Broadway Video Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Broadway Video Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Mobile Apps and Digital Media. Broadway Video Ventures targets early and growth-stage investments, acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures across the media, entertainment, and technology sectors, seeking to leverage and enhance Broadway Video’s existing content and distribution businesses. In addition, BVV incubates new businesses, notably Above Average.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $2.2M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Broadway Video Ventures invests in
Stages Broadway Video Ventures invests in
Countries Broadway Video Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile Apps 3 (23%)
- Digital Media 3 (23%)
- News 2 (15%)
- Video 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (69%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 10 (77%)
- Finland 1 (8%)
- Germany 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Birnbaum
President
|
President | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Lorne Michaels
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctuary is a mystical products and services company that provides illuminating experiences to millennials. Sanctuary’s daily horoscopes, planetary transits, and real-time chart readings are written and performed by professional astrologers. Sanctuary’s offerings provide members with a full spectrum of cosmic insights. | $1.5M / Seed / Dec 07, 2017 | ||
| The San Francisco-based startup launched out of stealth today to offer users different channels, or “islands,” through which they can organize a game of volleyball, share class notes, or simply create a support group. | $1.9M / Seed / Aug 30, 2017 | ||
| Jellysmack builds and powers social videos channels through technology. | $2M / Seed / Mar 27, 2017 | ||
| Waggle is a community driven digital media platform for pet & animal lovers that creates wonderful connections between animals and the people who love them. Incubated by Broadway Video Ventures (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon), Waggles's investors include Raine and Lowercase Capital. | $2.3M / Seed / Dec 07, 2016 | ||
| Poncho is a weather cat that tells you the weather and a whole lot more. The most popular chatbot on Facebook Messenger and one of the top weather apps in the App Store. Poncho is based in New York and has recently raised money from some of the top VC firms. Using the latest bot technologies we've built in house, our mission is to create anddeliver the most engaging content on messaging and other hardware platforms. | $2M / Seed / Apr 28, 2016 | ||
| MessageYes' mission is to help people effortlessly discover and purchase items they love using their mobile phones. MessageYes is the first platform to offer frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging for brands looking to engage and transact directly with their customers. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), human-assisted AI, andintegrated payments, the MessageYes platform learns from customer feedback to make the experience serendipitous to each person and brand. Message recipients simply reply "Yes" to instantly buy from their mobile phones. | $2.5M / Seed / Apr 27, 2016 | ||
| In the past Futurefly team members have been shipping mega-hit games like Angry Birds, Alan Wake, Habbo Hotel and Bad Piggies, to name a few. The team have over 100 years combined experience in game and app development.Rawr Messenger, launched in summer 2016, is an avatar-powered messaging app that reinvents the role of emojis and animation incommunication. www.rawrmessenger.com Dubface is a 3D animated Augmented Reality sticker app. | $3M / Seed / Sep 11, 2015 | ||
| Hyper is a new video magazine for iPad with a clear less is more approach. With daily editions of only 6 to 12 hand-picked videos and a beautiful, minimalist design, Hyper simply provides the best of the newest every day. | $1.1M / Seed / Aug 26, 2015 | ||
| KitSplit is a venture-backed startup re-imagining the Hollywood production studio as a local marketplace. We enable all visual storytellers, regardless of background and budget, to become their own studio with access to world-class gear and services. Today we are the largest rental marketplace and community for gear rentals. Forbes and Fast Companyhave called us "the AirBNB of cameras." But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Ultimately we're building a one-stop shop for visual content creators to get everything they need including gear, locations, and services. We are looking for high-caliber, visionary, creative, and genuine people to build their careers with us. | $40K / Pre-Seed / Jun 18, 2015 | ||
| AIR.TV enables the distribution and monetization of viral videos on websites. Publishers and content owners are now able to generate earnings when publishers embed videos on their website. It's completely automatic and it works with existing articles, embeds, and workflow. Publishers add one line of code to their site to start generatingearnings.AIR.TV is based in Los Angeles. Visit us at www.air.tv to learn more. | $3.3M / Series A / Apr 28, 2015 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Broadway Video Ventures invest in?
Broadway Video Ventures invests primarily in Mobile Apps, Digital Media and News startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Broadway Video Ventures?
The team at Broadway Video Ventures includes David Birnbaum (President) and Lorne Michaels (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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