Found 239 investors
Crush Ventures
United States
Crush Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Crush Music based in New York, New York. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage startups.
Venture Capital
Curtis Jackson
New York, New York, United States
Curtis Jackson is professionally known as "50 cent" is the Founder and CEO of SMS Audio. He began as music chart dominance for the rap music...
Individual/Angel
Cypress Ascendant
United States
Founded in 2021, Cypress Ascendant is a private equity investment firm based in San Diego, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the healthcare, e-commerce, real estate, food and music sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Dale McCarthy
United Kingdom
Mr. Kelly Sumner serves as Chairman at Reactional Music. Mr. Sumner served as Chairman and Advisor at Mediatonic. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at MEEM. He has overseen multiple billion-dollar franchises including, Grand Theft Auto and Guitar Hero as well as the Amiga range of home computers. In his early career, Kelly was MD of Commodore UK and International Operations at Gametek. He joined Take Two in 1997 as part of the Gametek acquisition and subsequently became CEO of the New York games publisher in 2001. After leaving Take Two Kelly became CEO of Red Octane, makers of Guitar Hero, and sold the Company to Activision in 2006. Today, Kelly is Chairman of Intent Media which operates MCV, Develop and Music Week publications and is an active investor and supporter of several British startup ventures.
Individual/Angel
Daniel Pepper
United States
Mr. Philip Sanderson served as Managing Director at Ridge Ventures. He served as General Partner at Walden Venture Capital. He joined IDG Ventures USA as a managing director in September 2006. He was responsible for WaldenVC investments in VitalStream (VSTH), Bamboo.com (IPIX), NIKU (NIKU), Sina.com (SINA), Adknowledge and People3 (IT) and IDG Ventures investments in Funzio (GREE). Phil served on the boards of TuneUp Media, Simply Hired, Telltale Games, Vivox and Midverse and lead investments in Root Music, Leap Commerce and Iddiction. Prior to WaldenVC, he worked as an investment banker in Robertson Stephens' New Media and Information Technology Groups. At Robertson Stephens, Phil managed initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions assignments for CBT Systems, Computer Learning Centers, Electronic Arts, Fritz Integrated Logistics, Spectrum HoloByte, Sierra On-line, and Vantive, among others. Prior to Robertson Stephens, he worked in Goldman Sachs' corporate finance group. Phil has also founded and operated three companies in the retail, non-profit, and manufacturing industries. He is also a Co-Chairman/Founder of the VCNetwork and the YVCA; two non-profit organizations consisting of over 1,000 venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Each year Phil manages social networking events which include the participation of 50% of the Valley's General Partners. In addition, Phil serves on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and is the CFO. He served as Board Observer at Kixeye. Phil received his Master of Business Administration with Honors from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from Hamilton College. Phil is also a board member at nWay Inc.
Individual/Angel
David Kalt
Chicago, Illinois, United States
David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the found...
Individual/Angel
David Trude
United States
Mr. Kentaro Umezaki is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Business Officer & Board Member at Verifi Media. He is an Angel Investor and business advisor for digital music startups through his company Digital Daruma, focusing on artists facing music and media service companies. His experience includes 25 years in financial services trading, asset management, and senior management positions.
Individual/Angel
Dimensional Associates
Rye, New York, United States
Dimensional Associates is a private equity firm. It seeks to invest in digital media with a focus on online music distribution.
Financial Services
Private Equity Firm
Drew Larner
San Francisco, California, United States
Drew was the founding CEO of critically acclaimed music streaming service Rdio (acquired by Pandora (NYSE: P)). Drew successfully launched R...
Individual/Angel
Eques Promus Ventures
France
Mr. Hugues Pitre serves as Board Member at Diatly. He is an Angel Investor. The common thread in Hugues' career is the consumer. He started his career at Essilor where he spent 5 years in Portugal and Spain in marketing functions. Then he joined Bain & Company in Paris to do strategy consulting in the retail and mass consumption sectors. He then launched the Evian Affinity skincare brand, the fruit of a strategic alliance between Johnson & Johnson and the Danone Group, then in 2007 was appointed Managing Director Europe of Merisant, the world leader in sweeteners known for its Canderel and PureVia brands. Finally, Hugues extended his experience to digital by joining Amazon in 2014, the N ° 1 in E-commerce as Director of the Cultural Products division with under his responsibility the categories Books, Video Games, Video and Music as well as the pricing and customer experience for France. Hugues is a graduate of ESCP Europe and an MBA from INSEAD.
Individual/Angel
Exceleration Music
United States
Exceleration Music is an investment firm that primarily focuses to invest in the music industry.
