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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in United States (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Robert DeMaio
Angel
43 United States Convertible Note FinTech, Software, Health Care $50k–$100k
Jason Calacanis
Angel
42 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Ronald Conway
Angel
37 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $350k–$11M
Cyan Banister
Angel
31 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Social Media
Scott Banister
Angel
30 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile
Joanne Wilson
Angel
26 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
David Tisch
Angel
23 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Reid Hoffman
Angel
22 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Social Media, Internet $800k–$112M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
21 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
21 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $18k–$5M
Kevin Lin
Angel
21 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Mark Pincus
Angel
20 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Internet, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$40M
Dharmesh Shah
Angel
20 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Mark Cuban
Angel
19 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Mitchell Kapor
Angel
19 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Education
Bashar Hamood
Angel
19 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Kevin Hartz
Angel
19 United States, Ireland, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology
Mitch Kapor
Angel
19 United States, Japan, Singapore Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Education $300k–$27M
Wei Guo
Angel
19 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $200k–$19M
Dave Morin
Angel
19 United States, France, Finland Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, Software
Alexis Ohanian
Angel
18 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Blockchain, Mobile
Wayne Chang
Angel
18 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $1.2M–$15M
Joshua Schachter
Angel
17 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet
Auren Hoffman
Angel
17 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Analytics, Mobile $160k–$25M
Keith Rabois
Angel
17 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Michael Jones
Angel
16 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Bradley Harrison
Angel
16 United States Seed, Convertible Note, Series A Software, Mobile, SaaS $100k–$85M
Paul Buchheit
Angel
16 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $100k–$13M
Bradley C. Harrison
Angel
15 United States Seed, Convertible Note, Series A Mobile, Software, SaaS
Paige Craig
Angel
15 United States, India, Iceland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $91k–$6.5M
Scott Belsky
Angel
15 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1.1M–$50M
Daniel Curran
Angel
15 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $600k–$50M
Benjamin Ling
Angel
14 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $650k–$50M
Clark Landry
Angel
14 United States, Mexico, Bulgaria Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Information Technology $50k–$24M
Larry Braitman
Angel
14 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Education $550k–$10M
Chris Sacca
Angel
14 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Mobile $350k–$70M
Edward Lando
Angel
14 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$6.6M
Eric Ries
Angel
14 United States, Serbia, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, SaaS
Howard Lindzon
Angel
13 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Roger Ehrenberg
Angel
13 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Advertising, Software $900k–$20M
Ariel Poler
Angel
13 United States, Spain, Mexico Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $455k–$7.9M
Michael Birch
Angel
13 United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Social Media, Internet
Allen DeBevoise
Angel
13 United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Media and Entertainment, Video, Social Media
William Lohse
Angel
13 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising
Dylan Field
Angel
12 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $2.1M–$140M
Vishal Rao
Angel
12 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Karl Jacob
Angel
12 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
Marc Andreessen
Angel
12 United States, France, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Internet, SaaS
Brian Lee
Angel
12 United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Dave McClure
Angel
12 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
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Robert DeMaio
Angel · Incline Village, Nevada, United States · 43 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 43 in the past 12 months

Robert DeMaio is the founder, CEO, and controlling and majority shareholder of Phinge® Corporation. He is an inventor with over 30 granted patents, including software (Such as App-Less technologies and hardware verification) and patents for modular hardware and devices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Convertible Note $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phinge — About Phinge Corporation. Phinge's patented Netverse App-less technology, user-centric platform and verified Netverse Intelligence™ (NI)™, accesible through its patented, innovative modular mobile hardware and devices is launching to the world in 2026. All users will own, control and monetize their own data. The Netverse platform and NetverseIntelligence™ (NI)™ wiil be a safer, verified and rewarding alternative app-less platform and technology for third party businesses and developers to today's app-based technologies including the App stores, operating systems and ecosystems of Apple and Google. Netverse will not be an App or Super App that resides on the major technology platforms of today. Instead, it will be a standalone, all-in-one, app-less, verified platform and AI, accessible only through Phinge's revolutionary mobile hardware and devices. It will benefit all approved, verified third party businesses, developers and platforms on Netverse in ways not possible with today's technology including total verification of all users, businesses, organizations, entities and their IP. Third-party developers as well as individuals and businesses that would like to be beta testers for Netverse and its hardware may sign up today.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 42 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 354
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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Ronald Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 37 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

