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Top 50 Music Angel Investors in United States (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in United States Music startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Music startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Scooter Braun
Angel
5 United States, Egypt, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet $650k–$87M
Ronald Conway
Angel
5 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $50k–$10M
David Kalt
Angel
4 United States Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music $500k–$1.8M
Geoff Ralston
Angel
4 United States, India, Senegal Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Education, Social Media $1M–$4.7M
Steven Cox
Angel
4 United States Seed, Series A Local, Music, Video
Larry Marcus
Angel
4 United States, Canada Series B, Seed, Series A Mobile, E-Commerce, Music $1.7M–$50M
Craig Kallman
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Apps, Music, Internet
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $650k–$53M
Guy Oseary
Angel
3 United States, Israel, India Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$87M
Tom Ryan
Angel
3 United States, Denmark, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Music, E-Commerce, Mobile $175k–$1.2M
Scott Banister
Angel
3 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile $500k–$7.8M
Roger Ehrenberg
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Advertising, FinTech, Software $800k–$20M
Matthew Papakipos
Angel
3 United States, South Korea, The Netherlands Seed, Angel Music, Apps, Video
Christer Andersson
Angel
3 United States, Sweden, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Music $150k–$12M
Nasir Jones
Angel
3 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $250k–$106M
Hany Nada
Angel
3 United States, China Series D, Series B, Series C Gaming, Mobile, Software $5M–$57M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
3 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$13M
Kevin Mayer
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A, Series C Digital Media, Music, Media and Entertainment
Bill Tai
Angel
3 United States, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps $500k–$63M
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
Angel
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce
Mark Gillespie
Angel
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series B Music, Consumer Electronics, Retail
Jason Flom
Angel
3 United States Seed, Series A Music, SaaS, Mobile
David Tisch
Angel
2 United States, France, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $565k–$30M
Michael Lazerow
Angel
2 United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Advertising, Mobile $2.2M–$26M
Riccardo Zacconi
Angel
2 United States, Estonia, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Gaming, Mobile, Online Games
Atlas Benjelloun
Angel
2 United States, Morocco, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series C Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $309k–$35M
Dave Morgan
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Marketing, Advertising, Mobile $500k–$1.2M
Michael Olander
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Mobile, Legal, Music
Drew Houston
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $9.4M–$116M
Alex Zubillaga
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Apps, Music $565k–$100M
Matt Mullenweg
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Apps $510k–$25M
Farhad Mohit
Angel
2 United States Seed Software, Media and Entertainment, Music
Troy Carter
Angel
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Social Media, Software, News $800k–$10M
Joe Galante
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel Music, Mobile, FinTech
Chris Sacca
Angel
2 United States, India, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Mobile $350k–$25M
Joshua Schachter
Angel
2 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Mobile, Internet $625k–$13M
Vivi Nevo
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet $100k–$40M
Shane Naughton
Angel
2 Ireland, United States Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Apps $1M–$3M
Kevin Lin
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games $150k–$20M
Paige Craig
Angel
2 United States, Iceland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $91k–$6.1M
Eric Ries
Angel
2 United States, Serbia, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $40k–$3.3M
Dave Goldberg
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Music, Video
Erik Moore
Angel
2 United States, Latvia Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, E-Commerce $25k–$10M
Dave Morin
Angel
2 United States, France, Finland Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, Software $1M–$13M
Keith Rabois
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1M–$45M
Shawn Simpson
Angel
2 United States Seed, Angel Mobile, B2B, SMS
Sebastian Knutsson
Angel
2 Sweden, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Music, Public Transportation $369k–$5M
Rodney Jerkins
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Music, Video, Mobile
Rob Price
Angel
2 United States Seed Gift, Music, E-Commerce
Mark Cuban
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence $600k–$23M
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Scooter Braun
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Music startups

Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $4.5M–$87M; Series B $20M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kindo — Kindo elevates the workforce by providing the only truly open AI platform for all businesses.
  • Spatial Labs — Spatial Labs is a technology infrastructure company that is powering the next generation of Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Omni-channel, and Immersive Experiences - collectively known as the Metaverse.
  • Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
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Ronald Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in United States Music startups

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Angel $50k–$1M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
  • Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
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David Kalt
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 4 investments in United States Music startups

David's background is a blend between entrepreneurship, building technology firms, and a passion for music and gear. David Kalt is the founder and CEO of Reverb.com, an online marketplace for used, vintage and handmade guitars and gear. Kalt is also the owner of the Chicago Music Exchange, one of the world's largest vintage guitardealers.Prior to launching Reverb.com, Kalt was the cofounder and CEO of online broker optionsXpress (#10 on the 2005 Inc 500 list), which went public in 2005 and was sold to Schwab in 2008 for $1 billion.Kalt was also the founder of ClientBASE, the first CRM solution for travel agents and tour group operators, which is now offered by the Sabre Travel Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • New Era ADR — Disputes and litigation are a massive distraction and waste of money and time for you and your business. At least $200B is spent on litigation-related costs each year. New Era solves this. With our fully-digital platform and process, organizations and individuals get access to the most experienced arbitrators and mediators in the U.S. The result isfair, high-quality, and fast resolutions of your disputes, saving you up to 90% in legal fees and time, so you can focus on the things that matter in your life and your business.
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with a personalized song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love...
  • Fleet Device Management — Open-source device management and security for teams with thousands of laptops and servers. (macOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS)
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Geoff Ralston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Music startups

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.7M; Angel $1M–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
  • Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
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Steven Cox
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Music startups

Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Local, Music, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TakeLessons — We help students pursue their passion for learning. Search thousands of 5-star rated teachers with background checks and find the perfect teacher today!
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Larry Marcus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in United States Music startups

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$50M; Series B $7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
  • Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
  • Fetch Delivery — Shop and dine, snap your receipts, and easily get free gift cards, merch, and rewards to your favorite brands with Fetch, the #1 rewards app!
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Craig Kallman
Angel · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Craig Kallman - Board of Directors @ RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with a personalized song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love...
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • Arcturus — Make video come alive.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $8.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Guy Oseary
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology.He began in his teens at what was to become Maverick Records, and eventually became chairman and partner. He guided the label to sales of over 100 million units globally.Since 2004, Oseary has been a principal at the top entertainment management company,Untitled Entertainment, which clients include Emma Watson, Penelope Cruz, and Lucy Liu and many others.In 2014 Oseary led a partnership that created the largest music management company in the world - MAVERICK. While Oseary personally manages Madonna and U2, the company’s combined 50+ clients include Paul McCartney, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and The Weeknd, and reach over 1 billion people each month.Alongside his Sound Ventures partner Ashton Kutcher, Oseary has made over 200 investments in companies like Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Houzz, Robinhood & Neighborly.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.1M; Series A $7M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WasteFuel — WasteFuel produces renewable fuels using proven technologies to address the climate emergency and revolutionize mobility.
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
  • Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
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Tom Ryan
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership with hundreds of major TV networks, movie studios,publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Denmark, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
  • Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
  • WHOW Games GmbH — WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space.
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Scott Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$2.8M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
  • Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$5.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.2M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
  • FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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Matthew Papakipos
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Matthew Papakipos

