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Top 50 Film Angel Investors (August 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Film startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Film startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Larry Braitman
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $550k–$10M
Jonathan Beddoes
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Photography, Film, Video $33k–$1.1M
James Riney
Angel
2 Japan, United States Seed, Series B, Series A SaaS, Software, Information Technology $940k–$213M
Samir Vora
Angel
2 India Seed Film, Media and Entertainment $5M–$15M
Kelsey Morgan
Angel
2 United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Film, Music $1.8M–$8.5M
Ron Conway
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $500k–$11M
Jim Moloshok
Angel
2 United States Seed Apps, Film, Internet $50k–$750k
Adam Nash
Angel
2 United States, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.1M–$20M
Brad Zions
Angel
2 United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $125k–$26M
Markus Kern
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Video, Mobile, Photography $33k–$1.1M
David Arcara
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Mobile $950k–$7.4M
Veljo Otsason
Angel
2 Estonia, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Identity Management, Information Technology, Film $540k–$1.5M
Jason Kothari
Angel
2 India, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series B Media and Entertainment, Apps, Film $1.7M–$15M
Jeroen Seghers
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Video, Gaming, Mobile $33k–$5.5M
Julian Farrior
Angel
2 United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Mobile, Film, Comics $1.3M–$2.8M
Samarth Parekh
Angel
2 India Seed Film, Media and Entertainment $5M–$15M
Jon Gosier
Angel
2 United States, Uganda Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Film, Music
Jon Keidan
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software $1M–$85M
Wengie Ayche
Angel
1 United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Film, Gaming, Sports
William Adams
Angel
1 United States, Sweden, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Music, Software $3M–$38M
Rain Rannu
Angel
1 United States, Estonia, Lithuania Seed Software, CRM, Film $346k–$4.4M
Bill Budinger
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, Advertising, Apps $1M–$3M
David Carrico
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$29M
Vikas Taneja
Angel
1 United States, India Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Music, Mobile $300k–$1.2M
Safa Rashtchy
Angel
1 United States, India, Turkey Seed, Series A SaaS, Health Care, Software $350k–$24M
Ian Noel
Angel
1 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Pet, Education, Film
Andrew Weisz
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Education, Apps $200k–$1.5M
Peter Hollens
Angel
1 United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Film, FinTech, Venture Capital
Stewart Alsop
Angel
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Mobile $320k–$17M
Siraj Khaliq
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $2.2M–$45M
Rajeev Motwani
Angel
1 United States Series A, Angel, Seed Video, Internet, Software $100k–$3.6M
Joe Caruso
Angel
1 United States, France, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $420k–$2.2M
Chris Mairs
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Financial Services $334k–$5M
Katelin Holloway
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Food and Beverage, Women's $1.3M–$54M
Maurice Werdegar
Angel
1 United States, Spain, Canada Series A, Seed, Angel Enterprise Software, Mobile, Software $230k–$5.5M
Vijay Pandurangan
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, SMS $1.1M–$17M
Selina Tobaccowala
Angel
1 United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Film, SaaS, Video
Ramesh Haridas
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Information Technology $500k–$1.5M
Mattias Ljungman
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2M–$11M
Pere Mayol
Angel
1 Spain, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Information Technology, Film $412k–$713k
Prakash Jain
Angel
1 India Seed Film, Theatre, TV Production
Deepen Parikh
Angel
1 United States, India Seed, Series A, Series B Wellness, Health Care, Social Media
Anthony Saleh
Angel
1 United States, Egypt, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Jay Rasulo
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Film, Video, Internet $1.4M–$10M
Ron Shah
Angel
1 United States Seed Film, Photography, Private Social Networking
Hemant Tucker
Angel
1 Singapore Seed Film, Blockchain, Service Industry
Nick Rau
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Film, Privacy, Software
Neeraj Bhargava
Angel
1 United States, Singapore, India Series A, Seed, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, CRM
Lars Dittrich
Angel
1 Germany, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Apps
Pavel Cherkashin
Angel
1 United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus Seed Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, iOS $100k–$1.2M
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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Film startups

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Felvin — Felvin saves 5 hours every week in the life of a software developer. We achieve this by allowing developers to instantly find the right code snippets, software packages, and dev utilities, without changing their search habits. While Felvin will start with software devs as the beachhead, we eventually plan to provide a vastly superior searchexperience for every knowledge worker through our instant apps platform that allows anyone to build and integrate domain specific mini-search engines.
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
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Jonathan Beddoes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Film startups

Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photography, Film, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Twine — Build a more diverse team of freelancers to beat your competition. Hire vetted freelancers from Twine's global network to help you scale your business.
  • Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
  • Socialite — Discover, follow and never miss out on the things you love | Download the iPhone App | #Tech #Startup
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James Riney
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Film startups

