Where prime VCs are investing in Media, Entertainment & Gaming
Our media columnist Eric Peckham (who is difficult at work on the Unity EC-1, which we are going to begin to publish right here shortly) pinged his community of media traders to determine what the media VC world is as much as in mid-2019:
Here are the media funding theses of: Cyan Banister (Founders Fund), Alex Taussig (Lightspeed), Matt Hartman (betaworks), Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia), Jordan Fudge (Sinai), Christian Dorffer (Sweet Capital), Charles Hudson (Precursor), MG Siegler (GV), and Eric Hippeau (Lerer Hippeau).
Lots of attention-grabbing concepts in Eric’s piece, however one which I believed was significantly attention-grabbing was from Matt Hartman at Betaworks:
In 2019, I’m listening to Synthetic Media and the continued fluidity between what’s actual and artificially generated within social media. Synthetic celebrities will likely be complemented by synthesized voice as these content material sorts go mainstream. The expertise instruments to create these characters will enhance and we’ll additionally see expertise constructed to detect malicious use of those new instruments.
