Richard Cooperstein
MIG Capital Partners / Media Investment Group
Beverly Hills, California
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2023
Founder and Partner
2023
Venture for Good is a climate-focused venture capital entity that backs and accelerates a broad range of climate change tech startups. Venture for Good partners with and invests in companies with exceptional climate impact potential. We invest and partner with each company unlocking massive technological and commercial viability and scalability to help solve some of the planet’s biggest climate challenges.
2010
Partner
2019
MIG Capital Partners / MIG Tech VIII Partners. Investor/Fractional COO/CFO/ Board/Advisor. Invest, advise, serve in various capacities: MyStream Technologies (Vice Chairman), Izon Technologies (Vice Chairman) TMRW Foods (Investor/Advisor), Gryphon Digital Mining (Independent NXD), 818 Entertainment (General Partner), Terraformation (Limited Partner), Kobalt Music (Member of Transaction GP Entity), Energy Vault Inc (Investor). Significant TMT venture and growth capital, investment, advisory, and consulting activity focused on consumer facing media and tech businesses, clean energy, sustainability and related ventures and applications.
Partner, Investor, Advisor
2010
Media Investment Group/ Mooncrest Capital. TMT investment & advisory services. VC and private equity. HoldCo/fund of funds. Board member, founder, investor, executive, and advisor across portfolio of ~80 companies. Clients, transactions, assets, and investments include entertainment, digital media, streaming, IP, networks, clean energy, plant-based foods, ESG, climate, crypto, cannabis, location, mobility, payments, healthcare, education, infrastructure, AI, blockchain, cloud, and related software, IP and or tech companies. Advisory director to global investment bank. Venture partner to Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Large-scale, late-stage institutional capital formation for tech companies.
2021
Investor, Shareholder
2021
TMRW's mission is to redefine protein for the masses by creating protein with more flavor, nutrients and variety than any protein available today.
2021
Vice Chairman
2021
IZON is a premium Out-of-Home Media Platform Technology that delivers entertainment & media to captive targeted markets providing immediate audience extension to high quality video content creators & advertisers.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Terraformation helps plant native forests to reverse climate change. Everyone can plant a tree. Terraformation helps grow a forest.
2021
Transaction Senior Advisor, Capital Formation and Equity Participant
2021
Capital formation and equity participation in private capital US$1.1bn transaction for partners acquiring Kobalt Music
2013
Investor, Limited Partner
2013
Limited Partner, Investor, Portfolio CC3. Branch Messenger, Fuzzy Pet Health, Divergence Crypto, Immortals, FanBank, Midnight Electric, Ledger Investing, etc.
2019
Investor, Shareholder
2019
Energy Vault is a portfolio company based in Lugano, Switzerland, which focuses on the development of innovative, grid-scale energy storage solutions. In addition to investment and shareholding in the company, formerly served as EVP & CFO.
2008 - 2010
Senior Director and Head of Intl Business Development & Strategy
2008 - 2010
Managed international business/ corporate dev and strategy. Developed and implemented international expansion opportunities, strategic partnerships, and collaborations, on-boarded new partners, drive various bd and user growth initiatives, encompassing portions of FB Connect, Pages, mobile, languages, live streaming, media integrations for global markets at the time of some of FBs most rapid growth from ~ 50m to 450m active users to what is now nearly 3bn.
2004 - 2008
SVP, CFO, Global Distribution, Media Networks & Head of Equity Ventures
2004 - 2008
CFO, Senior Vice President & Head of Equity Ventures. Disney Worldwide Television & Ventures Group. Managed all finance, business development and equity ventures teams, operations, investments and assets. Coordinated and oversaw all finance, reporting, sales operations, planning, business development, strategy, as well as the equity joint ventures, global networks and other enterprises group for Disney, representing several billion dollars in annual revenue.