James Riney is the Founding Partner and CEO of Coral Capital and a Partner a t500 Startups. Prior to launching Coral Capital, James was a co-founder and head of 500 Startups Japan. With about $100m under management, he’s been a seed investor in over 40 companies. He is also a Board Director at SmartHR, where he was an early investor and led their~$14m Series B. Prior to 500 Startups, James covered early-stage investments for DeNA’s venture arm, focusing on Silicon Valley and Asia. He has listed on the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list for Finance and Venture Capital in 2016.Before investing, he was the founding CEO of ResuPress (now Coincheck, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan), and the creator of STORYS.JP, the “Medium.com of Japan.” In another life, he worked at J.P. Morgan in New York and Tokyo. He grew up in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese.James attended Penn State University and The American School in Japan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $940k–$21M; Series A $2.7M–$99M; Series B $3.3M–$213M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SmartHR — SmartHR provides a cloud-native human resources management platform that offers a suite of tech-enabled human resources management solutions, focusing on employee management and administration, growth, talent management, and employee productivity. Through its comprehensive range of solutions, SmartHR serves a diversified spectrum of businessesincluding large enterprises and SMEs.
  • Penrose Studios — Penrose is focused on augmented and virtual reality storytelling. Through the process of creation with world class storytellers and technologists, Penrose is inventing and defining the language of real-time cinema for AR and VR. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • Oceanic Constellations, Inc — Oceanic Constellations empowers ocean visualization with a network of autonomous surface drones and advanced marine monitoring technology.
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Samir Vora
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Film startups

Samir Vora is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Enam Holdings. Samir Vora attended Montclair State University and Mithibai College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
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Kelsey Morgan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Kelsey is an Investment Partner at Downing Capital Group. She attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Film, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FanAI — FanAI is an AI-driven Audience Monetization platform focusing first on esports, and their sponsor ecosystems, increasing franchise and sponsorship revenues by making their audience data actionable.
  • Plutoshift — Plutoshift is an operational data platform to monitor physical infrastructure. It leverages existing data collection systems to automate data workflows and provide a unified view of performance. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
  • Penrose Studios — Penrose is focused on augmented and virtual reality storytelling. Through the process of creation with world class storytellers and technologists, Penrose is inventing and defining the language of real-time cinema for AR and VR. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Ron Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Ron Conway is based out of San Francisco, California, and was the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron Conway attended San Jose State University. Ron previously worked at Salesforce Foundation as a Board Member. Ron Conway has received the Best Angel at the TechCrunch Crunchies Awards.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Angel $500k–$1.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
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Jim Moloshok
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Jim Moloshok serves on various digital media company boards, gives advice to venture capital firms in the evolution of media consumption and how consumers relate to content across multi-platforms, and has invested in companies that overlap his areas of expertise and passion.Before entering the investment and entrepreneurial world fulltime,Moloshok most recently was president, Digital Initiatives for Home Box Office.Before joining HBO, Moloshok was part of the turn-around team that went to Yahoo! in 2001 to help it recover from the dotcom collapse, building Yahoo! back to be the leading portal with all of its content areas ranking first or second in their categories.Prior to joining Yahoo!, Moloshok was one of the founders of Windsor Digital, a venture capital firm cofounded with Terry Semel, former Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios and then Chairman and CEO of Yahoo!Moloshok also spent eleven years at Warner Bros. as co-founder and president of Warner Bros. Online, and president and CEO of Entertaindom.com. Moloshok also served as SVP of Warner Bros. marketing and advertising.Moloshok started his professional career working in local television.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Film, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SnapUp — SnapUp is a smartphone app and e-commerce platform that enables its users to collect and track products through screenshots. It alerts its members when a product of their preference is sold for a lower price. It enables its users to share these items as dynamic lists on web or mobile.SnapUp uses a patent-pending technology to recognize andprocess only screenshots taken of product pages. It was founded in 2013 by Eric Goldberg, based in San Francisco, California.
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • ElderSense.com — ElderSense - Senior Homes, Assisted Living Communities, Eldercare Homes & Local Caregivers in Phoenix and Arizona. Free Eldercare Service. ALTCS and Medicare paid Homes.
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Adam Nash
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Adam Nash is the Co-Founder and CEO at Daffy. He attended Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $2.8M–$3.6M; Series A $11M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
  • Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
  • Chariot — Chariot is a DAF tool that nonprofits can add to their website to allow donors to give with their DAF in 3 clicks.
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Brad Zions
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Brad Zions is a Los Angeles-based investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and GP of Pitbull Ventures, a seed/preseed fund based in Los Angeles.Zions has deep domain expertise in digital media and the restaurant, apparel, and entertainment industries. Zions has been an active early-stage investor for the past 20 years, both as a partnerat Structure Fund and individually. Big winners in his portfolio include Clutter, Parachute Home, Harri, Vidmob, Pocket Watch and Embrace. Recent exits include Jukin Media, Podsights, Donut Media, and Venga. Previous exits include QXL (now Tradus, which Naspers acquired in 2008) and Google via Ron Conway's Angel funds I and II.Zions partnered with chef Alan Jackson in March 2009 to co-found Lemonade Restaurant Group. Serving as CFO until January 2011, Zions raised capital for the rapidly expanding fast-casual concept and helped grow Lemonade to 10+ locations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$680k; Series A $1M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PopID — PopID offers a facial recognition platform that enables users to authenticate identity and process payments through biometric verification. Its core service, PopPay, allows customers to link their facial image to a payment method, facilitating transactions at participating businesses without the need for physical cards or mobile devices. The systemsupports various retail formats, including kiosks, drive-thrus, and counter services, and integrates with loyalty programs to personalize the customer experience. PopID's technology has been adopted by merchants such as Whataburger and Steak 'n Shake, aiming to streamline ordering and checkout processes. The company emphasizes user consent and data security, storing encrypted biometric data and allowing users to opt-in or out at their discretion. PopID has also expanded internationally, partnering with entities like SoftBank's Japan Computer Vision to introduce its services in markets such as Japan.
  • Podsights — Powerful measurement made easy. Use our advertising analytics and measurement tools, free of charge, to fine-tune your campaigns and help improve performance.
  • Champions Round — Champions Round is a sports entertainment company focused on building engaging fan experiences for the fantasy sports industry. Currently available for download on iOS.
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Markus Kern
Angel · 2 investments in Film startups

