# North Base Media

> North Base Media is a VC fund backing Digital Media and Advertising. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $19M
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/north-base-media
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/northbasemedia
- Website: http://northbasemedia.com

North Base Media is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Digital Media and Advertising. NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $75k–$5.7M |
| Series A | $2M–$8M |
| Series B | $2M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Media | 14 | 22% |
| Advertising | 10 | 16% |
| News | 9 | 14% |
| Publishing | 9 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 13% |

82 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 33% |
| Series A | 19 | 30% |
| Series B | 5 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 21% |
| India | 7 | 11% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |

22 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marcus Brauchli | Co-Founder, Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-brauchli |
| Sasa Vucinic | Co-founder, managing partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sasa-vucinic |
| Stuart Karle | General Counsel and Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-karle |
| Turi Munthe | Venture Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/turi-munthe |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaleidoscope | Kaleidoscope is an audio company that delivers adventure and thrilling true stories filled with heart. It's like a modern Indiana Jones racing down the Amazon. It's getting lost in space with a Russian cosmonaut and falling in love with the ground handler. It's the excitement of underwater discoveries combined with the thrill ofbeing on the run with a real-life Robin Hood. Stories have the power to shift perspective and broaden horizons. | $5M | Series A | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Zaiko | ZAIKO is an industry leading OEM/tech service company that provides artists, performers, event organizers and digital media companies with ticketing and live streaming solutions. We’ve developed an innovative product that allows event organizers to sell their tickets and live stream their events directly to fans, under their own brand. Ourplatform provides ticketing solutions for festivals, club events, tourism, exhibits, sporting events, theatre and more. We also provided an industry first paid live streaming and VOD streaming service in addition to offline tickets all on one platform. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| Spectrm | Spectrm is an end-to-end platform to acquire leads, for conversational commerce and generating insights on messaging apps like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. It powers companies like Red Bull, Telekom, CNN, Ford, and many more. The combination of an easy to use platform together with internationally recognized conversational AI makes it easy forbusinesses to launch quickly and see results. | $6.5M | Series B | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Bongo | BongoBD is a Bangladeshi entertainment company that offers on-demand video on the mobile and web as well as live tv. It works closely with telecom operators to offer premium content as the potential of the local market 180M population, rapid mobile data expansion is unleashed. The company also manages a network of YouTube channels and influencersin 5 countries with over 500 Channels under management and 83+ million subscribers in the network and a reach of over 210 million unique viewers a month.BongoBD helps content labels transition into a digital world, while they nurture talented creators to produce exciting content for their audience. The company's content library spans 5 languages and boasts 57,000 titles. It also launched a cricket website and an android app for cricket fans.The YouTube channel crossed the milestone of 2 million subscribers and received Golden Play Button award from YouTube and ICT National Award. BongoDB was founded by Navidul Huq and Ahad Mohammad in 2013 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, USA. |  | Series B | Apr 01, 2023 |  |
| Capsule | Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M | Seed | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| Fonos | Fonos is a digital content application including Copyrighted Audiobooks, Book Summary, Meditation and many other rich content, to support the development of spiritual life and career for busy people. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 23, 2022 |  |
| Kiswe | Kiswe is an award-winning technology company that enables the biggest brands in sports and entertainment to reliably reach their fans anywhere on any screen. Whether delivered directly to their audiences or distributed through third parties, Kiswe’s two flagship products, Kiswe Connect and Kiswe Core, provide partners with the tools to engage withtheir community, streamline their distribution process, and scale their brands.Kiswe is headquartered in the U.S. and has offices in Europe and Asia. | $22.5M | Series B | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Hunch | Hunch empowers global e-commerce companies to dominate social commerce with performance driven creatives. Founded by a small group of creative technology pioneers in LA and Belgrade, Hunch has become a global leader in AI driven dynamic creative solutions for social commerce marketing. With Hunch, global brands across Europe, US, LATAM, and Asiafuel their growth online using data-driven, contextualized, and automated customer journeys at scale. | $4.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Kaleidoscope | Kaleidoscope is an audio company that delivers adventure and thrilling true stories filled with heart. It's like a modern Indiana Jones racing down the Amazon. It's getting lost in space with a Russian cosmonaut and falling in love with the ground handler. It's the excitement of underwater discoveries combined with the thrill ofbeing on the run with a real-life Robin Hood. Stories have the power to shift perspective and broaden horizons. | $3.6M | Seed | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Vietcetera Media | Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam | $2M | Series A | Aug 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-news-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Indicator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indicator-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NXTP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/NXTP-Ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pereg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pereg-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does North Base Media invest in?

North Base Media invests primarily in Digital Media, Advertising and News startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 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 North Base Media's check size?

North Base Media typically joins rounds of $75k–$5.7M at Seed, $2M–$8M at Series A and $2M–$23M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds North Base Media participates in.

### How do I contact North Base Media?

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### Who are the partners at North Base Media?

The team at North Base Media includes Marcus Brauchli (Co-Founder, Managing Partner), Sasa Vucinic (Co-founder, managing partner) and Stuart Karle (General Counsel and 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 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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