# Waverley Capital

> Waverley Capital is a VC fund backing Media and Entertainment and Music. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last fund: Feb 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waverley-capital
- Website: http://www.waverleycapital.com/

Waverley Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startup investments. Moreover, the firm targets to invest in the media and entertainment sectors. Founded in 2018 by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Daniel Leff, Waverley Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$7M |
| Series A | $3M–$16M |
| Series B | $10M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Media and Entertainment | 4 | 17% |
| Music | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Audio | 2 | 9% |
| Gaming | 2 | 9% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 26% |
| Series A | 6 | 26% |
| Series B | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Series E | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 57% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deek Velagandula | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deek-velagandula |
| Edgar Bronfman Jr. | Co-Founder, Chairman & General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edgar-bronfman-jr |
| Daniel Leff | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-leff |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hook | Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $15.8M | Series A | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Hook | Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $3M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Volley | Volley is the leading creator of AI-powered games for smart TVs and Amazon Alexa devices. Popular Volley games include Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, 20 Questions, and Question of the Day. The company's platform offers a wide range of voice-based games and develops interactive stories and podcasts with artificial intelligence systems, enablingusers to enjoy audio entertainment experiences. | $55M | Series C | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Lil Snack | Lil Snack is building a consumer platform for daily games! Our team has collectively built some of the most beloved gaming and digital entertainment experiences of the past decade. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Hook | Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI. | $3M | Seed | Oct 12, 2023 |  |
| 9 Count | We are on a mission to create the world’s best online community. | $6M | Series A | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Professional Fighters League | Professional Fighters League is a mixed martial arts league. | $30M | Series E | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Professional Fighters League | Professional Fighters League is a mixed martial arts league. | $30M | Series E | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Endel | Endel is a cross-platform audio ecosystem. It creates personalized, sound-based, adaptive environments that help people focus and relax. They’re a small team of artists, developers, and scientists who have worked together on lots of digital projects, including the award-winning kids’ app series, BUBL. Endel is a 2018 Techstars Music Acceleratorcompany. | $15M | Series B | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Antenna | Antenna provides best-in-class market intelligence to direct-to-consumer subscription businesses. Antenna is a data and analytics startup that aims to expand knowledge of subscriber behavior so brands can entertain, inspire, and empower the world. It provides industry and competitive benchmarks across key metrics so their customers can know ‘whatgood looks like’, market intelligence so they can learn how to build a best-in-class business, and insights to inform their strategic decision-making. |  | Series A | Feb 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blisce](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blisce) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Advancit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advancit-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Waverley Capital invest in?

Waverley Capital invests primarily in Media and Entertainment, Music and Software 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 Waverley Capital's check size?

Waverley Capital typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$7M at Seed, $3M–$16M at Series A and $10M–$37M 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 Waverley Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Waverley Capital?

Public channels for Waverley Capital include LinkedIn 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 Waverley Capital?

The team at Waverley Capital includes Deek Velagandula (Principal), Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Co-Founder, Chairman & General Partner) and Daniel Leff (Co-Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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