Markus Kern

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Mobile, Photography
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
  • Socialite — Discover, follow and never miss out on the things you love | Download the iPhone App | #Tech #Startup
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David Arcara
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

David Arcara is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Laconia. An entrepreneur turned investor, David has raised nearly $100 million dollars of angel and venture funding. David’s career spans over two decades in young, high-growth and turnaround media and marketing businesses. Previously, he founded DJA Media (acquired by Clear Channel) andco-founded UGO Networks (acquired by Hearst Corporation). He entered the investing world by founding Rubber Soul Ventures, where he focused on investments in emerging digital technology companies. David is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. No stranger to risk, David has been adventure skiing with his kids for 20 years, getting them started right out of the crib. He is also Laconia’s resident sommelier (after hours only, of course).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$5M; Series A $4M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SyncOnSet Technologies — SyncOnSet is an entertainment technology company for digitizing physical production and managing creative content. The company helps optimize workflows and secure communication throughout the project. It streamlines inventory, assets, and photo management, leaving crews with more time to do what they love.Their product is an Emmy-winning softwarefor creative professionals to manage script breakdowns, costumes, props, continuity photos, inventory, and much more.
  • Sightly — Sightly is a marketing and media technology company, focusing on digital video advertising and analytics, that delivers unrivaled performance and client service. We use data science and expert human know-how to maximize outcomes and align each customer's Brand Mentality™ at speed, no matter what lies ahead. Our smart, agile approach to mediaplanning, buying and fine tuning extends across YouTube, TikTok, Connected TV and OTT live streaming video and all premium publishers and networks.
  • The Runthrough — THE RUN THROUGH
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Veljo Otsason
Angel · 2 investments in Film startups

Veljo Otsason is Estonian entrepreneur and investor. In 2007 he co-founded mobile payments company Fortumo and served as its CTO. Since 2013 he has been active angel investor and early backer of Bolt (formerly Taxify), Monese, Veriff, Pipedrive & 30+ others. In 2018 he co-founded Superangel, early-stage seed fund and company builder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Identity Management, Information Technology, Film
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Estonia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $540k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolt — The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.
  • Veriff — Highly automated identity verification software from Veriff. We help you build trust and transparency online.
  • Digital Sputnik — Making Hollywood level virtual production simple, fast and budget-friendly. Without big screens and teams. Show anything real on any virtual background and let the AI lights sync with the background. For film makers, influencers, streamers and live event organizers.
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Jason Kothari
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Film startups

Jason Kothari

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Apps, Film
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
  • Altibbi — Altibbi is a digital health platform that offers tools and information to provide access to health advice 24/7 anywhere through its website and apps.
  • Dealflicks — Dealflicks is like Priceline.com, but for movie theaters. Every day you can save up to 60% on movie tickets and concessions at your favorite theaters watching your favorite movies with your favorite people.Theaters love us because we get butts in their empty seats. In fact, 88% of movie theater seats are currently empty because of high prices,home entertainment, and internet-based alternatives. At the same time, over 40 billion dollars are spent on movie tickets and concessions each year worldwide, and the market is growing.
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Jeroen Seghers
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

From the age of 15, Jeroen has co-founded over a dozen companies which released various products reaching over 100 million users around the globe. He was heavily involved with the product development and marketing of Zugo, Wyzo and a leading file-sharing client.Jeroen obtained his BCS from Hogeschool Gent, specializing in software engineering,followed by a Master Class in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.When not flying from one continent to the next, he can be found in London where he serves as a director of TechTopia Ltd and chairman of FACEIT Ltd.Jeroen is also an active investor and sits on the board of various startups around the globe.Constantly on the look-out for new projects and building innovative marketing strategies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Gaming, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$5.5M; Angel $196k–$530k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Upcomer — Upcomer is your one-stop location for esports and gaming news, features, guides, opinions, and walkthroughs.
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Julian Farrior
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Julian Farrior

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Film, Comics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
  • Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
  • Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
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Samarth Parekh
Angel · 2 investments in Film startups

Samarth Parekh is the individual investor at mythik.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
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Jon Gosier
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in Film startups

Jon Gosier is the Founder and CEO of FilmHedge. He previously worked at HarperCollins Publishers as an Author. Jon Gosier attended the THNK School of Creative Leadership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Film, Music
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AuDIGENT — AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and targetaudiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com
  • DataCa.sh — Access to capital for media makers.
  • REC Philly — Thank you for your interest in REC - a Members-Only social club where the world's most ambitious creators learn, work and play. Request an invite and unlock the next level of your creator journey.
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Jon Keidan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $15M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Afropunk — Afropunk is an organization that celebrates Black culture and diversity through music, art, and community.
  • Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
  • Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.
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Wengie Ayche
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Wengie Ayche is the Co-Founder at Nyan Heroes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Gaming, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CreatorPlus — CreatorPlus builds new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers and their audience who are hungry to support them.
  • Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
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William Adams
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Film startups

