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Shamin Walsh

Managing Director at BAM Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Investments

Nectar AI

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Branch Energy

Seed

Total Funding: $16M

Art of Sport

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Sleek

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $17M

Modern Animal

Seed

Total Funding: $90M

Birdy Grey

Pre Seed

Total Funding:

Graphite Comics, Inc.

Pre Seed

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Reel

Seed

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Wildlink

Seed

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Shani Darden

Seed

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Player Omega

Seed

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BeTheBeast

Seed

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Kona Deep

Series A

Total Funding: $6M

Homelister

Seed

Total Funding: $17M

Kitterly

Seed

Total Funding: $850K

Zipdrug

Seed

Total Funding: $14M

Sagely Naturals

Pre Seed

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SkinTe

Seed

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Forevernote

Seed

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Rael

Seed

Total Funding: $21M

Great Jones

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $14M

The Seventh Spark Company

Seed

Total Funding:

Blueland

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Versed

Series A

Total Funding: $2M

Upcomer

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

The Inside

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Kanga

Seed

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Harper Wilde

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

PathSpot

Seed

Total Funding: $9.1M

Scopely

Series C

Total Funding: $1B

Mented Cosmetics

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Vrai

Pre Seed

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Wthn

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Zola

Series D

Total Funding: $340M

Wondery

Series A

Total Funding: $15M

Calidad Beer

Seed

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The Encore Company

Seed

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Gavelytics

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Jaanuu

Seed

Total Funding: $6.6M

Arsenic

Seed

Total Funding:

Chalk

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

BUMP

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

BizCounsel

Series A

Total Funding:

Daily Harvest

Series B

Total Funding: $120M

Neuro

Pre Seed

Total Funding:

Girlboss

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Vyng

Seed

Total Funding: $12M

Flexport

Series C

Total Funding: $2.2B

Embrace

Seed

Total Funding: $78M

Alchemy 43

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

ProducePay

Debt Financing

Total Funding: $92M

Wellth

Seed

Total Funding: $37M

Back to the Roots

Series A

Total Funding: $27M

Sir Kensington's

Series A

Total Funding: $9M

Chaldal

Seed

Total Funding: $15M

Outdoor Voices

Seed

Total Funding: $55M

Sweetgreen

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $120M

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2017

    BAM Ventures is an early stage VC firm based in Los Angeles focused on backing the next rising consumer brands, products, and technologies worldwide. We are entrepreneurs supporting entrepreneurs and take a collaborative and founder-friendly investment approach. We seek to mitigate risk and optimize returns by investing early and dedicating our time, relationships, and expertise at the optimal point of value/opportunity.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018

    Alpha is an invite-only networking community where leaders in tech can connect, collaborate, and speak candidly with their peers in a private setting.

2015

  • Advisor

    2017

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2017

    Alchemy43 is setting the gold standard for cosmetic injectables.

2014 - 2017

  • Board Observer

    2014 - 2017

    VNTANA brings fans face-to-face with their favorite brands, artists, actors, and athletes by transporting high-definition, interactive holograms across the globe in the retail and entertainment space.

2014 - 2017

  • Partner

    2014 - 2017

    Manage deal sourcing, diligence, deal structuring, and portfolio relations for early stage ventures that can benefit from our institutional knowledge and in house operations and supply chain infrastructure to scale.

  • Adjunct Professor - Entrepreneurial Finance

    2014 - 2016

2013 - 2013

  • Attorney

    2013 - 2013

    •Handled all aspects of business litigation case involving claims for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract

2013 - 2013

  • Law Clerk for the Honorable Joe Billy McDade

    2013 - 2013

  • Fellow

    2012 - 2013

    •Managed own client caseload and successfully negotiated over $20,000 in relocation benefits for low-income tenants in the Housing and Eviction Defense Unit •Drafted and orally argued motion to admit newly discovered material evidence that resulted in reopening case and prevailing on the merits

2012 - 2012

  • Telemundo/MUN2 Business and Music Affairs Legal Intern

    2012 - 2012

    •Developed acquisition strategy for Spanish-language programming through collaboration with Business and Music Affairs team; performed financial valuation on programming metrics to maximize viewership in emerging bilingual cable network •Drafted and negotiated film and music license agreements; created marketing opportunities for televised events