Number of Founded Organizations 2
CB Rank (Investor) 97,141
  • Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer
  • Primary Organization 
    FLX Media
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Alan McGlade is a co-Founder of Funding Wonder, Inc. and manages its wholly owned company, seriesOne, LLC. seriesOne.com is a regulatory compliant crowdfunding portal that enables businesses to raise money through securitized ICOs, as well as traditional equity and debt securities.

Mr. McGlade was a founder and Managing Director of Digital

Entertainment Ventures (DEV). Mr. McGlade has over two decades of experience in taking companies from early conceptual stage to significant market player in television, and digital media with an emphasis on music.

For the nine years previous to DEV, Mr. McGlade was the Chief Executive and a member of the Board of Directors of MediaNet. The Company was formed with three of the major record companies combining as the majority owner, to respond to the sudden explosion in music downloading. MediaNet powered music and media delivery in five territories in the US and Europe for many of the best known names in the business including AOL, Yahoo, HMV, Virgin, Samsung, Tesco, MTV, Microsoft's Zune and Google.

Prior to running MediaNet, Mr. McGlade worked at MTV Networks. He joined the company after selling them the interactive music video channel, Video Jukebox Network (The Box), where he served as CEO for five years. The Box was a cable music video channel but its unique feature was the ability of the audience to influence the programming by selecting, for a fee, the video that would play next.

Prior to his tenure at The Box, Mr. McGlade was the president of StarNet, which provided targeted cable marketing using a national satellite delivery system tied to smart devices at cable systems. Before that McGlade was the founder and president of Adlink, the largest cable advertising interconnect in the country.

Throughout his career Mr. McGlade has been a presenter and contributor to major news publications. His commentaries have appeared in Billboard, Forbes and Multichannel News, among others, and he has appeared on CNBC, CNN Business and PBS.

Number of Partner Investments 1
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Mar 20, 2013
Human Demand
Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV)
Yes
Series A - Human Demand
$900K
Number of Current Jobs 3
Number of Past Jobs 1
Alan McGlade has 3 current jobs including Chief Executive Officer at FLX Media, Co-Founder at Funding Wonder, Inc., and Managing Director at Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV). Additionally, Alan McGlade has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder at seriesOne.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
seriesOne
Co-FounderNov 22, 2017Feb 2020
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 3
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Human Demand
Board Member2016
Signal360 (formerly Sonic Notify)
Board Member2016
HIFI
Advisor
Number of Events 1
Alan McGlade has participated in 1 event, Miami VC Angel Conference on Mar 20, 2014.
Number of News Articles 4
NewsMar 24, 2017
NewsApr 17, 2015
NewsMay 3, 2012