Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Co-Founder, Chairman & General Partner @ Waverley Capital
New York, United States
Edgar Bronfman Jr. is a seed investor at Waverley Capital in New York focused on Music and EdTech. Edgar Bronfman Jr. is the co-founder, Chairman, and General Partner at Waverley Capital Acquisition Corp. 1.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Edgar Bronfman Jr. invests in
Stages Edgar Bronfman Jr. invests in
Countries Edgar Bronfman Jr. invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$3M
- Series A
- $3M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 2 (13%)
- EdTech 2 (13%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
- Video 1 (7%)
- Mobile 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (33%)
- Series A 3 (20%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Funding Round 2 (13%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 9 (60%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hook
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Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $15.8M / Series A / Feb 18, 2026 | |
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Hook
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Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $3M / Seed / Mar 26, 2025 | |
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Hook
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Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $3M / Seed / Oct 12, 2023 | |
Professional Fighters League
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Professional Fighters League is a mixed martial arts league. | $30M / Series E / May 19, 2022 | |
Endel
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Endel is a cross-platform audio ecosystem. It creates personalized, sound-based, adaptive environments that help people focus and relax. They’re a small team of artists, developers, and scientists who have worked together on lots of digital projects, including the award-winning kids’ app series, BUBL. Endel is a 2018 Techstars Music Acceleratorcompany. | $15M / Series B / Apr 05, 2022 | |
Novel Effect
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Seattle-based Novel Effect is the leader in voice-driven media and entertainment. Through the use of voice, Novel Effect’s products blend physical and digital worlds to create immersive and interactive experiences across books, video and games. | $3M / Series A / May 22, 2018 | |
Rentlogic
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Rentlogic is a tech-enabled standards organization that grades every apartment building in New York City (A, B, C, and F) for health and safety. The grades are based on physical inspections and public data from city agencies. Rentlogic’s methodology was developed in collaboration with stakeholders from all facets of the housing sector to be fair,credible and objective. | Seed / May 15, 2018 | |
Insureon
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Insureon is the number one independent marketplace for online delivery of small business insurance. Insureon’s online platform aggregates insurance options from over 50 carriers to allow small business owners options in purchasing commercial insurance, including cyber, E&O, workers’ comp, general liability, and more. Insureon was founded in1997 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | Series B / Oct 21, 2015 | |
Shazura
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Shazura's AI technology, called the “Google of Images” has revolutionized and solved the pain points affecting image recognition and visual search, transforming a $530b market of image and video content. Shazura provides a unique and disruptive approach to instantly recognize billions of images and videos, with high accuracy and scale,through patented bio-inspired AI Natural Learning Fingerprints that mirror the human brain.Shazura’s AI fingerprints recognize all types of visual data, no matter its complexity, optimizing from instant to natural learning recognition, thus solving the market struggles of data gaining, training and labelling efforts throughout costly machine and deep learning techniques. Shazura’s AI Visual Intelligence is leading the Digital Transformation with proven 10x ROI for success cases at industries such as Retail, Home & DIY, Travel and HealthCare, solving critical market demands, increasing sales with high conversions over +45% and reducing operational costs +50% with efficiency automation. Shazura is a Series A going to Series B startup with HQ in San Francisco and a leading AI team in Madrid, Spain. After raising $3.5M in venture capital and leading the market with key players in Europe and US, Shazura is scaling the market to all industries. | Angel / Jun 15, 2015 | |
Everspring
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Everspring, Inc. provides customized online education solutions. It helps universities to design and deliver education online. The company offers solutions in various disciplines, such as strategic planning; marketing; enrollment; student services and retention; faculty engagement; course development support; analytics; and technology development,integration, and support. It conceives, creates, and operates large-scale educational institutions and programs online, on-campus, and in hybrid and blended models. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evanston, Illinois | $10M / Series A / Dec 09, 2014 | |
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Co-Investors
About Waverley Capital
Waverley Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startup investments. Moreover, the firm targets to invest in the media and entertainment sectors. Founded in 2018 by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Daniel Leff, Waverley Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Waverley Capital Contacts
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Deek Velagandula
Principal
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Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Co-Founder, Chairman & General Partner
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Daniel Leff
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Edgar Bronfman Jr. invest in?
Edgar Bronfman Jr. invests primarily in Music, EdTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s check size?
Edgar Bronfman Jr. typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$3M at Seed and $3M–$16M 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 Edgar Bronfman Jr. participates in.
When did Edgar Bronfman Jr. last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Edgar Bronfman Jr. closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 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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