Eric Meltzer
Partner @ INBlockchain
San Francisco, United States
Eric Meltzer is a pre-seed investor at INBlockchain in San Francisco focused on Music and Credit. He focuses on early-stage investments in meaningful blockchain applications. INBlockchain Capital is China’s largest blockchain investment fund, founded by Li Xiaolai and Lao Mao. INB focuses on investing in the tools and networks that will create a robust and resilient decentralized economy.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Eric Meltzer invests in
Stages Eric Meltzer invests in
Countries Eric Meltzer invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 1 (50%)
- Credit 1 (50%)
- Mobile 1 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Internet 1 (50%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
- Funding Round 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Playlist Media
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Playlist, already a top iOS app, is uniting people, music, and messaging. Their fully licensed, ad-supported music streaming platform generates 10 times the user engagement of Pandora. On mobile, people spend more time listening to music than any other application and the message most frequently. Playlist combines music and messaging forunprecedented engagement. On Playlist, people listen together at the exact same time and chat while they listen, follow one other, collaborate on playlists, and share their favorite songs. Playlist pioneered social music.Playlist is a proven platform for artists and influencers to connect live with fans, hold virtual concerts, and release new music to millions of listeners at the same time. Our community describes Playlist as Spotify plus Instagram and now Tinder, given our introduction of Music Match which connects people with similar music tastes.Three years in the making, Playlist’s patent-pending technology includes synchronized streaming, machine learning-based social recommendations, collaborative playlists, large-scale group chat, behavior-based music programming, and Music Match algorithms. The company is now working on blockchain.Founders, Karen Katz, and Steve Petersen are Stanford engineers and serial entrepreneurs with 2 IPOs, a $300M exit, 36 patents, and over 10 years’ experience each in digital music. They’ve raised over $60M in VC funding across multiple start-ups and built ad-supported, consumer-facing platforms with tens of millions of users, including one of the fastest-growing streaming music services in U.S. history. Their experience also includes developing the software and chip inside the iPod, which revolutionized digital music and mobile listening. As operators, they’ve recruited and managed tech teams of over 75 engineers and generated nearly $100M in digital ad revenues. As innovators, they’ve worked at Bell Labs, architected platforms for social networking, location-based services, cloud-based media; and applied advanced analytics, machine learning, and big data for recommendations. | $5M / Mar 16, 2019 | |
Percent
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Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $600 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About INBlockchain
INB is the most influential investment group in the Chinese blockchain space. their partners are among the single largest holders of Bitcoin in the world, with holdings that have increased over nine thousand fold to date.In order to produce outsized returns for theirselves and their limited partners, they run an incubator and product studio.Among the many successful projects to come out of their studio was yunbi.com, which became a top-10 cryptocurrency exchange.Their vertically integrated model is unique in the space and gives us an “unfair advantage” when investing in early-stage projects.
INBlockchain Contacts
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Daniel Liu
Director
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Eric Meltzer
Partner
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Lao Mao
Co-Founder
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Xiaolai Li
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What does Eric Meltzer invest in?
Eric Meltzer invests primarily in Music, Credit and Mobile startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 2 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 Eric Meltzer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Eric Meltzer closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 2 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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