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OP.GG — The Best LoL Champion Builds and Summoner Stats by OP.GG - Learn champion builds, runes, and counters. Search any summoner name for stats of all game modes.
  • Ozarka — Milieuvriendelijke maaltijd verpakkingen nodig? Ontdek onze milieuvriendelijke verpakking. Herbruikbare en duurzame oplossing voor take away.
  • Eyegroove — Eyegroove is the social network for the music video and a technological platform that, for the first time, effortlessly brings together all the elements of great video: music, editing, and effects. It offers a mobile iOS application that allows users to choose a piece of streaming music, record video, and add interactive effects.
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Christer Andersson
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
  • Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
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Nasir Jones
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.7M; Series A $3M–$60M; Series B $8M–$106M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
  • Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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Hany Nada
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Hany Nada is the Co-Founder and Partner of ACME Capital. He attended the University of Minnesota.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Series D, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Series B $16M–$19M; Series C $9.3M–$57M; Series D $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plexchat — Plexchat is venture-backed company dedicated to being the heart of mobile conversation about interests. Chaos is a pretty common theme in almost all online social networks. Despite their proliferation, very few were designed to facilitate coordination and communication. Plexchat intends on changing this by bringing to market the premier toolfor social coordination in mobile games in an anonymous environment.
  • Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
  • Fetch Delivery — Shop and dine, snap your receipts, and easily get free gift cards, merch, and rewards to your favorite brands with Fetch, the #1 rewards app!
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
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Kevin Mayer
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Kevin Mayer is the Co-CEO & Founder of Candle Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Music, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Laylo — Laylo helps creators directly message fans about their drops. Join Calvin Harris, Friday Beers and other top creators. Sign up for free today!
  • Breakr — Breakr connects artists and influencers to break new music through the culture. Music influencers can set up profiles, update their music preferences, and create digital campaigns available across all platforms. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
  • Popshop Live — Popshop.live - Discover, interact, and shop with live videos. Popshop.live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where users create their own pop-up channel and create listings on the fly, interact with other merchants in real time, and discover unique products and services available for sale with
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Bill Tai
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Bill Tai is a Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data and he was a Chairman of the Board and Co-founder of IP Infusion. He attended Harvard Business School, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Curtin University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$63M; Series A $500k–$12M; Series B $11M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.
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Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in United States Music startups

The Weeknd, also known as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer. The singer started in 2010 and released 4 albums and 43 singles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koia — Drink Koia Online
  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with a personalized song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love...
  • Pomelo — Need to send money to the Philippines? Send a Pomelo Card. Never again think about transfer fees or where your money is. No more sending money again and again.
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Mark Gillespie
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Recently named as one of Billboard’s 2021 Change Agents, as well as one of the World's Greatest Managers by Music Business Worldwide, Mark Gillespie is a world-class British CEO, manager, and producer whose vision and drive have led him to build Three Six Zero into the global entertainment powerhouse that it is today. Widely recognized as oneof the industry's preeminent executives, Gillespie has been instrumental in guiding the careers of Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris, most recently closing a deal in excess of $100MM for his publishing catalogue. With offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and London, Gillespie provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Three Six Zero and its clients remain at the forefront of the music, film, television, and digital content landscapeFueled by a lifelong passion for music, Gillespie launched his career in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, where he proved to be an invaluable asset for superclub Godskitchen. Since then, he has established himself as a visionary in the entertainment industry, having worked in partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment, Jay-Z and Roc Nation, and most recently Westbrook Entertainment, whose talent roster includes Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the entire Smith Family.A relentless pioneer and entrepreneur, Gillespie has joined forces with Pete Tong MBE to run Three Six Zero Recordings, his own in-house record label, while continuing to expand an already successful presence in film and television. Along with several other projects in the pipeline, the company's first feature film – prestige drama, VOX LUX – starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, including an original soundtrack by Sia, was released in 2018.With a passion for innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and apparel, Gillespie has invested in companies such as Outdoor Voices, Stance, Ember Technologies, Stem Disintermedia, and Saavn. Committed to giving back and continuously fostering artistic talent, Gillespie has also remained a longtime philanthropist and advocate, sitting on both the Music Committee of Children in Conflict and the core screening panel of the Recording Academy. In his downtime, Gillespie enjoys following Manchester United and is an avid collector of modern art.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Consumer Electronics, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Audius — Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.
  • Basis — Basis protocol is designed to expand and contract supply similarly to the way central banks buy and sell fiscal debt to stabilize purchasing power. For this reason, we refer to Basis as having an algorithmic central bank.
  • Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.
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Jason Flom
Angel · 3 investments in United States Music startups

