Goodwater Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Burlingame, California, founded in 2014. The firm focuses on empowering exceptional entrepreneurs across various sectors, including housing, financial services, healthcare, food, transportation, education, and consumer technology. Goodwater believes that consumer technology has the potential to revolutionize culture and the global economy, and it seeks to invest in promising entrepreneurs who are dedicated to solving significant societal challenges. By supporting these innovators, Goodwater Capital aims to create a measurable positive impact on billions of lives worldwide.
Fever is a live-entertainment discovery platform that enables individuals to explore unique local experiences and events in their cities, such as immersive art exhibitions, interactive theater, festivals, and classical music concerts. The platform aims to democratize access to culture and entertainment by providing personalized and curated lists of events tailored to user preferences across various locations. Through its services, Fever simplifies the process of booking events and accessing popular attractions, while also empowering creators with data and technology to develop and enhance their offerings.
Vibecity
Venture Round in 2022
Vibecity is an e-commerce retail store that offers clothing, footwear, organic beauty, arts, jewelry, and accessories products.
Spark Studio
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spark Studio is an extracurricular ed-tech startup that offers online courses across visual arts, music, and communications.
Friends With Benefits
Venture Round in 2022
Friends With Benefits is an innovative organization that operates as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on art and culture within the Web3 ecosystem. It serves as a crypto-backed social club designed for artists, operators, and thinkers, employing a token membership model that grants holders governance rights and exclusive access to various resources. Members can engage with a non-fungible token gallery, utilize a virtual music studio, and connect through a community dashboard, as well as participate in events through a token-gated app. This structure enables members to actively support their favorite creators while fostering a collaborative environment for artistic expression and cultural exchange.
SoundMint
Seed Round in 2022
SoundMint Music NFTs are the generative combination of visual layers with musical stems, combined by the SoundMint algorithm.
Argo
Venture Round in 2022
Argo is a streaming platform that allows creators to distribute their content, establish subscription channels, and sell digital goods while engaging directly with their fans. It emphasizes community involvement, enabling users to curate content and earn rewards by sharing their favorite works with others. The platform focuses on independent filmmakers, providing them with opportunities to monetize their short films and TV shows globally through a revenue-share model. By offering personalized content recommendations, Argo connects users with friends and influencers, enhancing their viewing experience. Additionally, it incorporates a unique currency system to facilitate transparent revenue sharing and royalty collection across various platforms, further empowering creators and fostering a collaborative ecosystem.
Kaleido Art
Venture Round in 2022
Developer of an art publication platform designed to empower visual artists with tools for storytelling about their artwork. The company's platform transforms the way fine art is shared and experienced online and offline, enabling visual artists to showcase their work to a wider audience and transform the way art is perceived.
Fever
Series E in 2021
Fever is a live-entertainment discovery platform that enables individuals to explore unique local experiences and events in their cities, such as immersive art exhibitions, interactive theater, festivals, and classical music concerts. The platform aims to democratize access to culture and entertainment by providing personalized and curated lists of events tailored to user preferences across various locations. Through its services, Fever simplifies the process of booking events and accessing popular attractions, while also empowering creators with data and technology to develop and enhance their offerings.
OP3N
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3N consolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world. OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
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