Imagination Capital

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.

Rachel Lam

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

29 past transactions

Upcomer

Seed Round in 2018
Upcomer is a new platform for esports fans to stay updated and engaged with esports. We're building a new kind of esports community and our mobile apps are currently rated 4.8/5 from 5K+ ratings. Try our product at www.upcomer.com

ROAM

Seed Round in 2018
Roam Media Inc. provides an online community for explorers and adventurers. It offers ROAM, an online community that enables members to share their adventure stories, experiences, reports, moments, and interviews; and give ideas for Instagram takeovers, videos, films, and interviews with adventurous souls, photo essays, issue-driven op/eds, and other areas. The company’s community also enables company to share the videos of members. Roam Media Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Balloonr, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Balloonr, Inc. develops a cloud based application that allows users to surface and prioritize information from any group. It offers Balloonr, a platform that helps to launch and vet ideas to eliminate group dynamics and overcome logistical challenges. It caters to technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, education, financial services, media and entertainment, hospitality, sports, automotive, and engineering industries. Balloonr, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional office in Oxford, Ohio.

The Ankler

Seed Round in 2022
The Ankler is a newsletter covering the entertainment industry, offering daily scoops, commentary, and insight into the passing parade of America’s most colorful industrial spectacle. The Ankler is your entertainment industry newsletter, featuring commentary and gossip and filled with exclusive items capturing the rich and crazy pageant of life in this industry. From the Oscar race to industry moves to meltdowns in the commissary, it's going to be a daily look at the world of this industry, filled with the sorts of tidbits and points of view you cant find anywhere else in the trade realm.

Antenna

Series A in 2022
ANTENNA Analytics offers market measurement and analytics services of purchase behavior and subscription metrics. It serves video and audio streaming companies, digital media subscriptions, and dating and fitness applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Veritonic

Seed Round in 2018
Veritonic, Inc. develops and offers a marketing analytics platform for commercial sound, providing artificial intelligence metrics and marketing response data. The company measures, compares, and tests music, videos, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos with specific audience segments to discover qualitative and quantitative marketing responses. It caters to the advertising industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Andrena

Seed Round in 2019
Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas to blanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.

ROAM

Private Placement in 2018
Roam Media Inc. provides an online community for explorers and adventurers. It offers ROAM, an online community that enables members to share their adventure stories, experiences, reports, moments, and interviews; and give ideas for Instagram takeovers, videos, films, and interviews with adventurous souls, photo essays, issue-driven op/eds, and other areas. The company’s community also enables company to share the videos of members. Roam Media Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Buzzer

Seed Round in 2020
Buzzer Media Inc. develops a notification-driven live sports streaming platform. The company offers a mobile based platform, Buzzer, which provides sports rights and content aggregation, custom notifications, and subscription services. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Forge.AI

Series A in 2018
Forge.AI's platform performs real-time monitoring of global information and is transformed and enriched by NLP technology and Knowledge Base before being syndicated into structured and machine-readable data feeds, allowing clients to access structured information that is written for human consumption.

Kolex

Seed Round in 2019
Created by a team that previously founded Xfire, LoLking.net, Esportsify, and the digital marketplace Skinz.

Shine

Series A in 2018
Shine is an award-winning self-care app and community for people with anxiety & depression. Our approach to wellness: It isn’t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey—we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today. Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations. Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community—it’s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don’t have to go it alone. In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine “life-changing”), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we’ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decreases in both anxiety and depression by up to 35%. Our team is awesome. Our community is incredible. Our movement is massive. And this is just the beginning.

Fantasmo.io

Venture Round in 2018
Fantasmo Studios, Inc. develops decentralized and open source stack software solutions for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning. It offers Camera Positioning Standard, a solution that is used in cities and indoor that does not require any infrastructure, such as satellites, beacons, and radios. The company’s solutions are used in micro mobility, robotics, mobile, and auto applications. Fantasmo Studios, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Walnut, California.

Epics.gg

Private Placement in 2018
Epics.gg's mission is to provide the next generation of fans the rush, satisfaction, and long term value of collecting trading cards for their favorite esports teams, players, and influencers while also providing an integrated marketplace and trading system enabling users to buy, sell and build the ultimate collections.

Overtime

Series A in 2018
Overtime Sports Inc. develops an application to create and edit sports video highlights. It offers Overtime, an application that allows users to film highlights and add slow-motion to capture the best moments in a sporting event of schools and amateur sports through video. The company’s application can be used to create a professional looking feed of content. It also sells skullies, socks, shirts, and snapbacks online. Overtime Sports Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Co–Star

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangers and enemies.

Overtime

Private Placement in 2018
Overtime Sports Inc. develops an application to create and edit sports video highlights. It offers Overtime, an application that allows users to film highlights and add slow-motion to capture the best moments in a sporting event of schools and amateur sports through video. The company’s application can be used to create a professional looking feed of content. It also sells skullies, socks, shirts, and snapbacks online. Overtime Sports Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Buzzer

Private Placement in 2020
Buzzer Media Inc. develops a notification-driven live sports streaming platform. The company offers a mobile based platform, Buzzer, which provides sports rights and content aggregation, custom notifications, and subscription services. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Veritonic

Private Placement in 2018
Veritonic, Inc. develops and offers a marketing analytics platform for commercial sound, providing artificial intelligence metrics and marketing response data. The company measures, compares, and tests music, videos, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos with specific audience segments to discover qualitative and quantitative marketing responses. It caters to the advertising industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Pockyt

Seed Round in 2021
Yuansfer is a cross-border payment gateway for brands and retailers who want to unlock sales opportunities to Chinese consumers. It seamlessly integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay to streamline checkout processes both online and in-store, increasing conversion and reaching new customers.

Boom.tv

Series A in 2020
BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs. Their mission is to enable communities to easily produce and partake in virtual Esports. At the core of it all is our self-driving Esports technology layer that provides a one-button solution for anyone to create, participate, and/or spectate Esports content.

Epics.gg

Seed Round in 2018
Epics.gg's mission is to provide the next generation of fans the rush, satisfaction, and long term value of collecting trading cards for their favorite esports teams, players, and influencers while also providing an integrated marketplace and trading system enabling users to buy, sell and build the ultimate collections.

FORGEAI, INC.

Private Placement in 2018
FORGEAI, INC. operates a platform that transforms unstructured data into streams of structured information immediately usable by intelligent machines. Its data processing functions in real-time, enabling to take informed action upon public and proprietary events; it discovers new data sources and also accommodate any data sources that are particular to an organization; its platform generates a firehose of critical data, and the configuration tools enables to create targeted data streams to push into intelligence infrastructure. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Transfr

Series A in 2020
TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job.

BoomTV Inc

Private Placement in 2020
BoomTV Inc develops and operates a 3D video live-streaming platform for watching eSports on any device. It provides instant replays and multiple viewing angles for streamers on their PCs and mobile devices. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Antenna

Series A in 2022
ANTENNA Analytics offers market measurement and analytics services of purchase behavior and subscription metrics. It serves video and audio streaming companies, digital media subscriptions, and dating and fitness applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

The Dipp

Seed Round in 2022
The Dipp offers subscription to entertainment news. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.