Jason Flom

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Songclip (Audiobyte) — Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates theworld’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
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David Tisch
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$12M; Series B $11M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
  • The Happy Home Company — The Happy Home Company is your Personal Home Manager. Managing your home is expensive, complicated, and time consuming. They solve this problem by connect homeowners with an affordable Personal Home Manager, who is supported by powerful technology, and a trusted service network
  • Even.com — Get paid early, save automatically, and budget easily with Even. Download the Even app for iOS and Android here.
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Michael Lazerow
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $3.4M–$26M; Series B $7.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
  • Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
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Riccardo Zacconi
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Previously, Riccardo served as vice president of European Sales and Marketing at uDate.com Ltd., an online dating service, and was involved in driving market penetration and partnerships until the company was acquired by InterActive Corporation in 2002. Before that, he was managing director for Spray Network GmbH an online portal based inHamburg with a presence in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In this role, Riccardo demonstrated his understanding for developing solid company strategy, intelligent plans for sustainable growth and strategic partnerships, which supported the successful sale of Spray Network to Lycos for $764 million. In addition, Riccardo has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital Partners, a Qualified Case Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and a consultant at LEK Consulting LLP. He holds a B.A. in Economics from LUISS University, Italy. Riccardo’s favourite King game used to be Jungle Bubble. He’s currently deciding on his new favourite King game.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Online Games
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pahdo Labs — Pahdo Labs is building an Anime-style action MMORPG and game creation platform. The company's mission is to cultivate a virtual world built by players, an online place where people can have a meaningful role in something bigger than themselves, own and share the products of their ingenuity, and foster a sense of belonging for others.PahdoLabs was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, NY.
  • Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
  • Mainframe Industries — We are developing a cloud-native sandbox MMO with a team consisting of former CCP, Remedy, Blizzard and Next Games veterans. Want to join?
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Atlas Benjelloun
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughest challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $309k–$4.5M; Series A $982k–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Retool — Retool is the fastest way to build effective business software. Use Retool's building blocks to develop apps and workflow automations that connect to your databases and APIs, instantly.
  • ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
  • Column — We provide public notice software for publishers and the government agencies, law firms, businesses and individuals required to place public or legal notices.
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Dave Morgan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOLin 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Advertising, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ombu — Ombu uses invisible digital watermarks to connect mobile devices and facilitate the sharing of digital information when you are face-to-face. With Ombu, it is very easy to exchange contacts, social networks, websites, images, files, and practically anything else digital all at once and in the moment.
  • Namely — Namely is an all-in-one platform that manages all HR data in one place, with personalized service to help companies get better and faster. The company's early service offering included HR information system, social newsfeed, payroll, and performance management tools.Namely give companies the software and support they need to evolve theircompany cultures It has evolved along with company needs. They handle administration and compliance across HR, payroll, time, and benefits, so HR teams can focus on developing their people and providing a great employee experience.Name was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, NY, USA.
  • GateGuru — GateGuru is a mobile application that provides a seamless platform to travelers to revolutionize how they experience their "day-of" travel. Web-based businesses have largely democratized the planning and booking experiences around travel, but the actual "day-of" travel is a very large, untapped market - GateGuru is leading thischarge. GateGuru currently works on iOS and Android devices. The Company which is led by former venture capitalist Dan Gellert, closed their initial round of financing in May 2011. Investors in the round included Chamath Palihapitiya, Allen Morgan, Brad Harrison (BH Ventures), Tom Glocer, Matt Daimler (SeatGuru Founder), Thomas Lehrman and several other prominent angel investors.
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Michael Olander
Angel · Durham, North Carolina, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Michael Olander - CEO @ O2 Fitness

