James Murdoch
Founder and CEO @ Lupa Systems
London, United Kingdom
James Murdoch is a Founder and CEO at Lupa Systems. He was a Co-Founder at Quadrivium Foundation. He attended Harvard University from 1992 to 1995.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries James Murdoch invests in
Stages James Murdoch invests in
Countries James Murdoch invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series B
- $31M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Media and Entertainment 3 (25%)
- News 2 (17%)
- Video 2 (17%)
- EdTech 2 (17%)
- Software 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (25%)
- Seed 2 (17%)
- Funding Round 2 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 4 (33%)
- India 3 (25%)
- France 1 (8%)
- Australia 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Viridios Capital invests in carbon finance projects in accordance with its nature-based market-creation strategy. The company creates and implements proprietary technology to value, structure, and originate emissions offsets and sustainable development assets, thereby facilitating investment flows and investor returns. Viridios Capital alsoprovides sustainable development asset structuring and advisory, ESG facilitation, carbon credit portfolio and registry management.Viridios was founded in 2019 and has offices in Sydney, London, and New York. | $55M / Series B / Oct 27, 2022 | ||
| Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is one of India's fastest growing entertainment networks and a house of iconic brands that offers multi-platform, multi-generational and multicultural brand experiences. A joint venture of Viacom Inc and the Network18 Group, Viacom18 defines entertainment in India by touching people onair, online, on ground, in shopand through its cinema. | $2B / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 27, 2022 | ||
| Rebellion Defense turns data into a decision advantage, developing advanced software to stay ahead of national security threats. It equips warfighters with cutting-edge capabilities to detect, deter, and outpace adversaries at speed and scale by combining private-sector tech experts with defense veterans. Their mission is to build transformativetechnology for defense and national security. | $150M / Series B / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
| Brut is an international video content publisher, focused on news and feature-based, short-form content. They cover topics from politics to technology and social justice, culture and more. Brut videos are viewed more than 400 million times a month and touch more than 150 million worldwide.Brut. is a global media company that creates short-formvideo content for audiences around the world. With offices on two continents, Brut. publishes content daily in three languages and across eight social platforms generating over 500MM views a month. | $75M / Series C / Jun 30, 2021 | ||
| Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept.The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn fromteachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India. | $31M / Series B / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
| Harappa is an online learning institution that builds competencies to liberate people’s potential in their chosen line of work. Their curriculum is designed around foundational Habits critical to achieve professional success and personal meaning. | Seed / Jan 07, 2020 | ||
| THE VOID builds and operates virtual entertainment centers that primarily focus on exploring immersive virtual worlds and dimensions with friends and family, and creating memorable experiences together. It specializes in creating ‘hyper-reality’ experiences that layer virtual reality over interactive real-world environments. THE VOID servesindividuals in the age group of ten and more of all genders and backgrounds eager to journey to new worlds and create new memories together. Curtis Hickman, James Jensen, and Ken Bretschneider founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Lindon in Utah with additional offices in locations in Anaheim in California, Orlando in Florida, New York City, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and Toronto in Canada. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 15, 2019 | ||
| Breezeworks provides a smartphone app to manage businesses by using integrated scheduling, customer communication, invoicing, and payments. | $5M / Series A / Nov 18, 2014 | ||
| Breezeworks provides a smartphone app to manage businesses by using integrated scheduling, customer communication, invoicing, and payments. | $2M / Seed / Sep 09, 2013 | ||
| Vice Media, a global youth media company, engages in print, event, music, online, television (TV), and feature film business activities in the United States and internationally. It specializes in publishing a magazine that covers information in various subjects, such as sex, drugs, music, fashion, photos, travel, sports, technology, food, not safefor work, and conflicts. Vice Media also produces and licenses its content for mobile, TV, film, and magazine companies and publishes videos across various content categories for the web. Moreover, it offers magazine subscriptions, books, and DVDs through its online store. Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi founded Vice Media in 1994. Its headquarters is in Brooklyn in New York. | $70M / Aug 16, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lupa Systems
Lupa Systems is a private investment company founded in 2019.
Lupa Systems Contacts
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James Murdoch
Founder and CEO
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Ben Fitzgerald
Partner
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FAQ
What does James Murdoch invest in?
James Murdoch invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, News and Video startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 James Murdoch invest in?
James Murdoch typically joins rounds of $31M–$150M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not James Murdoch's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds James Murdoch took part in.
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When did James Murdoch last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Murdoch closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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