# Jay C. MacDonald

> Jay C. MacDonald is a seed investor at Digital Capital Advisors backing Artificial Intelligence. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Digital Capital Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-capital-advisors)
- Location: Vero Beach, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-c-macdonald-832366/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/newknee219
- Website: https://x.com/newknee219

Jay C. MacDonald is a seed investor at Digital Capital Advisors in Vero Beach focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Jay C. MacDonald is the Founder & CEO & Managing Partner at Digital Capital Advisors.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Content | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sundogs | Sundogs helps brands and agencies make better video ads using a mix of AI and creative expertise. Spun out of Google, we're already working with Disney, L’Oréal, and Coca-Cola. Launched in 2023, we've hit $4M+ in revenue and just launched our platform in Alpha. We're now raising $4M to scale. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Jan 02, 2024 |  |
| MarketMuse | MarketMuse is a market-leading demand generation platform focused on AI-driven content. Our SaaS platform analyzes massive amounts of Web data to build articles that drive search traffic and engagement. Over 230 companies in enterprise software, financial services, life sciences and publishing use MarketMuse to realize 2-3X gains in productivityand 2X-8X improvements in search traffic within the first 6 months. A pioneer in the industry, MarketMuse was named the "undisputed champion of the content optimization space" by industry analysts in 2019. | $1M | Seed | Oct 15, 2018 |  |
| Panvidea | Panvidea, Inc. engages in the on-demand video preparation, processing, and distribution of entertainment and advertising content on various digital platforms. It offers on-demand video encoding and processing solution that allows professional content owners, broadcasters, publishers, and advertising agencies to ingest, view, edit, brand, transcode,and package professional media content for digital network. The company also provides physical media digitization and ingestion, import, and technical consulting services. Its file-base on-demand technologies are applied to enhance and automate various digital media workflows, including content encoding and repurposing; multi-platform delivery; video aggregation, processing, and distribution; and content personalization, localization, and globalization. The company provides its solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for various audiences, and supply content as digital products to various platforms or devices. Panvidea, Inc. was formerly known as mPOINT. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York. |  | Series A |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Revel Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revel-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PAR Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/par-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Digital Capital Advisors

VC Fund · New York, United States

Digital Capital Advisors is the premier global investment bank dedicated to serving innovative digital media and technology companies through sell-side and buy-side M&A, as well as equity and debt private placements. DCA's global perspective is fostered by the unique composition of its team - CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists andworld-class investment bankers who have helped shape the technology landscape, completing throughout their careers more than 100 transactions with a total deal value of over $75 billion. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Berlin, Digital Capital Advisors specializes in cross-border transactions and employs an entrepreneurial approach to unlock maximum value for global clients across the Enterprise Software, Consumer Software, Media, AdTech, MarTech and Emerging Technology sectors.

5 contacts available at Digital Capital Advisors.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jay C. MacDonald | CEO / Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-c-macdonald |
| Andrew Daniel | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-daniel |
| Chris Kaya | Senior Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kaya |
| Laura Wintjen | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-wintjen-40e2 |
| Will Hering | Senior Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-hering |

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## FAQ

### What does Jay C. MacDonald invest in?

Jay C. MacDonald invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Content startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 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 Jay C. MacDonald last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jay C. MacDonald closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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