• The Snow League

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

  The Snow League (TSL), created by Olympic snowboarding icon Shaun White in 2024, is building an international, year-round circuit that unites a currently fragmented freestyle winter-sports calendar. The league fields 36 elite male and female athletes and offers a record-setting US$1.6 million prize pool to let competitors earn meaningful income from events rather than relying solely on sponsorships. TSL’s inaugural season launched with an event in Aspen, Colorado, and will continue next month at Yunding Secret Garden Resort in China before concluding in Laax, Switzerland in March 2026. By positioning itself as a global media and competition platform, the company aims to grow a fan base across multiple countries and create new commercial opportunities in winter sports. Backers view the league as a potential ‘media engine’ capable of driving fresh content and sponsorship value. With two US$15 million raises completed in 2024, TSL is now capitalized to accelerate product development, expand its event footprint, and deepen engagement with athletes, fans, and partners. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the article.

• Men in Blazers Media Network

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

  Founded in 2010, Men in Blazers Media Network grew from a single podcast-turned-television show into a multiplatform soccer media network producing original content across podcasting, digital, television and live events. Its programming covers men's and women's football, domestic leagues and international tournaments and features talent including Sam Mewis, Becky Sauerbrunn, Lynn Williams, Fabrizio Romano, Tyler Adams, Brendan Hunt and Herculez Gomez. The network has established brand and partnership relationships with companies and organizations such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Danone, the NWSL and AFC Wrexham. With the 2026 Men’s World Cup approaching, the company plans to expand live events and both short-form and long-form programming to scale coverage for U.S. soccer fans. Men in Blazers intends to grow its women's vertical, "The Women's Game," and launch a Hispanic platform, Vamos, to broaden reach and inclusivity. Inner Circle Sports LLC served as financial advisor on the transaction.

• Youth Inc

  Participated · Seed · May 2024

  Youth Inc. is a digital media network dedicated exclusively to youth sports. It produces multimedia content and operates a premium, on-demand merchandise experience aimed at empowering families, coaches, and youth athletes. The company is co-founded by NFL alum and Fox Sports broadcaster Greg Olsen, Fanatics alum Ryan Baise, and former The New York Times & Audacy executive Tim Murphy. In its launch announcement the team said the network intends to be a resource to help families and coaches make the best choices for their kids, signalling a focus on educational and community-oriented content. Youth Inc. completed a $4.5M Seed fundraising led by Will Ventures to support its launch. Co-investors include Ryan Sports Ventures, Hello Sunshine co-founder Jim Toth, NFL quarterbacks Josh Allen and CJ Stroud, Ohio State coach Ryan Day, and Isos Capital Management. The LinkedIn post invited community engagement and encouraged partnerships as the company develops its content and merchandise offerings.

• Greenfly

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

  Greenfly provides a platform that streamlines short-form content workflows for sports, media, and brand organizations, enabling production, compilation, management, and sharing of short-form content across networks. The Greenfly Platform bridges leagues, teams, players, broadcasters, and sponsors to facilitate collaborative content creation and distribution. The company has expanded its global footprint, welcoming over 40 new partnerships worldwide in the past year and acquiring Miro AI to bolster contextual sports content analysis. Leadership emphasizes short-form video consumption on platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels as a primary engagement and monetization channel. Greenfly completed a $14 million equity funding round that exceeded its initial target. Management intends to use the capital to accelerate strategic partnerships and support continued growth after its fastest year in nearly a decade. Greenfly builds a content collaboration platform and digital media flow management system to source, create, curate and automate distribution of photos and short-form videos for social media. The product centers on event-based workflows that route, surface and curate media so athletes, teams, leagues and brands can find and share relevant content quickly. The company is investing in improved curation and data collection to surface media most relevant to users and provide insights for community relationship management. Greenfly plans to use new funding for growth and expansion, building additional collaboration tools and content as more players sign on. The platform is used across sports, media and entertainment, political campaigns, social causes and consumer brands and is now working with more than 30 sports leagues and over 500 organizations. The company reported over 100% growth so far in 2021. Greenfly provides a SaaS platform that integrates a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration system to enable brands to request, create, review, approve and post unified video and other media. The platform lets consumer brands collaborate with networks of endorsers, staff and customers to simultaneously share thematically unified content across individual social accounts and networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as television. Greenfly has been used by leading brands, sports leagues, teams and media companies. Co-founded in 2014 by Shawn Green and Daniel Kirschner, the company focuses on building tools to activate and orchestrate content creator networks. The new financing will be used to continue building out technology, drive user acquisition and marketing initiatives, and bolster the team with new hires. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif. Greenfly provides sports leagues, teams, and media companies with a system that pairs a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration platform. The product lets organizations leverage networks of influencers, brand ambassadors, and staff to produce and distribute video and other media content. The company was founded in 2014 by Daniel Kirschner and Chairman Shawn Green and is based in Santa Monica, CA. Greenfly announced a Series A financing of more than $6m. The company intends to use the funds to continue to scale and to address new verticals and markets. No operating metrics beyond the fundraise are reported in the article.