William Adams, is a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, and a seven-time Grammy Award winner. Known for his work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works with some of the industry’s biggest names including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears,David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer.i.am+ is the developer of the dial, the first smart band device with an onboard, untethered mobile phone capability powered by AneedA, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused operating system.  Fusing the worlds of technology and fashion, will.i.am and team also developed i.am+ EPs Bluetooth Wireless Headphone.  EPs feature magnetic earpieces, when clipped together, transform the listening device into a stylish necklace made of spun metal and woven fabric that incorporates a microphone connected to AneedA for making calls and finding music, both hands-free.Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas will.i.am has released three songs from his upcoming solo cd, #willpower on Interscope Records, due out in April, 2013. The three singles from the cd released in 2012 were: “This is Love” featuring Eva Simons; and “Scream & Shout” that has gone to number one on iTunes and radio play charts in dozens of countries. In 2013, he released his latest single “#ThatPower” featuring Justin Bieber. will.i.am is the first recording artist to send a song to Mars in conjunction with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Space Lab. Space and music industry firsts were achieved on August 28, 2012 when “Reach For The Stars (Mars Edition)” was played back from Mars during a youth education event hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.His songs and imagery have entertained and inspired millions, and the power of his words resonated deeply in his song “Yes They Can” that mobilized an entire generation to action during the 2008 presidential campaign. Demonstrating that music, brands and causes can be intertwined to entertain and inform, “Yes They Can” garnered an Emmy Award for “Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment” as well as a CLIO award in the Interactive category.In addition to his music career, will.i.am is very active in front of, and behind the camera. His educational TV special “i.am.mars: Reach For The Stars”, a behind-the-scene look at the artistic and scientific elements involved in sending a song to Mars aired on Discovery’s SCIENCE Channel in August, 2012. In 2011, will.i.am executive produced and starred in his first prime time TV special “i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll” to get young people excited about math and science education, as well as technology and science-related careers. In front of the camera, will.i.am returned in 2013 for a second season as a Coach on reality TV hit show “The Voice” UK on BBC One.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Music, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
  • Neko Health — Try the Neko Body Scan. Get answers right away, and let us monitor your health - so you don't have to.
  • Bluecoat — Backed by world-class investors and supported by industry leaders. Bluecoat builds high-performance blockchain solutions for digital rights and royalties management.
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Rain Rannu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Rain Rannu has been a long-time serial entrepreneur in the mobile payments space ever since founding his first company back in 2000. In 2007 he founded Fortumo, the fast-growing mobile payments service for digital and virtual content now available in more than 80 countries. They have recently raised funding from Intel Capital and GreycroftPartners, and are employing more than 60 people in Estonia, Beijing and San Francisco. Rain Rannu has also been an active member in the Estonian startup scene as a founder of Garage48, among other things.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, CRM, Film
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Estonia, Lithuania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $346k–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolt — The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.
  • Teleport — Teleport builds software to move individuals to the best place to live and work. It enables users to explore the best cities based on their personal preferences, and lend them a hand with preparing and executing the move. The company aims to make physically rearranging the human population just as easy.
  • Digital Sputnik — Making Hollywood level virtual production simple, fast and budget-friendly. Without big screens and teams. Show anything real on any virtual background and let the AI lights sync with the background. For film makers, influencers, streamers and live event organizers.
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Bill Budinger
Angel · Aspen, Colorado, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.1M; Series A $2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kixer — Kixer is a mobile advertisement network that enables premium content publishers to better monetize the mobile web through an ad inventory.Kixer helps web publishers enter the growing user acquisition marketplace, while providing application developers with the opportunity to attract a highly-engaged user base through its distribution outlet. Itstechnology improves personalized application recommendations, maximizing ROI for its users.Kixer is operated from Burbank, California.
  • SHIFT — Shift.com of San Francisco CA serving Oakland is one of the best pre-owned dealerships in CA. Call Sales <span class='callNowClass'>855-744-3873</span>
  • Measurabl — Measurabl offers comprehensive ESG solutions, empowering businesses with data-driven insights for sustainability & compliance. Explore Measurabl today...
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David Carrico
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

David Carrico

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kibu — Kibu protects against impersonation and fraud by verifying identities across video, audio, and text. Connect once, verify anywhere, and ensure every conversation is real.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Capsule — Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad).
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Vikas Taneja
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Vikas Taneja is an advisor to and investor in technology companies. He is a Partner & Managing Director with the Boston Consulting Group and a leader in BCG's Technology, Media, and Telecommunication practice. Vikas' investments with HT ventures include imedix, webchutney, Blip.tv, Quorus, Mashery, mobitrans, refinery29, 8tracks, andothers. Vikas received his MBA with Honors in Economics & Finance from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Computer Systems Engineering and Economic Development from Stanford University. Vikas is also on the Executive Committee of Pratham, an India-based organization that has helped over 2 million children achieve literacy and basic mathematics skills.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Music, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Praan — Praan builds the world's most advanced air purification technologies for commercial and industrial applications.
  • Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
  • Kirana Pro — Order groceries like a pro from nearby kiranas. Voice-based ordering, multiple kirana options, and no convenience fees. Join our waitlist now!
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Safa Rashtchy
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$13M; Series A $500k–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
  • Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.
  • Qventus — Qventus optimizes operational decisions in hospitals in real time. They use machine learning and optimization algorithms to help hospitals reduce costs, improve quality and experience of the healthcare they deliver.Qventus is a YCombinator and StartX company working with some of the top health institutions in the country to change how healthcareis run.
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Ian Noel
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Film startups

