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General Information

Websitebdmifund.com
Twitter@BDMIFund
Employees
DescriptionDigital Media Venture Investor

Funds

Offices

HQ
1745 Broadway # 3
New York, NY, 10106
USA
Germany
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2
Berlin, 10178, DEU

People

Principal
Principal
Principal
Head of BDMI
Head of European Ventures

Tags

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments

BDMI is a strategic venture investor focused on innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels across the globe. They look for opportunities where they can accelerate growth through BDMI’s financial and management resources and close connectivity with one or more Bertelsmann divisions.

BDMI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG. With consolidated revenues of over €19 billion (U.S. $25 billion), Bertelsmann AG is an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), music (BMG), media services (Arvato), and media clubs (Direct Group) in more than 60 countries.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Marfeel 4/13Series A€1.6M3
Food52 3/13Series A$2M5
Epoxy 3/13Seed$2M4
StyleHaul 2/13Series B$6.5M1
YieldMetrics 1/13Seed$1.7M9
Pickie 10/12Seed$1M5
Frank & Oak 10/12Venture Round$5M4
WHISBI 9/12Venture Round1
Semasio 8/12Venture Round4
Nonabox 8/12Angel€525k3
Adspert | Bidmanagement GmbH 4/12Series A2
Trion Worlds 1/12Venture Round$85M2
Skimlinks 11/11Series B$4.5M1
Adspert | Bidmanagement GmbH 11/11Series A1
Content Fleet 9/11Series B$3.5M3
CrowdTwist 9/11Series A$6M6
Seedcamp 9/11Venture Round€2M6
Pay by Shopping (deal united) 7/11Series B5
Mojiva 7/11Venture Round$25M3
Flat World Knowledge 1/11Series B$15M6
Blue Lion Mobile (QEEP) 12/10Series B1
Vindicia 11/10Series E$20M4
Pay by Shopping (deal united) 5/10Series A€5M2
LicenseStream 2/10Venture Round$4.09M2
Vindicia 7/09Series D$7.5M4
BuyVIP 4/09Series C$20M4
Emotive Communications 12/08Series B$6.25M2
Mojiva 11/08Series A$3M1
Trion Worlds 9/08Series C$70M6
LicenseStream 6/08Series B$11M4
RoyaltyShare 10/07Series B$4M2
Trion Worlds 7/07Series B$30M6
Emotive Communications 4/07Series A$7.7M3
Exit Games 3/07Series C$4.61M3

Videos

Sources

  1. Barcelona Ignites As 3scale And Marfeel Secure Significant Venture Rounds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Cooking site Food52 raises $2M to expand publishing, mobile and shopping initiatives (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. Epoxy Raises $2M in Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  4. Fashion Video Network Style Haul Pulls In $6.5M Series B (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  5. YieldMetrics closes buzzy $1.7 million Seed round, delivers radical transparency to online advertising (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  6. Pickie Raises $1 Million as App Catalog Trend Kicks Into High Gear (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  7. Lightbank Leads $5M Round In Personalized Retail Site For Men, Frank & Oak (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. BDMI invests in Whisbi (unquote.com) [edit]
  9. Semasio Raises Seven-Digit Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  10. Nonabox Receives Funding from BDMI (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. Citation Needed [add]
  12. Trion Worlds Completes $85M Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  13. Skimlinks Raises $4.5 Million Series B Round (freshnews.com) [edit]
  14. Bertelsmann-Fonds invests in Adspert (adspert.de) [edit]
  15. Content Fleet Raises $3.5M in Second Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
  16. Social Loyalty And Rewards Platform CrowdTwist Raises $6M From SoftBank And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Seedcamp Expands; Adds €2 Million To Its Coffers, Partners With 500 Startups, AngelList (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. deal united Closes Series B Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
  19. Mobile Ad Network Mojiva Raises $25 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Flat World Knowledge Secures $15M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  21. Citation Needed [add]
  22. Vindicia Secures $20 Million in Series E Financing (vindicia.com) [edit]
  23. deal united GmbH Raises €5M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  24. EDGAR [edit]
  25. Vindicia Bags Another $7.5 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  26. European Private Buying Club BuyVIP Lands $20 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
  27. Emotive Communications Closes Series-B Funding of $6.25M; Acquires Sennari Entertainment (biz.yahoo.com) [edit]
  28. MoJiva Raises First Round Of Funding; Appoints CEO (moconews.net) [edit]
  29. Trion Closes A Whopping $70 Million In Series C Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. ImageSpan Inc. Secures $11 Million Financing from Group Led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (imagespan.com) [edit]
  31. RoyaltyShare Receives Additional $4 Million in Series B Funding from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and Trident Capital (royaltyshare.com) [edit]
  32. TRION WORLD NETWORK, PUBLISHER AND DEVELOPER OF CONNECTED GAMES AND ENTERTAINMENT, RAISES 30 MILLION FROM GLOBAL MEDIA GIANTS, TOP VCS (trionworldnetwork.com) [edit]
  33. Major music, media and technology investment companies invest in evolutionary media-telephony venture to significantly increase the value of the mobile music market. (emotive.com) [edit]
  34. EDGAR [edit]
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