Media

Crypto media veteran turned investor and advisor. Deep understanding of crypto narratives, community building, and go-to-market strategies.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Michael is early-stage focused within USV's collaborative partnership; USV makes investment decisions as a group without a formal vote.

Michael is an idea-driven early-stage investor and former product founder who looks for non-obvious shifts before they become consensus. His current AI thesis favors companies that restructure a market by transferring expert capability from gatekeepers to customers—not software that merely automates the incumbent process. USV describes him as curious, founder-respectful, willing to explore weird edges, and comfortable being wrong in pursuit of what comes next.

Homerun Investments

Check: Homerun does not publish a George-specific check range or formal stage band. The firm invites technology companies with exceptional growth potential across its stated sectors. Founders should ask directly about vehicle, round and ownership fit rather than relying on Big Pi's separate historical parameters.

George brings an operator-investor lens shaped by building technology ventures, running Google Greece, leading advertising and media businesses, supporting Big Pi portfolio companies and founding an agricultural business. At Homerun, that experience maps to technology companies with exceptional growth potential across healthcare, industry, mobility and travel, real estate and agriculture. The core value is scaling teams, go-to-market and business development, not a narrow Web3 thesis.

Schibsted Ventures

Check: Schibsted Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Christian Horn Hanssen invests or supports investment decisions through Schibsted Ventures's published strategy: Invest in ambitious digital companies, with particular strength in marketplace models and the ability to use Schibsted's Nordic ecosystem and operating experience.

Schibsted Ventures

Check: Schibsted Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Jussi Lystimäki invests or supports investment decisions through Schibsted Ventures's published strategy: Invest in ambitious digital companies, with particular strength in marketplace models and the ability to use Schibsted's Nordic ecosystem and operating experience.

Schibsted Ventures

Check: Schibsted Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Kajsa Gatenbeck invests or supports investment decisions through Schibsted Ventures's published strategy: Invest in ambitious digital companies, with particular strength in marketplace models and the ability to use Schibsted's Nordic ecosystem and operating experience.

Banana Capital

Check: Up to $250K in pre-seed and seed rounds, as published by Banana Capital.

Turner Novak invests or supports investments through Banana Capital's published strategy: Back resilient, obsessed founders with a non-obvious insight, defensible distribution, credible revenue prospects and category-defining ambition.

Vanara Capital

Check: Vanara Capital does not publish a firm or person-specific investment range on its current website.

Neil co-founded Vanara to provide creative, flexible capital structures for growth-stage technology companies whose needs are not well served by traditional equity markets.

Vanara Capital

Check: Vanara Capital does not publish a firm or person-specific investment range on its current website.

Hayden co-founded Vanara around a solutions-first growth-equity model, designing financing structures for dynamic technology companies approaching expansion and other major inflection points.

Human Ventures

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Heather Hartnett invests or supports investments through Human Ventures's published strategy: Partner with founders at the earliest stages across health and wellness, work and money, experience and connection, media and attention, emphasizing resilient people and category-defining human needs.

Human Ventures

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Joe Marchese serves in a Executive Chairman and Build Partner capacity at Human Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Human Ventures

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Michael Letta invests or supports investments through Human Ventures's published strategy: Partner with founders at the earliest stages across health and wellness, work and money, experience and connection, media and attention, emphasizing resilient people and category-defining human needs.

Human Ventures

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Chelsea Boyes serves in a Head of Accounting capacity at Human Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Human Ventures

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Elise King invests or supports investments through Human Ventures's published strategy: Partner with founders at the earliest stages across health and wellness, work and money, experience and connection, media and attention, emphasizing resilient people and category-defining human needs.

Human Ventures

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Laura Van Wettering serves in a Executive Assistant capacity at Human Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Human Ventures

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Melanie Price serves in a Head of Community capacity at Human Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Human Ventures

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

Michael Jurek serves in a Director of Finance capacity at Human Ventures. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Homegrown Capital

Check: $500K-$2M initial investments, as published by Homegrown Capital.

Tim Weelborg invests or supports investments through Homegrown Capital's published strategy: Invest at Seed and Series A in high-growth companies connected to the Northern Plains and Midwest across B2B software, agriculture, fintech, media and recurring-revenue models.

Homegrown Capital

Check: $500K-$2M initial investments, as published by Homegrown Capital.

Matt Paulson invests or supports investments through Homegrown Capital's published strategy: Invest at Seed and Series A in high-growth companies connected to the Northern Plains and Midwest across B2B software, agriculture, fintech, media and recurring-revenue models.

Dreamcraft Ventures

Check: Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Daniel Mariussen invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that compete for or support human attention.

Dreamcraft Ventures

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Jesper Søgaard invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that compete for or support human attention.

Dreamcraft Ventures

Check: Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Nikolaj Nyholm invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that compete for or support human attention.

Dreamcraft Ventures

Check: Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

René Rechtman invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that compete for or support human attention.

TomCat Ventures

Check: TomCat Ventures does not publish one standard current check-size range on its official website.

Thomas Gruederich invests or supports investment decisions through TomCat Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in sustainable technology-driven businesses and work closely with a small portfolio using founder experience across product, operations and go-to-market.

TomCat Ventures

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Catrin Gruederich invests or supports investment decisions through TomCat Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in sustainable technology-driven businesses and work closely with a small portfolio using founder experience across product, operations and go-to-market.

Vanara Capital

Check: Vanara Capital does not publish a firm or person-specific investment range on its current website.

Dan serves as Vanara's CFO and Operating Partner. The firm does not publish a personal investment thesis or direct deal mandate for him.

Galaxy Digital

Investing in the future of digital assets and blockchain infrastructure at Galaxy Digital. Also known for founding Blockworks, a leading crypto media company.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Stamford

AUM: $50B

Human Ventures

New York, New York

Dreamcraft Ventures

Copenhagen, Denmark and London, United Kingdom

Vanara Capital

San Francisco, California

TomCat Ventures

Mettmann, Germany

Schibsted Ventures

Oslo and Stockholm

Greycroft

New York City

AUM: $3B+

Homegrown Capital

Brookings and Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Bond

AUM: $2.4B

Banana Capital

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Betaworks

New York City

ME Ventures

New York

Animal Capital

New York

Jason Yanowitz

Brooklyn

Mike Dudas

New York

PUBLISH Ventures

Seoul

Red Bull Ventures

Salzburg

Ryan Sean Adams

Charlottesville

Adrian Cheng

Hong Kong

Alpha Transform Holdings

Jesse Walden

Mario Nawfal