Patrick Murphy
Venture Investor @ Universal Music Group
San Francisco, United States
Patrick Murphy is a seed investor at Universal Music Group in San Francisco focused on Music and Video. Patrick Murphy is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Tapestry VC. Patrick previously worked at Universal Music Groups a Venture Investor. Patrick Murphy attended the University College Dublin.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Patrick Murphy invests in
Stages Patrick Murphy invests in
Countries Patrick Murphy invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 3 (23%)
- Video 3 (23%)
- Software 3 (23%)
- Apps 2 (15%)
- Mobile 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Series B 3 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 11 (85%)
- Ireland 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Manna is a Drone Delivery “As a Service” business. We enable, transform and grow local businesses of all types by powering a 3-minute delivery service across a 30 square mile catchment area for them. Reaching more customers - more quickly and in a more scalable way than road-based delivery.Manna is regulated by the relevant aviation regulatorybodies in Europe and USA. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 26, 2025 | ||
| Ladder is a strength training app that provides a workout plan, every single day. Fitness-seekers can access a complete strength training program on their phone, learn from an expert coach, and engage with a community that shares a passion for fitness. The company is based in Austin, Texas. | $12M / Series A / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| nMachine is a low-code solution that lets companies rapidly create powerful operations platforms for their engineers, who need to safely operate their complex, programmable, cloud native infrastructure every day. In other words, we are building programmable platforms (i.e programmable PaaS’s) for the modern programmable infrastructure era. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Oct 05, 2022 | ||
| Sustain. Life's mission is to empower organizations across the world to actualize the wide-ranging benefits of sustainability. How? By building a platform that makes it simple for organizations to reduce and manage their environmental impact. | $9M / Seed / May 16, 2022 | ||
| Pex specializes in digital rights technology. It ensures transparency and accuracy in attribution by bringing together all stakeholders and industries to license and manage content. Its advanced technology operates at unprecedented speed and scale, enabling transactions that were previously thought impossible. By radically simplifying licensingon a global scale, Pex empowers digital platforms to make real-time decisions about content, enables creators to utilize copyrighted content without fear, and ensures rightsholders can be properly credited and compensated. Pex builds solutions and technologies that are inclusive and equitable. | $7M / Seed / Oct 09, 2017 | ||
| Jelli operates as a cloud-based advertising company for the radio market in the United States. It offers SpotPlan, a Web-based programmatic buying platform for buying radio advertising; RadioSpot, a cloud-based advertising server for broadcast radio, and automating terrestrial radio advertising; and RadioDash, a campaign dashboard for radiocampaigns. Michael Dougherty and Jateen Parekh founded Jelli on September 15, 2008. Its headquarters is in San Mateo in California. | $21M / Series B / Jun 23, 2015 | ||
| Vulcun offers the largest prize pools in Fantasy eSports today, allowing gamers to support their favorite pro players and win hundreds of thousands in real money each season. The service is trusted by dozens of Pro players such as Voyboy, Imaqtpie, MandatoryCloud, Westrice and others. | $12M / Series A / Apr 09, 2015 | ||
| Houseparty is an internet company that features an online platform that serves as a social network that brings empathy to online communication. The company specializes in the fields of internet, social network, and video chat. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $14M / Series B / Mar 27, 2015 | ||
| Merchbar is an operator of an online marketplace used to be used for selling music band merchandise. It provides an easy way for fans to discover and buy merchandise from their favorite artists that enables fans to buy their desired accessories and merchandise at a reasonable price range.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California. | $1M / Seed / Dec 14, 2014 | ||
| Pluto TV is a free streaming television service in America, offering over 100 live and original channels along with thousands of on-demand movies. The service collaborates with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. It is used by millions of viewers each month for news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestylecontent, and digital series. Pluto TV, headquartered in Los Angeles, is accessible on mobile devices, web browsers, and connected TV streaming devices. | $13M / Series A / Nov 20, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiplesales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.
Universal Music Group Contacts
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Jack Fryer
Managing Director - The Square @ Universal Music UK
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Kade Speiser
General Manager, Commercial Innovation & Artist Strategy
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Michele Anthony
Executive Vice President
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Richelle P. Parham
President, Global eCommerce and Business Development
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Boyd Muir
EVP , Chief Financial Officer & President of Operations
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FAQ
What does Patrick Murphy invest in?
Patrick Murphy invests primarily in Music, Video and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Patrick Murphy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Murphy closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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