| @joshmedia |
Josh founded and sold two successful Internet businesses for a combined $400mm and is now making early stage investments through Freestyle Capital.
Josh is a founding partner in Freestyle Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on the Internet and technology sectors. Mr. Felser was the CEO and co-founder of Crackle (formerly Grouper), an Internet video community, acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Until February of 2001 he was General Manager of AOL Time Warner’s music brands’ Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast. In October 1997 he became co-founder and President of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination until its 1999 purchase by America Online for $320 million. From 1994 to 1996 he was Head of business and product development in Qwest/U.S. West’s Multimedia Group. From 1990 to 1994 he was an executive with News Corp., working with Fox Inc. in Los Angeles and BSkyB in London. Mr. Felser obtained a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Duke University in 1986 and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Duke’s FUQUA School of Business in 1990.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Message Bus | 3/11 | Series A | $3.35M | 11 |
| Cardpool | 1/10 | Seed | 17 | |
| Infectious | 1/07 | Seed | $750k | 2 |
| Friendster | 12/02 | Series A | $2.4M | 3 |