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Legal, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrowdTunes — CrowdTunes is a mobile bidding platform and music management service that empowers patrons with the ability to affect the atmosphere by bidding on the music they want to hear. They provide a free, legal music solution to venues that can be setup in less than five minutes and improves the establishment’s bottom line through increased sales to a moreengaged customer. CrowdTunes is a combination of three products:1) Background music: The venue owner will be able to select a catered playlist from millions of songs that plays without interruption.2) Mobile jukebox: Patrons will be able to choose and play new songs within the owners’ playlist. Songs will play in the order they were added.3) Marketplace for music: During high volume periods, patrons engage in competitive bidding to move their songs to the top of the queue.They are currently the full-time music solution in five venues in RTP and expect to be in fifty venues by the end of 2014.
  • CellBreaker — CellBreaker is a web platform that allows users to easily switch cell phone carriers without paying a early termination fee. The company is a consumer justice platform dedicated to empowering users and help save money. It serves two customer segments, consumers stuck in contracts and carriers wishing to convert leads to paying customers.CellBreaker was founded on 2007 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.
  • GROUNDFLOOR — Groundfloor is a new financial tool for retail investors. We open the door to short-term, high-yield returns backed by real estate.
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Drew Houston
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Series A $9.4M–$12M; Series B $18M–$116M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Certa — Get the best TPRM software platform available. Certa is an all-in-one toolkit for third party lifecycle management. Onboard 3x faster.
  • Superhuman — The fastest email experience ever made. Blazingly fast, delightful, and stress free. Get 3 hours back every single week.
  • Generally Intelligent — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
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Alex Zubillaga
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Alex Zubillaga is the founder of 14W, a New York-based, venture capital firm focused on consumer Mobile, Web, E-commerce, CPG, and Media.Previously, Alex was Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group (WMG). Prior to WMG, Alex founded Net Uno, a leading Venezuelan cable television and broadbandoperator where he served as CEO and Chairman.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $565k–$5.4M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $4.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
  • Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
  • Opal — Protect your focus time. Schedule your days, block distracting apps and focus fully, on your iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browser. Try Opal for Free!
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Matt Mullenweg
Angel · Houston, Texas, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Matt Mullenweg is the CEO at Automattic Inc. Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $510k–$3M; Series A $900k–$5M; Series B $20M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Liquid AI — Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI
  • NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
  • Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
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Farhad Mohit
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Farhad Mohit is the Founder and Fulltime Volunteer at GOOD PARTY.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zencastr — Zencastr makes it easy for podcasters to record their guests in studio quality directly from their web browser.Unlike other call recorders (Skype, Hangouts, Zoom, Phone) that record all voices – including VoIP distortion – on the host's computer, Zencastr records each participant separately on their local computer in pristine quality.Simply send a web link to your guests and they will automatically join you in a live VoIP connection. Press record and each participant's audio is recorded directly from their local microphone without any VoIP compression, artifacts, or dropouts.Once the recording is complete, each solo track is uploaded to the Zencastr cloud as well as conveniently synced to the host's preferred cloud drive (Dropbox or Google Drive).Featuring a foolproof design and relentless focus on quality, Zencastr is the perfect tool for brand new podcasters and veterans alike. Optionally record in high quality MP3 or lossless 16-bit WAV. Having a separate track per participant makes editing a snap. Don't want to mix the tracks yourself? Zencastr's 'Automatic Postproduction' service will mix the tracks for you and perform a specialized set of audio enhancements to provide you with a professional sounding mix ready for publishing in minutes.The software starts with an 8-hour-per-month hobbyist tier for free, or a $20-per-month professional tier which includes lossless WAV recording, Automatic Postproduction, and unlimited guests and recording time.
  • Unblocked — Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment. Unblocked was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.
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Troy Carter
Angel · Culver City, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Troy Carter is the Founder of Q&A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Software, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6.6M; Series A $3.4M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lobus — Building creator equity and making culture investable
  • Therabody — Therabody is a developer of medical devices for targeted vibration therapy and pain relief.
  • MobileCoin — MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that develops P2P payment tokens and digital payment systems for mobile. It combines privacy, security, and distributed trust with a great user experience. MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet.
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Joe Galante
Angel · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Joe Galante

