NALA Investments was founded by Emilio Diez Barroso in 1999 as a holding company to identify and manage investments for the Diez Barroso Azcarraga family. NALA currently oversees a diverse portfolio across various industry sectors and investment asset classes. NALA's investments vary from early stage venture capital to public equity placements, acquisitions, and governmental project financing.
Pacific Community Ventures (formerly Silicon Valley Community Ventures) opened its doors in 1999 to develop and invest in businesses providing economic gains to low/moderate income (LMI) communities in California. PCV helps companies in traditionally overlooked areas to gain access to capital, business advice, and critical business resources that will accelerate company growth. Currently, PCV targets existing businesses throughout California, but has a particular focus on the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego and the Central Valley.
MPOWER Labs, Inc. is a research and development incubator and business accelerator founded in 2006 as the first portfolio company of MPOWER Ventures, LP -- a double-bottom-line venture capital fund whose mission is to empower the world's underserved. By working in partnership with MPOWER Ventures to accelerate the development of its portfolio companies as well as to identify and develop new product ideas in the same market space, the teams of MPOWER Labs are catalysts in the realization of global solutions for the underserved.
New Cycle Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm. We take a research driven, thematic approach to investing. The General Partners identify a market opportunity that we believe is ripe for entrepreneurial innovation and then look for the best ideas and people within it. We may spend one month or a year investigating a particular sector. We will meet top executives and the best newly emerging companies. We will meet with companies in adjacent markets.