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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: 175
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Angel $350k–$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.
  • Blip Energy — Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
  • Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 30 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
  • Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 26 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 23 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 201
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
  • Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
  • Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 22 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.4M–$31M; Series B $8.3M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
  • Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 21 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$42M; Series B $7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Respeecher — Voice cloning: create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators.
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 21 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 478
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M; Series A $50k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
  • Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
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Mark Pincus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ForeVR Games — Virtual Reality games you want to play forever. Bowl forever in ForeVR Bowl! Join our discord community of bowlers.Game on!
  • Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
  • Moon Beast Productions — Moon Beast Productions is a company.
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Dharmesh Shah
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 20 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Defog — Defog integrates into your app and allows your users to query data in seconds using natural language. Defog are powered by large language models that can search and visualise both structured and unstructured data (such as SQL databases or Data Warehouses) (like text in call transcripts).
  • Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
  • FORMLESS — SHARE Technology by FORMLESS
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
  • DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
  • TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
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Mitchell Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
  • Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
  • DuckDuckGo — The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 177 in the past 12 months

Bashar Hamood is the Managing Director and co-founder of FasterCapital and attended Heriot-Watt University. He has broad experience across various organizational domains, including marketing strategy, branding, direct marketing, product launches, analysis, and reporting. As an entrepreneur, he has expertise in brand development and communityoutreach. Bashar is skilled in optimizing team dynamics, aligning diverse agendas, and leveraging strategic and operational drivers to achieve results. He also has a strong analytical approach, carefully studying each case and parameter variation.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 303
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
  • Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
  • Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.
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Kevin Hartz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
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Mitch Kapor
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Copia — From one location to thousands, from produce to pizza to paper towels, Copia is the app that makes it easy to donate surplus.
  • Good Money — Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
  • Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
  • Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
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Dave Morin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
  • Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
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Alexis Ohanian
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
  • Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
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Wayne Chang
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 18 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Reasoner. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Series A $6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Dispense — Manage, sell, and scale with Dispense CRM: the digital dispensary management software powering the country's top cannabis dispensaries.
  • Around — Around provides an AI-based camera framing designed for high-impact video calls. It helps users take video meetings less intrusive and less clunky. Around gives users a clear view of their teammates while making space for work.
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 17 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
  • Hidden Door — A new kind of immersive story game. Play in your favorite worlds with your friends.
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Auren Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5.5M; Angel $160k–$1.2M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
  • CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
  • Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
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Keith Rabois
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
  • Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
  • Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.
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Michael Jones
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 16 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
  • Anagram — Anagram's software platform helps eye care practices automate vision insurance eligibility, claims, billing, and their supply chain from lab ordering, to instant rebates to help eye care providers differentiate themselves and advance their practices.
  • Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
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Bradley Harrison
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Bradley C. Harrison is based out of Austin, Texas, and is the founder and managing partner of Scout Ventures. Bradley previously worked at BHV as a founder and managing partner. Bradley C. Harrison attended the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $538k–$4.2M; Series A $4.3M–$85M; Convertible Note $100k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
  • Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
  • LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
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Paul Buchheit
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States · 16 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Angel $100k–$1.6M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
  • BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Bradley C. Harrison
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 15 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
  • Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
  • LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.
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Paige Craig
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 15 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$3.5M; Angel $91k–$1.7M; Series A $700k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
  • CourseHorse — CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
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Scott Belsky
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 15 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Series A $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Pomo — Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack.
  • BuildForever — BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human.
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Daniel Curran
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $3.6M–$23M; Series B $2.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
  • Shred Video — Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work.Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action forsurfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.
  • GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
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Benjamin Ling
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $5.7M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
  • Delighted — Delighted is the easiest and most beautiful way to measure customer happiness. Are your customers delighted? The fastest and easiest way to gather actionable feedback from your customersDelighted uses the Net Promoter System® to gather real feedback from your customers – in minutes not weeks. No technical knowledge required.Customersreceive a single question survey. They rate your product/service and provide feedback in their own words. Feedback appears instantly in your dashboard.
  • Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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Clark Landry
Angel · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Bulgaria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.4M; Angel $50k–$1.1M; Series A $2.8M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Acquicent — Acquicent enables the issuance and trading of blockchain tokens linked to digital and real-world collectibles.
  • PositivEnergy — We are energy architects driven by a desire to make the benefits of clean energy easy, risk-free and available to all. Learn about energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure and backup power / UPS.
  • Hopscotch — Hopscotch is a network of top therapists committed to supporting your child. Explore our directory to find the right provider for your family.
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Larry Braitman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

