At a recent event in San Diego, I was wandering through a mixer in search of food (and a drink ) when I bumped into my good buddy Miles from Tremor Media.  He had been our main contact there for some months now but just recently he switched to a new company, Double Verify.   We still have a good relationship with Tremor regardless of his prescense, but Miles wasnt there to talk about the past, he was thinking about our future.  He kindly introduced Double Verify’s key investor,  Dave Blumberg.

Not sure what an investor was doing in Coronodo Bay with a bunch of marketing managers at a brand summit, but then again, what was I doing there haha.  Ah, I remember, a free stay in a five star hotel with great food, not to mention the opportunity to learn and teach in an environment of my peers.   In any case, we got to talking and it turned out that Dave is in the market to invest in digital media.  What a coincidence, I have a digital media start up.  This was an exciting conversation as it was the first time I actually got to use my elevator pitch in a real life conversation.  All the practice had paid off.

Later on last week I took a chance to look over his website, review his staff and their common mission.  I was in shock.  Here was a Silicon Valley investment group that was the opposite of the norm.  Just reading thier mission gave me goose bumps haha, I said to myself,  “this group is the perfect match for Motown, its uncanny”.  Take a look for yourself….

“We strive to collaborate with exceptionally talented entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas and scalable business models to drive innovation and economic growth.

Blumberg Capital initially seeks to invest between $250,000 and $2,500,000 dollars and is a lifecycle investor. We structure syndicates with other like-minded groups to increase reach and reduce risk for our investees. Our global team brings industry expertise, relevant operational experience and strategic relationships to be a value added investor.”

Does that not sound like the perfect model investor for a company that is focused on business model and strategy versus just product at early stage?  I really hope the Blumberg team take an interest in the Initiative cause I think we can do great thing together.  We’ll see what they think of our executive summary that I’ll send out next week.  Keep your fingers crossed, and toes if you can :).