| Website | brockpierce.org |
| @brockpierce | |
| Birthplace | Minneapolis |
| Birthdate | 11/14/80 |
Brock Pierce (29) is an entrepreneur renowned for pioneering the market for virtual goods in online games. He has closed more than forty acquisitions and a dozen corporate finance transactions securing more than $200m on behalf of his companies. Pierce’s start-ups are Affinity Media, the largest provider of virtual good trading services, digital gaming content and community services for the world’s 500 million gamers and raised over $100m from investors such as Goldman Sachs and Oak Investment Partners; Xfire, formerly Titan Gaming, a community of gamers with a platform enabling skill based matchmaking, tournaments, and points or cash competitions; RevenueAPEX, a novel financing vehicle for buyers of performance marketing; EverTune, a patented technology which keeps stringed instruments permanently in tune; myTaste, an online wine discovery and recommendation engine; Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an online television network focused on the delivery of entertainment over broadband and raised over $88m from investors such as Microsoft, Intel, and NBC. Pierce generally plays the role of strategist and dealmaker in each company after attracting the management teams and capital. He is an active angel investor, a founding mentor of the Founder Institute’s LA Chapter, and members of SoCal Tech and Media Entertainment Technology Alliance. Pierce is an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. Both Wired and Fortune Magazine have written lengthy biographies on Pierce. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford and USC.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| EverTune | 5/10 | Seed | $800k | 4 |
| Titan Gaming | 5/10 | Seed | $1M | 19 |