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jammber — The music industry has failed to digitize their payment and paperwork process, leading to millions of lost payments and credits. Jammber provides a solution in technology-enabled SaaS offerings which greatly streamline the music business. Jammber simplifies project management, payment tools, and facilitates workflow with unprecedentedexpediency. Data from these services powers a talent search portal, providing independent talent providers with opportunities for new, revenue-generating projects. At Jammber the focus is on “vision” and “art”. The strength of Jammber is having all the metadata in one convenient place, without encroaching on the creative process.
  • Mozaic — Mozaic is a global payment platform built for co-creators on any project, anywhere. Based in Chicago and Nashville, Mozaic provides smart contracts that automate split income among creative teams. The Mozaic team’s vision is to put more time and money into the lives of creators and become the premier payment platform for the world’s co-creationeconomy.
  • Artist Growth — The Music Industry's Collaboration Platform: Workflow & data management for roster-wide promo, marketing, touring, travel, artist relations, finance and more.
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Chris Sacca
Angel · Truckee, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups, 11 in the past 12 months

An accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, Chris manages a portfolio of over seventy consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. He is partnered in this venture with his wife, Crystal English Sacca. While primarily knownfor its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly grown to be one of the larger venture funds in the United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$2.8M; Angel $400k–$1M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Detect — Working on developing rapid molecular tests for point of need care
  • Fuse Energy — Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100 percent renewable energy.
  • Cover — Cover is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and installs custom Backyard Studios. Cover’s mission is to make living in a thoughtfully designed and well-built home a reality for everyone. Using proprietary design software and a precision manufactured building system, Cover delivers exceptional design, functionality, and energyperformance, in a fraction of the time of traditional custom construction. Cover has launched in Los Angeles and is taking pre-orders worldwide. For more information, visit www.cover.build
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Joshua Schachter
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$3.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
  • Urban Machine — Salvaging the past to build the future- Stealth Startup
  • Hidden Door — A new kind of social roleplaying experience, powered by narrative AI.
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Vivi Nevo
Angel · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Nevo is the owner of NV Investments, a venture capital firm that is believed to invest in technology companies around the world. Vivi has also been backing The Weinstein Company. His mutli-million fortune has built up through his investments to cable companies with the initial $10 million that he inherited. He has bought some big stakes in Comcastand U.S. West and Charter Communications. Today, some of his earnings come from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and recently, with Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Popshop Live — Popshop Live - Discover, interact, and shop with live videos. Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where users create their own pop-up channel and create listings on the fly, interact with other merchants in real time, and discover unique products and services available for sale with
  • Subject — Subject provides high school learners access to premium, on-demand courses for credit or study support
  • Saturn Technologies — The best way to share time with friends
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Shane Naughton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustev — Trustev offers a totally modern approach ecommerce fraud prevention through real-time online identity verification. It focuses on validating the individual making the transaction, not just the payment method they're using. The platform delivers individual, real time decisions for every one of your customers using multiple dynamic data sources(behavioral, transactional and social) instead of restrictive rules based decisioning and profiling. 
Trustev’s easy to integrate platform works by verifying consumer’s identities in real-time, using thousands of dynamic data points from sources such as deep location, email verification, device ID, social fingerprinting, proxy/VPN piercing, site velocity & behavior, browser ID and mobile location. It uses proprietary algorithms to combine all this data and compile it into a single, simple score of 1-100. This score is then used to provide a recommendation or allow, deny of flag the transaction.The Trustev platform enables rapid identity decisions in real time with an easy to integrate (very light touch), completely data driven and cost effective solution that works in the background, to ensure no disruption to the customer’s online experience. This results in a significant reduction in false positives leading to substantially increased revenues and increased sales opportunities while maintaining a customer centric experience at all times. Trustev's solution is focused on dramatically reducing the cost burden of fraud on your business, the cost of policing fraud and also maximizing revenues opportunities.
  • NewsWhip — The only real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will matter in the hours ahead.
  • Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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Paige Craig
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Paige Craig Is The Partner at Outlander.He attend to the United States Military Academy at West PointUnited States Military Academy at West Point 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.4M; Angel $91k–$1M; Series A $115k–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StackStr — Real time monitoring of machine learning systems.
  • Qualified — Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
  • Spaceship — A platform for Continuous Delivery. Turn your code into containers automatically. Get it running on Kubernetes instantly.
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Eric Ries
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Serbia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
  • Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
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Dave Goldberg
