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Mucker Capital

202 Bicknell Ave Ground Fl, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States

Overview

MuckerLab is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, pre-seed, seed, startup, early-stage, and Series A investments. It targets investing in Internet software, services, and media ventures. It also prefers to invest in Enterprise, fintech, B2B and Consumer Products. MuckerLab seeks to invest in Los Angeles and broader Southern California. It typically invests between $0.25 million and $1 million per deal. It runs an accelerator program. The duration of the program can be as short as 3 months to as long as 24 months. It invests between $21,000 to $150,000 in exchange for a 7% to 12% equity stake. Erik Rannala and William Hsu founded MuckerLab in October 2011. It has its headquarters in Santa Monica in California.

Total investments
128
Lead investments
43
Investments · 12mo
17
Active investors
12

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Incubators
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • serviceMob

    Led · Equity · Aug 2026

    serviceMob has commercially launched an AI-powered Answer Engine platform that functions as a system of record for service performance intelligence. The platform is positioned to modernize complex customer service operations and align frontline performance metrics with executive business objectives. Founder and CEO Anuj Bhalla brings 25 years of analytics and global enterprise consulting experience and has been recognized by MIT among the Top 25 startup founders. The company is using new institutional capital to accelerate market expansion and scale go-to-market execution across Los Angeles County. In the disclosed financing, serviceMob raised $4.3 million from Future Communities Capital and Mucker Capital.

  • Memorae

    Led · Seed · Aug 2026

    Memorae is an AI-powered "assistant of memory" founded by Pau Nicolás, Álex Lorenzo and Andreu Ugas that helps users remember events, save notes, capture screenshots and manage tasks via natural language by text or voice. The app integrates with WhatsApp, Telegram, email, Google Calendar, Outlook, Gmail and includes a Chrome extension, and it is available in over a hundred languages. Since launching in March 2025, Memorae has grown to more than 272,000 users globally, with roughly 33,000 paying subscribers. Paid plans are priced at €22.99 per month or €11 per month with an annual subscription, and the founders project recurring revenues of €2.5–3 million by year-end. The company is legally based in Delaware, maintains a development office in New Delhi and handles customer service from South America, while the founders live between Andorra and Barcelona. Early funding included a €400,000 contribution from two founders followed by a $2 million seed round led by Mucker Capital.

  • CopySight

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    CopySight offers CopyScore™, a risk-scoring platform that assesses AI-generated assets for copyright, likeness, trademark, character, brand design, and style exposure and records each assessment in an immutable chain-of-creation log. The company recently launched CopyScore™ V2 to extend frame-by-frame analysis into generative video, identifying transient risks like brief logos or split-second celebrity likeness matches and offering multi-pass Deep Thinking Mode and customizable sensitivity thresholds for high-stakes workflows. CopySight analyzes content against a large dedicated IP dataset and uses a patented IP segmentation process to support clearance, rights-holder detection, and chain-of-creation documentation. The platform has processed more than 87,000 IP risk checks since January 2026, a 25x increase in usage over that period, and counts customers and partners including AGBO, ArentFox Schiff, and OpenArt. Founded by teams from Snap, Apple, and Meta, the company is working with major Hollywood studios and advisors from media and research backgrounds to establish industry benchmarks for IP clearance and content validation.

  • Bidbus

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    Bidbus operates a live bidding marketplace where dealerships compete to buy used cars from private sellers, displaying bids in real time to drive up offers. The company emphasizes price discovery for trade-ins and claims its process yields offers roughly $2,000 to $3,000 higher than services like Carvana on average. Founded and based in Los Angeles, Bidbus has facilitated about 10,000 car sales and partnered with dealer groups such as Lithia Motors and Penske Automotive. The startup began life bootstrapped and has dealt with platform governance challenges, including banning a large dealer for low-balling. With a $15 million Series A led by Ibex Investors and participation from several venture firms and angels, Bidbus plans to scale beyond its initial California and Texas markets. The business model captures part of the spread between online seller pricing and dealer payouts while aiming to grow dealer participation and consumer awareness through a social, stock-trading-like bidding experience.

  • Hardline

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    Hardline’s core product captures conversations from jobsite phone calls and onsite discussions and automatically transforms them into structured documentation such as RFIs, punch lists, change orders, task assignments, and daily logs. The platform integrates with construction software including Procore, Autodesk Forma, and Hilti’s Fieldwire, and supports English and Spanish for field teams. Founded in 2025 by Alena Tuttle and Karly Heffernan and headquartered in Santa Monica, Hardline is active across 10 U.S. states and two countries, serving commercial contractors, residential builders, and specialty trades. The company appointed Kimball Hill as CTO to strengthen technical capabilities around AI and data tooling. Hardline raised $2 million in a pre-seed round led by Mucker Capital and plans to use the funds to deepen integrations, accelerate product development, expand in the SMB market, and scale its telephony infrastructure.

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