# Kevin Mayer

> Kevin Mayer is a seed investor at Smash Capital (Los Angeles) backing Mobile and Music. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Smash Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smash-capital)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mayer-7303b/

Kevin Mayer is a seed investor at Smash Capital in Los Angeles focused on Mobile and Music. Kevin Mayer is based out of Beverly Hills, California and is the Board Member of HYBE. Kevin previously worked at Tinuiti as a Board Member. Kevin Mayer attended Harvard Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$120k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 5 | 36% |
| Music | 3 | 21% |
| Digital Media | 3 | 21% |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 21% |
| Apps | 2 | 14% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 79% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allen Control Systems | Allen Control Systems develops autonomous defense technologies designed to detect, track, and counter unmanned aerial threats. The company provides the Bullfrog product family, a series of autonomous weapon stations that integrate passive drone detection, fire control software, and target engagement capabilities for protecting vehicles, vessels,formations, and fixed assets. Its solutions combine machine vision, artificial intelligence, and autonomous targeting systems to support counter-drone operations while integrating with existing command-and-control environments. Allen Control Systems also offers passive drone detection technology and synthetic training data generation tools that help improve computer vision models and threat identification systems. The company focuses on creating software and hardware platforms that enhance the precision and effectiveness of legacy defense equipment against evolving aerial threats. | $200M | Series B | Jun 05, 2026 |  |
| Lore Machine | Lore Machine is an AI Story Visualization System and Studio that creates tools and services to assist authors, podcasters, and screenwriters in converting their written narratives into multimedia presentations. | $400K | Angel | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Breakr | Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. | $4.2M | Seed | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Popshop Live | Popshop live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel and sell directly to a global audience. Viewers can interact and shop with the broadcasters in real-time during the streams and access their favorite broadcasters’ storefronts and previous shows anytime.This uniqueplatform was designed to showcase individuality and intimately connect exceptional sellers and their unique products / services to vital buyers who love to learn, explore and collect. | $20M | Series A | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M |  | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Artie | A next-gen mobile gaming platform that circumvents app stores to bring games directly to players on social media and video apps. | $10M | Seed | Feb 17, 2021 |  |
| Moment House | Social live media platform for creators. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2020 |  |
| Jaunt | Jaunt is developing the software, tools, and applications to enable cinematic VR and put the power of virtual reality in the hands of today’s best content creators. Jaunt’s proprietary algorithms for complex computational photography allow content producers to create incredible immersive cinematic VR experiences using existing production software.The company’s investors include The Walt Disney Company, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Peter Gotcher, Blake Krikorian, and British Sky Broadcasting (corporate.sky.com). Experience more at www.jauntvr.com. | $65M | Series C | Sep 21, 2015 |  |
| MakieLab | MakieLab is building social toys & games from the same dataset. They're taking 3D modelling for games, and 3D printing for manufacture, and building a pipeline to automatically produce both from a set of characters, furniture, or similar game and toy objects.Their first product is Makies, a new kind of future-smashing toy:customisable, 3D-printed, locally made, and game-enabled. Since Makies first launched in 2012, they've released two apps centering around super creative fashion play (Makies Doll Factory and Makies FabLab), launched Makies into Selfridges and Hamleys (London), won some lovely toy awards and shipped Makies to all four corners of the Earth. | $120K | Seed | Jul 06, 2015 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Moment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moment-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TQ Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tq-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [C3 Presents](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c3-presents) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eldridge Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eldridge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Smash Capital

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Smash Capital is a Emerging growth and later stage consumer internet and software VC firm.

3 contacts available at Smash Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bradley Twohig | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bradley-twohig |
| Paul Szurek | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-szurek |
| Kevin Mayer | Co-Founder/ Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-mayer |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Mayer invest in?

Kevin Mayer invests primarily in Mobile, Music and Digital Media startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Kevin Mayer's check size?

Kevin Mayer typically joins rounds of $120k–$10M at Seed and $120k–$120k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kevin Mayer participates in.

### When did Kevin Mayer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Mayer closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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?

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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