Digital Media
Opportunity from Chaos
With the marginal cost of media production plunging—and advertising inventory skyrocketing—the rules that have long governed consumer media are suddenly and dramatically defunct.
We see real opportunity in value added services that somebody pays for: premium content, creative service models and innovative marketing and distribution technologies. In each case, we look for businesses with compelling models for composing content, presenting data and offering high-impact solutions to content owners, consumers and advertisers. As legacy publishers and producers struggle for a position in the new landscape, Kohlberg Ventures is poised to take bets on promising upstarts with clear vision and an ability to execute quickly.
Previous Digital Media Investments
Akademos
Akademos is the virtual bookstore and marketplace where students save, schools succeed and learning thrives. Akademos offers new, used, rented or peer-to-peer marketplace physical and electronic texts ensuring students the lowest priced book that meets their need. Since Akademos partners with schools, students know they are buying the right text and are able to use their financial aid.
Business Insider/Silicon Alley Insider
The Business Insider covers the intersection of the technology, media, and communications industries, with a focus on companies and people making waves and shaping digital business. The Business Insider is dedicated to aggregating, reporting, and analyzing the top news stories across the web and delivering them to you at rapid-fire pace.
Current
Since its inception in 2005, Emmy and Peabody award-winning Current TV has been the world’s leading peer-to-peer news and information network. Current is the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network and Internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience. Current connects young adults with what is going on in their world, from their perspective, in their own voices. With the launch of Current.com, the first fully integrated web and TV platform users can participate in shaping an ongoing stream of news and information that is compelling, authentic and relevant to them.
Halogen Media Group
Halogen/YouCast is the first media company built to activate influencers. Operating at the nexus of the rapidly evolving advertising and media industries, we offer significant opportunities for Fortune 500 brands in search of influencer marketing solutions at scale. The combined companies serve agencies and clients seeking to partner with a media technology and services firm that offers authentic publisher reach and a tech platform that can quantify the value of their social activation spending.
Open Road Integrated Media
Open Road Integrated Media is a content marketing company that places the e-book in the center of a multi-platform universe, which includes film, video and other forms of digital entertainment. Open Road Integrated Media leverages its partners’ experience and relationships to enhance titles from literary giants and introduce new stars to readers. The company’s e-books offer a 360-degree world of existing and originally produced premium content that is marketed through a new online proprietary platform.
Real Gravity
Real Gravity is the only integrated platform for publishing, syndication and monetization for video content.
