Investments
34Portfolio Exits
4Funds
6Partners & Customers
1About North Base Media
North Base Media is an investment firm focused on journalistic enterprise and digital-driven opportunities in emerging markets. NBM creates value by bringing top-level international media expertise and capital to invested companies that will benefit from the deep knowledge, reputation and extensive connections of North Base's partners. North Base accelerates the digital adaptation and financial success of our partner companies, allowing them to become recognized leaders in their national markets. NBM focuses on both early- and mid-stage companies that show promise in key emerging markets. The portfolio companies, in turn, will benefit from being properly capitalized to pursue growth opportunities, by getting access to unique digital, media and journalistic know-how, and by being able to tap one another to jointly produce or share content, ideas and practices, bringing additional economic advantage to the enterprise and its investors.
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Latest North Base Media News
Dec 22, 2022
Gurugram-based NewsBytes, owned by Elysium Labs, yesterday, announced that it has wrapped up a Series A round of almost $1.5 million, led by North Base Media, a global venture capital firm specialising in media. Co-founder of NewsBytes, Sumedh Chaudhry, said that the AI-driven digital media startup will deploy the fresh funds in augmenting its technology. “With this capital, we are better positioned to expand our fast-growing audience and develop new technologies that will allow us to serve new clients,” he said. Chaudhry further added the participation by NBM, which has extensive media and media-tech experience globally, together with new investor JITO Angels and the company’s existing investor, Powerhouse Ventures, gives NewsBytes stability at a crucial time. The 5-year-old firm had earlier secured $1 million in its pre-Series A round led by German publishing firm Mueller Medien’s investment arm MM Inno GmbH. It was incubated by GSF Accelerator in 2015 and had also received an investment of $50,000. Founded by Sumedh Chaudhry, Shikha Chaudhry and Romesh Khaddar, NewsBytes has developed an AI-driven content engine YANTRA, that can write factual stories without any human intervention. Notably, the engine has multilingual capacities and can tackle a vast array of categories from consumer technology to financial markets, the company claims. The firm is also licensing its engine to other companies looking to automate their content creation process. It has already onboarded several clients including overseas media companies. North Base Media, founded by the former editor of The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post Marcus Brauchli and former CEO of Media Development Loan Fund Sasa Vucinic, invests in media companies working in sports, entertainment, music, business and news content. Other Indian startup in its portfolio is Mumbai-based digital entertainment content provider Pocket Aces. Last week, Dailyhunt, the Bengaluru-based news platform has also received $23.5 million (approximately Rs 180 crore), in a Series G funding round led by existing investors such as Falcon Edge, ByteDance, Goldman Sachs and Advent Management. Share this article:
North Base Media Investments
34 Investments
North Base Media has made 34 investments. Their latest investment was in Fonos as part of their Seed VC - II on November 11, 2022.
North Base Media Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/23/2022 | Seed VC - II | Fonos | $1.8M | Yes | 4 | |
5/31/2022 | Seed VC | Hunch | $4.29M | Yes | 2 | |
3/13/2022 | Seed VC | SmartOcto | Yes | 1 | ||
8/30/2021 | Seed VC - II | |||||
7/15/2021 | Unattributed VC |
Date | 11/23/2022 | 5/31/2022 | 3/13/2022 | 8/30/2021 | 7/15/2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC - II | Seed VC | Seed VC | Seed VC - II | Unattributed VC |
Company | Fonos | Hunch | SmartOcto | ||
Amount | $1.8M | $4.29M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 4 | 2 | 1 |
North Base Media Portfolio Exits
4 Portfolio Exits
North Base Media has 4 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was OpenSlate on November 09, 2021.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/9/2021 | Acquired | 5 | |||
Date | 11/9/2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Acquired | |||
Companies | ||||
Valuation | ||||
Acquirer | ||||
Sources | 5 |
North Base Media Fund History
6 Fund Histories
North Base Media has 6 funds, including NBM Investment Fund II.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4/11/2019 | NBM Investment Fund II | Multi-Stage Venture Capital | Open | $15M | 1 |
5/6/2015 | NBM Rappler | ||||
10/23/2014 | NBM Austria | ||||
9/9/2014 | NBM Capital | ||||
NBM Investment Fund I |
Closing Date | 4/11/2019 | 5/6/2015 | 10/23/2014 | 9/9/2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | NBM Investment Fund II | NBM Rappler | NBM Austria | NBM Capital | NBM Investment Fund I |
Fund Type | Multi-Stage Venture Capital | ||||
Status | Open | ||||
Amount | $15M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
North Base Media Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
North Base Media has 1 strategic partners and customers. North Base Media recently partnered with Crest Media on June 6, 2018.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6/3/2018 | Partner | Bahrain | Crest Media to partner with North Base Media in managing Al-Monitor Washington , D.C. -- -LRB- June 3 , 2018 -RRB- -- Crest Media LLC , the U.S. media investment company , has partnered with North Base Media in managing Al-Monitor , the leading source of news and insight about the Middle East -LRB- www.al-monitor.com -RRB- . | 1 |
Date | 6/3/2018 |
|---|---|
Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | Bahrain |
News Snippet | Crest Media to partner with North Base Media in managing Al-Monitor Washington , D.C. -- -LRB- June 3 , 2018 -RRB- -- Crest Media LLC , the U.S. media investment company , has partnered with North Base Media in managing Al-Monitor , the leading source of news and insight about the Middle East -LRB- www.al-monitor.com -RRB- . |
Sources | 1 |
North Base Media Team
1 Team Member
North Base Media has 1 team member, including current Founder, Managing Director, Marcus Brauchli.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Marcus Brauchli | Graham Holdings Company, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal | Founder, Managing Director | Current |
Name | Marcus Brauchli |
|---|---|
Work History | Graham Holdings Company, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal |
Title | Founder, Managing Director |
Status | Current |
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