Demarest Media
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Demarest Media is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Music and Sports. 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:
- 13
- 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
- $1M–$3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$3.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 4 (31%)
- Sports 3 (23%)
- Media and Entertainment 3 (23%)
- Apps 2 (15%)
- Film 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Series A 5 (38%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 12 (92%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| DigiTour Media is an emerging media and entertainment company, which creates and produces IRL (“in real life”) social media experiences in the form of concerts (DigiTours) and festivals (DigiFests). On May 15th, 2014 DigiTour announced strategic investments from Ryan Seacrest and Advance Publications (parent company of Conde Nast).DigiTourevents feature the most well known social media personalities and traditional recording artists in the genres of pop, alternative rock, hip-hop and comedy. In 2014, over 120,000 fans will attend DigiTour events in Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Los Angeles, among scores of other U.S. cities, as well as London and Toronto.DigiTour Media LLC was founded in 2010 and has launched five successful tours and multiple sold out festivals receiving critical acclaim in the media (New York Times, Variety, Forbes, AdWeek, HypeBot, LA Business Journal, Billboard.biz, Fuse, E! Online, NPR, Perez Hilton.com, Village Voice, KTLA, US Weekly, and On Air with Ryan Secrest).DigiTour made an indelible mark in the entertainment industry by changing the traditional concert platform and helped launch solid brands that have the ability to bridge the gap between web and the mainstream. In 2014 almost all nominees in the WebStar and Internet categories were DigiTour Alums - as were the winners for Choice Viner, Choice Webstar, and Choice Collaboration. The New York Times stated on their June 8th page A-1 story:"A capacity 12,500 tickets were sold. More than 70 performers appeared on three stages. There were 150 security guards, a necessity whenever swarms of shrieking teenage girls assemble. Coke sponsored a live web stream of the festivities.The latest incarnation of Lollapalooza or Lilith Fair?Not even close. This was DigiFest NYC.." | $2M / Seed / May 15, 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 | ||
| TAPP is building online video channels around them, allowing super-fans close-up access to the people they adore. Fan-supported subscription channels you can watch on any device – your phone, tablet, pc, or TV. | Mar 12, 2014 | ||
| Vertical Mass helps you collect and safely store data on your fans across social media, websites, mobile apps, ecommerce and content streaming services. Your proprietary data helps you understand your audience better and reach those fans with advertising or content wherever they browse the web. You can automatically deliver more value to the rightfans with the right products. It also helps your marketing partners spend media dollars much more effectively by targeting your audience with ads or distributing content wherever they browse the web – delivering significant revenue to you for the value of your data.Whether you're the world’s largest steaming service, an up-and-coming Instagram superstar, the reigning NHL champs or are headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Vertical Mass is the only data management platform built specifically for you. | $3M / Seed / Jan 15, 2014 | ||
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FAQ
What does Demarest Media invest in?
Demarest Media invests primarily in Music, Sports and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
What is Demarest Media's check size?
Demarest Media typically joins rounds of $1M–$3M at Seed and $1.5M–$3.3M 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 Demarest Media participates 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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