# Ted Ackerley > Ted Ackerley is a seed investor at Seattle Kraken backing Music and FinTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: Seattle Kraken - Location: Seattle, United States - Total investments: 2 - Last investment: Oct 2020 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-ackerley-74240729 Ted Ackerley is a co-founder of forms of media. He currently represents Ackerley Partners on the Boards of LicenseStream, Hidden City Games and Stoneacre Partners. In addition, Mr. Ackerley is current Chairman of the Board of Seattle based Audiosocket.com, licensing indepedent pre-cleared music to all forms of digital media including social networking, gaming and video sites. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Ted Ackerley: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/ted-ackerley?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Music | 1 | 50% | | FinTech | 1 | 50% | | Financial Services | 1 | 50% | | Information Technology | 1 | 50% | | Media and Entertainment | 1 | 50% | ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 1 | 50% | | Series A | 1 | 50% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Tomo | Tomo is a fintech startup that will improve the homebuying experience, initially as a digital mortgage and transaction company. | $40M | Seed | Oct 28, 2020 | | | Audiosocket | Audiosocket is a forward thinking music, media and technology company that delivers the best music talent to the marketplace. We are a next-generation content provider that is providing a new service to the music industry that is helping to shape the monetization and artist trending strategies of the future. Innovators of MaaSâ„¢ (Music as aService), the company is curating and delivering the best indie music to content creators worldwide for hassle free licensing to digital and traditional media formats. Fundamentally designed for integration into video and photo sharing platforms, virtual worlds, online games and social networks, MaaSâ„¢ is changing the way that music is licensed and consumed in digital media. Musicians are making money and media companies are securing quality content and proper legal copyrights and protections. Days worth of content are being created every hour and MaaSâ„¢ provides the world the tools needed to legally source and license music for any creative project. After a heavy vetting process, the world’s second largest video sharing site, Vimeo, selected Audiosocket as its music store partner. Audiosocket launched its first commercial release of MaaSâ„¢ within Vimeo's platform in September and received press coverage in TechCrunch, Billboard Music Biz, Mashable, LA Times, CNN Money, Yahoo Business and more. For more info, visit audiosocket.com | | Series A | Sep 02, 2009 | | 2 of 2 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Ribbit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ribbit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [SVB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/svb-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Zigg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zigg-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Seattle Kraken VC Fund · Seattle, United States NHL.com/kraken is the official web site of the Seattle Hockey Partners, LLC d/b/a Seattle Kraken, and cannot be used or reproduced without the prior written consent of Seattle Kraken. The NHL Shield, word mark and image of the Stanley Cup and NHL Conference logos are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. 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All Rights Reserved. 5 contacts available at Seattle Kraken. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Mari Horita | SVP, Social Impact & Government Relations | — | | Samantha Holloway | Co-Owner and Co-Chair | — | | Christopher Ackerley | Executive Committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-ackerley | | Jason Botterill | Assistant GM | — | | Norm Maciver | Director Of Player Personnel | — | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Ted Ackerley invest in? Ted Ackerley invests primarily in Music, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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. ### How do I contact Ted Ackerley? Public channels for Ted Ackerley include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### When did Ted Ackerley last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Ted Ackerley closed in Oct 2020. 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. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? 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