Mindspring Capital
VC Fund
Newport Beach, United States
Mindspring Capital is a globally oriented, early-stage investment firm that empowers technology ventures in the sports industry. We focus on backing seed-stage B2B entrepreneurs that redefine the business of sport..
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Mindspring Capital invests in
Stages Mindspring Capital invests in
Countries Mindspring Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$2.1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Sports 4 (44%)
- Video 2 (22%)
- Content 2 (22%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- Israel 1 (11%)
- Australia 1 (11%)
- Switzerland 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Johannes Lerchen
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Craig Thompson
Founder, Partner & CEO
|
Founder, Partner & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sandy Khaund
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Web3 Enablement Platform For All Sports. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2022 | ||
| Creative Wagering operates an online platform that allows legal wagering on racing events. It teams up with Lien Games to offer global wagering content to launch the game, Slots of Races. Creative Wagering is based in Illinois, USA. | Oct 15, 2021 | ||
| Curastory is a video enablement tool for creators allowing them to edit, monetize, distribute, and analyze their videos across social media. For monetization, we are the first programmatic media buying solution for creator ad reads. | $2.1M / Seed / Sep 14, 2021 | ||
| LIGR is a new generation of live graphics and broadcast management software that offers TV-quality sports graphics but with no need for hardware, designers, skilled graphics operators, or developers. And because our solution is out-of-the box, we get you up and running in minutes. Since 2016, we’ve been offering live graphics solutions tosporting organisations and the production companies that serve them. We’ve helped these companies dramatically improve the quality of their live streams and monetise through powerful in-stream advertising. For one live game or thousands. Simultaneously and across entire seasons. Accessible to broadcasts and live streams of all budgets. Since inception, we’ve produced graphics for over 10,000 sports games—automatically—all across the globe with over 1,000 sponsor adsets uploaded into our platform. We’ve saved over 100,000 hours of graphics operation, design and development. That’s the equivalent of more than $20 million saved and over $1 million in sponsorship money activated. What we offerProfessional, out-of-the-box, statistic-integrated, templated-sports graphics themesAutomated graphics and asset management, superior workflow and user experienceEffortless sponsorship management, in-game display and reporting | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Slate is a content creation platform that creates on-brand social content for real-time social media. The platform allows companies to quickly overlay content with their own branded fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations from a custom mobile app, and then post directly to platforms like Instagram Stories. It gives social teams the toolsto quickly prepare content for Stories and Feed without having to get their computers out or send media back to a designer.Slate also allows for social media content to be sponsored in new and exciting ways. It increases the ability to sponsor the most engaging real-time content and opens up a whole new menu of sponsorable assets. The platform is trusted by teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, MLB as well as major brands in media and entertainment. | Seed / Jul 15, 2021 | ||
| Minute is a video optimization technology company that provides viewers with highlights of the video content on the web. Based in Tel Aviv, the company was founded in 2013 with the aim of driving video engagement and making the online video consumption process both more efficient and enjoyable. Minute finds personalized and desirable content forusers so that they can spend their time watching only the most engaging clips while also efficiently discovering a greater volume of content. | Series B / Feb 15, 2021 | ||
| Satisfi Labs provide digital workforces in industries, AI assistants are an essential staffing solution to help brands meet their growing customer needs. | Seed / Jan 15, 2021 | ||
| Horizm provides digital inventory management, leveraging artificial intelligence services for the sports and entertainment industry | $1M / Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| PumpJack DataWorks is a Texas-based sports-technology service with offices in New York and Madrid that helps teams and venues of all sizes refine their digital strategy to lower their user-acquisition costs and increase their revenue per user.As new platforms of engagement become available The PumpJack data management system helps teams andvenues gather and refine their fan data to better understand their audience, make better business decisions, and achieve new revenue opportunities through technology. | Seed / Oct 01, 2020 |
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FAQ
What does Mindspring Capital invest in?
Mindspring Capital invests primarily in Sports, Video and Content startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Mindspring Capital invest in?
Mindspring Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.1M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mindspring Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mindspring Capital took part in.
How do I contact Mindspring Capital?
Public channels for Mindspring Capital include LinkedIn 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 Mindspring Capital?
The team at Mindspring Capital includes Johannes Lerchen (Principal), Craig Thompson (Founder, Partner & CEO) and Sandy Khaund (General Partner). 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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