Rick Thompson
Co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director @ Signia Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Rick Thompson is a seed investor at Signia Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Mobile. Rick Thompson is the Co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director of Signia Venture Partners. He previously worked at Idle Games as a Chairman and Co-Founder. Rick Thompson attended the Wharton School.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Rick Thompson invests in
Stages Rick Thompson invests in
Countries Rick Thompson invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $41k–$5.5M
- Angel
- $1.5M–$1.8M
- Series A
- $3M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 5 (28%)
- Mobile 4 (22%)
- Software 4 (22%)
- Apps 3 (17%)
- Online Games 3 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (50%)
- Series A 4 (22%)
- Angel 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kush Marketplace
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Wholesale Marketplace for the Legal Cannabis Industry | $3M / Seed / Sep 01, 2018 | |
Cloud9
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Cloud9 is a professional multi-game esports organization. It was founded in May 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $25M / Series A / Oct 23, 2017 | |
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Kush Marketplace
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Wholesale Marketplace for the Legal Cannabis Industry | $700K / Seed / Oct 01, 2017 | |
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Cloud9
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Cloud9 is a professional multi-game esports organization. It was founded in May 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $3M / Seed / Mar 21, 2017 | |
Stringr
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Stringr is the only company to combine video acquisition with a GenAI powered complete remote production SaaS solution – streamlining video workflows around the world. Stringr's award-winning cloud-based video platform serves over 1,000 global broadcast news and online media customers, supported by a proprietary network of 140,000+videographers stationed across the United States and top international locations. Stringr also houses the largest video news archive with over 1.7 million videos available. All this, combined with daily live pool feeds, weather content and original stories, Stringr offers broadcasters more custom news video than any other solution. Stringr was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, NY | $1.5M / Angel / Dec 01, 2015 | |
Scoop
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Scoop is a creator of multi-platform tools that enable businesses and workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements.The company's platform provides the tools and information required to reduce operational costs while giving workers the opportunity to work from any location, making it simple for businesses to run both an in-officeand remote environment.Scoop was established in January 2015 by Rob Sadow and Jonathan Sadow in San Francisco, California. | Seed / Nov 02, 2015 | |
Super Evil Mega Corp
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Super Evil Megacorp develops core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms. The company's gaming platform offers video games on mobiles and tablets, enabling users to play single or multiple player game with special effects. | $41K / Seed / Oct 16, 2013 | |
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Super Evil Mega Corp
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Super Evil Megacorp develops core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms. The company's gaming platform offers video games on mobiles and tablets, enabling users to play single or multiple player game with special effects. | $1M / Seed / Sep 01, 2012 | |
Artillery
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Artillery is a team of passionate gamers that is turning the modern web browser into a gaming console using HTML5 technology. Artillery's team is comprised of a brain trust of former Google and Facebook engineers focused on solving seemingly impossible game development hurdles and includes long-standing and high ranking gaming and eSportscommunity members.It was founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California. | $2.5M / Aug 03, 2012 | |
Kihon
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Kihon is a collection of industry veterans who specialize in micro-transactional games with integrated social features. Kihon has released three iOS titles to date: “Baby Monkey (going backwards on a pig)”, “SketchPhrase”, and “Dojo Danger". Each title is extremely polished, highly reviewed, and drastically unique. Combined they give a senseof the breadth of our skill-set which ranges from freemium to premium, casual to THE core; single player to asynchronous multiplayer. Prior to Kihon, the team was making large-scale micro-transactional Facebook game titles for Sony Online Entertainment. Key members of the team brought the award-winning game “PoxNora” to market. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2012 | |
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Co-Investors
Signia Venture Partners
2 deals together
Bayview Capital
1 deal together
Beverly Hills Sports Council
1 deal together
Comcast Ventures
1 deal together
Craft Ventures
1 deal together
Eldridge Industries
1 deal together
About Signia Venture Partners
Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures. We invest between $500k and $3m for an initial investment across a wide range of technology businesses, including within marketplaces, ecommerce, gaming, consumer mobile, virtual reality,enterprise technology, big data, and security.
Signia Venture Partners Contacts
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Anagha Raje
CFO
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David Bloom
Senior Associate
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Edward Cluss
Co-Founder, Managing Director and Partner
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Gina Domizio
Operations & Partner Relations Director
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James Kosta
Limited Partner and Operating Partner
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FAQ
What does Rick Thompson invest in?
Rick Thompson invests primarily in Gaming, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Rick Thompson's check size?
Rick Thompson typically joins rounds of $41k–$5.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$1.8M at Angel and $3M–$43M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rick Thompson participates in.
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When did Rick Thompson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rick Thompson closed in Sep 2018. Shizune tracks 18 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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