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Top 50 Music Angel Investors in April 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Music startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Music Angel Investors in April 2025

Investor Music investments
Larry Marcus 5
Scooter Braun 5
Yat Siu 5
Ronald Conway 5
Kevin Mayer 4
David Kalt 4
Geoff Ralston 4
Jacob Gaffney 4
Nasir Jones 4
Cooper Turley 4
Steven Cox 4
Tom Ryan 4
Andrew Scott 3
Justin Waldron 3
Baron Davis 3
Ludvig Linge 3
Steve Aoki 3
Matthew Papakipos 3
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye 3
Per Brilioth 3
Andrew Gault 3
Bill Tai 3
Jason Calacanis 3
Roger Ehrenberg 3
Gary Vaynerchuk 3
Sebastian Knutsson 3
Hany Nada 3
Jorg Mohaupt 3
Craig Kallman 3
Justin David Blau 3
Mark Gillespie 3
Dennis Phelps 3
Paolo Barberis 3
Christer Andersson 3
Alex Zubillaga 3
Eric Ries 3
Troy Carter 3
Scott Banister 3
Jason Flom 3
Peter Gabriel 3
Guy Oseary 3
Auren Hoffman 3
Jacob Key 2
Farhad Mohit 2
Marcelo A. Benitez Albo 2
Kevin Lin 2
Steve Stoute 2
Omer Erkmen 2
Pete Cashmore 2
Chris Sacca 2
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Larry Marcus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
  • Maestro Interactive Inc — Explore Maestro, a leading interactive video platform. Learn how our interactive video tools can help you create more powerful experiences for your audience.
  • Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.
Scooter Braun Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Egypt, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Kindo — Kindo uses GenAI and autonomous agents to streamline and secure DevOps and SecOps workflows, resulting in a significant productivity gain and an improved security posture.
  • Spatial Labs — Spatial Labs is a technology infrastructure company that is powering the next generation of Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Omni-channel, and Immersive Experiences - collectively known as the Metaverse.
  • Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
Yat Siu Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • BeraTone — BeraTone is a farm life simulation game developed on Berachain technology.
  • BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
Ronald Conway Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Software, Social Media, Advertising
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
  • World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Kevin Mayer Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Kevin Mayer is the Co-CEO & Founder of Candle Media. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Digital Media, Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
  • Breakr — Unleash the power of music with Breakr. Explore a dynamic platform connecting artists, brands, and creators. Join us in reshaping the landscape of music discovery.
  • Popshop Live — Popshoplive is a turnkey creator commerce platform where creators sell their favorite items to their followers through e.commerce, video clips and live-streamed shows
David Kalt Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States
David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the founder and CEO of Reverb.com, an online marketplace for used, vintage and handmade guitars and gear. Kalt is also the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, one of the world's largest vintage guitardealers.Prior to launching Reverb.com, Kalt was the cofounder and CEO of online broker optionsXpress (#10 on the 2005 Inc 500 list), which went public in 2005 and was sold to Schwab in 2008 for $1 billion.Kalt was also the founder of ClientBASE, the first CRM solution for travel agents and tour group operators, which is now offered by the Sabre Travel Network.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with an original song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love yo...
  • Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)
Geoff Ralston Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
  • Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Jacob Gaffney Angel · Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Jacob T. Gaffney (born March 10, 2004) is an American businessman and financier. He is part-owner and the current Chief Executive Officer of Gaffney-Thompson Enterprises, a private equity group based in Cincinnati, Ohio. From 2022 to 2023, the company was presumably under investigation for its former association with racketeer-influenced corruptorganizations.Gaffney was born in Stepnyak, Kazakhstan in March 2004. He attended the Madeira City School District, a public school in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated in May 2022. In 2018, Gaffney picked up an interest in producing beats on the music-making platform SoundTrap, which was acquired by Spotify. In 2017, Lil Pump signed a deal with Tha Lights Global, a talent management company and record label which is best known for upgrading the careers of Lil Pump, Dominic Fike, Arizona Zervas, and others. His career was based primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio but was influenced by Tha Lights Global, based in Los Angeles, CA. During 2018 and 2019, he connected with several Grammy-nominated producers and others who worked on Billboard-charting singles. In 2019, he purchased a percentage of rights to Lil Tecca’s “RAN$OM” song, which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following the commercial and beneficial success in the production of this single, Gaffney continued to produce music and purchased rights to several songs in order to retain royalties of Billboard-charting artists. In December of 2020, Gaffney announced his departure from music production and focused on creating his own record company, and aspired to sign to a major parent organization. He launched 876K Entertainment and distributed music through Sony Music Publishing (U.S.) and Vydia, Inc. (U.S.).In 2021, Gaffney recognized the mass variety of coverage on the topic of Bishop Sycamore, an alleged non-existent high school football team based in Columbus, Ohio. He