# Best Buy

> Best Buy is a VC fund in Bloomington backing Wireless and Audio. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bloomington, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2017
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BestBuy
- Website: https://www.bestbuy.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bestbuy

Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services offering consumer electronics and more. Its family of brands and partnerships includes brands such as Best Buy, Audiovisions, Future Shop, Geek Squad, Jiangsu Five Star, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and Cowboom. The company is comprised of over155,000 employees, and they apply their talents to bring the benefits of its brands to the lives of its customers through retail locations, multiple call centers, and websites, in-home solutions, product delivery, and activities in its community.Best Buy’s product portfolio includes consumer electronic video products such as televisions, digital cameras and accessories, digital camcorders, and DVD players; audio products comprising MP3 players, navigation products, home theater audio systems, and components; mobile electronics home office products comprising notebook and desktop computers, monitors, mobile phones and related subscription service commissions, hard drives, and networking equipment; entertainment software products such as video gaming hardware and software, DVDs, CDs, digital downloads, and computer software; and appliances, such as kitchen appliances, plumbing fixtures, snacks, and beverages. Best Buy provides its users with service contracts; extended warranties; product repair; broadband voice, data, and information technology services; and delivers and installs home theater, mobile audio, and appliances. In addition, the company engages in online retailing through BestBuy.com, BestBuy.ca, BestBuy.com.cn, espanol.BestBuy.com, and BestBuyMobile.com; CarphoneWarehouse.com; Five-Star.cn; FutureShop.ca; GeekSquad.com and GeekSquad.ca; MagnoliaAV.com; Napster.com; PacificSales.com; PhoneHouse.com; and Speakeasy.net.Best Buy was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Litchfield, M.N. with additional offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, and Europe.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Best Buy. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Best Buy. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/bestbuy?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wireless | 2 | 67% |
| Audio | 1 | 33% |
| Android | 1 | 33% |
| Messaging | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Tilzer | EVP, Chief Digital and Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-tilzer |
| Andy Gorski | Vice President Brand & Promotional Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-gorski |
| Corie Barry | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corie-barry |
| Daniel Grossman | Chief Medical Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-grossman |
| Dee O'Malley | Vice President, Financial Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dee-o-malley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AddStructure | AddStructure offer a white-labeled natural language understanding (NLU) platform that Retailers and Brands can use to enable conversational commerce channels. Each day, millions of consumers interact with AddStructure's products: Signal Search, Path, and Scaffold. Applications of their technology range from review summarization (distillingthousands of reviews of a product into digestible pros and cons) to a complete conversational commerce system (chatting with an intelligent digital assistant to find and purchase products). | $1.9M | Seed | Feb 27, 2017 |  |
| Avnera | Avnera is a fabless semiconductor firm making highly-integrated application targeted ICs for consumer audio and voice applications.Avnera has deep analog and mixed-signal circuit design expertise, including the know-how to integrate diverse circuit types onto single pieces of silicon. As such, Avnera IC's integrate RF, power management,audio data converters, host interfaces, & programmable DSPs onto low-cost CMOS, enabling very high performance at low total system cost.Avnera IC products target applications in PC accessory audio, iPod accessory audio, home theater, and consumer & enterprise voice. Avnera's list of customers includes names such as Logitech, Creative, Rocketfish, Panasonic, iHome, Vizio, Sanyo, Onkyo, Acoustic Research, Audioengine, Polycom, et al. | $14.7M | Series C | Sep 01, 2007 |  |
| Simplexity | Simplexity is changing the way telecommunications are bought and sold. The Simplexity.com website, and Simplexity's unique and powerful XACTtm architecture, have attracted major telecommunications carriers and strategic partners. The company's mission is to help bring clarity to the complex and confusing telecommunications marketplace.Simplexity enables users to learn about and compare the thousands of options available to them and enables carriers to interact directly with small and medium businesses, the fastest growing but most fragmented segment of the telecom market. | $27M | Series B | Mar 24, 2000 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABS Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abs-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altien Limited](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altien) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CNET Networks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cnetnetworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DAG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dag-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Best Buy invest in?

Best Buy invests primarily in Wireless, Audio and Android startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Best Buy?

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### Who are the partners at Best Buy?

The team at Best Buy includes Brian Tilzer (EVP, Chief Digital and Technology Officer), Andy Gorski (Vice President Brand & Promotional Marketing) and Corie Barry (Chief Executive Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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