Demarest Media
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Demarest Media is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Music and Mobile. Demarest is a digital media and entertainment company that invests in films from around the world. The company was founded in 2007, by William Johnson and Michael Lambert, and it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Demarest Media invests in
Stages Demarest Media invests in
Countries Demarest Media invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$3.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 4 (25%)
- Mobile 3 (19%)
- Sports 3 (19%)
- Analytics 3 (19%)
- Media and Entertainment 3 (19%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (56%)
- Series A 5 (31%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 15 (94%)
- Singapore 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
William Johnson
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naritiv is a mobile media company born on Snapchat. We are building ongoing programming and large audiences on Snapchat for brands as well as our owned and operated channels all involving our creators who see over 20 billion views per month. Our partners have access to our unique technology and reporting capabilities on both Snapchat as well as theother platforms our content spreads to (such as Twitter and Instagram). | $3M / Series A / Jan 28, 2016 | ||
| TopFan is a platform for building communities. Influencers and organizations use the white-labeled technology to build social content distribution networks that they own and control. Learn more by watching this 3-minute introductory video: http://topfan.com/video | Seed / Apr 29, 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 | ||
| Affinity Networks designs and builds engagement platforms for vertical communities. They are now beginning to develop jointly managed white-label apps for partners in key verticals as well as launching a developer SDK for 3rd party apps to access their platform, please contact them if you would like more information. | $500K / Seed / Feb 10, 2015 | ||
| Augury helps eliminate downtime, reduce maintenance costs and maximize productivity for critical machines in industrial and commercial applications ranging from bottling and food processing to paper products and pharmaceuticals. Its Machine Health solutions combine advanced sensors with powerful AI capabilities and collaboration tools to help teamsunderstand when machines are at risk. | $2M / Seed / Oct 06, 2014 | ||
| MoviePass is a subscription service that allows customers the freedom to see movies in theaters at a fixed monthly price. With the use of location-based mobile technologies the user will have the ability to check into their movie theater of choice and share their movie-going experiences with their peers through their favorite social networks. Theuser will also have the ability to rate each movie and theater experience after the film. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.2M / Series A / Sep 26, 2014 | ||
| TheTake.AI is a white label offering built around its patent pending neural network that identifies where and when products, people and other items appear in images and video. Clients include Universal Pictures, Comcast, Bravo, E!, Fandango and others. | $2M / Seed / Sep 08, 2014 | ||
| World's First Social Media Tour & Music Festival | $2M / Seed / May 15, 2014 | ||
| Genesis is the only video solution that uses real-time analytics to create viewable ad opportunities within quality content. Genesis uses proprietary attention data to optimize video opportunities to the most engaging pages, and adaptive formats to find the best video format in real-time for each page. | $10M / Series B / Apr 10, 2014 | ||
| Launched in 2013, GoCoin.com is a digital currencies platform that offers a payment getaway consisting of merchant APIs for online and retail merchants to accept mobile, bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin transactions as payment methods. Assuming any risk associated with such transactions, merchants can walk away with paying GoCoin a fee of 1% only.The list of merchants using the platform includes companies like General Electric, Cozy Games, BitFury, and Tesla Motors. GoCoin is headquartered in Singapore and operates as a B2B company. | $1.5M / Series A / Mar 26, 2014 | ||
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FAQ
What does Demarest Media invest in?
Demarest Media invests primarily in Music, Mobile and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Demarest Media invest in?
Demarest Media typically joins rounds of $500k–$3M at Seed and $1.5M–$3.3M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Demarest Media's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Demarest Media took part in.
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Who are the partners at Demarest Media?
The team at Demarest Media includes William Johnson (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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