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What does Media Development Investment Fund invest in?
Media Development Investment Fund invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Art, Streaming and Media.
Media Development Investment Fund highlights
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6 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 2 rounds, median undisclosed
What they do
MDIF provides debt and equity financing supported by strategic business advice to independent media and information ventures.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- ArtStreamingMedia
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
- 2015
1 round
- Apr
- 2014
1 round
- Feb
- 2013
2 rounds
- Apr
- Mar
- 2012
2 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration11 named
CGCatherine GicheruDirectoriForm ADV
DRDan Raphael MargoshesChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
EPElena PopovicSecretary & General CounseliForm ADV
HMHarlan Miles MandelChief Executive OfficeriForm ADV
JAJonkheer Adriaan Nicolas StoopVice Chair and Interim TreasureriForm ADV
KMKerstin MogullDirectoriForm ADV
MBMarc Brandon DacostaDirectoriForm ADV
MTMaria Teresa RonderosDirectoriForm ADV
MSMary Sheila CoronelChairiForm ADV
MGMichael Gregory DelninDirectoriForm ADV
RWRichard William AtterburyDirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$68Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Media Development Investment Fund, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 282385
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 15 we have independently watched raise
Candid Platinum sealCharity NavigatorDOEN FoundationDaily MaverickEuropean press prizeGFMDIA50NamipOpensocietyfoundationsPostcode LotterieSDMSamipSidakatadatamalaysiakini
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.