Early-Stage Venture Capital · Los Angeles

Investing where experience
meets conviction

Creation and community are being rebuilt — across screens and spaces alike. 449 Ventures partners with creators and founders at the earliest stages, investing where our operating experience in media and real estate makes us more than just capital.

Pre-Seed & Seed Los Angeles

Operator-led investing,
built on pattern recognition

We invest at the pre-seed and seed stages in companies building at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds — where technology reshapes how people create, connect, and build. Our approach is grounded in decades of operating experience across these ecosystems. We invest where we can be genuinely additive, not just capital providers.

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Operator-Led

We've built, scaled, and led companies across the industries where we invest. That firsthand experience means we speak the language of our founders and can help navigate the hardest stages of company building.

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Early & Convicted

We partner with founders at the earliest stages — pre-seed and seed — when conviction matters most. We back people and ideas before consensus forms, and we stay close through the journey.

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Value-Add by Design

We invest exclusively where our networks, experience, and pattern recognition can meaningfully accelerate outcomes. If we can't add value beyond capital, we pass.

Companies we've partnered with

In addition to early-stage venture, 449 Ventures selectively invests in public equities and secondary markets where we see long-term structural tailwinds aligned with our areas of expertise.

Led by experience

Evan Luzzatto, Founder & Managing Partner of 449 Ventures

Evan Luzzatto

Founder & Managing Partner

Evan Luzzatto is the Founder and Managing Partner of 449 Ventures. Based in Los Angeles, he brings over a decade of operating experience at the highest levels of media, technology, and platform businesses — and deploys that pattern recognition into early-stage investing.

Prior to founding 449 Ventures, Evan served as Chairman and CEO of Socialyte, a leading influencer marketing agency (acquired by Dolphin Entertainment), and President of Nylon Media Inc., where he led the iconic digital media brand through a period of rapid growth (acquired by Bustle Digital Group).

Before stepping into executive leadership, Evan was an early member of the business development team at Snap, where he helped build and scale the Discover platform — overseeing its expansion into the UK, France, and Germany. Prior to Snap, Evan held business and operations roles at Instagram and Facebook during formative periods for both platforms.

Evan serves on the Board of Directors for the Organization for Social Media Safety, a non-profit dedicated to protecting users in the digital ecosystem.

His investing thesis is rooted in this firsthand operating experience — he invests where he has built, scaled, and led, partnering with founders at the earliest and most consequential stages of company building.

Evan's work and perspectives have been featured in Business Insider, WWD, and Digiday, among other publications, and he has appeared as a guest on the Colin and Samir Show.

Let's build together

We're actively investing at pre-seed and seed. If you're building something at the convergence of physical and digital — we'd love to hear from you.

evan@luzzattoventures.com