Found 634 investors
Eric Bowman
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, S/W Engineer, Media, Fed/Dept. of Def, Healthcare, Beverage Distribution, Sports, Entertainment, etc.
Individual/Angel
Eric Dingman
United States
Mr. Gavin M. Cuneo has been our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since inception. From 2010 to the present, he has been a partner of Cuneo & Company, a private venture investment company focused on early-stage media, entertainment, and consumer growth businesses. From 2019 until March 2021, he was Chief Operating Officer and director of CIIC. Mr. Cuneo has served and currently serves on the board of a number of private companies. From 2011 to 2018, Mr. Cuneo was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Valiant Entertainment LLC. Cuneo & Company initially capitalized on the dormant comic book publisher to relaunch the business as an IP-centric multimedia company. Under this new management, Valiant grew into one of the leading print and digital publishers in comics, established a marquee licensing business, and built a film and television division including a multi-picture partnership with Sony Pictures. Valiant was sold to DMG Entertainment in 2018. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Cuneo was an investment banker in the consumer industry coverage group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and its predecessor Merrill Lynch & Co. where he executed debt and equity financings and advised on mergers and acquisitions for leading companies in the consumer and retail industries. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Cuneo held a number of positions at U.S. Trust Company (now a division of Bank of America), including as an Assistant Vice President in Equity Research, functioning as an equity analyst and associate portfolio manager, and as an Assistant Vice President of corporate strategy. Mr. Cuneo holds an M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Business from Lafayette College, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is Peter Cuneo's son.
Individual/Angel
Eugene Wei
San Francisco, California
Tech and entertainment product
Consumer Internet
Media/Content
Evan Greenberg
Georgia
Mr. John Hendricks served as Chairman & Board Member at Software Acquisition Group. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Board member at VinTech Nano Materials. John Hendricks served as the Chairman & Founder at Discovery Communications. He co-founded discovery channel. He created Discovery Channel in 1985 as the first cable network in the United States designed to provide high-quality documentary programming enabling people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity. Hendricks has been the driving force behind the company's dramatic growth, including the expansion of Discovery Communications from its core property, Discovery Channel, to current global operations in over 220 countries and territories with more than 2 billion cumulative subscribers. Under Hendricks' leadership, Discovery now encompasses more than 190 networks of distinctive programming representing 50 entertainment brands including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery. Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top-three portfolio of television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools and owns and operates a diversified portfolio of digital media services, including Revision3. efore 1985, Hendricks founded and served as president of the American Association of University Consultants (AAUC), a private consulting organization that specialized in television distribution, marketing and fundraising for educational programs and services. Hendricks holds a B.A. in history (magna cum laude, 1974) and an honorary doctorate (1991) from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. John Hendricks is the founder and former Chairman of Discovery Communications, the world's leading nonfiction media company. Hendricks created Discovery Channel in 1985 as the first cable network in the United States designed to deliver high-quality documentary programming to television viewers. He was the driving force behind Discovery's dramatic growth, including the expansion of Discovery Communications from its core property, Discovery Channel, to current global operations in over 220 countries and territories representing 26 entertainment brands including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery with more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers worldwide. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to K-12 schools. Hendricks's memoir about founding the company, A Curious Discovery: An Entrepreneur's Story, was published by Harper Collins in 2013. Hendricks retired as Executive Chairman of Discovery in May 2014. Hendricks also is the Founder of Curiosity Project, a multi-platform initiative delivering to lifelong learners the highest quality deep-dive content on topics in science, technology, civilization and the human spirit. Curiosity Project is comprised of Curiosity Retreats, annual five-day gatherings of leading-edge thinkers presenting to and engaging with enrolled guests at the five-star Gateway Canyons Resort in Colorado; and Curiosity Club, a digital subscription service launching in first quarter 2015 at curiosityclub.com, featuring the highest quality deep-dive factual content captured at Curiosity Retreats and Curiosity Studios. A visionary in the media industry, Hendricks has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award and with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences highest honor, the Governors Award, for conceiving the TLC series, Great Books. The Ark Trust named him a recipient of the Genesis Award for lifetime achievement for his efforts in raising awareness around the globe about animal issues. Hendricks also has been recognized as the first corporate leader to receive the National Education Association's Friend of Education award for "innovations in education and technology and greatly expanding educational opportunity for America's schoolchildren."
