Sushi Venture Partners

Sushi Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2009. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing primarily on digital companies and products within the media tech sector, including media applications, adtech, and social tools. Sushi Venture Partners seeks opportunities to invest in Israel and Europe, typically considering investments under $1 million to support prototype development and product growth. The firm's team comprises seasoned industry professionals who aim to advise and invest in companies that are poised for significant growth and innovation in the media and technology landscape.

Shahar Namer

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

19 past transactions

Musimap

Venture Round in 2020
They are entering a new era of computing: the rise of personalized digital assistants that augment human capabilities. With its unique multi-input and interdisciplinary approach, Musimap’s technology sorts complex moods, connections, relations, influences, experiences, and memories in precise contexts. By the end of 2015, Musimap will have incorporated over 3 billion data points into its algorithm, creating a synaptic-like network of weighted variables focused on personalization. While these 3 billion ‘synapses’ are just a fraction of the synaptic connections present in the human brain, they are the keystone of the emotion-based discovery options that Musimap offers. Since the R&D was initiated in 1986 and with 2.2 million euro invested to date (series A and B), the expertise of sixty key musicologists and specialists from all over Europe resulted in a cognitive computing system that utilizes cross-weighted music taxonomy. The result: a scalable, market ready music intelligence platform that empowers Their clients to build personalized content curation at scale and set new standards of immersive experiences.

Remixology

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Remixology provides music remix services. They collaborate with music owners to create remixes. That also allows users to access a data platform with recommendations and insights for their projects.

Cyanite

Seed Round in 2019
Cyanite is one of the first companies to offer AI-based tagging and music search as-a-service. The quality of Cyanite is confirmed by over 100+ music companies and over 65k users of their free web app from all over the world who use their products and tools on an everyday basis to analyze music and organize their catalogs. In their work, they utilize our extensive knowledge of music emotions and psychology to help music companies turn their catalogs into their own personal Spotify – powered with the simplicity, visibility, and functionality that today’s users expect. Cyanite's proprietary AI technology includes auto-tagging, similarity search, song visualizations, and free text search offered in the Cyanite Web App and Cyanite API – all there to help music and creative companies getting their content placed better and faster. Cyanite's team has an academic background having been started on the premises of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg where the founding team met. The data science team comprises the graduates of the Music Information Retrieval chair at the Technical University of Berlin.

Musiio

Seed Round in 2018
Musiio is an Artificial Intelligence company for the Music Industry. Focussed on the B2B space, we have built an AI that can “listen” to music. We supercharge Sync Companies, Labels, Streaming Services and more to Tag, Search, Curate or Playlist their audio. We provide cost-effective, fast and scalable ways to manage audio using AI, either through our APIs or custom built dashboard tools. At Musiio we make large catalogues of music infinitely more searchable. By ‘listening’ to more tracks than a human could ever comprehend and identifying characteristics and patterns therein, its AI allows its users to better predict success. The company knows that by solving the volume issue in music, and by offering actionable insights, users can increase their ‘hit-rate’ and ultimately the revenue.

Chainvine

Series A in 2018
Next Enterprise-grade secure Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Our platform supports many major Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technologies. Intelligent Commodities Products will for the first time be able to record vital data such as time of day, weekends & holidays, time zones, and geographic borders. Operational chains can, for the first time, be truly intuitive, increasing businesses’ financial margins. Intelligent Contracts Every point in a company’s operation is therefore fully accountable and by utilising ‘Intelligent Contracts’ (or ‘Smart Contracts’ as they are sometimes known) products will for the first time be able to record vital data such as time of day, weekends & holidays, time zones. Current live projects Identity, Intelligent Commodities & Sustainable Investment platforms backed by Chainvine platform.

Magnetic

Seed Round in 2017
Magnetic is a boutique video network providing tailored YouTube channel management & optimisation services to content owners, brands & individual creators.

InPlayer

Series A in 2017
InPlayer is the next generation video and digital asset monetization platform. Founded in 2010 (as Invideous Limited), our mission is to make our clients more money from their library of online media assets, be they live, recurring or on-demand. To date we have managed millions of dollars in transactions, making thousands of live events profitable. 24 hours a day, around the world, we process valued content for over 100,000 clients’ subscribers. We may be an industry leader, but we have only achieved this through a policy of continuous investment in our technology and people. Committed to innovation, we are able to support payments on any platform, with any device, and in many currencies. Our clients enjoy the flexibility of either using our self-serve solutions or challenging us with a bespoke request for special events.

