New Renaissance Ventures

Today is launch day for New Renaissance Ventures. <3 Curios? Check out the video below or the Sifted interview in the comments for a bit more context. Thanks Miriam for the great conversation. New Renaissance Ventures is the first dedicated micro fund for the Cultural and Creative Industries. With a target volume of € 20m, we are now backing the next generation of cultural and creative leaders in their earliest stages. - We invest in early stage tech startups. - Our sole focus is the Cultural and Creative Industries - Initial tickets range from € 100-500k. - We lead pre-seed and follow at seed. It has been an honour to collaborate so early with so many outstanding partners who have helped us lay the foundation for the first VC brand and community in the Cultural and Creative Industries. #visualarts #performingarts #newmedia #culturalheritage

💙 Excited to announce our latest investment in Wonder Studios - in their latest $3mil pre-seed round! Congrats Xavier Collins, Justin Hackney and team! 🎬 The team are on a mission to revolutionise the film industry. Wonder ushers in a new era of storytelling by harnessing the creative power of AI to produce world-class original content – empowering creators to do more with less and faster. Thrilled to be participating in the round led by LocalGlobe and alongside Blackbird. Incredible angels onboard too including execs from from OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Google DeepMind.

We all prefer stories that we can relate to. The future of storytelling is hyper-personalisation. Where each story is tailored to our individual interests and experiences. Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st century. Listen to our conversation with founder Ali Albazaz - link in comments.

Will AI kill the author? Ali Albazaz is the founder of Inkitt: The Disney of the 21st century, creating blockbuster franchises across all media: from text, audiobooks, movies, to theme parks. Inkitt produces a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks. It has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world by leveraging LLMs. 📩 Signup to our monthly newsletter for more updates on our fund. https://lnkd.in/emM85AGk 📖 How will AI effect the future of storytelling and publishing? You can listen to Ali’s insights in our latest podcast. Link in comments.

💙 We are excited to announce our latest investment in Rival in their $4.2mil pre-seed round! 👾 The founders Alexander Oppermann and Konrad Melzer are on a mission to remove technical barriers so a new generation of creators can shape immersive digital experiences. After operating in stealth to refine its 2D-to-3D conversion tech, Rival is now ready to dominate the spatial computing space; launching a 3D content creation platform with 2D-to-3D AI technology. 🌐 Thrilled to be participating in the round led by our friends at Speedinvest.

The most important factor to your startup's success is your team. Trust, collaboration, and believing in the mission are all necessary. 🛠 But having complementary skills where you can divide and conquer is a team's best weapon! Hazel Savage founder of Musiio by SoundCloud shared her story with us. (Full Podcast in the link below) 💡 What do you think is the most important ingredient when forming a startup team?

Founders and artists aren't so different after all -- some words on 'experimenting' from our very own James Song while moderating and speaking at TEDx in Berlin.

🇩🇪 Last week we had the pleasure to co-host a networking and panel event in Berlin together with Best Nights VC, Atlantic Labs & Startup Insider! We brought together founders, investors and creative professionals to discuss an important issue effecting the creative industries... "How AI is Actually Changing Creative Work." A big shout out to our panelists Tonia Samsonova (Founder of Exactly.ai), Lena Pia Hammerstingl (Founder of NeueHaus), and Carl Johann SIMON-GABRIEL (Founder at Mirelo AI). Follow us on Linkedin for more updates Subscribe to our newsletter for detailed insights on our fund and exclusive updates on our next events! Link below...

Excited to announce our latest investment in nunu.ai - in their latest $6mil seed round! 👾 The team are on a mission to revolutionize game development by integrating advanced multimodal AI agents capable of testing and playing any game, thereby enhancing quality assurance and player simulation processes. Their vision is to expand beyond gaming, leveraging its AI agents' ability to navigate virtual worlds for real-world applications. Thrilled to be participating in the round led by a16z speedrun and TIRTA Ventures and alongside Earthling VC, FOV Ventures, Hartmann Capital, Y Combinator, Boost VC. Full details of the round: https://lnkd.in/eyKme8NZ

🎵 What happens when we release 1 million songs per day? Today over 100,000 songs are released across all platforms a day. Our first thought goes to the artists who’s revenues from streaming platforms are already saturated from the competition and business models that favour the consumer and the labels. But there’s another issue in the background. How do we store all these files? An inevitably costly task… The consequences of AI generated music are yet to fully reveal themselves… What do you think about AI generated music? Have you discovered a banger? Hazel Savage, (Musiio by SoundCloud acquired) shares her thoughts in our podcast - link below