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...
Merging Clouds: How Qwinix became 66degrees, and the Value of Google Cloud
While Alphabet’s Q2’22 earnings report missed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue grew only 13% from the prior year quarter, Google Cloud still showed impressive growth of over 35% year over year. Despite the inflationary and economic headwinds, one of...
Podcast: Enabled by East Los Capital with Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital
In this episode of our podcast series “Enabled”, by East Los Capital, Co-managing Partner Anthony Valencia interviews Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital, about her views on inflation and Federal Reserve rate...
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...
Merging Clouds: How Qwinix became 66degrees, and the Value of Google Cloud
While Alphabet’s Q2’22 earnings report missed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue grew only 13% from the prior year quarter, Google Cloud still showed impressive growth of over 35% year over year. Despite the inflationary and economic headwinds, one of...
Podcast: Enabled by East Los Capital with Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital
In this episode of our podcast series “Enabled”, by East Los Capital, Co-managing Partner Anthony Valencia interviews Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital, about her views on inflation and Federal Reserve rate...
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Emanuel Pleitez
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.
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 Pleitez

Anthony Valencia, CFA
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.
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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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...
Merging Clouds: How Qwinix became 66degrees, and the Value of Google Cloud
While Alphabet’s Q2’22 earnings report missed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue grew only 13% from the prior year quarter, Google Cloud still showed impressive growth of over 35% year over year. Despite the inflationary and economic headwinds, one of...
Hispanic Heritage Foundation – Economic and Capital Markets Outlook Interview, Anthony Valencia
In this interview hosted by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation on June 8, 2022, Elizabeth Grier of Cap Table Coalition discusses the state of capital markets in 2022 with East Los Capital's co-founding partner, Anthony Valencia. Under the theme of "Economic and Capital...
Podcast
Podcast: Enabled by East Los Capital with Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital
In this episode of our podcast series “Enabled”, by East Los Capital, Co-managing Partner Anthony Valencia interviews Monica Erickson, Head of Investment Grade Credit & Portfolio Manager at DoubleLine Capital, about her views on inflation and Federal Reserve rate...
Podcast: Enabled by East Los Cap with Darshan Puttannaiah, CTO of 66degrees
Sally Gao, host of “Enabled, by East Los Capital” podcast, interviews Darshan Puttannaiah, CTO of 66degrees, a Premier Google Cloud Partner and provider of cloud technologies designed to serve healthcare, financial services, technology, media, and public sectors....
Podcast: Enabled by East Los Cap with Harrison Tang, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Spokeo
In this episode of our podcast series “Enabled”, by East Los Capital, Sally Gao interviews Harrison Tang, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Spokeo. Harrison discusses Spokeo and its evolution since its founding in 2006, how Spokeo distinguishes itself from the...
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