Digital Media

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incentive-aligned funding models, community fiber networks that challenge access monopolies, and data-driven media platforms entering a market transition. The common thread is reducing gatekeeper control while creating networks whose users, developers, and communities share in expanding value.

General Catalyst

Check: No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stage founder access with General Catalyst's resilience themes: financial inclusion, health assurance, domestic defense and industrial capability, energy infrastructure, locally relevant consumer products, and regulated platforms that modernize large GDP-driving sectors.

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentation, product strategy, team building, and operating at scale. His value is less a sector prediction than pattern recognition across zero-to-one, the messy middle, and hypergrowth.

Sfermion

Check: Sfermion does not publish a first-party check-size range or Dan's individual authority. Public deal records show participation in seed and Series A rounds, but round totals and third-party estimates are not treated as his personal check size.

Dan co-leads Sfermion's investment strategy around the experiential internet: founders, companies, and digital assets that merge physical and digital life through web3, AI, AR, and VR. The firm's durable behavioral lens is creation, connection, and competition, with a portfolio orientation toward digital media, entertainment, games, creator infrastructure, and the systems that let communities own and exchange digital value.

DST Global

Check: No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or public listings including Xiaomi, Meituan and Kuaishou. The repeatable lens is growth-stage platform scale, large addressable markets, strong network or marketplace effects and the ability to compound across geographies—not Maki.vc's early-stage Web3 mandate.

Courtside Ventures

Check: Courtside Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range.

Joe Vennare serves in a Fitness and Wellness Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

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Andrew Stalbow serves in a Gaming Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

Check: Courtside Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range.

Anthony Vennare serves in a Fitness and Wellness Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

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Vasu Kulkarni invests or supports investments through Courtside Ventures's published strategy: Partner with early-stage founders challenging traditional definitions of sports, digital media, fitness and gaming as consumer time and wallet share shift.

Courtside Ventures

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Larry Fitzgerald serves in a Sports Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

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Deepen Parikh invests or supports investments through Courtside Ventures's published strategy: Partner with early-stage founders challenging traditional definitions of sports, digital media, fitness and gaming as consumer time and wallet share shift.

Courtside Ventures

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Kai Bond invests or supports investments through Courtside Ventures's published strategy: Partner with early-stage founders challenging traditional definitions of sports, digital media, fitness and gaming as consumer time and wallet share shift.

Courtside Ventures

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Oliver Ressler invests or supports investments through Courtside Ventures's published strategy: Partner with early-stage founders challenging traditional definitions of sports, digital media, fitness and gaming as consumer time and wallet share shift.

Courtside Ventures

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Cort Post invests or supports investments through Courtside Ventures's published strategy: Partner with early-stage founders challenging traditional definitions of sports, digital media, fitness and gaming as consumer time and wallet share shift.

Courtside Ventures

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DeVaris Brown serves in a Technical Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

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Sean Hurley serves in a Real Money Gaming Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Courtside Ventures

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Ryan Spoon serves in a Sports and Media Advisor capacity at Courtside Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

CoinFund

Investing in web3 and crypto at CoinFund. Focuses on consumer-facing applications and platforms that bring web3 to mainstream users.

AppWorks

Check: $200K-$15M at the firm level, from Seed through Series C; AppWorks can lead or follow and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Nice focuses on growth-stage startups and seasoned founders, bringing a founder-operator lens shaped by building an internet company to profitability and later running strategy and operations after its acquisition. Within AppWorks, that lens is applied to technology companies in AI, blockchain, and Greater Southeast Asia, with particular attention to scalable operations, trusted customer relationships, and durable growth.

Courtside Ventures

New York, New York