# MDC Ventures

> MDC Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Advertising and Analytics. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapeltz
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mdcventures
- Website: http://mdcventures.vc/

MDC Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Advertising and Analytics. MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$4M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 12 | 24% |
| Analytics | 8 | 16% |
| Software | 6 | 12% |
| Marketing | 6 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 12% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 37% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 20% |
| Series A | 9 | 18% |
| Series B | 4 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 78% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Nicholas | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-nicholas |
| Michael Clark | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-clark-e124 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RLY | Provider of an online platform intended to convert live photos into reels. The company's platform helps in turning photos into a 3 second high definition clip, enabling its clients to capture live photos and edit with playback filters which can later be shared with others through the single platform. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Perksy | Perksy is a consumer insights platform that rewards users for giving opinions and feedback to brands. It provides innovative marketing solutions for brands by bridging the gap between company and consumer, building products that give rise to brand growth, improvement, and customer satisfaction. | $4M | Seed | Feb 04, 2019 |  |
| Gradient.io | Gradient.io is an intelligent insights platform for Amazon. Using proprietary machine learning technology, Gradient.io’s platform helps brands understand and optimize their digital point-of-sale presence. Gradient.io solutions include Gradient Digital Shelf, Gradient Score, Gradient Dynamics, and Gradient Compete. Brands taking advantage of thesesolutions can finally unlock the full power of Amazon. For more information, visit https://gradient.io | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 23, 2018 |  |
| Veritonic | Veritonic is a marketing analytics platform that offers online testing and optimization services for firms in the music industry.Veritonic’s product portfolio consist of testing, analytics, and workflow. Testing assists its users in making data-driven decisions, measuring emotional response, and obtaining qualitative and quantitative responses.Analytics assists its users in benchmarking their brand progress. Workflow enables its users to manage, save, and share tracks with others.Veritonic was founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 31, 2018 |  |
| Samba TV | Samba TV provides streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership. | $30M | Series B | Jun 19, 2017 |  |
| Wellbe | Wellbe develops a cloud-based platform that facilitates connected care between patients and healthcare providers. It empowers patients to participate as active partners in their treatment and giving providers the ability to monitor large numbers of patients more effectively.The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madison,Wisconsin. | $400K |  | May 08, 2017 |  |
| Veridt | Veridt manufactures radio isotope detection devices for homeland security, force protection, and other applications. Its products include secure physical access control, handheld, mobile, wireless security and fingerprint capture and identification, radio isotope detection, identification, and analysis systems, and a weatherproof and portableradionuclide detection system called Ranger designed to meet various nuclear spectroscopy requirements. Quantrad that began operation in 1999 later became Veridt. Its headquarters is in Middleton in Wisconsin. | $300K | Debt Financing | May 08, 2017 |  |
| Catch+Release | Catch&Release is an end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet. Streamline the clearance and licensing process within the Content Exchange, a licensing platform where users can organize shots from anywhere on the internet, receive Clearance Ratings to understandwhat content is licensable, and initiate clearances and licensing at the click of a button. Catch&Release negotiates copyright and model clearances on your behalf, provides indemnification, and keeps track of all documentation, transactions, and license data. |  | Seed | May 03, 2017 |  |
| Netomi | Netomi is a provider of AI-first customer experience designed for the Relationship Economy. Netomi's AI-powered virtual agents automatically resolve 80% of routine customer service inquiries, decreasing resolution time, increasing customer satisfaction and support quality, while reducing costs. The patented, no-code platform works acrossmessaging, chat, email and voice, and understands 100+ languages. Netomi is based in San Mateo and has offices in New York, Toronto and India. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| EntryPoint | Entrypoint promises an unparalleled immersive web experience with unique applications for everyone from publishers to advertisers to retailers. Creators use our intuitive software to add custom, interactive experiences layered on top of their pre-recorded live-action footage, animations, and 360 livestreams. This enables imaginative storytelling,advertising, and e-commerce possibilities. Once finished, the experience lives on a simple URL, enabling it to be viewed on smartphones and desktop and shareable through social networks. While consumers engage with the content, extensive consumer engagement data is collected to help content-producers make their stories even more compelling. | $2M | Seed | Jan 30, 2017 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neu Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neu-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Indicator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indicator-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ia-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [U.S. Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/us-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does MDC Ventures invest in?

MDC Ventures invests primarily in Advertising, Analytics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is MDC Ventures's check size?

MDC Ventures typically joins rounds of $700k–$4M at Seed and $1.5M–$6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MDC Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact MDC Ventures?

Public channels for MDC Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at MDC Ventures?

The team at MDC Ventures includes Michael Nicholas (Partner) and Michael Clark (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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