Pico

Seed Round in 2017
Pico is a data-driven fan marketing platform. We are a channel-agnostic SaaS platform that identifies fans across all digital channels, continually add data about them, and create lifetime value by making data-driven business decisions. Our technology is trusted by more than 50 sports giants from over 10 leagues in Europe, USA, Asia, South Africa, and South America.

Go4Venture

Seed Round in 2016
Go4Venture is a platform to research, interact with and invest in Scaleup tech companies.

Stagelink

Seed Round in 2015
Stagelink offers digital advertising software as a service to e-commerce platforms and marketing firms of various sizes. Through data-driven, performance-based advertising on social media and search, they support grow brand awareness, drive traffic to websites, identify leads, and convert customers.

Pixtr

Venture Round in 2015
Pixtr is a paradigm shift – up until now, picture improving tools were focused on the professional photographer. Pixtr delivers professional results to anyone taking a picture on any camera. Pixtr is about getting a great shot, in one click, without being a photography expert. Pixtr makes image improvement mainstream by focusing on the main objects in pictures – people, and making them look better. No matter if you are having a bad day, you aren’t photogenic or if you have the same problem they do – not being a super model, you will always look yourself at your best. Pixtr will eventually become the standard for picture taking – all of the pictures on the internet will pass through Pixtr.

Marathon Music Group

Seed Round in 2013
Marathon Artists is the flagship label of Marathon Music Group, the independent music group. Marathon Music Group partners with artists across diverse music cultures. They amplify their creative vision, help find their audiences and build sustainable careers with a leading edge approach to marketing, smart long term investment and flexible artist friendly partnership deals.

Voiceitt

Seed Round in 2013
Voiceitt is an automatic speech recognition technology platform. Voiceitt provides a new dimension of independence and quality of life for people with speech and motor disabilities, and a useful tool for those who care for and about them.

Tribzi

Seed Round in 2013
TribZi empowers consumers to have their say – share their ideas – have a positive impact on your brand - be part of your promotional campaigns." - a sales landing page widget to allow users to be active in the promotion of merchandise bought online.

Startupbootcamp Israël

Seed Round in 2013
Startupbootcamp Israel is a mentor-driven program that provides a massive amount of support and connections to accelerate a startup's growth. The program team led by Paul-Rene and Shahar Namer run an annual program that utilizes their extensive backgrounds to focus on startups developing technology for the Media and Advertising industries.

Thingies

Seed Round in 2012
Thingies is the first stealing app in the world. Users can share their everyday Thingies ( their favorite gadget, cloth, books, morning cup of coffee ) and go ahead and steal other users stuff ( while of course, protecting thier own ) It is an addictive social game, currently available for the iOS platform.

Videostir

Seed Round in 2012
VideoStir supplies an end-to-end automatic on-line service that allows anyone with a simple video camera to transform a standard amateur video recording into a sophisticated professional-looking “floating” clip that can be instantly embedded onto any website. VideoStir allows you to create and add a free virtual spokesperson to any website in minutes! VideoStir advanced patent pending technology automatically removes your video's background without the need for a green screen.

Audiotube

Seed Round in 2012
Artist services, Label services and Publishing services for the Music Industry.

Giraffic

Seed Round in 2008
Giraffic was the market leader in client side Multimedia Software Acceleration, until the acquisition of its Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) technology by Roku, Inc. in 2019. Deemed by Digital Trends as a game changer for smart TV platforms, Giraffic Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) aims to make Netflix as reliable as Cable, that is, a true HD/4K TV everywhere experience without buffering pauses or inconsistent resolution in most any networking conditions. Selected by Industry leaders such as Samsung for its high-performing, easy-to integrate solution, Giraffic technology is already deployed on over 100 million consumer devices and has proven to accelerate streaming by 3X on average, reduce re-buffering by 10X, and boost download speeds by 5X. After the sale of its AVA technology, Giraffic pivoted to the Data Cloud Storage space, with its Distributed Adaptive Storage (DASS) platform for distributed and hybrid cloud platforms, and has developed "The AirBnB of Storage: a virtually infinite and fully distributed consumer backup application.
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