LionTree
VC Fund
New York, United States
LionTree is a VC fund in New York focused on Media and Entertainment and Sports. Founded in 2012, LionTree is an independent investment and merchant bank with deep roots in the media, technology, communications, consumer, and creative industries. LionTree's thematic focus and expertise provide a differentiated perspective to help their relationships unlock growth and transformation across key areas of the global digital economy.
- Total investments:
- 104
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
- Fund size:
- $4M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries LionTree invests in
Stages LionTree invests in
Countries LionTree invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$20M
- Series A
- $4M–$60M
- Series B
- $12M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Media and Entertainment 15 (14%)
- Sports 13 (13%)
- Software 12 (12%)
- E-Commerce 12 (12%)
- Apps 8 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 20 (19%)
- Seed 15 (14%)
- Series A 15 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 12 (12%)
- Series C 9 (9%)
Country
- United States 69 (66%)
- United Kingdom 6 (6%)
- Sweden 3 (3%)
- France 2 (2%)
- Israel 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Michael
Head of Business Development & Operations
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Head of Business Development & Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Aryeh Bourkoff
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jake Donavan
President of European operations
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President of European operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mauricio Paiva
Investment Banking
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Investment Banking | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Ali Walton
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create elevated, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across platforms, including feature film, television, gaming and digital. Among Skydance Media’s commercially and critically successful feature films. | $47B / Post-IPO Equity / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Nscale provides infrastructure and cloud services designed for artificial intelligence computing workloads. The company develops and operates data centers equipped with large clusters of graphics processing units and supporting networking and storage systems used for training, fine-tuning, and running machine learning models. Its platform integrates compute hardware, data center operations, orchestration software, and data services to manage AI workloads across owned and collocated facilities. The infrastructure is used by enterprises, research organizations, and technology companies that require large-scale processing capacity for generative AI and other data-intensive applications. Nscale also supports deployment and management of AI environments through systems that coordinate resource allocation, workload scheduling, and distributed computing operations. | $3.4B / Convertible Note / Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| PlayReplay provides a line calling system that combines accuracy, reliability, and user-friendliness, ensuring fair play and eliminating doubts or controversies. Meanwhile, our tennis statistics platform utilizes intelligent algorithms to process vast amounts of data, providing players with valuable insights into their performance, strengths,weaknesses, and areas for improvement. By combining these two innovative solutions, we are transforming the way players analyze, train, and compete in tennis game. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 05, 2026 | ||
| Metropolis develops artificial intelligence and computer vision technology designed to simplify real-world transactions. The company’s platform enables frictionless interactions between people and physical environments by using visual recognition and data processing tools. Its primary focus is on transforming parking operations, allowing users toenter and exit parking facilities without manual payments or tickets. Metropolis applies its AI technology to automate identification, payment, and access processes, creating seamless and efficient mobility experiences. | $500M / Series D / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| AI Customer Support Platform, Built for Operational Leaders Who Care About Outcomes | $7M / Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Empathy is a platform for families to deal with the loss of their people. Empathy combines technology and human support to provide a digital companion application built to empower bereaved families. The company's flagship offering is a multi-platform app that guides users through the emotional and practical aspects following the loss of aloved one. This includes assistance with tasks such as funeral planning, closing accounts, and managing estate affairs. Empathy's approach is designed to reduce the complexity and stress associated with these responsibilities. | $72M / Series C / May 29, 2025 | ||
| Unrivaled Sports operates a portfolio of youth sports properties and programming across various disciplines, including baseball, softball, football, and action sports. Its holdings encompass venues such as Ripken Baseball, Cooperstown All Star Village, Sports Force Parks, Baseball Factory, and Softball Factory. The company also manages initiativeslike We Are Camp and the ForeverLawn Sports Complex at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Village. In addition to facility operations, Unrivaled Sports is involved in organizing sports events and training programs aimed at youth development. | $120M / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Founded by industry experts, Spines is an AI-based publishing platform offering authors a quicker and smarter way to publish and market their books. Spines' platform allows authors to create POD, eBook, and audio versions of their book and distribute them on over 100 channels worldwide in just a few clicks. Using our platform, authors canmanage their royalties, marketing, and order author copies. | $16M / Series A / Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| Seregh is a real estate development platform that investment to sports and entertainment venues. | Seed / Sep 05, 2024 | ||
| Founded by industry experts, Spines is an AI-based publishing platform offering authors a quicker and smarter way to publish and market their books. Spines' platform allows authors to create POD, eBook, and audio versions of their book and distribute them on over 100 channels worldwide in just a few clicks. Using our platform, authors canmanage their royalties, marketing, and order author copies. | $6.5M / Seed / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| See all 104 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does LionTree invest in?
LionTree invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Sports and Software startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 104 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does LionTree invest in?
LionTree typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$20M at Seed, $4M–$60M at Series A and $12M–$100M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not LionTree's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds LionTree took part in.
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Who are the partners at LionTree?
The team at LionTree includes Alex Michael (Head of Business Development & Operations), Aryeh Bourkoff (Founder & CEO) and Jake Donavan (President of European operations), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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