Individual/Angel
FAE Ventures
United Kingdom
First Access Entertainment is a joint venture that invests through venture capital investment fund First Access Entertainment. The firm primarily focuses to invest across the consumer products and services sectors such as retail.
Venture Capital
Federico Forcolini
United States
Mr. James Breyer is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Breyer Capital. He serves as Board Member at The Blackstone Group. He serves as Co-Chairman at IDG Capital. He serves as Investment Advisory Board Member at Xfund. He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of EDO and a Board Member of GNL Québec. He served as Board Member at UM and Wickr. He has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, he has assisted teams at over a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost. Over the past several years, he has developed a deep personal and investment interest in long-term oriented entrepreneurs and teams working in artificial intelligence (AI) and human assisted intelligence (HAI) and he has made numerous investments in this space. He also has a long track record of investing in China and partnering with Chinese entrepreneurs, including through Breyer Capital's major limited partnership with IDG Capital, a premier technology venture capital firm based in Beijing. He has been actively involved with IDG China for well over a decade and currently plays the leading outside strategic advisory role for the firm. IDG's investments in China include Xiaomi, Baidu and Tencent, among others. He currently serves on the board of directors of Blackstone and 21st Century Fox, where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee. He served on Facebook's board from 2005 to 2013 after leading the company's Series A funding round. He served on Etsy's board from 2008 to 2016 and was the company's largest outside shareholder at the time of its IPO in 2015. Notably, Etsy is one of the first B Corporations to successfully go public and continue to grow significantly post-offering. He was the lead investor for Legendary Entertainment's first funding round and served as a board member until its acquisition by Dalian Wanda in March 2016. He was also an investor and board member of Marvel Entertainment through its acquisition by Disney in 2009. his other board memberships include Wal-Mart, where he served for over a decade and was the lead independent director until his retirement in 2013 and Dell Inc., where he was a director through the company's $24 billion take-private in 2013. He is passionate about philanthropy and applying venture philanthropy and innovation models to areas such as education, the arts, and environmental sustainability. He is a Fellow of Harvard Corporation, Harvard's senior governing board; a member of Harvard Business School's Board of Dean's Advisors since 2001; a member of Harvard University's Global Advisory Council since inception; a founding member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Stanford's School of Engineering; Chairman of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and Chairman of the Advisory Board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is passionate about the Breyer Center at Stanford-in-Florence and is a former Trustee of Menlo School (a grade 6-12 school in Atherton, CA). In addition, he is a long-time Trustee of SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. He is actively involved in The Environmental Defense Fund and Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He began his career at Accel, where he was a partner for nearly three decades and served as Managing Partner. He also co-founded AKKR, a joint venture between Accel and KKR in 2000. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS degree, and from Harvard University with an MBA, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder and served as Board Member at Accel-KKR. He also serves as an Advisor at Elemental Cognition.
Individual/Angel
Feimalv
China
Founded in 2012, Feimlv is a venture capital firm based in Shanghai, China. It focuses on making investments in sectors like TMT, education, healthcare, and culture and entertainment.
Venture Capital
FidelisWorld
Mauritius
FidelisWorld is a growth equity investment firm that provides capital, management support, strategic guidance and network effects within their portfolio to companies. The firm targets business in the technology, media and entertainment, and consumer sectors across Asia. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Ebene, Mauritius.
Growth Capital
Fifth Floor Venture Partners
United States
Fifth Floor Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, SaaS, internet of things, media and entertainment, mobile, artificial intelligence, security, life sciences, financial services, blockchain, transportation, manufacturing, deep tech, and energy sectors.
Venture Capital
Film 7 Entertainment Group
United States
Film 7 Entertainment Group is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California. It aims to back 25-30 features. Film 7 producers, along with investors from Silicon Valley and other non-Hollywood sources are aiming to develop a library of features through the team's industry connections. The firm draws revenue from theatrical, home video, television, merchandising, music publishing and other ancillary sources.
Venture Capital
Firefly3 LLC
New York, New York, United States
Tom Freston's Firefly3 LLC, a private company that invests and consults in the media and entertainment businesses.
