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Peter Read

Peter loves working with talented entrepreneurs, as an angel investor and/or advisor in digital media and entertainment companies: 4Info, Adjust Your Set, BookingBug, Ceros, Comedy.com, Eyeclick, Fandango, InGrooves, JustGiving, Knitting Factory, LivePlanet, Metacafe, MindCandy, Mippin, MoviePilot, MusicNation, MyHeritage, Preview Networks, Readmill, ReturnPath, Rightster, RjDj, RootMusic, Shopwiki, Slingshot, Songkick, Techlightenment, The Astrologer, uberVU, Umee, Weeworld, etc; and alongside top tier investors: Accel, AlleyCorp, Balderton, Benchmark, Betaworks, Greylock, Index, Oakley, Passion, Seedcamp, Sequoia, SVAngel, TAG, UnionSquare, Venrock, Walden, etc

Peter was previously an advisor and/or director with Neven Vision (acquired by Google), Saynow (Google), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Launch Music (Yahoo), LoveFilm (Amazon), Skype (eBay), Mobix Interactive (Seachange), Kindo (MyHeritage), Playahead (Modern Times Group), HSX (Cantor Fitzgerald), H2G2 (BBC), iFilm (MTV), and Meevee (eUniverse)

Peter is MD of Entertainment Insights Limited and was previously President of Nielsen Entertainment in Los Angeles

Peter is a (part time) Special Partner at Vitruvian Partners; a Senior Advisor to AOL Ventures; a Director of Bioss; a Governor at Beaconsfield High School; a digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse; and a voting member of BAFTA. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin’ Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Wummelbox 4/13Venture Round$1M5
Believe.in 12/12Seed10
HowDo 10/12Seed3
YPlan 7/12Seed$1.7M9
Loopcam 5/12Seed8
Tripbirds 3/12Seed$740k8
Gidsy 1/12Seed$1.2M4

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  1. Wummelkiste Raises $1M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  3. HowDo Raises Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  4. techcrunch.com (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. TechCrunch on our funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Tripbirds Picks Up $740k From Path’s Dave Morin, Others. Now In Public Beta (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Gidsy Raises $1.2M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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