Disney Accelerator
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Disney Accelerator is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile. The Disney Accelerator focused on advancing opportunities between innovative technologies and The Walt Disney Company. It helps technology innovators turn their dreams for new media and entertainment experiences into reality. The company’s program is open to both early, growth and late stage venture-backed technology startups with a vision formaking an impact on the future of media and entertainment.Disney Accelerator was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Total investments:
- 70
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
Last updated:
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Industries Disney Accelerator invests in
Stages Disney Accelerator invests in
Countries Disney Accelerator invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (16%)
- Mobile 10 (14%)
- Software 8 (11%)
- Information Technology 7 (10%)
- Video 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 31 (44%)
- Non-equity Assistance 12 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (14%)
- Convertible Note 6 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (6%)
Country
- United States 47 (67%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Norway 1 (1%)
- Sweden 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alif Khalfan
Director of Innovation
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Director of Innovation | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jared Hyatt
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Peter Csathy
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Promethean AI is world's first Artificial Intelligence that works together with Artists, assists them in the process of building virtual worlds, helps creative problem solving by suggesting ideas and takes on a lot of mundane and non-creative work so You can focus on what's important. All while learning from and adapting to individualtastes of every single user. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Nuro is a technology company that develops a self-driving vehicle for local goods transportation. Nuro transforms local commerce through autonomous delivery. Its service helps merchants deliver goods to customers quickly, affordably, and safely. Nuro's mission is to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Audioshake makes sound more usable for both humans and machines by separating sound into its component parts. Used by some the world's largest media, entertainment, and tech companies, AudioShake is used in audio editing workflows, Voice AI, and multimodal training. | Non-equity Assistance / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Obsess is on a mission to reinvent the shopping experience. Today's e-commerce interface is a grid of thumbnails on a flat background that is the same across every channel and brand. Obsess enables brands to transform this interface into an engaging, beautiful, and custom-built experience that is optimized to capture shopper's attention.Immersive experiences enable retailers to build relationships with their shoppers, creating memorable digital touchpoints. By bringing the best of gaming into e-commerce, Obsess enables brands to create fun shopping experiences and appeal to a wider, younger audience while obtaining deep levels of insights into the way their customers shop. We are the market leader with the largest customer base and the most data, having launched 200+ stores with the world's leading brands in retail, beauty, luxury, CPG, and media. | $500K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| RED 6 is a creator of ATARS, which allows real pilots in real airplanes to fly and visually maneuver against any synthetically generated enemy in real time. With Red 6’s augmented reality visor, AI-driven multi-player network, and biometric feedback loops, it can deliver an optimized experience in countless industries such as entertainment, sports,and medicine. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AIapplications to millions of concurrent users.Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise. At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Lockerverse is a Web3 platform that empowers creators and brands to tell culture-defining stories and deliver unique access and experiences. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| FlickPlay is a Web3 social app where users may use NFTs to create AR films by unlocking them in the physical world. The company is based in Los Angeles, California. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
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What does Disney Accelerator invest in?
Disney Accelerator invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 70 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 Disney Accelerator?
The team at Disney Accelerator includes Alif Khalfan (Director of Innovation), Jared Hyatt (Mentor) and Peter Csathy (Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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