We are a team of entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, data scientists, operators and risk managers focused on stewarding capital and helping to responsibly build a globally-connected market and industry. We facilitate differentiated investment vehicles by seeking novel, scalable and defensible technologies that positively impact their respective ecosystems. We apply operating experience, relationships, and market intelligence in select high-growth sectors to cultivate the next generation of leading founders.
Sound Media Ventures invests in founders who transform how media, in its broadest forms, is created, distributed, and monetized. We invest during early growth, between Seed and Series A. We are drawn to companies that leverage novel technologies to drive scale and where we can add strategic value to influence performance outcomes.
Technical advances across many silos are pushing media into new realms and enabling boundless new opportunities. What was once static is becoming dynamic and engaging. This promotes accelerated engagement, globalization of audiences, social eclipsing broadcast, eSports eclipsing sports, the rise of streaming giants, the privatization of finance, and more.
Web3 is the connecting fiber, powered by a convergence of AI, blockchain, VR, AR, 5G networks, connected everything, and other novel technologies. Sound Media Ventures pursues such opportunities with vigor, providing both funding and strategic support.
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We leverage our diverse professional network, relationships with incubators and accelerators, and syndication partners to source strong investment opportunities in our market segments. Our reputation and experience help us gain access to exciting new projects. We roll up our sleeves and partner with founders to add tangible value and influence outcomes. We invest where we find passionate and hard-working founders that are building meaningful enterprises with the potential to make a significant and lasting impact.
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Shachar Oren
Founder & CEO
Bill Campbell
Director
Randall Foster
Director
Todd Harris
Director
Jon Gosier
Director
Vickie Nauman
Director
Thomas Satterwaite
Director
Richard D. Titus
Director
Shachar Oren
Founder & CEO
Bill Campbell
Director
Randall Foster
Director
Todd Harris
Director
Jon Gosier
Director
Vickie Nauman
Director
Thomas Satterwaite
Director
Richard D. Titus
Director
"Nothing is more satisfying than meeting a prospective investor who is also a successful entrepreneur that understands firsthand your journey and the growth category of your business, makes time to inspect your thinking, data, and technology, then enthusiastically commits to helping realize the vision."
Dot Bustelo, CEO of Loupe
“Sound Media Ventures has been incredibly value-add. Their guidance and music industry insights and network have moved the needle for us in ways that go way beyond dollars invested.”
Rich Sloan, CEO of Dance Fight
"Sound Media Ventures has been willing to help out in any way possible since the first time we met with them. Shachar and the team have an incredible amount of experience that will go a long way for any early-stage company."
Conrad Cornell, CEO of Press Sports