Ian Noel - Angel & Growth Investor @ Lingokids

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Education, Film
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oja.la — Oja.la is an online learning platform for computer skills in Latin America. Oja.la has developed 1,500 classes.- 70 tech programs, released 16 new programs last month and are planning to double the new release of new courses monthly.
  • Holidog — Holidog specializes in the fields of pet sitting, pet boarding, pet walking, giftbox, pet media, and startups. It features a software platform that allows pet owners to interact and find the perfect pet sitters, dog walkers, nannies, or trainers at their convenience and close to their home.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York,United States.
  • Lingokids — Voted #1 Kids Learning App, Lingokids is the best app for kids 2-8 years old! Because when learning is fun, kids love to learn! Check it out!
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Andrew Weisz
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Film startups

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $498k–$650k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sidequest — Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.
  • Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
  • Guardian Angel — We help people plan for the future with wills, LPAs, probate and life insurance. Expert support to protect what matters most.
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Peter Hollens
Angel · Eugene, Oregon, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella cover artist. With 2.5 million subscribers, his videos have reached a quarter of a billion views on Facebook and YouTube since 2011. Hollens has collaborated and performed with several outstanding artists including Brian Wilson, Jason Mraz,Hunter Hayes, Gladys Knight, Lindsey Stirling, George Watsky, Jackie Evancho, and ThePianoGuys. He has released over 200+ digital singles to date and continues to release new music every other week. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he co-founded the University of Oregon’s male a cappella group On The Rocks. In 2010 he and the group were featured on NBC’s The Sing Off Season 2. Hollens also advises and consults many companies in the passion economy.More information can be found: https://peterhollens.com/press/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, FinTech, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sweater — Sweater is a fintech company building the first fully-managed venture capital fund that is open to everyday investors. Our mobile-first experience allows you direct access to the world's most exclusive asset class—Venture Capital. Sweater’s mission is to empower everyone to become investors in the next generation of venture-backed startups.Every founder should be able to build their vision, and every person should be able to take part in the founder journeys that create the next generation of influence and wealth.
  • CreatorPlus — CreatorPlus builds new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers and their audience who are hungry to support them.
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Stewart Alsop
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Stewart Alsop is a co-founder and partner of Alsop Louie Partners. The firm focuses on disruptive and innovative technologies and has made investments in the areas of cybersecurity, predictive analytics, education, and entertainment. Some of the companies the firm has led investments in include Twitch (sold to Amazon), Netwitness, Keyssa,Cleversafe, Wickr, and Lookingglass Cyber Security.Stewart started out as a business journalist and commentator, serving as editor at publications such as Inc. Magazine and InfoWorld. He later started his own newsletter, P.C. Letter, as well as two conferences, Agenda and Demo. In 1996, Stewart changed careers to become a venture capitalist, joining New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a top-tier venture capital firm. He was a general partner with NEA until 2005 and led the firm’s investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Netcentives, Glu Mobile, and Xfire. Stewart wrote the “Alsop On InfoTech” column for Fortune magazine while at NEA, and later served as a member of the board of directors for Sonos, Inc. from 2005 to 2013.He attended Occidental College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$5.5M; Series A $1.5M–$8M; Series B $4.8M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juked — The Juked App is officially LIVE! Join a community of like-minded esports fans on the Juked app, your new home for discussing esports news, matches, tournaments, and more.
  • Three Rings — Three Rings was an internet games development company based in San Francisco. Puzzle Pirates (casual action puzzle MMOARRPG) was their first and most successful title, followed by Bang! Howdy (Steampunk tactical turn-based MMO), Whirled (user-created Flash / web virtual world) and Spiral Knights (action adventure MMO). Three Rings also made aDoctor Who game with the BBC, a How to Train your Dragon game with Dreamworks and various Facebook games and other experiments. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA of Japan in 2011 and operated as a studio within SEGA until early 2016.
  • Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics | Empowering Humans to Do What They Do Best
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Siraj Khaliq
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Film startups

Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$18M; Series A $6.8M–$17M; Series B $30M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jua — Jua offers AI-based solutions for the early detection of significant weather events, focusing on enhancing weather forecasting accuracy for energy trading. The platform provides tools for historical weather analysis and real-time monitoring, catering specifically to the needs of energy traders and developers. Jua is committed to developing auniversal physics simulator to deepen the understanding of weather dynamics and their impact on human activities. By leveraging advanced technology, Jua enables its clients to make informed decisions based on accurate weather data, ultimately supporting efficient energy management and trading strategies.
  • Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
  • RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.
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Rajeev Motwani
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Rajeev Motwani currently works as a Data Scientist at MediaMarktSaturn. Rajeev was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also served as the director of graduate studies. His research interests included: databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, and theoretical computer science. While atStanford, he was the founder of the Mining Data at Stanford project, also known as MIDAS.Motwani was well-known for his mentoring of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.He was a co-author of the book, Randomized Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press. Motwani received the Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and an IBM Faculty Award.Motwani studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and completed his doctorate at UC-Berkeley.Rajeev Motwani

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$1.8M; Series A $1.5M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ankeena — Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements.
  • Telly — Telly (formerly Twitvid) is a premium subscription video-on-demand service that focuses on the best of entertainment and exclusive locally produced content. As well as screening exclusive and original content, Telly's programming includes; Bollywood movies, TV shows, locally produced content, Kuwaiti short films, and many more all of which canbe found on the Telly App and website.Telly mainly generates revenue mainly from subscription-based services as opposed to advertising to avoid losing customers to interruptions caused by the adverts, however, their business model is considered to be facing competition by video piracy.
  • Tapulous — Tapulous is a developer of applications for the iPhone and Android platforms. Some of their apps include Tap Tap Revenge (the sequel to Tap Tap Revolution), Twinkle (a Twitter client) and Collage (a real-time collaborative photo sharing application) and the newly launched Riddim Ribbon.
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Joe Caruso
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
  • Mylestone — The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account.But what if you could access stories generated from thosepictures simply by talking to Alexa?With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call.
  • HomeBinder — HomeBinder is a residential home management platform that reduces complexity in partnership with the businesses who serve them, improving client relationships and increasing referrals, bringing effortless homeownership to all.
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Chris Mairs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Film startups

