Rick Hess
Founder and Managing Partner @ Cobalt Capital
Los Angeles, United States
Rick Hess is a Series C investor at Cobalt Capital in Los Angeles focused on Video and Gaming. Rick Hess is the Founder and Managing Partner at Cobalt Capital.
- Total investments:
- 2
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Industries Rick Hess invests in
Stages Rick Hess invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 1 (50%)
- Gaming 1 (50%)
- eSports 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series C 1 (50%)
- Series D 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Genvid Technologies develops software tools for eSports interactive streaming. It was created by a team of veterans who pioneered innovations in server-side gaming. Genvid's technologies are built for game developers and broadcasting companies looking for tools tailored with games in mind. It is the first developer-grade broadcast technology,integrated with game engines.Founded in 2016, Genvid Technologies is based in New York City. | $113M / Series C / Jul 15, 2021 | ||
| Mux is building the future of online video infrastructure. They started off by building Mux Data, a best-in-class performance analytics tool that’s trusted by developers at companies like Vimeo, Robinhood, CBS Interactive, Discovery, PBS, and TED. Billions of monitored streams later, they launched Mux Video, a simple API for video hosting,encoding, and streaming. Take any video file or live stream and make it play beautifully at scale on any device, powered by magical-feeling features like automatic thumbnails, animated GIFs, and data-driven encoding decisions.Mux measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Its intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view. | $105M / Series D / Apr 30, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Cobalt Capital
Formerly known as Evolution Media, Cobalt Capital is a multi-stage investment firm that partners with exceptional teams to build the next generation of consumer, technology, content, and lifestyle businesses to help them scale their vision. Cobalt invests in rising technology companies that impact culture and uses its deep domain expertise and relationships to accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies while helping them reshape and disrupt their industries.
Cobalt Capital Contacts
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Dan Abrams
Managing Partner
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James Moore
CFO
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Rick Hess
Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Rick Hess invest in?
Rick Hess invests primarily in Video, Gaming and eSports startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 2 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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The most recent investment recorded for Rick Hess closed in Jul 2021. Shizune tracks 2 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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