News Wire Feed Light Reading 2/11/2021
NEW YORK LightShed Ventures ( LightShed ), a new technology, media and telecommunications ( TMT ) venture investment firm, today announced the launch and initial close of capital of LightShed Ventures Fund I.
LightShed Ventures Fund I will invest $75 million principally in the Seed and Series A rounds of category-defining private companies across the entire TMT ecosystem. LightShed will be opportunistic in evaluating later private company rounds that fit tightly within its investment theses.
LightShed Ventures was co-founded by General Partners Richard Greenfield, Walter Piecyk, Brandon Ross and Jamie Roberts Seltzer. Greenfield, Piecyk and Ross have worked together for 15+ years as research analysts and thought leaders. They launched LightShed Partners in 2019, which has quickly become the preeminent TMT research firm for institutional investors. Seltzer brings a decade of private inv
Tech evangelist Rich Greenfield announced a new investment arm that has $75 million to invest.
The new LightShed Ventures fund is targeting audio, creator space and subscription businesses.
As for his top stock picks, he s high on big internet platforms with data and analytics like Snap and Twitter.
Rich Greenfield, one of Wall Street s most influential entertainment sector commentators, is launching a new venture capital arm to invest in disruptive, early stage, private companies.
Greenfield s new arm, LightShed Ventures, has already invested in Podchaser, an IMDB-style company for podcasts; Antenna Analytics, a streaming data firm, and Slip.stream, a royalty-free music catalogue for creators, according to a company statement set to be released on Thursday. The arm just closed its first $75 million fund.
Guitarist
Michael Gregory Jackson is a maverick who’s not as well known as he should be. Part of the New York scene starting in the seventies and into the eighties, the axeman vacillated between mainstream soul/pop (including LPs for Island and RCA/Novus, the former produced by
Nile Rodgers) and avant-garde jazz (work with
Oliver Lake and
Wadada Leo Smith, recording the landmark
Clarity LP in 1977). That split personality may have sidelined him in the fame game, but it didn’t stop him from earning a place beside James Blood Ulmer and Sonny Sharrock as an innovator, and influencing future envelope pushers like Bill Frisell, Brandon Ross and Vernon Reid.
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A bicyclist makes his way close to sunset one evening in 2019 along the Salado Creek section of the Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail System.William Luther /StaffShow MoreShow Less
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Ruben Perez walks south on the Leon Creek Greenway, just north of the Valero Trailhead, on Sept. 18, 2020.Lisa Krantz, Staff / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Two joggers enjoy a run along the Salado Creek section of the Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail System.William Luther /StaffShow MoreShow Less
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Steve Hayes rides south on the Leon Creek Greenway after turning around at it s northern end, closest to The Rim Trailhead, during a 35-mile ride on Sept. 18, 2020.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less