Marc Lasry
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder @ Avenue Capital Group
New York, United States
Marc Lasry is a Series A investor at Avenue Capital Group in New York focused on Sports and Media and Entertainment. Marc Lasry is based out of New York, New York and is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group. Marc previously worked at Cowen & Company as a Co–Director. Marc Lasry attended the Clark University.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Marc Lasry invests in
Stages Marc Lasry invests in
Countries Marc Lasry invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$2.3M
- Series A
- $6.9M–$35M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $10M–$250M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Sports 7 (33%)
- Media and Entertainment 4 (19%)
- Marketing 3 (14%)
- Sports Leagues and Teams 3 (14%)
- News 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (29%)
- Seed 5 (24%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (19%)
- Private Equity 3 (14%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 14 (67%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
- Hong Kong 1 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Asian University Basketball League is a pioneering pan-regional basketball competition. | Series A / Apr 09, 2026 | ||
| North Carolina Courage is a women's soccer team that competes in the National Women's Soccer League. The company's product line includes jerseys, hats, coats, tees, accessories, scarves, and other items. | $40M / Private Equity / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Men In Blazers is a soccer-focused media company that covers sports events, leagues, and TV shows. | $15M / Series A / Jan 20, 2025 | ||
| Mercury/13 is a multi-club ownership group focused on acquiring equity interests in European professional women's football teams. The company aims to become the industry standard in women's football ownership by identifying and investing in the next decade's super clubs and fueling their commercial power to attract a massive yetunderserved market: women. | Private Equity / Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| Unrivaled is a women’s professional three-on-three basketball league that provides an off-season platform for elite athletes to play domestically. It features six teams, each composed of six top players, competing under a shortened-court, fast-paced format with a unique “winning score” fourth period and modified free-throw rules. Players receivesix-figure salaries and equity in the league, and amenities are provided, including housing, training, and lifestyle support. | $28M / Series A / Dec 16, 2024 | ||
| Cosm is a technology, media, and entertainment company that builds end-to-end solutions for experiences in the technology and entertainment sectors. It offers an experience solution that includes physical design, engineering, manufacturing, software, display engine, and content to deliver immersive experiences on a large scale. | $250M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Trackhouse Entertainment Group is the Spectator Sports company. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| CityPickle is a pickleball court that offers open play, leagues, and tournaments. | $10.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Launched in 2018, SponsorUnited is a global sports and entertainment intelligence platform. SponsorUnited enables brands, agencies, and properties to partner intelligently by connecting the entire partnership ecosystem through the most comprehensive data available anywhere.SponsorUnited has over 10M images, 10M assets, 700K deals, 200K brands,22K properties—across sports, media, music and events in its SaaS database.Through detailed analysis and machine learning, SponsorUnited is able to efficiently identify partnership opportunities based on historical performance trends and broad curation and standardization of ideas and strategies, all within the format of a marketplace.The company has diversified solutions to suit all levels and complexities of sponsorship that make entering or scaling in sponsorship much easier. | $35M / Series A / Nov 20, 2022 | ||
| Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports. | $10.3M / Series A / Mar 30, 2022 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Avenue Capital Group
Avenue Capital Group was founded in 1995 by Marc Lasry and Sonia E. Gardner. Pioneers in the distressed debt market, Mr. Lasry and Ms. Gardner have successfully invested in the public and private debt and equity securities of distressed companies across a variety of industries for over two decades. Headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Luxembourg, Munich, and nine offices throughout Asia, the firm manages assets valued at approximately $15.8 billion as of March 31, 2009. Avenue draws on the skills and experience of approximately 300 employees and its Senior Principals, Marc Lasry and Sonia E. Gardner, who have spent virtually their entire careers in the field of distressed investments.
Avenue Capital Group Contacts
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Anil Gorthy
Senior Portfolio Manager
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Dan Galanter
Senior Managing Director
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Jeffrey Becker
Managing Director
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Marc Lasry
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
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Sonia Gardner
Co-Founder, President and Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Marc Lasry invest in?
Marc Lasry invests primarily in Sports, Media and Entertainment and Marketing startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 Marc Lasry invest in?
Marc Lasry typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$2.3M at Seed, $6.9M–$35M at Series A and $10M–$250M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Marc Lasry's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Marc Lasry took part in.
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When did Marc Lasry last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marc Lasry closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 21 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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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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