# Doug McCormick

> Doug McCormick is a private equity investor at Skyword backing Marketing and Advertising. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Skyword](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skyword)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-mccormick-25637145

Doug McCormick is a private equity investor at Skyword in New York focused on Marketing and Advertising. Douglas McCormick is a Board Member at Skyword.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 2 | 50% |
| Advertising | 2 | 50% |
| SEO | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Content | 1 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 3 | 75% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grasshopper Lawns | Grasshopper Lawns Inc is a family-owned and operated business since 1964 specializing in fertilizer, weed control, aeration, lime, flea & tick control, and other lawn care maintenance services. |  | Private Equity | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| JGB Enterprises, Inc | JGB Enterprises is a chain management and logistics service provider of industrial hose, fluid power products, and hose assembly solutions to industrial and government end markets. |  | Private Equity | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Skyword | Skyword moves marketing leaders and those who create content for them forward. By embracing a sustainable, scalable approach to original storytelling, Skyword liberates brands from ineffective marketing practices and inspires them to create deeper connections with their audiences. The Skyword Platform makes it easy to produce, optimize, and promotecontent at any scale to create meaningful, lasting relationships. Skyword also provides access to a community of thousands of freelance writers and videographers, an editorial team, and program managers who help move clients’ content marketing programs to new levels of creative excellence. Skyword is a privately held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Palo Alto, CA, and New York City. The company’s technology center is located in Pittsburgh, PA. Investors include Cox Media Group, Allen & Company, Progress Ventures, and American Public Media Group. | $25M |  | Jan 09, 2018 |  |
| PrecisionDemand | PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able toprecision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining. | $8M | Series C | Jul 29, 2011 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Allen & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-and-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [American Public Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-public-media) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cox Media Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cox-media-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OVP Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ovp-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Progress Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/progress-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StarVest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starvest-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Skyword

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Skyword moves marketing leaders and those who create content for them forward. By embracing a sustainable, scalable approach to original storytelling, Skyword liberates brands from ineffective marketing practices and inspires them to create deeper connections with their audiences. The Skyword Platform makes it easy to produce, optimize, and promotecontent at any scale to create meaningful, lasting relationships. Skyword also provides access to a community of thousands of freelance writers and videographers, an editorial team, and program managers who help move clients’ content marketing programs to new levels of creative excellence. Skyword is a privately held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Palo Alto, CA, and New York City. The company’s technology center is located in Pittsburgh, PA. Investors include Cox Media Group, Allen & Company, Progress Ventures, and American Public Media Group.

5 contacts available at Skyword.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Doug McCormick | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-mccormick |
| Andrew C. Wheeler | VP Content Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-c-wheeler |
| Dana Maher | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dana-maher |
| Darryl Gehly | EVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darryl-gehly |
| Elizabeth Kraus | Content Creator | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-kraus-907d |

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## FAQ

### What does Doug McCormick invest in?

Doug McCormick invests primarily in Marketing, Advertising and SEO startups, most often at Private Equity and Series C stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Doug McCormick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Doug McCormick closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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