# Tom Ryan

> Tom Ryan is a seed investor at Struck Studio (Los Angeles) backing Music and E-Commerce. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Struck Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/struck-studio)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasvryan
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thomasryan
- Website: https://x.com/thomasryan

Tom Ryan is a seed investor at Struck Studio in Los Angeles focused on Music and E-Commerce. Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV and President, CEO, and Streaming at Paramount, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership withhundreds of major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $175k–$8.5M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 5 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 22% |
| Mobile | 4 | 17% |
| Internet | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 39% |
| Series A | 8 | 35% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 70% |
| Denmark | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xynapse | Xynapse is an advanced blockchain intelligence and on-chain analytics platform that helps investors, researchers, and institutions understand crypto markets, wallet behavior, and capital flows across multiple blockchains.The platform combines real-time crypto market data, ETF tracking, multi-chain blockchain exploration, wallet network graphs,and AI-enhanced on-chain intelligence into a unified dashboard, enabling high-precision monitoring, analysis, and visualization of blockchain activity.Xynapse provides live insights into token prices, market capitalization trends, sector movements, and ETF inflows/outflows, all contextualized with on-chain signals beyond traditional price charts.Users can explore and analyze transactions, token transfers, fees, and wallet activity across major blockchains including Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain (BSC), Solana, and more, enhanced with address nametags and behavioral analytics.Through wallet network graphs, transaction flow visualizations, and address clustering, Xynapse reveals hidden relationships and capital movement patterns. AI-driven analysis transforms raw blockchain data into actionable intelligence for smarter trading, research, and risk assessment. | $8.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Utopai Studios | Utopai is an AI-native entertainment company, building a generational studio. We develop and own original IP, produce it, and build the technology that makes it, all in one company. Each side compounds the others: Originals create demand, Production turns AI-native content into market-ready films faster and more economically than a traditionalstudio, and PAI, our AI engine, learns from every project. Our ambition is to build a generational media company, and in time the world’s leading studio.Partnerships: Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Co, ZDF, Globoplay, Carmelo Anthony / Creative 7 Productions / James HardenFilms in Production:JOURNEY TO THE WEST \| Status: Production \| Targeted Release Date: October 31, 2026 \| Logline/Description: “Journey to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years“ will explore the “untold origin” story of how the 1592 mythological book’s protagonist — the imprisoned Monkey King, Sun Wukong — would grow to protect a monk, Jin Chanzi.CORTES \| Status: Pre-Production \| Targeted Release Date: May 2027 \| Logline/Description: In 1519, a charismatic Spanish captain — Hernán Cortés — leads 500 men and a handful of horses into the heart of the Aztec Empire. Two years later an entire civilization is gone. Decades on, the soldier-chronicler who marched with him, Bernal Díaz, writes the conquest's memoir with pride in his heart and tears in his eyes.SPACE NATION \| Status: In production \| Targeted Release Date: TBD \| Logline/Description: Space Nation presents an engaging two-act narrative exploring humanity's response to a disastrous first contact event. The story begins by establishing two distinct paths: civilian evacuation via massive Ark ships, contrasted with military resistance organized by the Space Nation alliance.HALF MOON \| Status: Production \| Targeted Release Date: February 2027 \| Logline/Description: A bullied thirteen-year-old Korean-German girl and her emotionally wounded aunt — strangers to each other — spend a fractured summer on a remote North Sea island, where surviving each other becomes the only way either of them can survive themselves. |  | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Vertice | Vertice is a tech-enabled SaaS purchasing solution that helps businesses save on their annual software expenditure. The company enables organizations across various sizes and industries to enhance their oversight and management of software and cloud expenses. Through the use of automation and machine learning, the company ensures definite costsavings for its clients. | $26M | Series A | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Loupe | Loupe is an art streaming platform and service on connected TV and the web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of the home, ad-supported on living room TVs or with a commercial licence for public display, and allow users to purchase the artwork, including select prints and originals. Loupe launchedexclusively on Apple TV, where it is ranked as the top lifestyle app around the world, and now has 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo, and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2 million monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theatre/home entertainment, interior design, the art market, music streaming, and hospitality. | $650K | Seed | Jan 16, 2020 |  |
| Loupe | Loupe is an art streaming platform and service on connected TV and the web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of the home, ad-supported on living room TVs or with a commercial licence for public display, and allow users to purchase the artwork, including select prints and originals. Loupe launchedexclusively on Apple TV, where it is ranked as the top lifestyle app around the world, and now has 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo, and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2 million monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theatre/home entertainment, interior design, the art market, music streaming, and hospitality. |  | Seed | Jan 15, 2020 |  |
| HOOKED | HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more. | $650K | Pre-Seed | Apr 10, 2015 |  |
| Washio | Wash.io is a dry cleaning and laundry service that picks up dirty laundry, cleans it, and delivers it back to its owners. Consumers of the service have to only schedule a time and pick-up location for the order and get their clothes within a 30 minute window. The finished clothes will then be delivered to them on a return date of their choice, onwhich date they will also have to pay for Wash.io’s services.It was founded in March 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Jan 14, 2014 |  |
| AngelList | AngelList is a platform that connects startups with investors, talent, and capital infrastructure. The company offers fundraising tools for early-stage companies, allowing them to raise money through syndicates and venture funds. It also provides a platform for startup job seekers, enabling candidates to explore roles across thousands of companies.AngelList supports fund managers and investors with back-office and compliance services to streamline fund creation and management. AngelList the parent company of AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and Product Hunt and has more than 20 unicorns in the portfolio. | $24M | Series A | Sep 22, 2013 |  |
| Tattoodo | Tattoodo is a content provider focused on the tattoo culture and lifestyle. With 20 million monthly users, Tattoodo has fast become the no. 1 destination for tattoo lovers around the world! From inspiration and custom designs to lifestyle and entertainment. It covers all aspects of the global and ever-growing tattoo culture and works tirelessly todeliver relevant content and brand new services to its audience.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. | $450K | Angel | Jan 20, 2013 |  |
| Protein Bar | Protein Bar, a chain of healthy fast-food restaurants that began with a single store across the street from the Willis Tower in 2009, is in late-stage acquisition talks with Catterton Partners, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity firm, according to documents obtained by Crain's. |  | Series A | Jul 01, 2012 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Quest Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [0110 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/0110-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accelerator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerator-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AFSquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afsquare) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Struck Studio

VC Fund · Santa Monica, United States

Struck Studio operates as a venture capital firm, focusing on investing in and building transformative technology. The firm functions as a co-founder, providing strategic support to startups from ideation to achieving growth. Struck Studio identifies promising startup concepts, invests in them, and helps them find experienced entrepreneurs to runthe company once signs of product/market fit are found. The firm is also involved in the crypto space through Struck Crypto. Struck Studio is independently funded by top venture firms.

2 contacts available at Struck Studio.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Montero | Founder & Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-montero |
| Tom Ryan | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-ryan |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Ryan invest in?

Tom Ryan invests primarily in Music, E-Commerce and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Tom Ryan's check size?

Tom Ryan typically joins rounds of $175k–$8.5M at Seed and $2.7M–$26M 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 Tom Ryan participates in.

### When did Tom Ryan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Ryan closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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