Angel · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Mr. Goldberg is a Senior Advisor to TPG. Dave has been Chief Executive Officer of SurveyMonkey.com, LLC since April 2009. He has been a successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and technology and music industry executive. He has run, and successfully grown, several online consumer businesses.Mr. Goldberg founded LAUNCH Media Inc. in 1994, whichdelivered music and music-related content online, and he led the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2001. Following the sale, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Music, where he led the company's global music operations and built it into the Internet's most popular music destination. During his tenure, traffic increased from two million to twenty five million unique users per month, and four billion music videos were streamed in 2006 alone. In 2006, Dave was named one of Billboard Magazine's top power players in digital music. Recently Dave served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Benchmark Capital where he evaluated investment opportunities for the firm and advised portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Dave was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business Development at Capitol Records. Dave also serves on the Board of Directors at Ancestry.com and Dashbox.He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA degree in History and Government.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Music, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
  • Automattic — Making the web a better place
  • Zeal Learning — They designed Zeal for the busiest people on Earth - teachers!They’ve invested years into understanding the Common Core, Smarter Balanced and PARCC and created an assessment bank of 10,000 questions which align with the standards and end of year tests. Their adaptive assessment tests each Common Core skill and traces back through its pre-skillsto give you as much information as possible about what each student understands every single day. They save you planning time by helping you focus on the places that your students need you most.
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Erik Moore
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Erik Moore is the Founder and Managing Director of Base Ventures, an early-stage tech venture fund. He was one of the first investors in Zappos (sold for 1.2B to Amazon) and an early investor in Plangrid, sold to Autodesk for $875mm. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spent 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. He recently joined the boardof the Common Ground Foundation, founded by Grammy, Oscar and Emmy award winning artist, Common, and he currently serves as a board member for P.A.C.E, a private philanthropic group. He was recognized as #10 on a list of the top 25 most influential blacks in tech by Business Insider (John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft was ranked #1). He mentors and advises several known professional athletes. Erik earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, an MA in French from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Latvia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$6.6M; Series A $150k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swapbox — Swapbox is an easy and convenient delivery system that enables people to send and receive packages using a Swapbox kiosk. The kiosks, which are completely automated, are situated in convenient locations including grocery stores, petrol stations and coffee shops, meaning that customers do not need to rush to the post office by 3pm to send theirpackages. Customers simply place their item/s in the Swapbox kiosk and input their details using the touchscreen. The recipient then collects the package from a local Swapbox using the code they received through text or email. Swapbox sets itself apart by focusing on consumer satisfaction, experience and convenience.Swapbox is currently available in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
  • Pigeonly — Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.
  • Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.
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Dave Morin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
  • Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
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Keith Rabois
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Keith Rabois is the General Partner at Founders Fund. He has a unique background as an entrepreneurial executive and investor. Since 2000, he has been instrumental in driving five startups from their early stages to successful IPOs. He has provided seed capital to another ten companies that are currently valued at over $1 B, including Airbnb, Lyft,YouTube, Wish, Yammer.Since March 2013, Keith Rabois has served as a senior partner at Khosla Ventures, a technology venture capital fund founded by Vinod Khosla. He specializes in funding early-stage companies with a primary focus in consumer, financial services and health care innovation. At the same time, Keith co-founded Opendoor, a startup which transforms the painful process of selling a home into delightful and immediate experience. At KV, Rabois has led investments in a broad array of startups including, DoorDash, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Affirm, Even Financial and Piazza.Over the prior decade, he forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms. Keith began his career in the industry as Executive Vice President of Business Development & Public Policy at PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL, later acquired by EBAY] and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn [NYSE: LNKD] and as a chief operating officer of Square [NASDAQ: SQ].As a board member, Keith guided Yelp [NYSE: YELP] and Xoom [NASDAQ: XOOM] from inception to successful initial public offerings.Earlier in his career, Keith Rabois served as a litigator at the pre-eminent Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, specializing in antitrust, IP, and complex commercial matters. He joined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Edith H. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After leaving the practice of law, Keith served as policy director for former Vice President Dan Quayle.Keith Rabois earned a bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa in political science with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$16M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $8M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
  • Pomelo — Need to send money to the Philippines? Send a Pomelo Card. Never again think about transfer fees or where your money is. No more sending money again and again.
  • All Day Kitchens — Virtual Kitchen operates as a platform that empowers restaurants to take full advantage of the delivery opportunity. Its delivery-optimized kitchens and technology unlock delivery coverage with minimal upfront investment. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Shawn Simpson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Shawn Simpson - CEO @ Boutique Air