decided to partner in a venture with former head coach LeRoy Johnson and launched 7130 Entertainment alongside Vydia, Inc., a music distribution company. On August 12, 2022, hip-hop artist Christopher Stewart approved Gaffney's alignment from 7130 Entertainment and transferred executive LeRoy Johnson to Shock The World Entertainment which is based in Los Angeles, CA. Gaffney has worked closely with Stewart, a business relationship dating back to 2019. Christopher, who is the son of Laney Stewart, is a family member related to Christopher Alan "Tricky" Stewart, who is known for production within their RedZone Entertainment company, founded in 1995, and are responsible for over 25 million records sold. They have worked with clients such as The Dream, Rihanna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, and Beyoncé.On September 13, 2022, it was announced that Gaffney would enter into the process of incorporating a private-equity firm, known as Gaffney-Thompson Enterprises. Following the filing of incorporation with the State of Ohio, it was alleged that G.T. Enterprises was involved in foreign business operations that spanned from the United States, United Kingdom, and Mexico. In November 2022, subsidiary companies connected to G.T. Enterprises in the state of Texas were investigated for organized crime allegations.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Racing, Travel
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Portfolio highlights
  • Gaffney-Thompson Enterprises — G.B. Capital is an American private-equity firm founded by Jacob T. Gaffney and Conlan Thompson. It is based in Northern-Kentucky, USA and invests in the industries of real estate, music, travel, entertainment, thoroughbred racing, and outdoors.
Nasir Jones Angel · New York, New York, United States
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
  • Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Cooper Turley Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Cooper Turley Crypto Strategy at Audius
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Investment focus
  • Music, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
  • Stack — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
  • Mirage — La Mirage is a band from Lenny + Tyler <3
Steven Cox Angel · San Diego, California, United States
Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons.
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Investment focus
  • Local, Music, Video
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • TakeLessons — TakeLessons is the trusted marketplace for finding online and local instructors and taking online classes across a wide array of subjects ranging foreign languages, math and photography to music, dance and acting. Instructors rely on TakeLessons to simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated scheduling, billing, payment, andcommunication tools that work seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices.
Tom Ryan Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV and President, CEO, and Streaming at Paramount, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership withhundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.
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Investment focus
  • Music, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
  • Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
  • WHOW Games GmbH — WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space.
Andrew Scott Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
  • Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Justin Waldron Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue. Justin is an angel investor in Lambda School, Substack, and 60+ other companies. He mentors youngentrepreneurs at The Thiel Foundation's Thiel Fellowship program.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
  • Uncharted — Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
Baron Davis Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Zurp — Zurp is a fintech platform built for superfans. Instead of a traditional reward program, Zurp offers exclusive experiences with cardholders' favorite influencers.
  • KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.
  • COMMUNITYx — COMMUNITYx connects likeminded changemakers with another, as well as around calls-to-action. You can create events and petitions all from within the App! Whether you care about Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, Universal Healthcare, Poverty, and more, COMMUNITYx is the place for you!
Ludvig Linge Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
  • Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
  • MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.
Steve Aoki Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Steve Aoki is a Grammy-nominated international producer/DJ, electronic dance music entrepreneur, and founder of the trendsetting record label, events/lifestyle company, and apparel line Dim Mak. Since launching in 1996, Dim Mak has broken bands such as Bloc Party, the Bloody Beetroots, Klaxons, and the Gossip through deftly marketedsingle and full-length releases, and now has nearly 500 releases to date. As a solo artist, Aoki has become a force of nature averaging more than 250 tour dates per year. Aoki’s second artist album, Neon Future I, was released September 30, 2014, via Dim Mak/Ultra Music, and features his Gold-certified single “Delirious (Boneless)” with Chris Lake and Tujamo featuring Kid Ink, “Born to Get Wild” featuring will.i.am, and “Rage the Night Away” featuring Waka Flocka Flame. The second part of his Neon Future album, Neon Future II, was released May 12, 2015.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Music AI — State-of-the-art ethical AI solutions for audio and music applications. The highest quality audio separation available.
  • Kokomo Games — Kokomo Games is the unified multichain mini-gaming ecosystem committed to simplifying the GameFi experience by combining the greatest Web2 and Web3 technology, structures, and incentives.
  • Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
Matthew Papakipos Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Matthew Papakipos
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Investment focus
  • Music, Apps, Video
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • OP.GG — The Best LoL Champion Builds and Player Stats by OP.GG - Learn champion builds, runes, and counters. Search Riot ID and Tagline for stats of all game modes.
  • Ozarka — Why Just Eat When You Can Inspire? Beautiful Reusables for Caterers Who Lead. Save money, time, and storage space with reusables services. Ozarka reusables are not just a sustainable choice
  • Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Weeknd, also known as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer. The singer started in 2010 and released 4 albums and 43 singles.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Koia — Plant protein, but not that chalky stuff. Our shakes are sweet without all the sugar, creamy without the dairy, and serves up a variety of nutrients without sacrificing deliciousness.
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with an original song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love yo...
  • Pomelo — Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.
Per Brilioth Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Transportation
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
  • Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
Andrew Gault Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
  • Banked — A Banking Platform for Young People that engenders healthy financial habits and rewards healthy activity.All built around a contactless payment and activity tracking smartwatch.Financial Institutions coupled with Wearable Devices “should” own the Internet of Things, .yet they are too large, unwieldy and slow moving to capitalise on thisadvantage. Banked will be the key indexer of the user in a network of connected things.
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Bill Tai Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
  • MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments 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
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
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.
Roger Ehrenberg Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Advertising, FinTech, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • FL Newsletter — 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 — The first AI cloud for sports
Gary Vaynerchuk Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • 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.
  • Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
Sebastian Knutsson Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Sweden, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
  • Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
  • Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
Hany Nada Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Hany Nada is the Co-Founder and Partner of ACME Capital. He attended the University of Minnesota.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, Mobile
  • Series D, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Plexchat — Plexchat is venture-backed company dedicated to being the heart of mobile conversation about interests. Chaos is a pretty common theme in almost all online social networks. Despite their proliferation, very few were designed to facilitate coordination and communication. Plexchat intends on changing this by bringing to market the premier toolfor social coordination in mobile games in an anonymous environment.
  • Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
  • Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.
Jorg Mohaupt Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
  • Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
  • Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Craig Kallman Angel
Craig Kallman - Board of Directors @ RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with an original song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love yo...
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • Arcturus — Experience sports like never before.
Justin David Blau Angel · New York, New York, United States
Justin David Blau, better known by his stage name 3LAU, is an American DJ and electronic dance music producer.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Music AI — State-of-the-art ethical AI solutions for audio and music applications. The highest quality audio separation available.
  • Kits.AI — Arpeggi is a web3 music creation platform where musicians can publish their sounds for others to create with. Begin remixing samples, loops, and songs in our free in-browser DAW in one click. Connect with artists. Grow your following.
  • 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.
Mark Gillespie Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Recently named as one of Billboard’s 2021 Change Agents, as well as one of the World's Greatest Managers by Music Business Worldwide, Mark Gillespie is a world-class British CEO, manager, and producer whose vision and drive have led him to build Three Six Zero into the global entertainment powerhouse that it is today. Widely recognized as oneof the industry's preeminent executives, Gillespie has been instrumental in guiding the careers of Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris, most recently closing a deal in excess of $100MM for his publishing catalogue. With offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and London, Gillespie provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Three Six Zero and its clients remain at the forefront of the music, film, television, and digital content landscapeFueled by a lifelong passion for music, Gillespie launched his career in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, where he proved to be an invaluable asset for superclub Godskitchen. Since then, he has established himself as a visionary in the entertainment industry, having worked in partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment, Jay-Z and Roc Nation, and most recently Westbrook Entertainment, whose talent roster includes Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the entire Smith Family.A relentless pioneer and entrepreneur, Gillespie has joined forces with Pete Tong MBE to run Three Six Zero Recordings, his own in-house record label, while continuing to expand an already successful presence in film and television. Along with several other projects in the pipeline, the company's first feature film – prestige drama, VOX LUX – starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, including an original soundtrack by Sia, was released in 2018.With a passion for innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and apparel, Gillespie has invested in companies such as Outdoor Voices, Stance, Ember Technologies, Stem Disintermedia, and Saavn. Committed to giving back and continuously fostering artistic talent, Gillespie has also remained a longtime philanthropist and advocate, sitting on both the Music Committee of Children in Conflict and the core screening panel of the Recording Academy. In his downtime, Gillespie enjoys following Manchester United and is an avid collector of modern art.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Internet, Video
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Bkstg — Bkstg was founded by tech and music entrepreneurs to reinvent the way artists and fans connect by creating a new form of direct relationship that’s never existed before.
