# Warner Bros.

> Warner Bros. is a VC fund in Burbank backing Video and Digital Entertainment. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burbank, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/warner-bros--entertainment/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wbpictures
- Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/warnerbrosent/

Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. The company specializes in various entertainment activities, including feature films, television, home entertainment and DVDs, animations, product and brand licensing, interactive entertainment,comic books, digital distribution, video games, international cinemas, and broadcasting. It also develops and produces musicals and other stage productions for the studio.Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, DC Entertainment.The company’s official website contains movie trailers, news, classic clips, TV series, and video games. Its online store sells movies, clothing, accessories, toys and games, home décor, collectibles, and more.Warner Bros. was founded in 1923 and is based in California, United States with presence in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. The company operates as a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., an American media and entertainment company.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$1.7M |
| Series B | $27M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 7 | 32% |
| Digital Entertainment | 5 | 23% |
| Internet | 4 | 18% |
| Media and Entertainment | 4 | 18% |
| TV | 3 | 14% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 27% |
| Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Series B | 3 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 64% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| Singapore | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Hunegs | President, Business and Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-hunegs |
| David Haddad | Executive Vice President & General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-haddad-3 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | Host | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-degeneres |
| Bennett Graebner | Executive Producer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bennett-graebner |
| Julie DEMARIGNY | VP of International | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-demarigny |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unrivaled | Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league. |  | Series B | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Palm NFT Studio | Palm NFT Studio is a collective of entertainment, technology, cryptoart and art industry leaders set up to on-ramp artists, creators and rights owners who want to establish NFT marketplaces and next-generation creative works on Palm. | $27M | Series B | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Bump | Bump is an AI-powered analytics-driven platform that helps creators receive and manage microadvances for their businesses. It also helps in tracking and collecting lost revenue, determining qualification for micro-financing, and booking personalized live sessions directly with entertainment industry executives to let creators eliminate traditionalbarriers faced while receiving requisite resources. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Quibi | Quibi is a media company that develops media content designed for smartphones. The company is focused on the core audience, producing inspiring shows for an intuitive, mobile-first platform, and creating a culture where everyone is heard. Its content is made specifically for mobile devices and can be viewed in either horizontal or vertical video,with the user able to shift to one or the other within the same video.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $1B |  | Aug 07, 2018 |  |
| Dreamscape Immersive | Dreamscape Immersive is a company that uses VR technologies to create an entirely new form of mainstream location-based entertainment. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California. | $30M | Series B | Sep 26, 2017 |  |
| Milk VFX | Academy and BAFTA award-winning independent VFX company. We create innovative sequences for high end television & feature films. Based in London & Wales. | $2.6M |  | Jun 19, 2017 |  |
| Dreamscape Immersive | Dreamscape Immersive is a company that uses VR technologies to create an entirely new form of mainstream location-based entertainment. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California. |  | Series A | Feb 13, 2017 |  |
| HOOQ | Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment have established HOOQ, a joint venture start-up, to offer a regional over-the-top (OTT) video service in Asia.HOOQ will deliver both Hollywood blockbusters and television series, as well as popular local movies and programmes to customers anytime, anywhere by enabling them tostream and download their favourite shows on their device or platform of choice.HOOQ will be rolled out progressively in the Singtel Group’s Asian footprint, including Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Thailand, from the first quarter of 2015. | $25M |  | Jan 11, 2017 |  |
| CHILI | Chili is a European entertainment company and a comprehensive entertainment-centered marketplace for movie and TV fans, providing information and reviews about cinema previews, a geo-localized cinema ticket booking service, all the new releases in digital form, months before pay TV, a catalogue of thousands of digital films, TV series, DVDs, andBlu-Ray, the possibility to buy together original merchandising of a character and choose gadgets from the films, and lots more.CHILI proposes a wide library of titles thanks to the agreements with the most important production companies, local distributors, and indie labels. CHILI is available on Smart TVs, Blu Rays, PCs, tablets, and smartphones. No monthly or activation costs, a pure pay per view movie experience. Founded in June 2012, thanks to the success achieved in Italy, CHILI has expanded to UK, Germany, Poland, and Austria. CHILI is controlled and managed by its founders.CHILI is the owner of subsidiaries HotCorn and CineTrailer. HotCorn is a digital magazine dedicated to film and TV series, more than 30 correspondents worldwide confirm the international scope of the magazine. CineTrailer is a popular and downloaded international app for cinema, available in Italy, Germany, Spain, France Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and UK. CineTrailer is the cinema finder which allows the public to always be updated on the latest films in cinemas, screening times for the nearest theatres with the possibility of booking seats and buying tickets.In November 2017, Frost & Sullivan awarded CHILI as the European Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for its innovative video-on-demand (VOD) services. The company was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. | $8.3M | Private Equity | Dec 15, 2016 |  |
| Magic Leap | Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.Magic Leap is an Augmented Reality US-based startup that is innovating in the AR space to create new hardware and software that will give its users a never-before-seen AR experience and redefine how theyaccess screens and visualize data. The headset combines a user's inherent visual ability with mobile computing – giving visual output equivalent to real-world experience but powered by mobile tech. Using their Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, they generate images indistinguishable from real objects and place those images seamlessly into the real world. | $793.5M | Series C | Feb 02, 2016 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MGM Studios](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mgm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sony Pictures Entertainment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sony-pictures-entertainment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Google](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Warner Bros. invest in?

Warner Bros. invests primarily in Video, Digital Entertainment and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Warner Bros.'s check size?

Warner Bros. typically joins rounds of $500k–$1.7M at Seed and $27M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Warner Bros. participates in.

### How do I contact Warner Bros.?

Public channels for Warner Bros. include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. 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.

### Who are the partners at Warner Bros.?

The team at Warner Bros. includes Craig Hunegs (President, Business and Strategy), David Haddad (Executive Vice President & General Manager) and Ellen DeGeneres (Host), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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