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, B2B, SMS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rockbot — Rockbot is a streaming music solution that lets users engage with the music in bars, cafes, gyms and other businesses and provides a complete music management toolset for venue owners.
  • TextualAds — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
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Sebastian Knutsson
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Music, Public Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $369k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ark Kapital — Ark Kapital is a precision financing company that empowers technology businesses to grow faster, enables owners to maintain control, and reduces risk for investors. ArK is founded by a world-class AI technology developer, a six-time-founder, and the veteran banker you always wanted.
  • Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.
  • Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
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Rodney Jerkins
Angel · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Rodney Jerkins also known by his stage name Darkchild, is an American record producer, songwriter and musician. He has collaborated with a broad range of popular artists, includingMichael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Luther Vandross, Jennifer Lopez, Toni Braxton,Destiny's Child, Lady Gaga, Spice Girls,Britney Spears, and The Pussycat Dolls.Songs and albums which Jerkins has produced have sold over 160 million records worldwide. Jerkins has also won four Grammy Awards. Among his most successful productions are "The Boy Is Mine" forBrandy and Monica, "You Rock My World" for Michael Jackson, "Holler" for the Spice Girls, "It's Not Right but It's Okay" for Whitney Houston, "Say My Name" for Destiny's Child, "If You Had My Love" forJennifer Lopez, "Déjà Vu" for Beyoncé, "He Wasn't Man Enough" for Toni Braxton and "Telephone" forLady Gaga.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Video, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Therabody — Therabody is a developer of medical devices for targeted vibration therapy and pain relief.
  • Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
  • MobileCoin — MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that develops P2P payment tokens and digital payment systems for mobile. It combines privacy, security, and distributed trust with a great user experience. MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet.
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Rob Price
Angel · 2 investments in United States Music startups

Prior to School of Rock, Price served as President of Edible Arrangements, which integrates an online business and 1,300 franchised stores worldwide. Before that, he was SVP, Chief Marketing Officer at CVS Health. Price has also held executive roles at Wawa Food Markets and H-E-B Grocery. In addition to serving as a director of Walker &Company, Price is a member of the Alumni Board at Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA. He graduated with a BS in Applied Economics from Cornell University, was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and was a Henry Crown Fellow and Richard Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gift, Music, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Songfinch — Give a unique gift with a personalized song from Songfinch. The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, wedding or just to say "I love...
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 2 investments in United States Music startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
  • Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
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Music Angel investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 319 deals from 641 investors.

641
investors
in United States Music startups
319
deals
in United States Music startups
$1.9M
median round
in United States Music startups
3%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage

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