# Top 25 Theatre Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Rubicon Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Rubicon Venture Capital (Rubicon) is a Late Seed / Series A VC fund with a unique global community of value added investors to build lasting technology companies. Their investors are mainly successful entrepreneurs and executives located in key cities around the world. Rubicon invests in enterprise Saas, Fintech, hospitality tech, logistics,insuretech, PropTech, AI/ML and direct to consumer companies. Typically companies will have achieved at least $1m in ARR. We invest in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies.

## Harrison Metal
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

## J20 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Staffing Agency

J20 Ventures is an early stage fund investing in consumer brands that cater to the evolving needs and desires of millennials and Gen-Z across e-commerce, edtech, fintech, healthcare, and beyond, while also supporting the B2B infrastructure behind these brands. J20 looks to partner with mission-driven founders intent on leaving a positive mark onthe world while building scalable businesses that can transform the economy and the lives of their users. Current investments include: Burrow, Career Karma, Gainful, Co-Edition, Snowe, 99 Minutos.

## Wefunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.

## Richard Wolpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Software

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

## Sunmeet Jolly
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Founder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting services to Fortune 500companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

## Agya Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Retail

Agya Ventures invests in early stage companies. Together, we are redefining what it means to merge new technologies with the built world. Learn about our focus.

## CincyTech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

CincyTech helps to identify and transform innovation into venture-worthy, transformational human health and technology companies, primarily in southwest Ohio. Our team provides advice and capital to entrepreneurs, helps research institutions commercialize technology through startups, and catalyzes investment from individuals and institutions intoregional companies. One of the most active seed funds in the Midwest, CincyTech is supported by Ohio Third Frontier, more than two dozen foundations, corporations, municipalities and individuals as well as founding partners, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

## Rosepaul Investments / RosePaul Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Early Stage Investing

## SierraMaya360
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before theybubble up as global trends.Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.

## Alex Pattis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, Health Care

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

## Wavemaker Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Frontier Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cupertino, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, Software

Leading early stage venture capital fund in the Silicon Valley. We invest in ground-breaking global Internet and blockchain companies with network effects. Click to submit a deck or learn more.

## MEGA Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Theatre, Virtual Reality, Media and Entertainment

MEGA holding is a company founded in July 2017 in Milan. The corporate objective is to invest the shareholder's funds in acquisitions of major or minor shares of other companies operating in the food sector: companies that have a strong potential growth which needs to be boosted and an innovative business model. MEGA holding operates bysupporting the companies in which it has invested by bringing in specialised services and useful points of contact with other businesses, creating synergies between the various companies with the objective of maximising the growth process.

## Hatzimemos / Libby
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

H/L Ventures helps mission-driven founders build inspiring, valuable companies from inception to exit.

## Warner Bros.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burbank, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Warner Bros. is a media company that creates, produces, distributes, licenses, and markets of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. The company specializes in various entertainment activities, including feature films, television, home entertainment and DVDs, animations, product and brand licensing, interactive entertainment,comic books, digital distribution, video games, international cinemas, and broadcasting. It also develops and produces musicals and other stage productions for the studio.Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, DC Entertainment.The company’s official website contains movie trailers, news, classic clips, TV series, and video games. Its online store sells movies, clothing, accessories, toys and games, home décor, collectibles, and more.Warner Bros. was founded in 1923 and is based in California, United States with presence in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. The company operates as a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., an American media and entertainment company.

## Larry Braitman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment

Larry Braitman - Angel Investor; Advisor @ Braitman & Company

## SeedInvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.

## One Way Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing Exceptional Immigrants

## Level Equity Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Level Equity provides bespoke guidance to best-in-class software pioneers and technology leaders.

## Exponential Creativity Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence

Technology to maximize humanity's creative and expressive potential

## Gill Holland
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Audio, Search Engine

Gill Holland, is a Norwegian-American film producer.

## Ajay Narula
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Theatre, Internet

Ajay Narula - CEO & President @ Curtis

## Rob Emrich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Rob Emrich - Founder & CEO @ The Mobile Majority

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