# Marc Hazan

> Marc Hazan is a seed investor at Spotify (New York) backing Marketplace and Video. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Spotify](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spotify)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2017
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hazan-4aa7672

Marc Hazan is a seed investor at Spotify in New York focused on Marketplace and Video. Marc Hazan is the Vice President Of Premium Business Development at Spotify (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spotify#/entity), a commercial music streaming service that provides digital content from a range of record labels and artists.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 2 | 50% |
| Video | 1 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |
| Automotive | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Motorway | Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun. | $637K | Angel | May 01, 2017 |  |
| Appear Here | Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago. | $7.5M | Series A | Nov 26, 2014 |  |
| Grabyo | Grabyo is the leader in real-time video. Its scalable, cloud-based platform enables broadcasters and content rights holders to instantly create, distribute and monetise real-time video clips across any platform and device. With deep industry experience, Grabyo also provides broadcasters and rights holders with strategic guidance and support inorder to extract maximum value from real- time video content and capitalise on the significant commercial opportunities in sharing live TV across web, social and mobile. Grabyo launched as a mobile-first platform in 2013 and works with broadcasters in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, as well as some of the most popular TV formats and largest advertisers. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 25, 2014 |  |
| Appear Here | Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago. | $1.9M | Seed | Nov 22, 2013 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ballpark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballpark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HOWZAT Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howzat-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Meyer Bergman](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meyer-bergman) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Spotify

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users wantrecommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

5 contacts available at Spotify.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Björn Melinder | Senior Staff Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-melinder |
| Catie Edwards | Machine Learning Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catie-edwards |
| chris pinel | Global Head of Ad Sales, Commercial Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pinel |
| Christopher Wright | TPM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-wright |
| Courtney Holt | Head of Studios and Video | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-holt |

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## FAQ

### What does Marc Hazan invest in?

Marc Hazan invests primarily in Marketplace, Video and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marc Hazan's check size?

Marc Hazan typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$4.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marc Hazan participates in.

### When did Marc Hazan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marc Hazan closed in May 2017. Shizune tracks 4 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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