Best Pre-Seed Media & Entertainment Investors 2026

Game makers deserve capital partners who deeply understand their industry. We invest in talented founders building the next generation of games and digital entertainment across all platforms and business models. Our conviction comes from 30+ years of operating experience in this space.

We invest early in founders defining the future of the consumer internet. Our fund combines deep consumer internet expertise with creator economy insights to support innovative builders shaping internet culture.

Sports, lifestyle, and gaming represent the next generation of consumer spending and time allocation. We partner with founders who challenge traditional definitions and build sustainable, scaled consumer businesses.

We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units.

We leverage 130 years of entertainment heritage to identify gaming companies with strong IP and cross-media adaptation potential. We invest in developers and studios building franchises, providing publishing support, distribution, and opportunities for anime/film adaptation. We add value through media mix expansion, not just capital.

Invest in platforms and brands that shape culture, with passionate, loyal audiences and strong direct-to-consumer relationships. We partner with visionary founders who have built authentic communities.

Invest in Black and African-led crypto startups building for the next 100 years of technological and economic transformation. Founders with access to multiple cultures and communities have unfair advantage in building viral technologies that tap into overlooked, high-value markets.

Advisory-focused seed fund supporting founders in creating lasting foundations for their vision. We combine capital with deep operational guidance through embedded advisors covering hiring, company culture, fundraising, product, and technical leadership. Founder-market fit and learning orientation are essential.

We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, technology, and web3. Our distinctive value comes from facilitating strategic connections between portfolio companies and major media conglomerates, distribution platforms, and Fortune 500 media executives.

Competitive Entertainment — any form of recreation where winning matters. We invest at the software layer in sports betting, fantasy sports, gaming, esports, social sports venues, and fan engagement technology. We believe the most economically and experientially desirable place to build technology is where people lean forward and become enraptured in competition.

Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO.

Early-stage investment fund focused on tech innovation, actively investing in companies and technology to create a more sustainable world. Champions women of color entrepreneurs by investing in their ventures and empowering them to create generational wealth.

The gaming industry requires dedicated capital that understands both the creative and commercial challenges of building game companies. ForsVC backs the full gaming ecosystem — studios, technology platforms, publishers, and services — with hands-on operational support through their FORSight program.

We empower builders and creators with capital and deep operational expertise. Gaming is undergoing fundamental transformation at the intersection of AI, creator empowerment, and infrastructure evolution. We partner with technical founders building innovative games, creator tools, and gaming infrastructure.

Backing experienced founders with deep domain conviction at the earliest stages. Fund genuine 'venture moments' — discrete inflection points where new capital validates novel hypotheses. Reject the factory model of venture; focus on capital efficiency and sound businesses.

Passion-driven, technical teams are uniquely positioned to capture emerging opportunities at the intersection of gaming, sports technology, and fintech. We partner with founders who combine technical depth with genuine passion for their domain and deep understanding of their user communities. User engagement is the critical lever across all three sectors—not vanity metrics like downloads, but active, monetizing users drive platform value.

Consumer-obsessed, founder-driven businesses at the intersection of culture and commerce. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs building transformational media, sports, and entertainment technology.

Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live.

We fund founders building transformational businesses that solve major pain points in large markets. Since 2008, we have partnered with founders who combine technical expertise, operational excellence, and ambitious vision. We bring capital, networks, and strategic experience across multiple successful exits.

We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. We focus on AI-native founders building companies with strong founder-product fit, aligned on mission and meaning, seeking creative freedom and psychological safety. Great companies are built by diverse teams supported and empowered to be maximally creative.

BAM Ventures invests in resilient founders building iconic consumer and commerce companies that connect with customers and transform industries. Partners provide operational expertise, relationships, and capital.

Geek Ventures invests in bold, innovative, and brilliant immigrant entrepreneurs, pursuing high scalability and large total addressable markets (TAM) of $10 billion or more.

Invest in companies that leverage creator networks and new forms of customer acquisition. We partner with founders building for consumer audiences who can tap into distribution through content creators, community, and influencer relationships. Our unique advantage is structural ties to Night Media, giving portfolio companies access to some of the biggest creators on the internet.

Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. We combine venture capital with a studio model, providing operational expertise, predictive strategy, and shared services to help founders build category-defining consumer brands and technology companies.

Scrappy entrepreneurs building lasting businesses with well-designed products. We work side-by-side with founders who demonstrate intellectual honesty and personal integrity. We emphasize long-term value creation in the LA startup ecosystem.

