Imagination Capital
40 W 77th St, New York City, New York, 10024, United States
Overview
Imagination Capital is a partnership of diverse executives with extensive media and venture capital experience. They partner with entrepreneurs to bring their networks, operating and investment experience, and capital to build high growth companies that can meaningfully scale and innovate within their target markets. They seek to join investor syndicates where they can lend their judgement, experience and sense of humor to help their portfolio companies successfully grow.
- Total investments
- 10
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Monumint
Participated · Equity · Jul 2026
Monumint develops conversational AI agents tailored to banks, credit unions and lenders that can answer questions, collect information and orchestrate complex workflows such as multi‑owner loan applications. The startup was formed following a pivot from the founders' prior company, OmniAI, and leverages the founders' backgrounds as former commercial bankers at CIBC. Monumint reports 20 paying customers, including small-business lenders Lendio and ByzFunder and FDIC-insured institutions like Community Bank, and currently has six employees. The company raised $3.2 million from backers including FundersClub, Y Combinator and Imagination Capital and plans to deploy the capital to grow engineering and sales. Its deck shared with investors emphasized traction and helped generate introductions to potential major customers.
- Antenna
Participated · Series A · Oct 2022
Antenna provides market intelligence and analytics that report KPIs and reveal subscriber behavior across the streaming ecosystem and broader subscription economy. Its product helps subscription brands evaluate performance against peers and surface competitor subscriber activity. The company says it was originally conceived to serve streaming but has expanded to cover recurring direct relationships across many categories. In 2021 Antenna more than doubled its client base, tripled its team, and quadrupled its revenue. Looking ahead, Antenna plans to model its market-level data onto clients’ CRM records to enable more personalized, privacy-compliant experiences. The company also plans to ramp up hiring to support product and commercial expansion.
- Lance
Participated · Equity · May 2021
Lance Bank built the first smart business bank account tailored to self-employed workers, automatically allocating incoming deposits to a personal salary, tax withholdings, business expenses, and savings. The product captures both W2 and 1099 payments, identifies deductibles, and includes basic bookkeeping and entry-level accounting. A free basic account provides automated subaccounts and allocations; a paid pro subscription can pay quarterly IRS taxes from withholdings and pre-populate a Schedule C. The company says its approach can save freelancers roughly 100 hours per year and $7,500 in fees and deductibles. Lance was founded by former freelancers who researched thousands of self-employed individuals to refine the product and workflow. Recent funding is intended to support further product development and marketing to reach the large U.S. freelance market referenced in the article.
- Buzzer
Participated · Seed · Sep 2020
Buzzer is a mobile platform that personalizes discovery and short-form viewing of live sports on mobile devices. The app aggregates and organizes live sports streaming rights into one accessible platform and lets users set customized alerts based on player, team and league preferences. Current league partners include NBA League Pass, PGA TOUR and NHL, with additional partnerships slated to be announced. Buzzer is in Early Access on iOS and Android; users build profiles, join a waitlist, and receive full access before the platform’s official launch later in the year. The company intends to use new funding to scale the product, build social features, pursue partnership opportunities, and grow the team through key hires. Buzzer was founded by CEO Bo Han in 2020 and is based in New York City. Buzzer is a mobile platform that aggregates sports rights and live content and allows fans to set up customized notifications. The app authenticates viewing through users' existing subscriptions or enables instant, secure micropayments so users can buy exactly what they want to watch. Led by founder and CEO Bo Han, Buzzer is based in New York City and has 16 employees across the U.S. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Buzzer targets personalized live-sports experiences by combining content aggregation with flexible access and payment options. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.
- Boom.tv
Participated · Series A · Jun 2020
BoomTV operates a platform that enables organizers—especially smaller community groups, youth sports organizations, school clubs, and influencers—to create, manage and broadcast esports events with automated production tools. The company launched its platform on the strength of the Code Red pro-amateur series and runs a biweekly Code Red event that reaches millions of monthly users. Over the past year Code Red has averaged 2.7 million unique viewers and BoomTV has more than 4 million fans across social platforms; players have earned over $3.9 million across 11,000 events since fall 2018. More than 75,000 content creators and 1,600 college programs use Boom.tv. BoomTV monetizes primarily through sponsorships for its biggest events and has 24 employees. The company plans to invest further in the Code Red ProAm series by increasing prize pools, deepen relationships with top influencers, and develop original esports programming. Boom.tv constructs a 3D experience from a player's game stream in real time, enabling fans to view eSports gameplay from any perspective on PC or mobile devices. Its first application lets streamers engage with fans, provides instant replays and multiple viewing angles, and enables one-click highlight montages for social sharing. The app is available in beta and currently supports CS:GO and LOL. The company will soon release an update allowing streamers to broadcast in virtual reality so viewers can experience the game stream in full VR using the headset of their choice. Led by CEO Sumit Gupta and based in Redwood City, California, Boom.tv plans to use the funding to support the top ten eSports titles and expand to the larger gamer and eSports communities. The company raised $3.5M in seed funding to support these product and expansion plans.