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5M; Angel $334k–$707k; Pre-Seed $900k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Briefcase — AI agents that capture invoices, code transactions, handle VAT, reconcile banks, and build working papers in real time. Fully integrated with Xero and QuickBooks. Two-week free trial.
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
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Katelin Holloway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Katelin Holloway is Founding Partner at Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm 776. Based in San Francisco, California, Katelin actively invests in early stage technology companies, manages the firm’s operations, oversees the portfolio & founder outcomes teams, and leads investor relations.Having spent her early career at Pixar AnimationStudios, Katelin brings over 15 years of experience in building and scaling teams, products, and cultures to the world of venture. As a former senior executive at influential startups such as Klout and Reddit, Katelin has a unique perspective on the intersection of people and technology. Leveraging her skills and credentials in human resources, business operations, and culture building, she is committed to helping evolve the next generation of entrepreneurs and the broader venture ecosystem. As an investor, Katelin is focused on driving outsized returns with care. She is passionate about funding and coaching the people-first companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Women's
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$17M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$2.4M; Series A $12M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lightly — Traveling with baby. But easy.
  • Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
  • Dispatch Goods — Learn about how we can help your companies with effective reusable packaging solutions for Food Service and D2C companies
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Maurice Werdegar
Angel · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Maurice Werdegar is the CEO and Partner of Western Technology Investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $760k–$2.5M; Angel $230k–$500k; Series A $1.8M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cabify — Cabify is a ride-sharing company that connects private users and companies with the forms of transport that suit their needs.At Cabify, they make sure their customers - passengers and drivers - enjoy the ride. Charging a fair price, improving your door-to-door journey, and making transport accessible to all are just some of the things they thinkare important. Why? Because they believe that by making transport better, they can make their cities and communities better.Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Meograph — Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California.
  • Chobolabs — Homepage of Chobolabs
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Vijay Pandurangan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Vijay learned how to build large software systems at Google from 2002-2008 and at CMU. He worked on cluster management, mobile apps before smartphones and AdWords.He was also the first engineer at Jumo (started by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes), and worked with Acumen Fund (a socially responsible investment firm). He grew up in Montreal andis still a die-hard Canadiens fan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, SMS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$17M; Series A $5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
  • Seed&Spark — Crowdfunding, events and community that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!
  • Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
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Selina Tobaccowala
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Selina Tobaccowala is the CEO and Co-Founder of HomeBoost. She previously worked at Freedom Squares as a Founding Member. Selina Tobaccowala attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ownza — ShopSquad is now Ownza! Ownza lets you share, discover and discuss cool products. Unlock personalized discounts based on what you own. Ownza also allows users to see what other people, including their friends and trendsetters, own and want. We offer advertisers the unique ability to offer highly targeted promotions to people who own or want theiror their competitors' products.
  • Loris — Loris analyzes all your customer conversations, human- and AI-handled, to reveal drivers, sentiment, resolution, and agent performance. Try it now.
  • CreatorPlus — CreatorPlus builds new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers and their audience who are hungry to support them.
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Ramesh Haridas
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Ramesh Haridas is an Angel Investor since June 2006. Ramesh has been an entrepreneur and an investor in early stage internet companies for the last 10 years. He has started and sold two internet companies. Ramesh was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Parakweet from March 2010 to February 2016. Parakweet is Ramesh's third startup.Ramesh has started and successfully sold two internet companies before - PrivacyBank.com, an online information bank; and Chintano -- an internet ad network that built proprietary contextual and behavioral targeting technology. Ramesh is also an active angel investor and was the first angel investor in 8tracks, nRelate (sold to IAC), and Esaya (sold to Linkedin); and an early investor in Mashery, AVG and Rapportive. In his free time, he enjoys playing squash and discovering good fiction. Ramesh holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryde — Ryders is a last-mile delivery business that puts people and planet first.
  • Sano Genetics — Sano Genetics is a health technology company that focuses on personalized medicine and genetics. They aim to empower individuals to contribute their genetic and health data for research purposes, with the goal of advancing scientific understanding and personalized approaches to healthcare. Sano Genetics often operates within the context of geneticresearch studies and projects, allowing participants to share their genetic information to contribute to the broader field of medical research
  • Carv — Improve your skiing technique with real-time audio coaching. Carv uses pressure and motion analysis to score your technique and help you improve.
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Mattias Ljungman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Film startups

Mattias launched Atomico in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennström, sourcing investments and building Atomico's team of experts who help portfolio companies to scale globally. In that time, Mattias has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell (sold a majority stake to SoftBank over two transactions in2013 and 2015), 6Wunderkinder (acquired by Microsoft in 2015), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B in 2013), Xobni (acquired by Yahoo! in 2013) and Power Reviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice in 2012). Mattias works closely with a number of portfolio companies on their expansion, including Truecaller, Klarna, Hailo, and ChemistDirect. He also leads the work of Atomico's experienced global team on the ground in China, Japan, Brazil and Turkey, helping portfolio companies to scale into these major international markets. Before launching Atomico, Mattias was the head of investments at CLS Holdings where he was responsible for the sale of Sit Up TV for $360 million in 2005 and held previous roles working in M&A consultancy at LEK and in fund management at Valu-Trac. Mattias holds a Masters from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.A. in Geography and Economics with Honors from McGill University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $2.2M–$3.3M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
  • Mindstone — Save content from anywhere, boost motivation, and learn in no time! Building better learning habits starts right here, with Mindstone.
  • Bright Star Studios — Ember Sword is a social sandbox MMORPG taking place in a player-driven universe where the adventure finds you. Join us and become part of our community!
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Pere Mayol
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Film startups