Venture Capital
First Fusion Capital
United States
Founded in 2016, First Fusion Capital is a private equity and real estate investment firm based in Houston, Texas. The firm seeks to make private equity investments in real estate, healthcare, technology, renewable energy, entertainment, solar energy, mining, marine industry, resources, industrial development, infrastructure, transportation, oil, and gas production, hospitality. healthcare, food processing, telecommunications, food production, steel, scrap metal, financial services, manufacturing, telecom and wireless, logistics, data centers, restaurant supply chains, agriculture, delivery services, equipment rental, aircraft parts, payment services, distribution and media sectors.
Private Equity Firm
First Serve Partners
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
First Serve Partners is a venture capital firm investing in sports, media, entertainment, and consumer industries.
Consumer
Media and Entertainment
Sports
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Forming Circles Global
United States
Mr. Matthew Rutler is the Founder of MX Investments. He served as Senior Vice President of Talent at MasterClass. He brings a wealth of entertainment and technology experience to the team, having worked in film production and investment for 6 years before founding MX, a production/investment company focused on entertainment and media. MX works closely with Lionsgate Entertainment, and Rutler serves as an executive producer for several TV properties, in addition to managing over 20 portfolio companies. MX also invests in mobile and content-based technology companies. Rutler joins the MasterClass team along with Talent Manager Olivia Lubeck, formerly of Lionsgate and TalentWorks.
Individual/Angel
Forsyth Management Co.
United States
Ms. Jamie Kantrowitz co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Countertop. She co-founded Media Gobbler. She served as Managing Director and Venture Partner at MESA Securities. She served as a Venture Partner at Mesa Ventures. She also co-founded madewithElastic. She served as Board Director SoundCloud and is an Adviser at Metrolyrics.com. From 2004-2009, Jamie held various senior roles at MySpace where she joined early in the company's inception and started the Marketing and Content divisions. She was responsible for launching MySpace's music and social entertainment platform and then moved to London to lead the international expansion of the company into 30 countries as SVP, Global Marketing Entertainment. In 2004, as the Digital Director at Rock the Vote, she led the development of the web's first web-based and mobile tools to drive over 1.2 million young people to register to vote. She also served as Deputy Finance Director for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during his 2002 gubernatorial bid. She served as Advisor at Panna. She holds a BA in international relations from Emory University.
Individual/Angel
FOV Ventures
Finland
Founded in 2021, FOV Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Espoo, Finland, The firm also has an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest in companies building the metaverse universe specifically identity, avatars, commerce, entertainment & social, future of work, and creator tools & infrastructure sectors.
Venture Capital
Frank Sagnier
London, England, United Kingdom
Frank has been in the games industry for over 20 years. He started at Acclaim Entertainment as Head of European Marketing. He then moved to ...
Individual/Angel
Freelands Ventures
London, England, United Kingdom
Freelands Ventures is an early stage venture fund investing at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment.
Finance
Financial Services
Venture Capital
Fresh Peaks Capital
United States
Mr. John Guenther serves as Advisor at ReelwUrld. He serves as Angel Investor at John Guenther. Mr. John Guenther serves as Chief Financial Officer at Early Growth Financial Services. John has been a consulting CFO since 2015. He has served in various capacitates for several technologies, media, and entertainment clients leading finance and accounting functions; budgeting and forecasting; metrics and KPI tracking and analysis; strategic transactions; and fundraising. John is comfortable talking GAAP, movies and TV, new technologies, sprint planning, pricing strategies, sports, app development, and everything in between. John was the CFO of Sony Media Cloud Services ("MCS") for four years. MCS was a small, subscription-based, SaaS company that began as an idea to disrupt traditional tape-based production workflows for the entertainment industry. John was there from the beginning helping incubate the idea; drive all business planning and modeling; feasibility, market and competitor analyses; partnership exploration; and funding alternatives. As CFO, John handled all financial requirements and served on the Management Committee advising on product design, engineering, business development, marketing, legal, pricing, and overall company strategy. John spent eleven years at Sony Pictures Entertainment ("SPE") where he helped executives for over one hundred departments optimize and expand operations, improve competitiveness and increase revenue and profit.
Individual/Angel
Frontive Holding
United Kingdom
Founded in 2016, Frontive Holding is a private equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest in retail, restaurant, entertainment, real estate, professional services, and technology sectors. The firm also invests in real estate properties in London, and energy and mining projects. The firm also acts as an incubator and advisor.
Private Equity Firm
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