging markets, seed level venture capital and real estate. Anthony has deep vertical expertise in traditional and digital media, internet/e-commerce, healthcare, hotel & gaming, consumer, and retail.

As a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at TCW Group, Anthony conducted fundamental equity research on publicly traded securities across the entire range of market capitalizations and investment styles for investment offerings ranging from AUM $500 million to $20 billion. This included writing company specific recommendations and quarterly reports, building proprietary financial models, and presenting industry and sub-sector overviews while interfacing regularly with C-Suite management at portfolio companies. Anthony had responsibility for positions representing investments of up to $2.0 billion per security for companies such as Google, Pixar, Yahoo, Disney, Amazon, Comcast, Lionsgate, Expedia and Time Warner.

Prior to his tenure at Trust Company of the West, Anthony held positions at Van Deventer & Hoch Investment Counsel, Merrill Lynch Real Estate, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. More recently, Anthony was the co-managing member for the Pasadena Angel PA Fund I, which provides venture capital to early stage start-ups. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from UCLA in Economics and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.

Emanuel has more than 15 years of experience working inside high performing organizations in various industries including private equity, software, consumer internet, tech-enabled services, investment banking, management consulting, and the public sector.

Prior to East Los Capital, he was an investor at Sunstone Partners where he focused on lower middle market businesses in cloud and enterprise IT, cybersecurity, edtech, fintech, healthcare IT, and internet and marketing services. Before Sunstone, he served as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions and Head Business Development for Qlovi, an edtech startup. Before Qlovi, Emanuel was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles and Chief Strategy Officer at Spokeo.

Emanuel’s private sector experience also includes being a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs. In the public sector, Emanuel served as Special Assistant to Chairman Paul Volcker in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Designated Federal Officer of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB).

Emanuel is currently a soldier in the U.S. Army Reserve and the Chairman of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University.

Anthony has more than 25 years of investing experience in the public and private markets, including U.S Equities, international/emerging markets, seed level venture capital and real estate. Anthony has deep vertical expertise in traditional and digital media, internet/e-commerce, healthcare, hotel & gaming, consumer, and retail.

As a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at TCW Group, Anthony conducted fundamental equity research on publicly traded securities across the entire range of market capitalizations and investment styles for investment offerings ranging from AUM $500 million to $20 billion. This included writing company specific recommendations and quarterly reports, building proprietary financial models, and presenting industry and sub-sector overviews while interfacing regularly with C-Suite management at portfolio companies. Anthony had responsibility for positions representing investments of up to $2.0 billion per security for companies such as Google, Pixar, Yahoo, Disney, Amazon, Comcast, Lionsgate, Expedia and Time Warner.

Prior to his tenure at Trust Company of the West, Anthony held positions at Van Deventer & Hoch Investment Counsel, Merrill Lynch Real Estate, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. More recently, Anthony was the co-managing member for the Pasadena Angel PA Fund I, which provides venture capital to early stage start-ups. A Los Angeles native, he holds a B.A. from UCLA in Economics and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.

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Who we are and how we invest

It’s not about culture fit or pattern matching, it’s about opportunity. We do not follow the herd. We allocate capital where the most value can be created through technology and talent. We are able to optimally contribute when we partner with leaders who have been resourceful, capital efficient, and still have hunger to grow. We love enterprises with a demonstrated ability to attract loyal customers. We do not care about a company’s headquarters, we care about the customers and the talent dedicated to them. We welcome each portfolio company’s team to our family.
Aside from capital, we bring technology and talent unlike other private equity firms. We derive insights from deep industry research and access to public company executives, and are hyper-focused on market opportunity for our portfolio companies. We are very hands-on as we roll up our sleeves and work closely with our companies. Technical talent is inside our firm and our companies benefit immediately. We take full responsibility for the next stage of our companies’ growth as responsible stewards of our investors’ capital. We challenge the norms set by other private equity firms and plainly ensure resources are put to their most efficient and productive use.
We are hungry, entrepreneurial, dedicated, creative, diverse, and willing to go against the grain. Our people support our companies by leveraging their experiences from institutions such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, TCW, KKR, Vista Equity Partners, Evercore, Sequoia Capital, SAC Capital, Accenture, Amazon, Disney, GoDaddy, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and the U.S. Treasury. While these institutions have written the recent history of productivity, the time is ripe for new teams to write the next chapters of innovation in our global economy. Join us.

Experience

Companies below reflect the team’s industry expertise in consumer, internet, media, healthcare, services, and software. For each company, at least one of the East Los Capital Partners had prior institutional research coverage or has a current/prior ownership interest either through direct investment or a fund investment.

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