  • Hyperice — HyperIce is a recovery and movement enhancement technology company specializing in vibration, percussion, and thermal technology. Its technology is used by the athletes in professional and collegiate training rooms and fitness facilities globally.The company is driven by a mission to provide everyone with the innovative technology in acceleratingrecovery time, preventing injury, and enhancing the body’s ability to move efficiently. HyperIce was founded in 2010 by Anthony Katz.
  • Biosceptre — A Promise Beyond Cancer Envisioning the future of targeted therapeutics Biosceptre is driving innovation to bring new and progressive therapies to a wide range of cancer patients. Our focus is a multiple-targeted universal CAR T system with the potential to improve the lives of millions of patients across the world who are suffering from
Dennis Phelps Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Dennis Phelps is the General Partner of IVP.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • PlayVS — Starting this Fall, middle schoolers will have the opportunity for free & fun game play with many of their favorite age-appropriate titles while gaining applicable skills!
  • Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
  • Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
Paolo Barberis Angel · Firenze, Toscana, Italy
Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.
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Investment focus
  • Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Christer Andersson Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Sweden, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
  • Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
Alex Zubillaga Angel · New York, New York, United States
Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
Eric Ries Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Serbia, Canada
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.
Troy Carter Angel · Culver City, California, United States
Troy Carter is the Founder and CEO of Venice Music. He previously worked at Atom Factory as a Founder and CEO. Troy Carter attended Fairfield University.
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Investment focus
  • Social Media, Software, Music
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • NOVA — Connecting creatives with opportunity. Hire top creatives, grow your network, and find your dream jobs all on Nova.
  • Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
  • MobileCoin — Download the Sentz App to send and receive payments globally from anyone you can text in under five seconds for (basically) free!
Scott Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
Jason Flom Angel
Jason Flom
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Investment focus
  • Music, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Songclip (Audiobyte) — Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates theworld’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Peter Gabriel Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.
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Investment focus
  • Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Guy Oseary Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology.He began in his teens at what was to become Maverick Records, and eventually became chairman and partner. He guided the label to sales of over 100 million units globally.Since 2004, Oseary has been a principal at the top entertainment management company,Untitled Entertainment, which clients include Emma Watson, Penelope Cruz, and Lucy Liu and many others.In 2014 Oseary led a partnership that created the largest music management company in the world - MAVERICK. While Oseary personally manages Madonna and U2, the company’s combined 50+ clients include Paul McCartney, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and The Weeknd, and reach over 1 billion people each month.Alongside his Sound Ventures partner Ashton Kutcher, Oseary has made over 200 investments in companies like Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Houzz, Robinhood & Neighborly.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
  • WasteFuel — WasteFuel produces renewable fuels using proven technologies to address the climate emergency and revolutionize mobility.
  • [cafeteria] — [cafeteria] allows individuals to influence businesses, get paid for opinions, and develop professional talents.
  • Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
Auren Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
  • 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.
Jacob Key Angel
Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Insurance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
  • Challengermode — Leading platform for esports competitions. Compete in high quality tournaments from the best organizers or create your own Space & monetize your community.
  • MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.
Farhad Mohit Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Farhad Mohit is the Founder and Fulltime Volunteer at GOOD PARTY.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Media and Entertainment, Music
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zencastr — Zencastr makes it easy for podcasters to record their guests in studio quality directly from their web browser.Unlike other call recorders (Skype, Hangouts, Zoom, Phone) that record all voices – including VoIP distortion – on the host's computer, Zencastr records each participant separately on their local computer in pristine quality.Simply send a web link to your guests and they will automatically join you in a live VoIP connection. Press record and each participant's audio is recorded directly from their local microphone without any VoIP compression, artifacts, or dropouts.Once the recording is complete, each solo track is uploaded to the Zencastr cloud as well as conveniently synced to the host's preferred cloud drive (Dropbox or Google Drive).Featuring a foolproof design and relentless focus on quality, Zencastr is the perfect tool for brand new podcasters and veterans alike. Optionally record in high quality MP3 or lossless 16-bit WAV. Having a separate track per participant makes editing a snap. Don't want to mix the tracks yourself? Zencastr's 'Automatic Postproduction' service will mix the tracks for you and perform a specialized set of audio enhancements to provide you with a professional sounding mix ready for publishing in minutes.The software starts with an 8-hour-per-month hobbyist tier for free, or a $20-per-month professional tier which includes lossless WAV recording, Automatic Postproduction, and unlimited guests and recording time.
  • Unblocked — Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment. Unblocked was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
Marcelo A. Benitez Albo Angel · Nuevo León, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
Marcelo Benitez is a Partner Director at Stella Maris Partners.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Musical Instruments, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.
