
Saban Ventures
2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite #800, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, United States
Overview
Saban Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), a private investment firm founded by Haim Saban in 2001 and specializing in the media, entertainment, and communications industries. Saban Ventures was formed by SCG in 2008 to invest in early-stage to mid-stage start-ups in digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet with an emphasis on companies that can add value to SCGâ€:tm:s global media investments. The Saban Ventures team brings significant investment, operations, and industry experience in the digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet spaces. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious, market-changing entrepreneurs and invest in companies where the Principals can add value through their expertise and strategic network. The firm actively partners and collaborates with its portfolio companies to help them achieve breakout success. Saban Ventures and SCG work closely together on investments that require multidisciplinary skills and creative structuring. As a division of SCG, Saban Ventures has access to a wide network of strategic relationships in the traditional media, entertainment, and advertising industries that continue to influence our new media investments. With representation in both Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, Saban Ventures is well positioned to invest in disruptive start-ups at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.
- Total investments
- 23
- Lead investments
- 6
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Lin Health
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Founded in 2021, Denver-based Lin Health offers a physician-led, coach-supported virtual program that retrains maladaptive pain circuits through therapies such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The platform combines proprietary software, AI, and a collaborative care model to engage patients multiple times per week without adding administrative burden. Lin partners with health systems, clinics, and payers and is already accessible to more than 60 million covered Americans. Its solution targets chronic conditions including migraines, IBS, back pain, and joint pain, addressing a $635 billion annual cost burden in the U.S. healthcare system. The company emphasizes value-based outcomes, reduced provider burnout, and lower total cost of care. With fresh Series A capital, Lin plans to accelerate product innovation, scale go-to-market efforts, and deepen clinically integrated partnerships. The oversubscribed funding signals strong investor confidence in Lin’s ability to become the first-line solution for chronic pain nationwide.
- MetaSight Diagnostics
Participated · Series A · Nov 2024
MetaSight Diagnostics builds multi-omics screening and diagnostic products using a high-throughput, mass spectrometry–based discovery engine that integrates metabolomics, lipidomics and proteomics. The company claims the world’s largest serum metabolomics dataset linked to longitudinal electronic medical records and uses that dataset to identify diagnostic signatures at population scale. Its core programs target diseases including colorectal cancer (CRC) and metabolic dysfunction‑associated steatohepatitis (MASH). MetaSight plans to advance existing programs into FDA trials and expand its portfolio of diagnostic products. The company intends to make its tests available in selected markets in 2025 and is engaging in strategic partnerships to support commercialization. MetaSight was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. The Series A will fund pipeline development and additional strategic collaborations.
- Snappy
Participated · Series D · Apr 2024
Snappy operates a gifting platform and curated marketplace offering premium gifts, more than 30 business integrations, and gamification features. Led by CEO Hani Goldstein, the company has delivered more than 5 million gifts globally and acts as a partner to 47% of the Fortune 100. Snappy has seen continued growth in its self-service offering and expanded swag solutions, and recently introduced a digital gift hunt as part of a new recipient experience. A new API integration allows customers to streamline operations while charging employee engagement. The company plans to use the funds to enhance its marketplace offerings, accelerate R&D for innovative technologies, and expand its product lineup. Upcoming initiatives include launching Snappy Experiences for experiential gifts, announcing strategic product partnerships, and further elevating the user experience. Snappy offers a curated gifting platform that lets recipients choose preferred gifts before delivery, driven by a proprietary gift-trends algorithm and real-time stock availability. The product integrates with HR platforms to automate sends for occasions like birthdays and work anniversaries and provides clients with recipient feedback and gift insights. Snappy emphasizes social responsibility, featuring gifts from minority-owned businesses and partnerships that let recipients donate to charities via GlobalGiving and GoFundMe. The company serves over 1,000 enterprise customers, including Microsoft, Adobe, Comcast and Uber, and has sent more than 1 million gifts in the last six months. Snappy reports 800% year-over-year revenue growth and employs 130 people across four countries as it expands its product and market reach. The company says it will continue investing in talent and innovation while expanding into additional segments and markets and exploring acquisitions. Snappy is a NYC-based corporate gifting company that provides an employee recognition and incentive platform. Led by CEO and co‑founder Hani Goldstein, the platform lets companies and managers send curated collections of gifts to team members via email or text. Gifts are sourced from brands and retailers and range from $15 to more than $1,000, including local experiences (cooking and yoga classes), global getaways, and products like Amazon’s Echo Dot and drones. The company secured $10 million in funding. Snappy intends to use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap and expand its global presence. The service emphasizes an innovative delivery mechanism and a wide price range to suit varied recognition needs.
