Gary Stiffelman
Angel Investor
Pacific Palisades, United States
Gary Stiffelman is a seed investor in Pacific Palisades focused on Apps and Mobile. Mr. Stiffelman practiced law at Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp for eighteen months before joining the law firm of Ziffren, Brittenham LLP, where he has been a partner since 1984. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the UCLA School of Law teaching Music Industry Law. Mr. Stiffelman has been a member of the UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium Executive Committee since 1976 and was the chairman of the 1996, 1997 and 1998 programs. He has been on the advisory board for NARAS’ Entertainment Law Initiative since its inception in 2001.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Gary Stiffelman invests in
Stages Gary Stiffelman invests in
Countries Gary Stiffelman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$550k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 1 (25%)
- Mobile 1 (25%)
- Bitcoin 1 (25%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Advertising 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Angel 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 2 (50%)
- Singapore 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launched in 2013, GoCoin.com is a digital currencies platform that offers a payment getaway consisting of merchant APIs for online and retail merchants to accept mobile, bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin transactions as payment methods. Assuming any risk associated with such transactions, merchants can walk away with paying GoCoin a fee of 1% only.The list of merchants using the platform includes companies like General Electric, Cozy Games, BitFury, and Tesla Motors. GoCoin is headquartered in Singapore and operates as a B2B company. | $550K / Seed / Nov 07, 2013 | ||
| Madefire has developed a proprietary Motion Book Tool that delivers a reimagined collaboration experience for the storytellers, stylists, innovators and writers behind the stories. Their goal is to give creators the freedom to escape from the traditional confines of 21 static pages, and create a new world of words, pictures, motion and sound.The Madefire app unites the artistry of comics and graphic novels with the iPad’s groundbreaking interactive capabilities. The app offers a continuous flow of new episodes and original titles from some of the world’s most renowned storytellers, including comics book legend Dave Gibbons, with his new title “Treatment.” | $5.2M / Series A / Oct 02, 2013 | ||
| Fanzy is the world's most proven social loyalty and referral platform. Fanzy enables brands to attract and reward top social fans who create buzz and share links to website revenue events.Fanzy gamifies the experience of being a fan by rewarding fans for their social activity around brands, TV shows, films, celebrities, sports teams,athletes and more. As Fanzy fans generate buzz for brands, they unlock real life rewards, social achievements and are ranked for each Fanzy they join based on Fanzy's proprietary FanScore. Fanzy currently drives amplification of marketing messages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.Over 25,000 Facebook Pages are using Fanzy, including MTV shows like Pimp my Ride and Awkward, musicians including Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Janis Joplin, sports teams the Detroit Pistons and Sacramento Kings, movies including Drive and brands including Smirnoff's, Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, Dairylea, Living Social, Hotels.com, APB Reloaded, TF1 and the NRJ Awards.Fanzy offers several tiers of service including fully white-labeled applications. White-labeled applications enable brands to reward fans for any online or offline action. | $500K / Seed / Feb 22, 2012 | ||
| Fanzy is the world's most proven social loyalty and referral platform. Fanzy enables brands to attract and reward top social fans who create buzz and share links to website revenue events.Fanzy gamifies the experience of being a fan by rewarding fans for their social activity around brands, TV shows, films, celebrities, sports teams,athletes and more. As Fanzy fans generate buzz for brands, they unlock real life rewards, social achievements and are ranked for each Fanzy they join based on Fanzy's proprietary FanScore. Fanzy currently drives amplification of marketing messages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.Over 25,000 Facebook Pages are using Fanzy, including MTV shows like Pimp my Ride and Awkward, musicians including Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Janis Joplin, sports teams the Detroit Pistons and Sacramento Kings, movies including Drive and brands including Smirnoff's, Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, Dairylea, Living Social, Hotels.com, APB Reloaded, TF1 and the NRJ Awards.Fanzy offers several tiers of service including fully white-labeled applications. White-labeled applications enable brands to reward fans for any online or offline action. | $320K / Angel / Aug 11, 2011 |
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FAQ
What does Gary Stiffelman invest in?
Gary Stiffelman invests primarily in Apps, Mobile and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.
What round sizes does Gary Stiffelman invest in?
Gary Stiffelman typically joins rounds of $500k–$550k at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gary Stiffelman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gary Stiffelman took part in.
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When did Gary Stiffelman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gary Stiffelman closed in Nov 2013. 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.
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