Sound Media Ventures

Sound Media Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the intersection of media and technology. The firm targets early-stage investments, primarily between Seed and Series A funding rounds, focusing on scalable technologies that enhance various media platforms, including music, games, e-sports, film, television, and social media. By concentrating on these sectors, Sound Media Ventures aims to support innovative companies that are shaping the future of entertainment and media.

Randall Foster

Director, SMV Fund I

Shachar Oren

Managing Partner

Richard Titus

Director

7 past transactions

Legitimate

Angel Round in 2022
Legitimate is a platform dedicated to supporting online journalism by providing journalists with a comprehensive set of tools and resources. It offers a verified profile for each journalist, ensuring credibility and trust within the industry. The platform centralizes various work processes, files, and tools into one cohesive system, streamlining the workflow for users. Additionally, Legitimate incorporates an artificial intelligence assistant designed to enhance the writing process, allowing journalists to generate transcripts quickly and improve their writing skills. By equipping journalists with these innovative resources, Legitimate aims to empower them and enhance their overall efficiency in their daily tasks.

Press Sports App

Seed Round in 2021
Press Sports App, Inc. is a mobile application designed for athletes, coaches, and sports enthusiasts to share and discover sports highlights while fostering local community engagement. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the platform provides a user-friendly experience akin to social media, allowing athletes to create profiles, showcase their achievements, and connect with coaches across various sports. Coaches can track the development of potential recruits and access important information such as transcripts and test scores. Additionally, the app facilitates interactions among fans, parents, and athletes, enabling them to follow and support athletes’ posts. Through its innovative approach, Press Sports App serves as a valuable tool for self-promotion and networking within the sports community.

Tribe XR

Venture Round in 2021
Tribe XR Inc. is a software company based in San Mateo, California, focused on providing a platform for learning real-world skills through virtual and augmented reality. Founded in 2017, Tribe XR specializes in music production and DJing, enabling users to upload their music, perform live, and take lessons to enhance their DJ skills. The platform features a virtual mentor that introduces the basics of DJing and offers realistic practice on virtual decks. The learning experience is enriched by masterclasses from renowned DJs and partnerships with industry experts and electronic music schools. Tribe XR is also developing a self-serve immersive learning platform that allows organizations and individuals to create, broadcast, and monetize VR and AR lessons, extending its educational offerings beyond music. This approach leverages the effectiveness of experiential learning, which has been shown to solidify knowledge more effectively than traditional educational methods.

Overplay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a game engine designed to make videos interactive. The company's engine leverages artificial intelligence technology to build creative games related to racing a car or motorcycle, jumping from roof to roof, hurtling down a mountain on skis or mountain bikes or piloting drones through an abandoned building and brands can also create playable games ads based on any video content at a fraction of the cost and time currently required to make them, enabling users to make content more entertaining and engaging.

Ghost Gaming

Seed Round in 2021
Ghost Gaming is an Atlanta-based organization cultivating the best talent in gaming and providing platforms to create unique partnerships in sports, music, lifestyle, and entertainment. Ghost Gaming has a roster of professional esports players across multiple videogame titles, including Fortnite, Rocket League and homegrown Atlanta games Brawlhalla and Smite. With millions of social media followers across all platforms, Ghost has established itself as one of the most popular names in gaming.

Press Sports App

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Press Sports App, Inc. is a mobile application designed for athletes, coaches, and sports enthusiasts to share and discover sports highlights while fostering local community engagement. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the platform provides a user-friendly experience akin to social media, allowing athletes to create profiles, showcase their achievements, and connect with coaches across various sports. Coaches can track the development of potential recruits and access important information such as transcripts and test scores. Additionally, the app facilitates interactions among fans, parents, and athletes, enabling them to follow and support athletes’ posts. Through its innovative approach, Press Sports App serves as a valuable tool for self-promotion and networking within the sports community.

Loupe

Seed Round in 2020
Loupe is a leading art streaming platform that provides a unique service for both artists and art enthusiasts. It offers a fullscreen immersive experience of high-resolution artwork, available through various connected devices, including Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Android TV. Users can access over 25 channels of art content, either ad-supported or with a commercial license for public display. In addition to streaming, Loupe features a marketplace where viewers can purchase fine art prints and original works from artists worldwide. The platform has seen significant growth, approaching one million users across its OTT services and expanding its reach into new markets, including partnerships with Comcast X1 and Caesars Entertainment. Loupe serves a diverse audience in sectors such as consumer electronics, home entertainment, and hospitality, connecting artists with global audiences through continuous and immersive artwork displays.
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