Evolution Media
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Evolution Media is a multi-stage investment firm that partners with passionate entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of technology, content, lifestyle, media, and sports businesses. Evolution leverages its global platform and relationships to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies while helping them reshape and disrupt their industries.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries Evolution Media invests in
Stages Evolution Media invests in
Countries Evolution Media invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2M–$60M
- Series B
- $18M–$88M
- Series C
- $30M–$133M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (22%)
- News 7 (17%)
- Music 6 (15%)
- Video 5 (12%)
- Mobile 5 (12%)
Stage
- Series B 14 (34%)
- Series A 10 (24%)
- Series C 5 (12%)
- Series D 3 (7%)
- Private Equity 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 28 (68%)
- China 1 (2%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
- Malaysia 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob Stanley
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rick Hess
Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Dan Abrams
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
|
Partner and Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonal is a smart home gym that uses artificial intelligence and expert-led coaching to provide strength training.It manufactures and provides Tonal, fitness training equipment. The equipment is installed on walls and offers personalized workouts through it. It also provides workout plans, such as building muscles, balancing strength, and athleticperformance based on individual requirements. It also offers live-recorded classes by coaches. Aly Orady founded Tonal in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $110M / Series D / Sep 17, 2020 | ||
| Mux is building the future of online video infrastructure. They started off by building Mux Data, a best-in-class performance analytics tool that’s trusted by developers at companies like Vimeo, Robinhood, CBS Interactive, Discovery, PBS, and TED. Billions of monitored streams later, they launched Mux Video, a simple API for video hosting,encoding, and streaming. Take any video file or live stream and make it play beautifully at scale on any device, powered by magical-feeling features like automatic thumbnails, animated GIFs, and data-driven encoding decisions.Mux measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Its intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view. | $20M / Series B / Aug 14, 2019 | ||
| Share your personal gaming moments & find community | $2M / Seed / Jun 30, 2019 | ||
| Tonal is a smart home gym that uses artificial intelligence and expert-led coaching to provide strength training.It manufactures and provides Tonal, fitness training equipment. The equipment is installed on walls and offers personalized workouts through it. It also provides workout plans, such as building muscles, balancing strength, and athleticperformance based on individual requirements. It also offers live-recorded classes by coaches. Aly Orady founded Tonal in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $45M / Series C / Apr 04, 2019 | ||
| Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax.The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression,insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $88M / Series B / Feb 06, 2019 | ||
| Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology. Epic is a leading digital media brand for kids that encourages kids to explore their interests and learn in a fun, safe, kid-friendly environment. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $30M / Series D / Jan 29, 2019 | ||
| The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry. It features a web-based platform that utilizes news and updates about athletes and season updates for sports such as basketball and football. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $40M / Series C / Oct 30, 2018 | ||
| Launched in 2015, MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best. With an annual membership, subscribers get unlimited access to 100+ instructors and classes across a wide range of subjects, including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into KellyWearstler’s design studio, Ron Finley’s garden and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Get inspired by RuPaul, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn on your own terms—in bite-size pieces or in a single binge. Cinematic visuals and close-up, hands-on demonstrations make you feel like you’re one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable instructor guides help reinforce your learning. Stream thousands of lessons anywhere, anytime, on mobile, tablet, desktop, Apple TV®, Android™ TV, Amazon Fire TV® and Roku® players and devices. | $80M / Series D / Sep 06, 2018 | ||
| The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry. It features a web-based platform that utilizes news and updates about athletes and season updates for sports such as basketball and football. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $20M / Series B / Mar 05, 2018 | ||
| Vision Esports is an esports investment fund and management company.Vision Esports is a special purpose investment vehicle (SPV) established by Vision Venture Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles and founded by Rick Fox, Amit Raizada and Stratton Sclavos. Vision Esports has a mandate to raise a substantial amount of capital todirectly invest in Echo Fox, Twin Galaxies, and Vision Entertainment with the intent of becoming the single largest shareholder in each company. The General Partners of Vision Esports, LP are Stratton Sclavos, Jace Hall and Chris Nordling. | $38M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 22, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Evolution Media invest in?
Evolution Media invests primarily in Software, News and Music startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Evolution Media invest in?
Evolution Media typically joins rounds of $2M–$60M at Series A, $18M–$88M at Series B and $30M–$133M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Evolution Media's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Evolution Media took part in.
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Who are the partners at Evolution Media?
The team at Evolution Media includes Bob Stanley (Founder and Managing Partner), Rick Hess (Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner) and Dan Abrams (Partner and Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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