- Mine
Participated · Series B · Dec 2023
Mine began as a consumer-facing tool that used AI and natural language processing to scan users' inboxes, identify which companies hold their personal data, and enable deletion or remediation; the consumer product moved from free to paid and reached 5 million users. The company expanded into enterprise with MineOS, mapping where end users and authenticators expose customer or business data, and now counts hundreds of enterprise customers including Reddit, HelloFresh SE, FIFA and Data.ai. Mine positions itself as user-friendly and easy for non-technical teams to implement, distinguishing it from larger compliance players such as OneTrust and BigID. Financially, Mine has raised $30 million in a Series B and $42.5 million total to date; its valuation was not disclosed but the CEO said it has increased three-fold since the prior round. The company plans to deploy the new funding toward sales development and to double down on R&D. In Q1 it intends to launch two AI-focused products: a tool for data privacy officers to perform AI risk assessments and manage internal AI algorithms, and Mine AI, a privacy assistant that gives end users proactive insights about data use. Mine scans users' email inboxes to map which companies hold personal data, cross-references those traces with companies' data-collection and privacy policies, and calculates a risk score for each company. If a user wants data removed, Mine can send an automated deletion request from the user's own account. The core service is available for free; the company plans premium consumer offerings (for example, offloading conversations when deleting data) and business products that create standard interfaces for privacy and data deletion. Mine launched in Europe earlier in the year and has already been used by more than 100,000 people to send 1.3 million data-deletion requests. The company reports the average user has data footprints across roughly 350 companies (about 550 for U.S. users). To address privacy concerns, Mine says it collects the bare minimum—typically an email address and full name—and does not store the actual personal data it detects. Mine is a London-based startup founded in 2019 that provides an AI-based platform to help users discover, understand and manage their digital footprint. Its machine-learning tools analyze non-intrusively the traces left in users' email inboxes to identify which services hold their data, while the company says it never reads, collects or stores email content. Mine has analyzed four million digital services and found the average user has about 400 companies in their footprint, over 80% of which are unused and can be deleted. The product enables users to send GDPR "right to be forgotten" reclaim requests to services on their behalf so those services delete the users' data. The company’s stated mission is to build a new global privacy standard and give people real choice over who keeps their data. Mine launched in the UK after raising a €2.7 million seed round backed by Battery Ventures and Saban Ventures.
- floLIVE
Participated · Series C · Sep 2023
FloLive provides a cloud-native platform that manages provisioning of IoT and other cellular data services across networks in roughly 220 countries, aiming to replace expensive and high-latency roaming and reseller arrangements. Its technology routes and localizes connectivity to improve performance and simplify cross-border device management for carriers and enterprises. Use cases span water meters, vehicles, cameras and tracking devices, and FloLive positions itself as a single contact for multi-country connectivity needs. The company has deepened partnerships with cloud providers such as AWS and works with chipset and connectivity players like Qualcomm to power IoT platforms. FloLive says its architecture is all-cloud and cloud-centric, enabling integrations and services for carriers and enterprise customers. Financially, the company recently closed a $47M Series C; it previously raised just over $41M (including a $37M round in 2021) and reports its valuation is flat versus the last round (2021 valuation cited at $108M by Dealroom). FloLive builds a cloud-native, software-defined core that stitches together local cellular networks (2G–5G) and operates them as single private global IoT networks. Its platform creates private radio access networks integrated with carriers and provides business support systems, device management, and vertical solutions targeted at manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and utilities. FloLive supports devices using SIM, eSIM and softSIM technologies to simplify integration with carriers and customers. The company says its approach lets enterprises centrally control and scale IoT deployments across geographies where national networks are typically local. FloLive plans to use the new funding to expand its service, invest in its tech stack, upgrade customer networks to 5G, and build a global "SIM2Cloud" offering in partnership with an unnamed global cloud provider. The startup is London-based and is now working on its Series C after completing a Series B extension that brought the round's total to $37 million. floLIVE offers a cloud-native Connectivity Management Platform that pairs locally distributed core networks with centralized cloud control to deliver secure, low-latency and regulatory-compliant connectivity. The platform supports unified management, zero-touch operation and a pay-as-you-grow, as-a-service model. floLIVE says its technology stack and solutions have been field-proven for the last decade. The company announced a $21.5 million Series B financing and the appointment of Nir Shalom as CEO. Management plans to use the funds to increase presence in Europe, Asia and North America and to accelerate market awareness programs. Investors in this round included 83North, Dell Technologies Capital, Saban Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. Flo Live offers an end-to-end, cloud-based IoT ecosystem that includes a managed core network, device management, applications and analytics and operates core networks in the cloud optimized for IoT. The company works closely with MNOs, MVNOs, OEMs and chipset manufacturers to accelerate IoT revenue growth for customers. It plans to enhance its cloud offering for MNOs and OEMs with eUICC-compliant eSIM integration and subscription management to deliver turnkey secure connectivity. The funding will support growth of development, sales and after-sales teams and the build-out of identified IoT verticals. Flo Live is present in London, Paris, Limassol, Hyderabad and Tel Aviv and is setting up a US office in California. The company emphasizes security and a customer-centric approach as core differentiators.