Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Digital Media startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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LAUNCH | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Upfront Ventures | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Santa Monica, California, United States, North America | ||
TPG | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Jump Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
BDMI | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Digital Media Seed investors in United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
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Top Digital Media Investors & Funds (United States)
LAUNCH
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Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Email Marketing, Events, Incubators, News, Venture Capital
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Upfront Ventures
Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, Maker Studios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel. Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Cyber Security, Digital Media, FinTech
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TPG
TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds. Since the firm’s founding, its investment philosophy has been to create value by investing in change – change created by industry trends, economic cycles, or specific company circumstances. Their tradition of providing unique investment insight and value-added operating capabilities to companies undergoing change, as well as their comfort in dealing with complexity and distressed companies, differentiates them from many traditional private investment firms. The San Francisco, California-based firm was established in 1992 by James G. Coulter, Jeffrey A Shaw, William S. Price.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Digital Media, Financial Services, Real Estate, Real Estate Investment
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Jump Capital
Jump Capital is an early-stage venture firm that provides capital and strategic resources for companies within the fintech, IT/Data infrastructure, crypto, future of commerce/media, and B2B SaaS sectors. Strong attraction to companies focused on prescriptive/deep data, passionate and tenacious management teams, and founders with an execution-focused mindset. Jump’s philosophy is to align with talented management teams that desire a trusted partner with real-world operating experience and a firm with an operating platform targeting initial investment checks between $2M to $10M.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Cryptocurrency, Digital Media, FinTech, IT Infrastructure, SaaS
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BDMI
BDMI is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York focused on innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels in North America, Europe and Israel. BDMI concentrates on early stage investments in the digital media landscape. The company focuses predominantly on Series A and B investments, but also has a seed fund that includes about 20 companies. The initial investment range is from $500k to $3m. We look for opportunities where we can accelerate growth through BDMI’s financial and management resources and close connectivity with one or more Bertelsmann divisions. With consolidated revenues of over $25 billion, Bertelsmann is an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Penguin Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), music (BMG) and media services (Arvato) in more than 60 countries. Due to the vast resources of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, BDMI is an investor that provides not only capital, but can also support startups by using its network of diverse contacts at Bertelsmann and in the broader media world.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Finance, Venture Capital
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Dolby Family Ventures
Dolby Family Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on building great technology companies. They partner with best-in-class innovators and strong investment syndicate partners at the seed stage of a company’s development. Unlike many seed investors, They intend to continue to invest across future rounds in our successful portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Venture Capital
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TCG
TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Film Production, Media and Entertainment, TV Production, Venture Capital
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Max Ventures
Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
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New York Venture Partners
New York Venture Partners is a seed stage venture capital firm dedicated to the entrepreneur. New York Venture Partners provide an ecosystem of financing, mentorship and strategic marketing consulting to the best entrepreneurs out there today.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Baroda Ventures
Baroda Ventures is a Los-Angeles-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and seed stage investments in the consumer internet, e-commerce, mobile, SaaS, and digital media industries. It prefers to invest in companies based in Los Angeles. It is also open to investments in later stage companies and companies in hardware, cleantech, and healthcare sectors. The firm prefers to invest $0.1 million and $5 million. Baroda Ventures was founded by David C. Bohnett in 1998 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Finance
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Melo7 Tech Partners
Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Finance, Venture Capital
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PeopleFund