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Film
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $412k–$713k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roomonitor — Detectamos y solucionamos problemas en tus propiedades, especialmente en horario nocturno. Monitorizamos, respondemos y actuamos por ti.
  • VacationsPal — VacationsPal is a Barcelona-based company that develops vacation booking software. The company serves property owners, holiday rentals, and holiday makers.
  • Quality Clouds — The independent governance layer for human and AI-generated code. Norma for any repo and any AI editor, plus deep governance for ServiceNow and Salesforce.
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Prakash Jain
Angel · 1 investments in Film startups

Prakash Jain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Theatre, TV Production
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cast India — Cast India is a professional mentoring firm that guides, groom, enhance, and launches artists.
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Deepen Parikh
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Deepen Parikh is a Partner at Courtside Ventures, which invest in early-stage companies that are transforming the intersection of sports technology, media, and gaming. He previously worked at Interplay Ventures as a Venture Partner. Deepen Parikh attended the University of Maryland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythik — Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales.
  • ROAM — Explore courses and classes in outdoor sports, nutrition, fitness, yoga, and more. Learn beginner to pro-level skills from the experts.
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Anthony Saleh
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Anthony Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Emagen Investment Group, Inc. and General Partner of WndrCo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. 
e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
  • Minly — Connect with your favorite celebrities with video shoutouts, DMs, voice notes, and more.
  • VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge
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Jay Rasulo
Angel · 1 investments in Film startups

Jay Rasulo has the Happiest Job on Earth. As chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, he presides over a family vacation business that spans three continents and includes five world-class vacation destinations, a top rated cruise line and the most popular resort locations in North America, Europe and Asia. During the past 50 years, more than 2billion guests have passed through the gates of Disney theme parks around the world.Jay is the architect of the long-term global growth strategy for Disney Parks and Resorts' business, including Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened on September 12, 2005 – bringing the enchantment of a Disney theme park to a whole new region of the world.Jay oversees a broad range of businesses that help make Disney the leader in the vacation destination industry. The theme parks and resorts include the Disneyland Resort in California, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland. In addition, Jay is responsible for the Disney Cruise Line; Walt Disney Imagineering -- the designers and builders of theme parks, attractions and other facilities and Disney Regional Entertainment, comprising the ESPN Zone sports-themed restaurants.Jay, who has been with The Walt Disney Company for 20 years, was appointed president of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in 2002. In the fall of 2005, he became chairman of the segment. He spent two of the five years with the company in France as chairman and CEO of Euro Disney, S.C.A. where he was instrumental in turning Disneyland Resort Paris into Europe's top tourist destination. Cementing his reputation as a dedicated business leader and strategist, the Los Angeles Times in 2002 called Jay "… a provocative and passionate leader who understands the cultural nuances of foreign markets." The article went on to credit Jay for "…helping to transform Disneyland Paris.In addition to his duties at Disney, Jay has emerged as a recognized leader within the travel and tourism industry, working to broaden awareness of the industry's role in creating jobs, economic growth, and cultural exchange. In 2006, Jay serves as Chairman of the Travel Industry Association of America, the industry's preeminent trade association in the United States. Additionally, Jay serves as Chairman of the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which is charged with advising the U.S. Department of Commerce on the creation of a national tourism strategy. He also serves on the board of directors for the French American Chamber of Commerce and Euro Disney S.C.A.Jay first joined The Walt Disney Company in 1986 as director and later rose to senior vice president of Corporate Strategic Planning. In this role, he led strategic development for all real estate-based businesses in The Walt Disney Company portfolio.After two years as a senior vice president of Corporate Alliances and three years with Disney Regional Entertainment, Jay moved to Paris as executive vice president, Euro Disney, S.C.A. He served as president and C.O.O. before taking over as chairman and CEO in 2000.A native New Yorker, Jay has a degree in economics from Columbia, and both an MA in economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Before joining Disney, he held positions with Chase Manhattan Bank and the Marriott Corporation.Jay and his family reside in Los Angeles, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Video, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubbl — Bubbl Adds Fan Interaction Tech to Online and Live-Streaming Video.Our interaction suite includes single-click clip-and-share, video meme creation, selfie/reaction capture, and real-time filters. We partner with media companies, video players, and publishers to boost fan engagement, extend content reach, and establish new ad-based revenuestreams.
  • MovieLaLa — MovieLaLa is a social network for movie fans: discovering upcoming movies through friends and favorite stars. For marketers, MovieLaLa is a marketing platform to help movie marketers increase the buzz, awareness and engagement of upcoming movies to ensure strong first week sales.Marc Benioff's investment brings the startup to $750,000 infunding across its seed funding and angel rounds, and its other invetors include Machininma co-founder and CEO Allen DeBevoise, past HBO president of digital initiatives and Warner Bros Online co-founder Jim Moloshok, founding Flixster investor Larry Braitman and more investors from the entertainment industry. If the company succeeds, it could stengthen ties between Hollywood and Silicon Valley after an era of digital piracy tore them apart.
  • Stella — Stella is an industry consortium of large frontline and hourly employers who share non-hired and laid-off applicants with one another through the Stella marketplace. Using Stella's iOS, Android mobile apps and our map-based interface, job seekers can easily explore nearby network job openings. Applying is a snap thanks to our common jobapplication and tight employer ATS integrations. Applicants do not have to fill out the same information over and over again. This streamlined process improves the candidate experience by saving time and effort.Stella has raised $25M+ from world class investors. Dozens of America’s largest employers are already using Stella to hire talent and to help their laid-off employees find new work more quickly. More companies and jobs are being added every day. Our growing team is based in New York City and Sydney, Australia.Stella. Finding work has never been easier. Discover more at https://stella.jobs
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Ron Shah
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Ron Shah is the CEO at Bizly.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Photography, Private Social Networking
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Directr — Directr is a mobile application company that provides users with the ability to create beautiful movies on their phones in just minutes. Directr's app will automatically edit/sync videos on your phone and make moving sharing easy for everyone.
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Hemant Tucker
Angel · 1 investments in Film startups