Kevin Lin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Paraform — Get paid to recruit for the most exciting startups on your own terms. Recruiting has never been so accessible.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
Steve Stoute Angel · New York, New York, United States
Steve Stoute has a proven track record of building successful businesses and has garnered significant recognition as one of the most influential brand marketers in the country.As the Chairman of Carol’s Daughter, a Pegasus portfolio company, he has grown the company’s sales by over 15x in under 5 years by expanding distribution and creatingmarketing partnerships. Mr. Stoute also serves as founder and CEO of Translation LLC, a leading brand marketing firm that creates and executes innovative promotions between Fortune 500 companies and superstar celebrities in music, sports, fashion and entertainment. With a strong focus on the urban and youth markets and multi-cultural consumers, Mr. Stoute and Translation have built programs for Reebok, McDonald’s, Samsung, Procter & Gamble and Target and has worked with celebrities such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani. Prior to founding Translation, Mr. Stoute worked with top music artists as an Executive Vice President at Interscope Geffen A&M.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Music, Beauty
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mass Appeal — (function runFullPage(){(function ready(fn){if (document.attachEvent?document.readyState==="complete":document.readyState!=="loading"){fn();}else{document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',fn);}})(function(){function getParentsUntil(elem, parent, selector){if (!Element.prototype.matches) {Element.prototype.matches = Element.prototype.matchesSelector || Element.prototype.mozMatchesSelector || Element.prototype.msMatchesSelector || Element.prototype.oMatchesSelector || Element.prototype.webkitMatchesSelector || function(s) {var matches = (this.document || this.ownerDocument).querySelectorAll(s);var i = matches.length;while(--i >= 0 && matches.item(i) !== this) {}return i > -1;};}var parents = [];for (;elem && elem !== document; elem = elem.parentNode) {if (parent) {if (elem.matches(parent)) break;}if (selector) {if (elem.matches(selector)) {parents.push(elem);}break;}parents.push(elem);}return parents;};Array.prototype.forEach.call(getParentsUntil( document.querySelector('.mcw-fp-wrapper'), 'body' ), function(el, i){if (el.classList) el.classList.add('mcw_fp_nomargin');else el.className += ' mcw_fp_nomargin';});new fullpage('.mcw-fp-wrapper',{licenseKey:"52D29CDE-EE9446D3-952EEBA0-AA042415",sectionSelector:".mcw-fp-section",slideSelector:".mcw-fp-slide",lockAnchors:true,navigation:true,navigationPosition:"right",showActiveTooltip:false,slidesNavigation:false,css3:true,scrollingSpeed:1000,autoScrolling:true,fitToSection:true,fitToSectionDelay:1000,scrollBar:false,easingcss3:"ease",continuousVertical:false,loopBottom:false,loopTop:false,loopHorizontal:false,scrollOverflow:true,scrollOverflowOptions:{scrollbars:false,fadeScrollbars:false,interactiveScrollbars:false},bigSectionsDestination:"top",animateAnchor:true,keyboardScrolling:true,recordHistory:true,controlArrows:false,verticalCentered:true,paddingTop:(typeof mcwPaddingTop!=="undefined"&&mcwPaddingTop)?mcwPaddingTop+"px":"0px",paddingBottom:"0px",responsiveWidth:0,responsiveHeight:0,fixedElements:"",normalScrollElements:"",afterRender:function(){[].slice.call( document.querySelectorAll('.fp-bg') ).forEach(function(eli){ var prnt = eli; do { prnt = prnt.parentElement; } while ( prnt && prnt.nodeType === 1 && ! 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  • Moment House — Elevated Digital Experiences
  • Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
Omer Erkmen Angel
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Pete Cashmore Angel · New York, New York, United States
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, the leading source of news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to createMashable. Always an entrepreneur, Pete has continued to push Mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology. He leads Mashable’s strategy and his innate sense of the web and its community, are core to the company’s operations and future growth. He has been described as the “Sage of Media” and considered one of the most influential voices of his generation-- on and offline. Pete was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list, named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, and was named a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Music, Video
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Yo — Yo is a simple and efficient single-tap zero character communication tool.
  • Flown — Get more done and feel good with FLOWN, the ultimate virtual co-working platform. Body doubling sessions to help you improve focus and beat procrastination.
  • Shots Podcast Network — Shots Studios is a podcast network servicing the top podcasts on YouTube. The audio versions of the podcasts can be found on Spotify and Apple along with clips on Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.
Chris Sacca Angel · Truckee, California, United States
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
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Detect — Working on developing rapid molecular tests for point of need care
  • Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of electricity with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
  • Fuse Energy — Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100 percent renewable energy.
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