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Discovering, mentoring, and investing in innovative technology companies

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 ecosystems at scale.

We apply operating experience, relationships, and market intelligence in select high-growth sectors to cultivate the next generation of leading founders.

We invest in visionaries and disruptors

Sound Media Ventures invests primarily in founders who transform media using disruptive technologies and innovative business models. We invest during early growth, between Seed and Series A. We are drawn to companies that can drive scale and where we can add strategic value to influence performance outcomes.

Technical advances are pushing media and technology into new realms and enabling boundless new investment opportunities. This promotes the acceleration of connectivity, globalization of audiences, ascendance of social over traditional media, growth of eSports, music and entertainment, rise of streaming giants, privatization of finance, and more.

Progress is powered by a convergence of generative AI, VR, 5G networks, robotics, the connected nature of Web3, and other novel technologies.  Sound Media Ventures pursues such opportunities with vigor, providing both funding and strategic support.

Sound Media Ventures - Fund I

SMV Fund I invests in founders who transform how media 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.
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As companies re-focus on public needs in a post-pandemic world, new technologies are vital, and entrepreneurs are inspired to drive growth using new technologies and innovative business models. Media innovations are transforming our lives. Consumers are increasingly adopting digital habits, driving the innovation of emerging media companies worldwide, pushing media into new realms, and enabling boundless new opportunities. This promotes accelerated engagement, globalization of audiences, social eclipsing broadcast, the rise of streaming giants, the privatization of finance, the economic paradigm shift blockchain technologies enable for creators and contractors, and more. SMV Fund I pursues such opportunities with vigor, providing both funding and strategic support.

SMV BlockChain - Fund I

Blockchain companies and crypto assets represent disruptive early-stage technology, liquid public markets, and new use cases and business models. SBV Fund I focuses on crypto and blockchain investment, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to this digital asset class.

Our fund operates at the intersection of game theory, financial market disruption, network and behavioral economics, competitive strategy, high-risk for potential high yield investment, and portfolio management.

Our fund offers accredited investors a blended, diversified offering that primarily centers on early-stage, Seed to Series A startups that utilize Blockchain technologies to impact their ecosystem with the goal of driving significant growth.

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Unique deal flow and access

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 collaborate 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.

Our Team

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Shachar Oren
Founder & CEO

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Michal Behringer
Partner

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Bill Campbell
Director

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Randall Foster
Director

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Todd Harris
Director

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Thomas Satterwaite
Director

David Strickland
Director

Lingbin Kong
Director

Shachar Oren
Founder & CEO

Michal Behringer
Partner

Bill Campbell
Director

Randall Foster
Director

Todd Harris
Director

Jon Gosier
Director

Vickie Nauman
Director

Thomas Satterwaite
Director

David Strickland
Director

Lingbin Kong
Director

Richard D. Titus
Director

Ray Ng
Partner, SBV Fund I

Greg Moritz
Partner, SBV Fund I

We add unique strategic value to our companies

"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

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