Hemant Tucker, segment head for technopreneurs and market head (South Asia & Middle East) at Bank of Singapore.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Blockchain, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fantico — Fantico is a digital collectibles platform for the Indian market that features well-known films, artists, performers, and sports.
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Nick Rau
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Nick is responsible for all product development and engineering at Vizu and has more than a decade of experience in leading software development projects/teams. He has a strong understanding of high traffic/highly scalable web platforms, user interfaces, data systems, and digital media technologies, and he has worked on all of theInternet's highest traffic websites. Previously, Nick spent seven years at Modem Media / Digitas, a leading Internet marketing strategy and services firm, and was responsible for Modem's technology practice on the West Coast.Nick graduated with a BS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and received a MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Film, Privacy, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Okera — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Limitless — Founded in Spring 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, WA, Limitless Ltd is the creator of the patent-pending Limitless Creative VR Environment platform, speeding the way for film and game makers to realize the true promise of real-life interactive characters in VR.
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Neeraj Bhargava
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Film startups

Neeraj Bhargava is the Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of Rainshine Global Inc. He previously worked at Allygrow as a Director. Neeraj Bhargava attended NYU Stern School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, CRM
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Juno Clinic — Juno Clinic is an online platform that helps people get online counseling for emotional and psychological problems from our therapists.Inhibition to approach and lack of access to experienced mental health care providers in India is a massive growing problem with most cities in India lacking mental health therapists. The total number of mentalhealth care providers in India is less than the number of cardiologists in Delhi and Mumbai. More than 80% patients with mental health issues don’t ever see a trained therapist; Juno Clinic is there to address this problem.
  • Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.
  • Kinsane Entertainment — Kinsane Entertainment, Inc., a US corporation, and its India subsidiary, Kinsane Digital LLP, has a simple mission: to create great content for kids, and, in so doing, create brands that are globally recognized. On this page is some of the press/media coverage Kinsane has received.
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Lars Dittrich
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Film startups

Lars Dittrich is responsible for the "Investments & Investments Management" unit and head of the Berlin office.He has extensive business experience as a founder and investor of successful start-up businesses.In 1997 Lars Dittrich founded dug telecom AG (today part of freenet AG) and served as its Chairman & CEO. In 2007the company was sold to Permira, which merged it with debitel AG. Lars Dittrich was chairman of the Sales division of debitel AG until 2010.In 2008 Lars Dittrich became Chairman and Business Angel of tape.tv, besides pursuing other investments in various industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zoobe — Api5000 adalah penyedia situs game judi online berlisensi resmi dengan para provider slot88 atau slot pragmatic online zeus gacor terpercaya yang memberikan banyak bonus sensasional untuk para member baru dan member setia.
  • FOUNDD — FOUNDD is an app to find movies and shows with friends.
  • Tapstack — Easy, affordable options for you to obtain the domain you want. Safe and secure shopping.
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Pavel Cherkashin
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in Film startups

Pavel Cherkashin is the Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, iOS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AdWired — AdWired is a mobile ads media network that works on every mobile platform.AdWired mobile media networks lets you find and engage the most receptive audience: smartphone and tablet users. Unique targeting features together with interactive banners lets you to reach highest ROI.Let your apps earn money for you right now! Join AdWired networkand show rich media banners to your customers. Leave sales to us or sale ads to your own advertisers.It takes only one hour to integrate AdWired to your app. SDK is available for all mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Bada, Symbian, Blackberry. Full HTML5 support allows you to create fully interactive banners with audio and video clips.Using AdWired SDK you can not only deliver ads but also collect detailed app usage stats. You can setup any targeting you want based on that data.
  • GdeSlon — GdeSlon.ru is a Russia-based affiliate marketing network. On the advertisers' side we've got companies from Russia, USA and Europe. We are focusing on e-commerce but also accepting lead-based offers (such as registrations, surveys, etc). Our affiliates are primarily driving Russian and Ukrainian traffic.
  • GBooking — Easy-to-use and efficient online scheduling system in the cloud. Booking Widget for your site. Automated reminders for your clients.
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Film Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 102 deals from 191 investors.

191
investors
in Film startups
102
deals
in Film startups
$2M
median round
in Film startups
7%
lead investors
lead at least one round
49%
Seed
most common funding stage

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