Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
CEO & Founder @ WatchMojo.com
Montréal, Canada
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is a seed investor at WatchMojo.com in Montréal focused on Apps and Music. A winner of the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for in the media category, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of WatchMojo, one of the most successful producers of premium video content.The company's catalog of 10,000 videos on pop culture and infotainment and are seen 300 million times each monthby nearly 50 million consumers. With 7 billion all-time views and 13 million subscribers on YouTube, WatchMojo operates the tenth largest YouTube channel of all time. A finance graduate from one of the top colleges in the nation, Ashkan started his career as in-house finance analyst at one of the original meta-search engines on the Web, Mamma. From there he worked in the online publishing industry where he headed up advertising sales for AskMen. After its sale to News Corp., he launched WatchMojo, which to this day has never raised financing and is profitable since 2011.He left News Corp. and established Mojo Supreme in 2006 as an incubator which spawned multiple projects, including WatchMojo.com, which took off and today counts media companies and marketers as clients. A prolific writer, he has written thousands of articles on business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, pop culture, travel and much more. His articles have been published on MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, MediaPost, PaidContent, GigaOm and Tech Crunch and he and has been quoted in Forbes, the BBC, Business Week, CNET, etc. He is the author of Course to Success: Everything You Need to Succeed Beyond School, The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness, and the 10-Year Overnight Success: An Entrepreneur's Manifesto - How WatchMojo Built the Most Successful Media Brand on YouTube.He holds a degree in Commerce, lives in Montreal and is married with two children.
- Total investments:
- 2
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 1 (50%)
- Music 1 (50%)
- Video 1 (50%)
- EdTech 1 (50%)
- Family 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
Country
- Canada 1 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (50%)
Investments
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| WALO is a fintech company focused on empowering parents to teach their kids about money using allowances, behavioral guidance and gamification. Their first product, WALO Plug™ connects to any Canadian bank account and allows parents to automate allowances while seamlessly teaching their kids financial literacy, and preparing them to make smartchoices with their money. | $1.1M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 | ||
| Thrillz is where fans reach the stars in a few clicks via custom videos, live events and experiences. We create life changing moments and allow fans to personally connect with their favourite celebrities. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Jun 17, 2021 |
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About WatchMojo.com
WatchMojo.com is one the oldest and largest producers of premium, professionally-produced factual infotainment video programming, supplying snackable video content to media companies, marketers and academic organizations. Founded and funded in 2006 by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan - a winner of Ernst & Young's Media Entrepreneur of the Year in2015 - the company's 25 million subscribers & 100 million unique monthly global viewers watch 300 million videos each month while generating 2 billion minutes of watch time. Sicne 2006, its community of Mojoholics have spent 65 billion minutes on its channels. Measured by subscribers and views, only 20 channels are larger all-time on YouTube.Profitable since November 2010, WatchMojo was privately-funded and today has no outside institutional investors. As such, it is one of the largest independent creators and distributors of premium video content in the world.
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Peter Horan
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Laura Lee
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Paul Ortchanian
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What does Ashkan Karbasfrooshan invest in?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan invests primarily in Apps, Music and Video startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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