Kate Brodock
Founding Partner @ The W Fund
Cazenovia, United States
Kate Brodock is a seed investor at The W Fund in Cazenovia focused on Media and Entertainment and Music. Kate is the CEO and Co-Founder at Women 2.0. She's very heavily involved in issues and projects around women in technology startups and technology investing.Her expertise is in business and marketing strategy, digital marketing, and content production and has had the pleasure of speaking at numerous events such as SXSW, BlogWorld (NWX),and TEDx. She can be found writing on such publications as Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. She has also published a chapter on the digital divide in Digital Activism Decoded.Kate was most recently the CMO of untapt, an artificial intelligence-driven tech hiring platform, where she led all marketing efforts for the startup. She is the former President of a large global non-profit focused women in technology and entrepreneurship and Founder and CEO of the Other Side Group. She has also held positions as Director of the W2O Group Center for Social Commerce at the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University and Executive Director of Digital and Social Media for Syracuse University, where she was responsible for leading the digital marketing strategy for the University. In her distant past, she spent some time in the startup space in Cambridge, MA, and has worked in marketing and business for companies such as Bose, Ignition Ventures and Priority 5. When she's not doing all *that* she mentors startups, is a very non-professional athlete, and equally as non-professional musician, can be found outdoors in any weather - skiing, biking, hiking, sailing - loves a good meal with bubbly and good friends, supporting her ex-developer husband with his hops farm, raising two boys, hilariousness and life.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Kate Brodock invests in
Stages Kate Brodock invests in
Countries Kate Brodock invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Media and Entertainment 2 (33%)
- Music 1 (17%)
- Video 1 (17%)
- Content 1 (17%)
- Legal Tech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Angel 1 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 2 (33%)
- Canada 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $3.4M / Series A / Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| Musicasa is a community-powered platform transforming homes into entertainment venues. Using the power of AI, we match homes with local, independent, and award-winning musicians enabling intimate, curated, and private home concerts for up to 40 guests. Think of it as TinyDesk meets Airbnb hosting. Welcome to the largest entertainment venue networkin the modern world. | $40K / Angel / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads. | $100K / Seed / Sep 30, 2022 | ||
| Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain. | $2.3M / Seed / May 16, 2022 | ||
| Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads. | $2.1M / Seed / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads. | $205K / Pre-Seed / Aug 28, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About The W Fund
Our fund is singularly focused on investing in traditionally underfunded founders - women and other underrepresented innovators.
The W Fund Contacts
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Joseph Wallin
Independent Director
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Allyson Kapin
Founding Partner
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Jennifer Tacheff
Co-Founder | Founder Coaching Program
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Jory Des Jardins
VC in Residence
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Kate Brodock
Founding Partner
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What does Kate Brodock invest in?
Kate Brodock invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Music and Video startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 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 Kate Brodock last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kate Brodock closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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