Cameo
Cameo’s mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences on earth! Cameo is celebrating another busy and exciting year as the world’s leading fan engagement platform having enabled over 27,000 hours of personalized connections across the globe. From TV stars and notable athletes to TikTok creators and comedic legends, Cameo has helped fulfill 2.5 million magical moments since our launch in 2017, and just in this past year, we have welcomed almost 10,000 new stars. In support of our employer brand efforts, we’ve grown our employee base by 30% and reached 50/50 gender parity on our global leadership team. In addition, in March of 2021, we announced Cameo’s $100M Series C funding, which brings our total funding to more than $165M, at a valuation of just over $1B. Some of the recognition we're most proud of includes LinkedIn's Top 50 Startups in 2021, our very own Steven Galanis being recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021, Cameo was ranked #1 on The Information’s TI50 Most Promising Startups, among Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best In Business 2020, and Business Insider’s Top 100 Startups of 2020. Read more on our Cameo Blog today: https://cameoblog.medium.com/
Founding Year
2017
Headquarters
Chicago
,
United States
Sector(s)
SaaS
Funding State
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Exited
Total Funding Amount
$203.69M
Funds that Investested
PayPal Ventures
Paypal's venture capital arm. Invests in FinTech companies that are working on transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused products.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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TCG
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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75 & Sunny
LA-based venture fund and startup studio that invests in and incubates companies that offer bold solutions to everyday problems. They especially love to back Los Angeles-based teams, but are happy to partner with visionary entrepreneurs all over the world.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Valor Equity Partners
Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm focused on high growth companies across various stages of development.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Origin Ventures
Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the Digital Native economy.
Their team has lived scaling businesses as founders, operators, and engineers. With Partners in all four continental U.S. time zones, Origin Ventures is close to great founders, wherever they are located.
Their team has lived scaling businesses as founders, operators, and engineers. With Partners in all four continental U.S. time zones, Origin Ventures is close to great founders, wherever they are located.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Next Play Ventures
Led by Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Exec Chairman. Next Play coaches and invests in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Headline
Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in rising founders across B2B and B2C, with teams on the ground in 7 cities around the world. Since its founding in 1998, Headline has worked alongside founders with global aspirations from Silicon Valley to São Paulo, Beijing to Berlin.
They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.
They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Spark Capital
Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Starting Line
Early stage venture fund focused on consumer internet and the infrastructure that enables it.
They provide hands on operating experience, are typically their portfolio companies' largest customer in the early stages, and they cheerlead as strongly as possible.
They provide hands on operating experience, are typically their portfolio companies' largest customer in the early stages, and they cheerlead as strongly as possible.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Cleo Capital
Fund led by Sarah Kunst investing in the future of fintech, consumer, and enterprise.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Investors that Investested
Sarah Kunst
Managing Director, Cleo Capital
Managing director of Cleo Capital & a former contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on their corporate VC arm Bumble Fund and on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment. Kunst has been named a Future Innovator by Vanity Fair, Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 and a top 25 innovator in tech by Cool Hunting. She has been recognized for her work in Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Woman in Tech and Top African-American in Tech & Pitchbook Top Black VC To Watch and honored as a top woman in VC by the Wall St. Journal.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Jeff Weiner
Founding Partner, Next Play Ventures
Executive Chairman @LinkedIn, founding partner @NextPlayVC, founding LP at Concrete Rose Capital, founder of The Compassion Project.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Ilya Fushman
Partner and Managing Member, Kleiner Perkins
An early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Intercom, Optimizely, Cameo, KeepTruckin, CultureAmp, Loom, UiPath and Nova Credit.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Kevin Thau
General Partner, Spark Capital
Over two decades, Kevin worked for visionary founders, launched products that people love, and saw two companies go public. He joined Spark in 2015 as a general partner on the early-stage investment team.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Ezra Galston
Partner, Starting Line
Over the past six years Ezra has been blessed to invest in dozens of extraordinary companies including Spothero, Cameo, M1Finance, Havenly, Made in Cookware, Hungryroot, Flyhomes, PrettyLitter, Kin, Chowbus, Rise Science, Protege, Path and many more.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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