# Hertz Lichtenstein & Young

> Hertz Lichtenstein & Young is a VC fund backing Video and Internet. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Feb 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hertz-lichtenstein-&-young-l.l.p/about/
- Website: http://hlymedialaw.com/

Hertz Lichtenstein & Young is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Video and Internet. Hertz Lichtenstein & Young their firm works with superstar musicians, actors, creators and entrepreneurs in areas of music, film, television, and digital content for media and technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 3 | 27% |
| Music | 2 | 18% |
| Content | 2 | 18% |
| Virtual Reality | 2 | 18% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 45% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ken Hertz | Senior Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-hertz |
| Seth Lichtenstein | Managing Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rumble | Rumble offers boxing-inspired fitness classes for a full-body strength and conditioning workouts crafted around specially designed water-filled, teardrop-style boxing bags. Rumble incorporates the best principles of the sweet science of boxing and strength training, all to help you develop that lean, strong, and confident fighter's physique.Rumble is HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training), strength training, metabolic conditioning (METCON), and uppercut throwing cardio in one clean class. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2017 |  |
| ObEN | ObEN is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that is building a decentralized AI platform for intelligent avatars, enabling never before possible social and virtual interactions. The company’s technology allows users to create intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound, and behave like them. Deployed on the blockchain, ObEN’s Personal AI (PAI)technology enables users to create, use, and manage their own PAI on a secure, decentralized platform. Founded in 2014, ObEN is a Tencent, Softbank Ventures Korea and HTC Vive X portfolio company and is located at Idealab in Pasadena, California. To learn more about ObEN, please visit oben.com. | $7.7M | Series A | Nov 03, 2016 |  |
| MobLabs | Developing interactive mobile experiences that people love. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 26, 2016 |  |
| Cool Hunting | Cool Hunting is an online website that operates as a personal reference for designers. It offers information and videos that highlight creativity and innovation in categories such as design, technology, style, culture, food, and travel.With a global team of editors and contributors, Cool Hunting creates its award-winning publicationconsisting of daily updates and weekly mini documentaries. It has an international audience of like-minded creative people.Cool Hunting was launched in 2003 in New York, United States. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2016 |  |
| Stem Disintermedia | Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians to collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.It develops a platform intended to provide distribution and payments solution for artists and their teams. The platform aggregates cross-platform earnings, create contracts, and honor splits with collaborators,disburse payments and statements to all stakeholders in a project and visualizes performance data for each platform, enabling businesses to bring clarity to the complicated process of revenue management and ensure everyone involved in the creative process gets paid.Milana Rabkin, Tim Luckow, and Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith formed Stem Disintermedia in Los Angeles, California in 2015. |  |  | Aug 07, 2015 |  |
| Aemass | Aemass is the capability of absolute authentic experience for 3D capture and visualization. Assembling immersive spatial technology, premier artists, entertainment leaders and interactive virtual reality experts, Aemass patented technology is enabling an ultimate freedom to explore, engage and re-view the real moment from every perspectiveimaginable. Join our unyielding and unprecedented vision for 3D reality capture and help craft the next generational evolution in entertainment and media technology. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| Plus Capital | Plus Capital is a venture infrastructure trusted by elite artists and athletes from film, television, music, and sports for their venture capital investing and equity for endorsement opportunities. |  |  | Jan 13, 2014 |  |
| popchips | popchips manufactures and markets a variety of potato chips.popchips products includes potato popchips, ridges potato popchips, kettle corn popchips, and a range of variety packs. It also offers an online store that enables its customers to find and buy their products.popchips markets their products in the United States, Canada, the UnitedKingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.popchips was founded by Pat Turpin and Keith Belling in 2007. And it is based in Playa Vista, California. |  |  | Jan 01, 2014 |  |
| Digitour Media | DigiTour Media is an emerging media and entertainment company, which creates and produces IRL (“in real life”) social media experiences in the form of concerts (DigiTours) and festivals (DigiFests). On May 15th, 2014 DigiTour announced strategic investments from Ryan Seacrest and Advance Publications (parent company of Conde Nast).DigiTourevents feature the most well known social media personalities and traditional recording artists in the genres of pop, alternative rock, hip-hop and comedy. In 2014, over 120,000 fans will attend DigiTour events in Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Los Angeles, among scores of other U.S. cities, as well as London and Toronto.DigiTour Media LLC was founded in 2010 and has launched five successful tours and multiple sold out festivals receiving critical acclaim in the media (New York Times, Variety, Forbes, AdWeek, HypeBot, LA Business Journal, Billboard.biz, Fuse, E! Online, NPR, Perez Hilton.com, Village Voice, KTLA, US Weekly, and On Air with Ryan Secrest).DigiTour made an indelible mark in the entertainment industry by changing the traditional concert platform and helped launch solid brands that have the ability to bridge the gap between web and the mainstream. In 2014 almost all nominees in the WebStar and Internet categories were DigiTour Alums - as were the winners for Choice Viner, Choice Webstar, and Choice Collaboration. The New York Times stated on their June 8th page A-1 story:"A capacity 12,500 tickets were sold. More than 70 performers appeared on three stages. There were 150 security guards, a necessity whenever swarms of shrieking teenage girls assemble. Coke sponsored a live web stream of the festivities.The latest incarnation of Lollapalooza or Lilith Fair?Not even close. This was DigiFest NYC.." |  |  | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Doppler Labs | Doppler Labs was founded in 2013 with the mission to make computing more immersive and human. Here Active Listening, Doppler Lab’s first digital product, was named TIME magazine’s Best Invention of 2015. In February 2017, Doppler Labs released Here One, the evolution of Here Active Listening and the first 3-in-1 wireless smart headphone,delivering premium sound quality, Smart Noise Cancellation, and Speech Enhancement |  |  | May 19, 2013 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hertz Lichtenstein & Young invest in?

Hertz Lichtenstein & Young invests primarily in Video, Internet and Music startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Hertz Lichtenstein & Young?

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### Who are the partners at Hertz Lichtenstein & Young?

The team at Hertz Lichtenstein & Young includes Ken Hertz (Senior Partner) and Seth Lichtenstein (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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