Invest in companies that create the zero waste economy by leveraging under-utilized assets. We back founders fueled by ideas and ideals who seek impact beyond financial returns—solving real economic and environmental problems through the sharing economy. We provide capital, strategic guidance, operational support, and access to our extensive network spanning media, entertainment, technology, and policy.

We invest in early-stage consumer and B2B technologies that meaningfully enhance personal and professional lives. We back application-layer software with consumer-grade UX that people actually use every day. Our focus: Wellbeing (health & vitality, life optimization, community & social) and Productivity (intelligent workflows, creative enablement, professional augmentation).

The user-owned internet is inevitable. We enable the founders and communities building it with capital, practical support, research, and connections. We invest in Web3-native founders who are actively using the products they're building.

We invest in traditionally overlooked and untapped consumer technology opportunities across the future of how we care, play, and live. Demographic shifts (aging population, female wealth, cultural diversity) create massive new markets. We don't chase hype—we invest in what should exist.

GFR Fund invests in pre-seed to Series A companies building emerging digitally-native communities in gaming, entertainment, and consumer tech. They seek founders who deeply understand community-building, whether they have a product with an existing community or are in early stages of building one. Strong focus on execution, founder-market fit, and capital efficiency.

Invest in people over product at the earliest stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Write the first institutional check for the most promising software and hardware companies. Focus on long-term relationships with founders.

Crypto can enable billions of internet users to become owners—of their money, identity, and the products and networks they use every day. We invest in decentralized protocols, infrastructure, and applications that advance true user ownership.

We partner with visionary founders building category-defining companies. We provide not just capital, but operational support, customer development assistance, and access to our network. As 11x founders ourselves, we understand the startup journey and help founders navigate from idea to category-defining company.

Origins backs legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from pre-seed to series A. We combine venture capital with the power of celebrity and athlete influence, providing not just capital but access to 160M+ social media followers through our limited partners for user acquisition and brand amplification.

Nordic-focused VC providing global access and local support for the region's most daring tech pioneers. We back transformative companies across gaming, AI, software infrastructure, and emerging technologies with founders who have global ambitions and shipping experience.

Invest in innovative technology companies that can achieve significant market share in large, growing markets and grow independent of market conditions. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build sustainable, profitable businesses that transform industry segments.

Early-stage, operator-led firm investing in next-generation consumer platforms, products, and services. We combine fintech, entertainment, and Wall Street expertise to provide hands-on operational support beyond capital.

VR and AR are transformative technologies. We invest in early-stage companies creating novel experiences, content, and enabling infrastructure. We bring deep operational expertise from building FarmVille, Unreal Engine, Gears of War, and leading HTC's VR initiative.

Software is eating the world. Technology companies will transform every major industry. We invest in transformative technologies across AI, crypto, fintech, bio/health, enterprise, and consumer. We believe in backing exceptional founders and providing deep operational support to help them build enduring companies.

We back the relentless - founders with exceptional drive, clear vision, and proven execution ability building ambitious category-defining companies.

Kindred backs visionary and relentless founders building the future using technology and science. They invest at the earliest stages, often helping form companies before they exist. They believe in AGI for good, decentralized fair systems, personalized well-being, quiet electric transportation, and inevitable but yet-to-be-imagined technologies.

Where capital becomes culture. Dreamers VC bridges established Japanese corporate investors with early-stage US companies by combining entertainment, sports, and technology expertise. The fund leverages celebrity networks, entertainment channels, and Japanese corporate partnerships to amplify storytelling and enable cross-cultural market expansion.

Partner with exceptional founders building from 0 to 1, with focus on AI applications, developer tools, SaaS, and healthcare. Believe in founders who have succeeded once or have deep domain expertise.

Gender-diverse teams building spatial computing and AI companies represent the best founders and the next computing paradigm. Female-founded teams outperform all-male teams by 63% and are systematically underfunded.

Partnering with brilliant founders to upend the status quo by investing in AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and innovative consumer brands. We believe AI will dominate software over the next decade, and we seek to support founders reimagining industries across all three sectors.

Gaming-born technologies—GPUs, real-time rendering, virtual economies—now power AI, spatial computing, and blockchain. We invest in the foundational infrastructure enabling the convergence of digital and physical worlds.

Invest in great entrepreneurs building remarkable companies. Leverage narrative momentum and storytelling expertise to help founders attract capital, talent, and customers. Founder quality accounts for ~95% of investment decision.

New Zealand tech startups and creative companies have exceptional potential. We provide early-stage capital and operational support through our network of industry advisors to help exceptional founders achieve breakthrough results.

