Rose Tech Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Rose Tech Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Video and Digital Media. The Incubator at Rose Tech Ventures is the new Flatiron entrepreneurial tech center in the heart of Silicon Alley, NY. A fully-equipped start-up work space at the epicenter of New York’s early stage community, it overlooks the ShakeShack and is co-located with everything from New York Angels (the leading funder of early stage startups in NewYork) to the New York Software Industry Association.Member of the Business Association of New York State.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Rose Tech Ventures invests in
Stages Rose Tech Ventures invests in
Countries Rose Tech Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sadie Schley
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 3 (16%)
- Digital Media 3 (16%)
- Music 2 (11%)
- Mobile 2 (11%)
- Internet 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (26%)
- Seed 4 (21%)
- Funding Round 3 (16%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Series C 2 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David S. Rose
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
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Sadie Schley
Executive Assistant
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Executive Assistant | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
SAY Media
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Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’stop brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia. | $5M / Nov 26, 2014 | |
Collectively
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Collectivelyer | $955K / Seed / Jun 26, 2014 | |
Collectively
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Collectively is a venture-backed, international team of software professionals dedicated to making work more human. | Seed / Jun 11, 2014 | |
LearnVest
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LearnVest offers a range of personal financial planning services and resources. The company’s mobile application, available for iPhone and iPad devices, enables users to get holistic views of their financial life and network; manage and track their expenses by classifying transactions into categories such as bills, personal care, groceries, and soon; build custom budgets, access informative articles on an online dashboard securely link their accounts; and add cash transactions on the go. With a setup charge and a monthly fee, it also allows consumers to have access to financial planners. Acquired by Northwestern Mutual, LearnVest was founded in 2009 and based in New York, United States. | $4.4M / Series A / Apr 01, 2010 | |
KidZui
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KidZui provides a browser that appeals to kids and only lets them navigate certain pre-approved areas of the web. | $4M / Series C / Mar 23, 2010 | |
Comixology
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Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology — in just five short years — has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. From creating the industry leading platform for digital comics to tools and services for brick and mortar retailers, comiXology has lead the charge in exposing new audiences tothe rich history and culture of comic books. With the development of the Comics by comiXology digital comics platform — available across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the Web — comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics at just the click of a button! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, Comics by comiXology was recently selected as a preloaded app on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Providing digital comics across multiple platforms, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the earth has been turned into a comic book fan.For more information, please visit www.comixology.com. | $150K / Debt Financing / Feb 23, 2010 | |
Magnify.net
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Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers. | $500K / Aug 05, 2009 | |
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Waywire Global
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Waywire Global is a Developer of an online video curation platform | Nov 25, 2008 | |
Mashery
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Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to APImanagement encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers.Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation. | $7M / Series B / Oct 29, 2008 | |
TalkShoe
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TalkShoe is the brain child of Dave Nelsen, who has spent his career in the telecommunications and software industries. Dave observed that there is no ideal way to find, connect with, and use voice to talk to interesting and like-minded people wherever they are. Thus was born TalkShoe - a new way to create live group calls, conversations,discussions and interactive podcasts (called Community Calls). TalkShoe allows people to use voice and text-chat to talk with interesting people with similar interests around the world. TalkShoe currently has almost 100,000 users and millions more listen to recorded Community Calls via iTunes and other podcast directories. People use TalkShoe to discuss a wide variety of topics including business, computers, sports, religion, politics, music, arts, science, travel, and much more. TalkShoe can be easily integrated with social networks to create, play and promote live and recorded Community Calls. Supported social networks include: iGoogle, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, TypePad, Friendster, Webwag, Netvibes and Windows Live. The embed code can also be used to place on any website destination that supports flash (i.e. Ning). | $1.1M / Angel / Jun 26, 2008 | |
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FAQ
What does Rose Tech Ventures invest in?
Rose Tech Ventures invests primarily in Video, Digital Media and Music startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 team at Rose Tech Ventures includes David S. Rose (Managing Partner) and Sadie Schley (Executive Assistant). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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