# Atom Factory

> Atom Factory is a VC fund in Culver City backing Social Media, Apps and Music. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Culver City, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1219086
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/atomfactory
- Website: http://atomfactory.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AtomFactory

Atom Factory is a multi-dimensional branding, entertainment, and artist management company. The company’s divisions include A\IDEA: a creative think tank and branding agency, and AF Square: an angel fund and technology consultancy. Lady Gaga, John Legend, Meghan Trainor, James Davis, and Priyanka Chopra are some of its clients.Atom Factorywas founded by Troy Carter and is based in California, United States.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.4M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 5 | 29% |
| Apps | 3 | 18% |
| Music | 3 | 18% |
| Mobile | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 24% |
| Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 76% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Droplet | Droplet Health makes state-of-the-art home diagnostic kits for industry. |  | Seed | Mar 23, 2018 |  |
| ATTN: | ATTN: is a content network that helps young people understand and impact the world around them. It was launched in June 2014. | $4.1M | Series A | Dec 04, 2014 |  |
| SonicEnergy™ | SonicEnergy, Inc. is a wireless power startup that transmits power to charge electronic devices over-the-air. Its ultrasonic technology comprises a transmitter, which emits a high-frequency sound that is inaudible to users and their pets; and transmits power directly to receivers requesting power, which convert power to usable electrical energyusing energy-harvesting technology.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $10M | Series A | Oct 30, 2014 |  |
| Songza | Songza predicts what you're doing or feeling and then serves an expertly-curated playlist designed to make it better. Songza offers playlists for improving activities such as waking up, working out, commuting, concentrating, unwinding, entertaining, and sleeping. Songza’s team of music experts is comprised of journalists, critics, DJs,ethnomusicologists and musicians. Songza has been named one of the App Store Best of 2012 by Apple, one of Time's Best Android Apps of 2013, and one of Fast Company's 2013 Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Music. | $4.7M |  | Sep 10, 2013 |  |
| SonicEnergy™ | SonicEnergy, Inc. is a wireless power startup that transmits power to charge electronic devices over-the-air. Its ultrasonic technology comprises a transmitter, which emits a high-frequency sound that is inaudible to users and their pets; and transmits power directly to receivers requesting power, which convert power to usable electrical energyusing energy-harvesting technology.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. | $985K | Debt Financing | Apr 22, 2013 |  |
| Summly | Simple, intuitive and elegant. Summly redefines news for the mobile world with algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. Innovative gestures, animations and great summaries make reading the news fun: easy to use, easy to scan, easy to read, clear and concise.Nick D'Aloisio launched Summly in December 2011 as a techsummarization prototype that garnered significant interest worldwide. With backing from Horizons Ventures, and help from many NLP and AI experts around the world, Nick and the Summly team have been able to further develop summarization technology, the first result being the new Summly mobile news app. | $1.2M |  | Oct 01, 2012 |  |
| Crossfader | Crossfader is the ultimate music mashup app. It turns anybody into a DJ in a matter of seconds, and allows users to discover and share amazing remixes with others around the world. | $1M |  | Sep 01, 2012 |  |
| Socialcam | Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family. |  | Angel | Apr 30, 2012 |  |
| Votizen | Votizen is a consumer technology company that harnesses social networks to create a connected electorate of voters.Votizen provides a new way to focus, measure, and exercise political influence by bringing voters together. As opposed to existing tools that help elected officials campaign, Votizen empowers its users to leverage their ownnetworks to self-organize in voting blocks and advance their causes and interests, redefining the political system with the voter at the center -- not the politician.The company has engineered an entirely new database of voting record rolls across the United States, taking public voting information and normalizing that data to the district level. Then, by mapping those rolls to a user's online identity (through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+), Votizen is able to create the first graphical representation of a voter's network, across states, political parties, and frequency of voting.Votizen was cofounded by David Binetti, Jason Putorti, and Matt Snider. The company is nonpartisan, for-profit, venture-backed, and based in Mountain View, CA: www.votizen.com | $750K |  | Feb 24, 2012 |  |
| Bread | Bread is the only platform that monetizes across social media, desktop and mobile. Our proprietary technology serves premium, rich media ads on links shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social media platforms. Bread partners with top influencers, bloggers and publishers like Lady Gaga, Texts from Last Night and Spartz media aswell as major brands like Pepsi, Sony Pictures and Carl’s Jr. Bread has offices in San Francisco and New York City. | $3.4M | Series A | Jan 30, 2012 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Atom Factory invest in?

Atom Factory invests primarily in Social Media, Apps and Music startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Atom Factory's check size?

Atom Factory typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Atom Factory participates in.

### When did Atom Factory last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Atom Factory closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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