# Jeff Bronikowski

> Jeff Bronikowski is a seed investor at Apple backing Music and Hardware. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Apple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apple)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-bronikowski/0/74/311

Jeff Bronikowski is a seed investor at Apple focused on Music and Hardware. Jeff Bronikowski is the Global Head of Strategic Music Initiatives at Apple. Jeff Bronikowski attended NYU Stern School of Business.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Jeff Bronikowski: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/jeff-bronikowski?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 1 | 100% |
| Hardware | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Social Media | 1 | 100% |
| Music Education | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artiphon | At Artiphon we’re designing new products to empower the next billion musicians. Our goal is to enable a world where everyone can be musical, where music is a universal element of our collective creative vocabulary.INSTRUMENT 1 and Orba, our first two smart instruments, launched with record-setting success on Kickstarter thanks to thousands ofpeople in over 70 countries. Both raised $1M+ in pre-orders, and the INSTRUMENT 1 was named a TIME Best Invention of the Year and a NAMM Best in Show. We are inspired by our incredible community of creators, relying on their insights and feedback as we evolve our products and create new ones.Dr. Mike Butera founded Artiphon in Nashville, Tennessee in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Sound Studies from Virginia Tech, has toured the country as a multi-instrumentalist, taught as a professor of sociology, and consulted globally on consumer electronics. Mike’s doctoral research in the phenomenology of listening laid the groundwork for Artiphon’s design philosophy and patents, and he frequently speaks on topics of music technology and augmented creativity.The Artiphon team is composed of designers, musicians, and engineers from groundbreaking companies including Space X, Blue Origin, Line 6, and Yamaha. Investors include Warner Music Group, Steve Case, TechNexus in partnership with Shure, and other industry leaders. | $2M | Seed | Mar 27, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TechNexus Venture Collaborative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/technexus) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Apple

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.Apple provides many products and services, includingiPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores.Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation.Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine.The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

5 contacts available at Apple.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eddy Cue | SVP of Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddy-cue |
| Eitan Toledo | Senior Director, Program Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eitan-toledo |
| Jake Shapiro | Head of Creator Partnerships, Apple Podcasts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-shapiro |
| James Nicol | Engineering Manager - iCloud Web | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-nicol |
| Jeff Bronikowski | Global Head of Strategic Music Initiatives | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-bronikowski |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeff Bronikowski invest in?

Jeff Bronikowski invests primarily in Music, Hardware and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jeff Bronikowski last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Bronikowski closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 1 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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