PeopleFund, a privately-held investment company that helps entrepreneurs from around the world accelerate the growth of their fun, positive-impact, scalable, profitable and sustainable companies. Our global network of partners, advisors and friends puts us in a position where very few other investment funds have been before, providing our companies with the right financing, contacts and advice to help them reach whatever incredible goal they’ve set for themselves. PeopleFund was founded by proven and successful serial entrepreneurs and is supplemented by an experienced support team. We have a passion for taking great business visions in any stage and growing them into larger and more profitable enterprises. For more information please visit http://www.peoplefund.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Miami, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Information Technology, Social Media
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Brandtech Ventures
Brandtech Ventures is the investment arm of The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr Jones), and makes venture stage investments in brandtech startup and growth businesses. The firm is particularly focused on AI, AR, Video, Voice, Data, UGC and analytics. The Brandtech Group was founded by David Jones in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Brand Marketing, Digital Media, Venture Capital
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Luminari Capital
Luminari Capital is a digital media fund that invests on firms that map key technology themes to the fundamental transformations in content.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Venture Capital
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Miroma Ventures
Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We leverage the complete offering of marketing capabilities and global reach of The Miroma Group, a bespoke collective of creative and marketing agencies for the Connected Age, uniquely placed to unlock value and drive growth for its clients. As a strategic co-investor, Miroma Ventures brings both capital and a full suite of marketing services to the table—tailoring the offering to suit the stage of business and make the most impact for our partner companies. We have invested in over 50 media and consumer businesses to date with partners including ClassPass, Cedar, Pinterest, SBTV, Minute Media, Simba, MikMak, Who What Wear, and more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps, Retail, Venture Capital
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Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV)
DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures) fuels the companies that transform media and entertainment. Our portfolio of investments and advisory clients span music, TV/film, games, publishing and social media. We also operate the DEV Korea Discovery Fund that makes investments in Korean start-ups through our office in Seoul, and we are a partner in an Accelerator Fund that is building a highly diversified portfolio of companies that have been admitted to top accelerators.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Structure Fund
Structure Fund is an opportunistic early-stage tech fund that invests in digital media, DTC e-commerce, hospitality tech and proptech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Hospitality, Real Estate
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Demarest Media
Demarest is a digital media and entertainment company that invests in films from around the world. The company was founded in 2007, by William Johnson and Michael Lambert, and it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
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Pilot Group
Pilot Group is a New York based VC and private equity firm It is is led by former AOL president Robert Pittman.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Sarasota, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, E-Commerce, Venture Capital
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Zane Venture Fund
Zane Venture Fund seeks investments in early-stage companies led by diverse teams building tech-enabled solutions. It is driven to catalyze the proliferation of world-class organizations by providing capital access and support to companies that can capitalize on their support to scale their business. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, EdTech, Financial Services, FinTech, Software, Supply Chain Management
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JDS Sports
JDS Sports invests in early-stage, high-potential companies that are disrupting the status quo. They also help their portfolio brands realize synergy with each other.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Content Syndication, Digital Media, Mobile, Sports
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Tribune Ventures
Tribune Ventures is the venture capital arm of media company Tribune Company. The firm seeks to invest in seed-stage and early stage companies. It also provides expansion capital to companies with established products and revenue. The firm invests in and partners with emerging new-media and technology companies across the U.S that build and support Tribune’s media businesses. It seeks to invest in new media, broadband communications and infrastructure, digital television, internet, technology businesses, online marketing services, electronic commerce, business-to-business information services, education, wireless, and consumer services related to Tribune’s core publishing, broadcasting, education businesses and interactive business direct marketing. The firm prefers to invest companies located in Chicago metropolitan area, Midwest, and East Coast. It seeks to invest between from $3 million to $10 million. The firm also investments in publicly held companies have a current after-tax market value of approximately $450 million. It invests in companies as either a lead or follow-on investor. Tribune Ventures was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Gather Ventures
Gather Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the plant-based food ecosystem. We believe that investing in transformative founders of plant-based businesses will create valuable economic opportunities in addition to being one of the best things we can do to improve human health and the health of the planet. As an operator-investor fund, we aim to write relatively large checks and apply a highly-strategic, operations-focused approach to 3-4 select early-stage businesses per year across various sectors. The one core criterion we have is that each investment is supporting and encouraging an increase in healthy plant-based food consumption – because it’s just better for you!