Private Equity Firm
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
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
Frank Riedel
United States
Mr. Eric Dingman served as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Sgsco. He supports the Executive Leadership Team and sgsco as a whole, with several critical functions and responsibilities. These include a leadership role in maintaining and clarifying our vision as well as fine-tuning our direction. One of his duties is leading the implementation of a global MySGS platform in North America. In a larger sense, Eric also supports sgsco's commitment to continually growing shareholder value. Eric's extensive experience is extremely important as we design and implement a new value proposition for changing markets and evolving customer needs. He served as President at The Amazing Media Group. This experience includes two decades of major enterprise-wide transformations; he helped lead digital transformation at EMI Music/Capital Records worldwide, and spearheaded operational transformation initiatives across the Kantar Division when he was employed at WPP Group in Marketing Services.
Individual/Angel
Gate Ventures Plc
London, England, United Kingdom
Gate Ventures invests in the media, e-commerce, consultancy, and operational projects, music, and theatre production businesses.
Venture Capital
Geoffrey Hyatt
United States
Mr. Laurent Grill serves as Lead Investor at Luma Launch. He is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist who works with start-up founders to successfully build scalable teams, strong company cultures and disruptive products. He also serves as Investment Committee Member at USC Marshall Venture Fund. He believes that there is a fundamental need for additional support in the early stage ecosystem in Los Angeles and other budding technology hubs around the US and globally. This desire to support these growing tech communities led him to his current role as Venture Lead at Luma Launch, a seed to series-a corporate venture with an accelerator program and internal incubation team. Luma Launch is focused on early stage startups at the convergence of evolving technology and content markets, capitalizing on internal and external resources to create successful products. He has founded, expanded and managed multiple start-ups ranging from a music education technology platform, Miso Media, to the leader in the Massage-on-Demand space, Zeel. His experience working in the early stage start up scene has given him the tools necessary to understand the needs of founders in the infancies of their companies. He is a longtime supporter of multiple non-profits, led by his former service as a Board of Director of the Red Cross. Part of his desire to invest in industry changing companies is to identify successful products that can also drive socially impactful change in their local and international communities. He served as Board Observer at Retina AI.
Individual/Angel
Gerald Wentz - Awesome Memorabilia
New York, New York, United States
Awesome Memorabilia is a prominent seller and trader of movie and music memorabilia, autographed helmets, books & many more things.
E-Commerce
Private Equity Firm
Giving Wings
United States
Mr. Cadir Lee is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer at OhmConnect. He is an Angel Investor. He was the CTO of Zynga. Mr. Lee co-founded SupportSoft. Mr. Lee served as the Senior Vice President of Products & Technology and Chief Technology Officer of support.com. Mr. Lee served as a Vice President of Engineering of Supportsoft. since October 2004. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Lee served as a software Consultant to Hewlett-Packard Company. Mr. Lee holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a B.A. in Music from Stanford University.
Individual/Angel
GoDigital Media Group
United States
GoDigital Media Group is a media and technology incubator and early stage venture capital fund based in Marina Del Rey, California. The firm invests predominantly in assets and operating businesses involved in music and video intellectual property rights management. The firm always seeks to take a control position. It was founded in 2005.
Strategic Acquirer
Gordon Whitener
United States
Mr. Andy Schuon is a Co-Founder of Revolt TV. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Every Day Networks Holdings. He is an Angel Investor. Mr. Andy Schuon serves as Board Member at Business Rockstars. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Masters Channel. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Master Channel, a media and technology company. He is Co-Founder & President with "Sean" Diddy Combs of Revolt Media and TV, a multi-platform cable television network, and is Chairman of music service provider Elevated Networks. He is also a Co-Founder at "C" Student Entertainment. Previously, he served as Chief Digital Officer and President of Artist Services at Ticketmaster and founded cable and online TV network IMF: The International Music Feed, where he was President and Chief Executive Officer. He also served as president of CBS's Infinity Broadcasting, pioneering music subscription service Pressplay, and Farmclub.com, was General Manager of Warner Bros. Records and Executive Vice President, Head of Programming at MTV, MTV2 and VH1. He began his career as an on-air personality and program director at various radio stations across the United States including KROQ-FM Los Angeles. He serves on the Boards of Directors at Master Channel and Business Rockstars and served previously on the Boards of Directors at Hot Topic Stores, and Premiere Radio Networks. Co-Founder of Revolt TV with Sean "Diddy" Combs, one of the Fastest growing multi-platform networks in mobile, social, and broadcast media. Former CEO of Sony / Universal PressPlay (Napster), President of CBS Radio. President Artist Services Live Nation / Ticketmaster. Schuon is the former president of CBS Radio, head of programming at MTV and VH1, creator of MTV2, CEO of three groundbreaking Universal media companies, and the visionary founder and president of Revolt TV. He was a founder and served as a President and Chief Executive Officer at International Music Feed.
Individual/Angel
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