Best Nights VC

RSE is a private investment firm that combines a deep understanding of a founder’s mission with the strategic resources of our network to elevate businesses at inflection points. This approach has transformed companies across sectors: We’ve taken the International Champions Cup from an idea in a conference room to a global soccer platform with 140 million viewers; we helped transform a founder’s PowerPoint presentation into the world’s premier drone racing circuit; and we shaped the growth strategy of scalable restaurants that have iconic brands with cult followings. But don't take our word for it. Hear what our founders have to say.

We are differentiated as investors with our expertise in corporate development and institutional research capability. Our 20 years of experience has been spent at the largest companies. We have been a dynamic duo for 10+ years, patiently building the experience, reputation and network require to launch an insititutional VC firm. We are attracted to companies building solutions leveraging emerging technologies (AI, AR/VR, blockchain, etc.), as some of the largest value creation opportunities in history have followed the mass-adoption of novel technologies (e.g. mobile, cloud). Most of our investments are Pre-Seed / Seed, with opportunistic participation at Series A. Post-investment we provide personalized support when they need it most.

Night Capital is a $100MM growth equity investment company launched by Night, Inc. (“Night”), a multimedia talent management company who works with talent including Mr. Beast, Preston, and Safiya Nygaard, in conjunction with The Chernin Group ("TCG"), a multi-stage investment firm known for building and growing emerging consumer businesses in the media, commerce and technology industries. Night Capital is focused on acquiring majority interests in consumer-facing companies and building partnerships with relevant creators to drive future business growth. We are seeking an experienced associate or VP to join our team supporting transactions.

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.

Red Sea Ventures is a leading NY-based, pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in tech-enabled, user-centric consumer and B2B startups. In our first fund, we invested in category leading companies across sectors including Allbirds, Convoy, Nest, Eargo, Prose, Genies, Joor, and Sweetgreen. We are looking to partner with mission driven founders seeking to transform the economy and the lives of their teams and users. We are an entrepreneurial firm that values friendliness, humility, camaraderie, collaboration, determination, independence, and hustle with a commitment to performance. We are building RSV as a platform for community; bringing together our visionary founders, LPs, and relationships at large to support the companies we choose to partner with.

We invest in surprising new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies. We’re usually among the first institutional investors. We’ve backed more than 150 companies; some that you may have heard of include Giphy, Anchor, Gimlet Media, Product Hunt, Medium, Kickstarter, and Tumblr. We invest at pre-seed and seed stage and our typical check size ranges from $100,000 to $500,000. We go deep into new categories through Betaworks Camp, our structured pre-seed investment program. Areas we’ve focused on include augmented reality, computer vision, voice interfaces, conversational software, and live+interactive. As our name suggests, we like betas – we rarely invest pre-product. If you have something great, we’d love to speak with you.