Top 10 Theatre Angel Investors in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Theatre startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Theatre companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 10 Theatre Angel Investors in January 2025

Investor	Theatre investments
Alex Pattis	1
Sunmeet Jolly	1
Prakash Jain	1
Justin Cooke	1
Larry Braitman	1
Ajay Narula	1
Richard Wolpert	1
Rob Emrich	1
Ratan Tata	1
Gill Holland	1

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Alex Pattis is a General Partner at Riverside Ventures. He attended The University of Arizona.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
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Managing Partner @ Jolly VC, LLCFounder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 44 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars inconsulting services to Fortune 500 companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
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Prakash Jain

Investment focus

Film, Theatre, TV Production
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Cast India — Cast India is a professional mentoring firm that guides, groom, enhance, and launches artists.

I am the Vice Chair of Unicef UK, a Venture Partner at tech VC Northzone, Chairman of The Drum, Deputy Chair of social learning platform FutureLearn and a Non-Executive Director, adviser and investor in numerous fast-growing technology businesses and sit on the British Museum Digital Advisory Board.Prior to Northzone I was the CEO and Founder ofPOSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency. I am also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the industry body for everyone working in digital Britain. I discovered digital media while studying Quasi-Theatrical Leisure and Computers as Theatre while studying Drama at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours I worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and Media before Co-founding global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. I secured venture capital funding and grew the business across three continents before exiting to WPP in 2012. For two years I served on the Board of EPiServer – the world’s fastest growing content management and community platform until its sale to investment bank, IK Partners. I also served on the board of ActiveStandards until its merger with CrownPeak and raising of $50 Million from venture capital firm K1 to become the world's leading cloud-based digital experience management company.I have been lucky enough to have been listed in the Wired Top 100; rated the UK's second most influential person in digital by Econsultancy; inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame and most recently, Business Insider ranked me as one of the UK's coolest tech VC's.

Investment focus

Software, Digital Signage, SaaS
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edit Cloud — Edit Cloud is an editing platform that offers virtual editing suites.
ScreenCloud — ScreenCloud's digital signage software makes it easier than ever for you to put meaningful content on any screen, in any location. Use it to control one screen, or a thousand, from anywhere in the world.
Digital Theatre — Your online home of world-class theatre, streamed directly to your sofa. Over 150 world-class and live events. Rent, Subscribe or Pay Per View.

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spacejoy — Design a home you'll love with Spacejoy's online interior design services. Work 1:1 with top interior designers and transform any space in just 7 days! Get started today.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.

Ajay Narula - CEO & President @ Curtis

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Theatre, Internet
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Dealflicks — Dealflicks is like Priceline.com, but for movie theaters. Every day you can save up to 60% on movie tickets and concessions at your favorite theaters watching your favorite movies with your favorite people.Theaters love us because we get butts in their empty seats. In fact, 88% of movie theater seats are currently empty because of high prices,home entertainment, and internet-based alternatives. At the same time, over 40 billion dollars are spent on movie tickets and concessions each year worldwide, and the market is growing.

Richard Wolpert Founder and Executive Chairman at HelloTech, a pioneer in the fields of technology, consumer digital media and entertainment for more than 25 years, Richard Wolpert has extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. He is also a Venture Partner at Acrew Capital and an Executive Chairman of Scener.Throughouthis career he has been responsible for many “firsts” including: Conceiving of and teaching CS 193C, the first Macintosh programming class at Stanford University; overseeing and managing the process for the creation of TouchBase, the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh; initiating Disney’s Daily Blast, the first kids Internet subscription service; developing and publishing BitBopTuner, the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio; helping the launch of MusicNet, the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet; and debuting Starz! On Demand, the first legitimate online movie subscription service. Wolpert successfully negotiated groundbreaking deals with several major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.As an investor, Wolpert is the co-founder and managing director of Amplify.LA; manages personal investment fund Chance Technologies; functions as an advisor to Accel Partners; served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies; and worked as the managing director of the Mail Room Fund. He has invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, Scour.net, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, Playdek and Universal.Wolpert graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science. He is a founding board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s summer camps for children and sits on the Cedars Sinai Hospital board of governors.