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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: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.3M; Series A $4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spacejoy — Building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.
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Chris Sacca
Angel · Truckee, California, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

An accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, Chris manages a portfolio of over seventy consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. He is partnered in this venture with his wife, Crystal English Sacca. While primarily knownfor its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly grown to be one of the larger venture funds in the United States.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$11M; Series A $1.2M–$31M; Series B $8.3M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
  • Detect — Working on developing rapid molecular tests for point of need care
  • Linear Labs — The world has a bottomless appetite for electricity. In fact, 45% of the world's electricity passes through an electric motor. This is equivalent to 1 out of every 2 power plants solely dedicated to electric motors. And yet electric motor designs remain essentially unchanged in last 100 years. Linear Labs, an electric motor company, hascreated an entirely new family of electric motor systems designed for the next generation of electric vehicles, HVAC systems and robotics welcoming in a new era of smarter energy utilization. Our "smart"​ motors shape shift and morph the physical design in real time to adjust for changing conditions. The result is 2x improvements in torque, further range and significantly lowering power consumption.Linear Labs is a Texas based technology company.www.linearlabsinc.com
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
  • Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.
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Eric Ries
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
  • Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
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Howard Lindzon
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Howard Lindzon - Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
  • Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
  • Whoosh — Modern golf operations software for private golf clubs that streamlines your workflows to improve member experiences and reduce revenue loss.
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evertune — Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services
  • Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
  • Gemini Sports Analytics — Your Next-Gen Roster Management Command Center
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Ariel Poler
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$7M; Angel $1M–$1.7M; Series A $3M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
  • Kiwibot — Delivery robots to optimize your business and deliver safely and timely to your customers.
  • Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.
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Michael Birch
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
  • HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
  • Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.
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Allen DeBevoise
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years of experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to foundingThird Wave, Allen built a strong track record as an Angel Investor in the digital media sector and has had over 15 high-multiple exits and NAVs. Allen is currently the Chairman of Machinima and sits on several digital media company boards including StyleHaul, MiTu, Tubular Labs, DanceOn, INDMusic, and Mondo Entertainment. He was an early investor and outside board member for several companies. LowerMyBills.com and Dealer.com are examples of two companies that had highly successful exits. He was featured on the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power List 2009 and on Digital Media Wire's 2010 List of "25 Executives to Watch” and dubbed the Godfather of Online Video. Allen is a frequent speaker at major digital media conferences and considered an important leader in the rapidly growing Silicon Beach venture capital community.Allen has been engaged on the leading edge in the digital media and interactive arena for over three decades including working on the first uses of computer animation in entertainment ("Tron"), the first interactive video on the Mac ("Guernica"), the first interactive television trial (Time Warner Orlando) and the first broadband cable Internet prototype ("@Home").Allen has an A.B. in Mathematics and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Video, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals was founded in 2015 as a US-based esports and gaming organization that competes in League of Legends (LCS). At Immortals we aim to entertain, inspire, and be the voice of esports fans in the Great Lakes Region through our exciting players, talented creators and innovative regional experiences.
  • Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
  • Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.
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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States · 13 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
  • Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
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Dylan Field
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $13M–$29M; Series B $23M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
  • Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
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Vishal Rao
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Advisory CTO and Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Karl Jacob
Angel · San Francisco, Quintana Roo, Mexico · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Karl Jacob is the Founder and CEO of LoanSnap. He was a Founder and CEO at Wallop. He attended the University of Southern California in 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • June — Looking for the best cooking results? The June Oven is a do-it-all smart convection oven that makes cooking perfectly easy.
  • Boost Media — Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry.They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013.Boost Media is an enterprisesolution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile.The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.
  • Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.
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Marc Andreessen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
  • Canonical Crypto — Canonical backs technical founders building decentralized AI infrastructure. We invest early in the picks-and-shovels of the post-AGI future.
  • Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio
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Brian Lee
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Brian Lee is an entrepreneur. He is co-founder and former president of LegalZoom.com, co-founder and former CEO of ShoeDazzle.com, and co-founder and former CEO of The Honest Company. Formerly an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Brian co-founded LegalZoom in 2001. LegalZoom has since become the nationwide leader inonline legal services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
  • Rivet Work — Your construction labor is costing you margin. Avoid overmanning, reduce OT, staff smart, and balance backlog with your workforce capacity.
  • Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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