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Goods, Digital Media, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wellness
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Archer Gray
Archer Gray is a media production, finance, and venture capital firm. It invests in tech-enabled media companies at the Seed and Series A stages across six industries that include video, virtual reality or augmented reality, audio, music, messaging, and gaming. It operates at the intersection of art and commerce. Amy Nauiokas founded it in 2013, with its headquarters in New York City.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Finance, Venture Capital
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Hatch Partners, LLC
Hatch Partners is a venture capital firm that caters to early stage companies with capital, coaching, and networking opportunities. Hatch Partners was founded by Christopher Celeste and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, News, Venture Capital
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Black Ocean
Black Ocean starts, builds and invests in technology startups, focused in media, e-commerce and online communities. We have companies in New York, London and Moscow. We’re a driven team on a mission to make our companies succeed. Our approach is very hand’s on, working closely with our companies on a day-to-day basis.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
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Ignite Farm
Ignite Farm identifies high potential consumer packaged goods and digital media & services ventures with a clear path to monetization. We seek portfolio synergies that leverage core functional processes and partners to accelerate near and long term growth. We consider opportunities across key sectors of the consumer packaged goods and digital landscapes, including Distribution, Manufacturing Mobile Commerce, Social Media, Lifestyle Connectivity, Advergaming, and scalable Platform Development and Interfaces. We look for innovators with the power to lead, disrupt and change.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Goods, Digital Media, Service Industry
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HIVE
HIVE mission is to invest in and support exciting startups led by Armenian entrepreneurs. Their investment is a partnership, and they work closely with each team to craft relevant products to reach new markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Funding Platform, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media
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Sportsrocket
Sportsrocket is a New York-based company working to give sports fans access to live games and events, highlights, and shows. The company works with leading leagues, publishers, and rights-holders, including Major League Soccer, the PGA Tour, Scout Media, and AS Roma, to create and power customized OTT platforms. Incubated by Bedrocket Media Ventures, Sportsrocket’s innovative approach is based on a proprietary sports media operating system, that offers an integrated solution for the production, distribution, management, and monetization of sports media across all platforms.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Marketing
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[212]Media
212]MEDIA is a digital media firm that owns and operates a portfolio of companies, which create unique content and communities in partnership with major media companies. [212]MEDIA owns and operates the businesses in its portfolio and ensures the success of each of them by recruiting the best talent in the industry, developing innovative digital products and services, marketing to audiences, building revenues, and investing its own capital. The [212]MEDIA portfolio is comprised of Saavn (South Asian content distribution), Sportsvite (online recreational sports communities), Speakaboos (children’s publishing online) and SnakBlox (advertising supported casual game syndication).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Finance, Venture Capital
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Startl
Startl is a social enterprise that brings digital media and learning products to markets. Their mission is to accelerate the development of digital media and technology products with the promise of making learning as engaging and effective as possible, from kindergarten to college, inside and outside the classroom. It seeks to change the future of learning by sourcing great ideas, supporting new talent, and sending a surge of digital innovation into the system. Startl is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2008 by Phoenix Wang, Diana Rhoten, and Laurie Racine.
Stages: Seed
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Social
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414 Media Advisors
414 Media Advisors, LLC is a digital media and technology consulting firm offering business consulting, strategic partnerships, and connections to investment capital, along with direct access to globally recognized artists and brands. 414 Media Advisors is the business services and investment arm of Davis Shapiro Lewit Grabel Leven Granderson & Blake, LLP, a boutique entertainment law firm established in 1997 with more than a decade of fusing music industry expertise and technological entrepreneurship for clients such as YouTube, Spotify, Rdio, Myspace, Viagogo, BitTorrent, Bebo, Last.fm, Vice Media, Rhapsody, Nickelodeon, D&M Holdings, and others.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Digital Media, Music
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Timeless Media
The Timeless Group is a New York based syndicated investment group building and investing across stages in digital media and healthcare.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Health Care
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Preccelerator Program
The Preccelerator® Program is a platform offered to select start-up companies out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP that provides interim office space, sophisticated legal services, mentorship and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. The Preccelerator® Program provides these benefits to as many as 10 promising young startups in separate growth tracks.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Scythia Accelerator
Scythia Accelerator teamed up with Startup.ua to develop early stage deals (angel and pre-seed).
Stages: Crowdfunding, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Education, Health Care, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Information Technology
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NCLUSIVE
NCLUSIVE is a Creative Agency & Venture Studio with the digital expertise and technology resources to build brands, elevate talent and transform companies from ideation through development and scale. The company discovers, invests and grows concepts through innovative best practices. We infuse brands with creativity and are equipped with the intellectual capital to ignite ideas. We create bespoke solutions that focus on branding, design, web & app development, customer acquisition, social media engagement, e-commerce and monetization. Our clients include celebrities, athletes, influencers and brands. On the venture-side, NCLUSIVE’s platform offers both our agency services and collective intellectual capital to early-stage companies & emerging brands. This allows the entrepreneur to focus solely on their core business operations with the support of a diversified group of talented advisors. Jess Richman and Justin Giangrande founded NCLUSIVE and have built the company culture around employing an incredible team of creatives, entrepreneurs and visionaries. At the heart NCLUSIVE’s strategy, the company is focused on growing the Los Angeles startup ecosystem, elevating brands and building next generation companies.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, Brand Marketing, Digital Media, Incubators, Mobile, Social Media, Venture Capital