WndrCo positions itself as 'the founders behind the founders,' combining strategic capital with deep operational involvement. Unlike traditional VCs, partners take formal operating roles (interim CEO, CFO, CPO) within portfolio companies. This approach leverages the co-founders' proven track record: Sujay Jaswa scaled Dropbox from $18M to $10B as Business Founder/CFO, and Jeffrey Katzenberg transformed Disney Studios and built DreamWorks. The firm invests across all stages through three strategies: Build (acquiring underappreciated tech companies), Venture (leading post-PMF rounds), and Seed (very early checks). Focus areas are Future of Work, Cybersecurity, Developer Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology, with increasing emphasis on AI applications.

Identify resilient, obsessed founders with exceptional conviction and a chip on their shoulder building category-defining products with defensible distribution. Target founders to work with for the next decade, seeking businesses with clear revenue prospects in large markets.

A majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data AI will analyze will also be visual, spanning the light and electromagnetic spectrums across all sectors. We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams who leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

We invest in early-stage companies building technology and brands that impact pop culture. We believe the most exciting opportunities exist at the intersection of media, culture, and commerce, where founders can leverage cultural insights and audience engagement to drive commercial success.

The best founders solving real problems exist everywhere, not just Silicon Valley. We back capital-efficient teams building in overlooked emerging markets with grit, clarity, and execution focus. Our first institutional check can mean the difference between a founder raising at all.

Uncovering potential through collective conviction. Quorum engineers a system for selecting early-stage startups that leverages the discernment of domain experts via Specialist Limited Partners (SLPs) who earn carry on deals they source or evaluate. This creates specialist-level conviction across generalist domains.

Identify founders with the determination and resourcefulness to build world-changing companies. We believe exceptional founders can come from any background and at any stage of development. Our mission is to help founders be dramatically better shaped in 3 months than when they arrived.

We combine world-class AI analytics with industry-leading networks to identify exceptional companies and make rapid investment decisions. Great companies, regardless of sector or geography.

Emerson Collective invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose, seeking consequential companies that deliver both generational impact and venture-scale returns. The firm targets sectors where biggest market opportunities meet meaningful impact levers: energy & environment, digital health, fintech, education, work, and media.

Consumer technology has the power to measurably improve billions of lives across the globe. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building digital utilities that provide better access to housing, healthcare, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment globally.

We invest in world-class founders solving significant problems. We prioritize founder quality, founder-problem fit, and values-aligned partnerships. We help exceptional founders become category leaders early, before they become obvious trends.

Best-in-class Black-led, high-growth companies represent a new asset class producing outsized returns. Black founders and their companies, historically overlooked and undercapitalized, represent a watershed investment opportunity.

Underestimated founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns. We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color, or LGBTQ, treating capital allocation as activism.

The best investment opportunities emerge at the intersection of innovation and scale. We invest across the full lifecycle from seed to public markets, focusing on technology companies that will transform sectors globally with particular conviction in AI-enabled platforms and infrastructure.

The smartest place you can invest your capital is in women. We bet on early-stage female-founded and female-led companies creating groundbreaking consumer and B2B software technologies that solve meaningful problems in families, healthcare, childcare, education, climate, and sustainability.

Backing immigrant entrepreneurs building companies in Europe. Immigrants account for ~50% of US and ~40% of UK unicorns. NLV spots and supports this talent before the market catches up, investing unconditionally as the first check before lead VCs are in place.

Innovation requires more than capital—it demands insight, dedication, and pioneering visionaries. We partner with execution-capable founders building differentiated solutions to large industry problems. We provide hands-on operational support, strategic guidance, and deep founder networks to accelerate success.

Back resilient founders building category-defining companies. Leverage Korea's cultural wave for global expansion. When others say 'no', we find the 'yes'.

Equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. Diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies deserve capital access. When these founders succeed, they influence ecosystems and open doors for historically excluded groups.

Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations.

Culture-Tech companies that disrupt and define how we live, work, play, and interact with the world every day. We invest in passionate founders building transformative products that change cultural behaviors.

MaC backs visionary founders building category-defining companies with deep understanding of cultural shifts, technological advancements, and emerging market trends. Founders must demonstrate authentic insight into why their problem needs solving now, combined with ability to see how the world is changing. Particular focus on founders paying attention to shifts others might miss.

High-conviction seed fund focused on alignment and partnership. Blake invests in technical founders building enduring companies across gaming, hardware, creator economy, and emerging tech. Core belief: VC is a service business where concentrated ownership creates genuine incentives for hands-on support.