# Penske Media Corporation

> Penske Media Corporation is a VC fund backing Advertising and Music. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/penske-media-corporation
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PenskeMedia
- Website: http://pmc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/penskemediacorp/

Penske Media Corporation is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Advertising and Music. PMC is a digital media and publishing and information services company.It engages with thriving audiences across the web, television, mobile, print and social media – reaching more customers.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 3 | 27% |
| Music | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 18% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 82% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Perreault | Executive Vice President, Business Development | 0 | — |
| Derek Ramsay | Senior Director of Project Management | 0 | — |
| Edward Hertzman | Executive Vice President, Fairchild Media & Founder and President- Sourcing Journal | 0 | — |
| Erick Hitter | Senior Software Engineer | 0 | — |
| Gabriel Koen | Vice President of Engineering | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MOGL | MOGL provides brands with scalable advertising solutions to build awareness and increase profitability. They connect with athletes for marketing campaigns. Their services include influencer campaigns, affiliate marketing, appearances, and brand ambassadors. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contact form, and email. | $2.6M | Seed | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| Vox Media | Vox Media is a media company that creates, publishes, and distributes online content, and connects young adults worldwide. It offers SB Nation, an online sports media brand and network of individual fan-centric sports communities, The Verge, a technology publication, Polygon, a publication for adult gamers, Vox.com, an interest news site, Eater,food and dining publication, Racked, a shopping, beauty, and fashion publication, Curbed, a real estate and home brand publication, and Re/code, a tech business publication. Vox Media also operates Vox Creative, a division that creates marketing stories for brands. It also offers advertising services via Vox Advertising, and through an advertising solution Concert. Markos Moulitsas, Joshua Topolsky, Jerome Armstrong, and Tyler Bleszinski founded Sportsblogs on July 14, 2003 that became Vox Media in 2012. Its headquarters is in the District of Columbia with additional offices in New York City. | $100M | Corporate Round | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| Genius Academy | Genius Academy is an innovative educational technology company that harnesses experiential learning, AI, technology, and human interaction to deliver measurable, high-impact results and increase competency development. Through our platform, we offer affordable and turnkey integrations into higher education and professional development platformsat scale. Our first mission is dedicated to advancing more effective Mental health practice and diagnosis amist the global crisis by better training future and current practitioners in Psychology, Social Work, and Counseling. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Genius Academy | Genius Academy is an innovative educational technology company that harnesses experiential learning, AI, technology, and human interaction to deliver measurable, high-impact results and increase competency development. Through our platform, we offer affordable and turnkey integrations into higher education and professional development platformsat scale. Our first mission is dedicated to advancing more effective Mental health practice and diagnosis amist the global crisis by better training future and current practitioners in Psychology, Social Work, and Counseling. | $1.1M | Angel | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Authentic | Authentic helps brands, auction houses, and collectors create secure and safe authentication documentation and provenance tracking. Authentic is used by forward-thinking brands to protect their customers, combat fraud, and support secondary sales. Authentic users can update their customer experience with secure and encrypted digital certificates ofauthenticity. Their records are unchangeable, reducing fraud and increasing transparency. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| NachoNacho | NachoNacho is a marketplace for B2B SaaS.For Buyers: NachoNacho is an application that helps businesses and freelancers (a) consolidate and control all their subscriptions in one account using virtual credit cards, and (b) buy new subscriptions at substantial discounts. Account setup takes less than 5 minutes.For Sellers: NachoNacho is a newuser acquisition channel for SaaS vendors. They acquire new subscribers at a cost lower than their CAC. No technical integration is required to list SaaS products. Listing a product takes less than half hour. | $3M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Unblocked Brands | Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment. Unblocked was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $10M | Seed | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| LDJ Productions | LDJ Productions is a experiential production and creative agency headquartered in New York City. With an eclectic industry array and a diverse clientele, LDJ is positioned at the forefront of brand innovation and at the intersection of live media, arts, culture, and commerce. LDJ’s mission is to form lasting client partnerships, encouraging growth,use of innovative technologies, and a return on live and digital experiences. Their focus is on amplifying the guest experience while creating brand loyalty and leaving lasting impressions. |  | Corporate Round | May 14, 2020 |  |
| MoxieJam | MoxieJam will be a consumer app targeted to fans of entertainment. During this time of exploding choice in media content, there is a good news / bad news situation for consumers. They have access to an incredible supply of music, TV shows, movies, podcasts and books, but that also brings a significant source of frustration. There is just nogood way to help fans organize their own playlists and watchlists, to share their interests with other fans and to discover new things that they might enjoy. MoxieJam will help fans do just that. | $275K | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2020 |  |
| Music Business Worldwide | Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is a free, in-depth news, insight and analysis platform for the international music industry.As a UK-based site with a global outlook, we’re lucky to have access to some of the world’s most exciting professional music businesses 
on Their doorstep.But Their remit also extends much further afield, unitinga worldwide community of industry thought-leaders.Whether it’s the colossal US,
 UK and EU markets, the growing power of Asia-Pacific, Russia and Latin America or the streaming-savvy Nordics, MBW helps artists, managers and music industry rights-holders arm themselves with international knowledge to
 tackle international ambitions. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 11, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-investors-b97b) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelList Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BAM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bam-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bettor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bettor-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Penske Media Corporation invest in?

Penske Media Corporation invests primarily in Advertising, Music and Internet startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Penske Media Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at Penske Media Corporation?

The team at Penske Media Corporation includes Craig Perreault (Executive Vice President, Business Development), Derek Ramsay (Senior Director of Project Management) and Edward Hertzman (Executive Vice President, Fairchild Media & Founder and President- Sourcing Journal), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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