Special Advantages for Startup Ventures

At RippleImpact, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that you deal with as a startup venture. The world is opening up to you, but you never have enough time or cash to do everything you would like.

At RippleImpact we take special care of our startup clients, because we know little acorns become great oak trees one day.

RippleImpact is able to provide great value to startup ventures because it is a division of Philosopher's Stone Ventures. Philosopher's Stone Ventures is a California based incubator that focuses on companies whose products or services are based on software. Philosopher's Stone Ventures is a member of the investment community, and can provide unique aid and advise to companies that are seeking investment, partnership, and operational help.

The people at Philosopher's Stone Ventures use their expertise in venture investing to help you hone your business strategy, help you with your presentation and business plan, and help you get investment. They use their contacts in the venture and business communities to help you get the opportunities you need to make your venture a success.

• Philosopher's Stone Ventures is well known for its expertise in technology and technology investing. VC funds, and private investors use Philosopher's Stone Ventures for technology due diligence on their candidate investments.
  
  
• The founders of Philosopher's Stone Ventures are advisors and limited partners in the following venture funds:
• GKM Ventures;
• Southern California Community Ventures
• Tech Coast Angels (one of the largest networks of private technology investors)


• The founders, executives, and board of directors and advisors at Philosopher's Stone Ventures include many successful investors and entrepreneurs who sit on the boards of technology companies and have a strong track record of successful technology entrepreneurship and investmenting.
  
  
• Executives at Philosopher's Stone Ventures sit on the boards of directors of the following venture organizations:
  • California Venture Forum;
  • Orange Coast Venture Group;
  • Tech Coast Venture Network.
    
    
• Executives at Philosopher's Stone Ventures are active members of:
• Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance (LARTA);
• Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA);
• VenturePoint;
• Pacific Incubation Network (PIN);
• VenturePlex;
• The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
• Organization of Chinese American Entrepreneurs Advisory Network (OCEAN);
• Software Council of Southern California.
  
  
• RippleImpact and Philosopher's Stone Ventures have partnerships with most of the largest technology vendors. We leverage these relationships to get you excellent pricing.
  
  Even more importantly, we will leverage these relationships to get you partnerships, logos and marks of approval, and co-marketing, where available
  
  
• For those clients approved by the Philosopher's Stone Ventures investment committee, there is a significant discount from standard pricing at RippleImpact.