• Tagboard

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2023

  Tagboard offers cloud-based production software that lets content producers integrate graphics, interactive tools, social media, and more into live broadcasts across channels. The company launched more than a decade ago to help sports teams display social media content and has since expanded to serve sports, news, entertainment, and other brands. It has about 50 employees and more than 600 clients, including the NBA (via its Launchpad program), ESPN, FOX Sports, and UFC. Recent product work includes integrations with Adobe Photoshop and real-time production analytics from Amazon Web Services. Tagboard is exploring generative AI to quickly build contextual graphics for media producers, according to CEO Nathan Peterson. Financially, the company has raised $17 million to date, including a $4 million round announced most recently and a separate $8 million round last year. Tagboard develops live production and graphics technology used by sports and entertainment companies. The company is described as the world’s leading cloud graphics and production platform, used daily by hundreds of media, entertainment and sports organizations to produce more impactful stories, save time and drive stronger fan engagement. Its proprietary software enables producers to create shows from anywhere with an internet connection, offering an intuitive graphics interface, one-click access to social content, and interactive QR code and polling for cross-channel engagement. Tagboard employs 40 people and is led by CEO Nathan Peterson, who was promoted in January. Founded in 2011 and based in Redmond, WA, the company recently raised additional capital as part of its Series A. Tagboard provides a cloud-native production and graphics platform used daily by media, entertainment and sports organizations to produce interactive stories and live graphics. Its proprietary software offers an intuitive graphics interface, one-click access to social content, and interactive QR code and polling features for cross-channel engagement. The platform allows producers to create shows from anywhere with an internet connection, saving time and driving fan engagement. Tagboard counts more than 600 media partners worldwide, including Sinclair Broadcast Group, CNN, NBC Sports, NFL Network, Riot Games, FOX Sports, E! Networks, Major League Baseball and Turner Sports. Led by CEO Nathan Peterson and Founder/Chairman Josh Decker, the company says it will use new capital to accelerate product development and go-to-market activities. Financially, Tagboard announced an $8M Series A and had previously raised $5.7M in seed funding from investors including long-time partner Keshif Ventures. Tagboard builds landing zones for specific hashtags and topics so users and brands can find and follow social media conversations in real time. Brands can customize the design and imagery of their Tagboard pages to shape those conversations. The company has partnered with sports teams including the Seattle Mariners and Seattle Seahawks, and brands such as Boeing, Audi, and Outback Steakhouse. Founded by CEO Josh Decker with Sean Sperte and Tim Shimotakahara, the Redmond startup now employs about 15 people. Tagboard announced $2 million in funding and said several major partnerships are in the works, particularly ahead of football season. Executives noted unexpected enterprise demand from conference organizers, churches, and large sports brands and said they plan to adapt if social-media trends change. Tagboard aggregates posts from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and App.net into hashtag-specific pages that act as landing zones for topics and events. Brands can customize the design and imagery of their pages and purchase premium, fee-based pages with analytics to control and frame conversations. The company positions itself to reduce hashtag noise by surfacing interactive, curated streams around a topic or event. Tagboard has already secured a partnership with the University of Washington athletics department (GoHuskies.com) as an early customer and traction point. Founded last November by CEO Josh Decker with Tim Shimotakahara and UX designer Sean Sperte, the company operates with a lean seven-member team. Financially, Tagboard has raised nearly $700,000 in angel funding, including a notable investor who was one of Facebook's first employees.

No current team members are available.