Saban Ventures
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Saban Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Mobile Apps. Saban Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), a private investment firm founded by Haim Saban in 2001 and specializing in the media, entertainment, and communications industries. Saban Ventures was formed by SCG in 2008 to invest in early-stage to mid-stage start-ups in digital media, mobile, and consumerInternet with an emphasis on companies that can add value to SCGâ€:tm:s global media investments.The Saban Ventures team brings significant investment, operations, and industry experience in the digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet spaces. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious, market-changing entrepreneurs and invest in companies where the Principals can add value through their expertise and strategic network. The firm actively partners and collaborates with its portfolio companies to help them achieve breakout success.Saban Ventures and SCG work closely together on investments that require multidisciplinary skills and creative structuring. As a division of SCG, Saban Ventures has access to a wide network of strategic relationships in the traditional media, entertainment, and advertising industries that continue to influence our new media investments. With representation in both Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, Saban Ventures is well positioned to invest in disruptive start-ups at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Saban Ventures invests in
Stages Saban Ventures invests in
Countries Saban Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$9M
- Series A
- $3.4M–$11M
- Series C
- $15M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (13%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (10%)
- SaaS 2 (6%)
- Retail 2 (6%)
- Content 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series C 7 (23%)
- Seed 6 (19%)
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Series D 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 10 (32%)
- Israel 7 (23%)
- Denmark 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Barak Pridor
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Haim Saban
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online integrative pain management. | $11M / Series A / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| MetaSight Diagnostics, a health technology company, is on a mission to develop affordable and precise liquid biopsy diagnostics for the early detection of a wide range of chronic and acute diseases by leveraging proprietary mass spectrometry technologies (metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics). | $8M / Series A / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| Snappy is the all-in-one gifting platform that helps businesses celebrate people in a way that is thoughtful, personal, and strategically impactful. Whether you’re recognizing top performers, thanking loyal customers, reigniting sales conversations, or celebrating everyday wins, Snappy turns appreciation into a powerful lever for engagement,loyalty, and growth. With over 250,000 curated gift options, from premium swag to global experiences, Snappy ensures every recipient receives something they’ll truly value. Built for scale, the platform supports automated workflows, real-time tracking, robust APIs, and native integrations with tools like Salesforce, Workday, and HubSpot - enabling organizations to embed gifting into existing programs without extra operational lift. Snappy serves HR, marketing, and sales and dev teams across the full lifecycle, from onboarding and birthdays to milestones, client renewals, prospect outreach, and more. Trusted by thousands of companies, including over 50% of the Fortune 100, Snappy has delivered over 7 million gifts across 176+ countries. With Snappy, appreciation becomes more than a gesture. It becomes a tool to build stronger relationships, foster culture, and drive measurable results, including retention, engagement, and motivation, without losing the human connection that makes gifting meaningful. | $25M / Series D / Apr 15, 2024 | ||
| Online integrative pain management. | $5.2M / Series A / Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage datarequests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS. | $30M / Series B / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| floLIVE provides global, secure, cloud-native connectivity solutions to enterprises, mobile operators and cloud providers. Its platform comprises local core networks that provide local connectivity while being centrally managed and controlled over the cloud.This unique approach enables enterprises to benefit from high performance, secure andregulatory-compliant local connectivity with the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud-native platform. floLIVE offers a complete, cloud-based IoT eco-system that includes a core network with integrated device management, Inventory, and Billing services – all provided as-a-service and support a pay-as-you-grow business model. | $47M / Series C / Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Web3 growth is hard, we make it easy. Superfine is a web3 growth technology provider, we partner with web3 game publishers to help them scale. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Vietnam. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 01, 2023 | ||
| Opsys Tech is a fast-growing private company providing solutions for a wide range of applications utilizing fiber optics technologies. It is a spinoff of a worldwide leading optical communication company Finsar Corporation. In addition to OPSYS existing product line in the optical communication market, OPSYS is also involved in the development ofproducts and technologies for new applications in the optical market such as Autonomous vehicle control and intelligent sensors.Opsys Technologies develops a multiwavelength solid-state lidar product for use in autonomous vehicles. | $51.5M / Series C / Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Online integrative pain management. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Podimoa is an open podcast platform that offers a subscription service for creators. Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions. Co-founded by Morten Strunge, Nikolaj Koppel, Andreas Sachse, EvaLægdsgaard, and Sverre Dueholm, Podimo is hoping to capitalize on the rise in consumption in podcasts. | $58.5M / Series B / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does Saban Ventures invest in?
Saban Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 31 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 Saban Ventures's check size?
Saban Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$9M at Seed, $3.4M–$11M at Series A and $15M–$70M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Saban Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Saban Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Saban Ventures?
The team at Saban Ventures includes Barak Pridor (Managing Partner) and Haim Saban (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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