# Top 40 Theatre Startup Investors in May 2026 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## ScaleUp Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series A - Focus: News, Legal, Fitness Are you a founder, business owner or CEO looking to scale your business? Then you're in the right place. ## Wadiz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bundangdong, Kyonggi-do, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Sales Wadiz is Asia's largest crowdfunding platform company. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## Forefront Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boca Raton, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Marketing Forefront Venture Partners is one of the largest and most successful syndicates on AngelList. Founded by Phil Nadel, Forefront Venture Partners (formerly Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners) invests in high-growth, revenue-generating, early-stage companies with great teams. ## Ingenious Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Theatre, Auctions, Big Data Ingenious Media is an one of the largest independent investors in the UK’s creative sector, they partner with companies and individuals in the film, television and live entertainment sectors to bring great ideas to life. They do this through their unique blend of industry knowledge, access to a diverse range of capital sources and exceptionalexecution capability.They have invested in excess of £8 billion in the sector and have a long and successful track record of collaboration with first class international partners, including Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Open Road, Working Title, Film4, Warner Bros., Pathé, BBC, ITV, Endemol and Lionsgate.They have one of the most experienced teams of independent professionals in the UK dedicated to the analysis and commercial negotiation of media opportunities and are always looking for new opportunities to work with industry partners. ## Blue Slide Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Snack Food Blue Slide Ventures is an early stage personal and SPV investment vehicle focused on backing consumer, brand centric companies. Blue Slide Ventures is hands on at the seed stage to support key business needs and utilize our trusted network of partners. ## 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. ## Nascent - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Nascent invests in early-stage teams with a focus on missionary founders who are building category-defining companies and protocols It was founded in 2020. ## Lloyds Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Financial Services Wherever you want to get to in life, Lloyds Bank has a range of bank accounts and personal banking services to suit you. Visit us today to find out more ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Ratan Tata - Type: Angel - Location: Houston, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power and more. He is also Chairman of two of the largest private sector promoted philanthropic trusts in India. During his tenure, the Group hasfurther expanded its global reach, with its revenues growing over eleven-fold to around USD$70 billion, after the most recent acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962. After serving in various companies, he was appointed the Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in 1971. In 1981, he was named Chairman of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, which he was responsible for transforming into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses. He is associated with many organizations in India and abroad in varying capacities, some of which are the government of India’s Investment Commission, the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, South Africa’s International Investment Council, several prestigious universities and several philanthropies. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1962, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.The government of India honored Tata with one of its highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan, this year. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## Big Issue Invest - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Grant - Focus: Charity, Non Profit, Communities Big Issue Invest empowers sustainable business solutions to deliver real social change. ## 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. ## Scalar Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX. ## Dragonfly - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one. ## Prakash Jain - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Film, Theatre, TV Production Prakash Jain ## 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. ## Justin Cooke - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Digital Signage, SaaS, Theatre I am the Vice Chair of Unicef UK, a Venture Partner at tech VC Northzone, Chairman of The Drum, Deputy Chair of social learning platform FutureLearn and a Non-Executive Director, adviser and investor in numerous fast-growing technology businesses and sit on the British Museum Digital Advisory Board.Prior to Northzone I was the CEO and Founder ofPOSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency. I am also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the industry body for everyone working in digital Britain. I discovered digital media while studying Quasi-Theatrical Leisure and Computers as Theatre while studying Drama at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours I worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and Media before Co-founding global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. I secured venture capital funding and grew the business across three continents before exiting to WPP in 2012. For two years I served on the Board of EPiServer – the world’s fastest growing content management and community platform until its sale to investment bank, IK Partners. I also served on the board of ActiveStandards until its merger with CrownPeak and raising of $50 Million from venture capital firm K1 to become the world's leading cloud-based digital experience management company.I have been lucky enough to have been listed in the Wired Top 100; rated the UK's second most influential person in digital by Econsultancy; inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame and most recently, Business Insider ranked me as one of the UK's coolest tech VC's. ## Free Company - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Gaming Free Company # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co