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Founders Space
Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, advisors and innovators to help startups rock the world. They’re building a global network of founders and advisors who help one another succeed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Hardware, Incubators, Internet of Things, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Fintech World
“Fintech World” is an online platform features pertinent articles on recent issues and directions in the finance industry. The articles are from the financial field, providing profound insights into topics that really matter today. The contents deal broadly with specialist perspectives on the vast possibilities technology offers for the financial and end-to-end sectors.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, Digital Media, FinTech
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Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio with R/GA
The new program invites applications from innovative growth- and early-stage companies with disruptive technologies that will shape the future of digital entertainment and media consumption. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to; content creation and personalization, VR/AR, AI, image recognition, content distribution, interactive advertising, e-sports and other emerging digital media platforms. Technology continues to disrupt the world of digital media. The rise of new media paradigms have reshaped how consumers interact and engage with content. Users increasingly expect delivery of personalized experiences that get smarter over time and access to content on their terms. Emerging companies that can deliver on these demands will represent the next wave of billion-dollar opportunities. “Verizon is at the forefront of the digital media revolution and we continue to explore the next wave of media innovation,” said John Doherty, SVP of Corporate Development at Verizon and Head of Verizon Ventures. “The Verizon Media Tech Ventures Studio with R/GA will connect us with emerging startups that are shaping the future of this business. Verizon and R/GA have created an advanced program for startups with unparalleled access to resources, technology and intellectual capital that will accelerate their growth.” The companies selected for the program will have the opportunity to work closely with Verizon Ventures and Verizon’s digital media businesses on product and technology projects. The selected companies will also have the opportunity to work directly with R/GA’s award-winning strategic marketing, consulting, branding, design, and technology teams. In addition, participants will be able to leverage Verizon’s and R/GA’s networks of investors, mentors, and global brand leaders from Fortune 100 consumer, enterprise, and technology companies. “Verizon is an industry leader in the content and technology space, with a true commitment to innovation across all components of the media landscape,” said Stephen Plumlee, R/GA Global Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner of R/GA Ventures. “This program will be a game changer for the companies selected, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring R/GA’s award-winning services together with Verizon Ventures to help them achieve meaningful scale.” Up to ten companies from around the world will be selected to participate in the program which will be hosted at a new Verizon-powered space in New York City’s Flatiron district. The workspace will enable the companies to directly interact with product leaders from Verizon, AOL and Verizon Labs. Startups from around the world are encouraged to apply, and can submit their applications beginning on March 10, 2017 through May 30, 2017. The program will take place in New York City and will start on July 31st, 2017. The program will conclude in mid-November with an invite-only Demo Event, at which each company will have the opportunity to present to investors, industry leaders, and press. For more information or to apply, please visit verizonventurestudio.com and follow @rgaventures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Content, Digital Media, Gaming, Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, Messaging, Sports, Video
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Fourth Estate Angel Group
Fourth Estate Fund provides early stage funding for companies with new/disruptive solutions at the intersection of news, journalism, technology & community. They strongly prefer companies with new and/or disruptive solutions at the intersection of journalism, technology and community. They prefer to serve as the lead investor but are willing to form part of a syndicated deal led by other experienced angel groups and investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Journalism, News, Social News
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Berkeley Funds
Berkeley Funds was designed to invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs dedicated to build disruptive, market-transforming and innovative companies with a high growth potential. We believe that creative and dedicated people are capable of doing great things and they are crucial for continuous progress of our civilization. Operating in the most prospective sectors of contemporary economy, Berkeley Funds invest and provide managerial support to enable the creation of ‘disruptive innovation’, capable of redefining global markets. What distinguishes Berkeley Funds is a unique approach to its investments and the process of acquiring innovations from the market. The fund operates based on the ‘fast track’ of acquiring of the innovative projects. The processes of potential evaluation are conducted in a fast and effective manner to ensure the capability of an efficient implementation and commercialization of innovative solutions. Berkeley Funds commercialize the innovative and new technologies delivered by start-ups, companies with a high growth potential and research & development sector organizations. The fund focuses on projects and companies which generate disruptive innovations in their sectors through the anticipation and utilization of long-term technological trends. Our strategy assumes an international reach. Berkeley Funds is acquiring innovations from different sources; however, one of the funds main strategic goals is the commercialization of the technology and innovative potential gathered from universities and research institutes. The fund ensures a managerial support on each stage of the project. Besides the capital investment and managerial functions, Berkeley Funds also deliver a different kind of organizational support such us: human capital investment enabling growth, hiring experts in the field of commercialization, consulting services, knowledge management support and appropriate technical resources (databases, market research, analysis and standards etc.) along with business networks (both local and international). We entrust the management functions and support in our portfolio companies to experienced managers who think in a modern and innovative manner and not stereotypical bosses. We trust in leaders – people who are creating a harmonious team around the idea and inspire to work creatively and productively.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Cyber Security, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Internet of Things, Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Virtual Reality
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