Richard Cooperstein

MIG Capital Partners / Media Investment Group

Beverly Hills, California

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Work Experience

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

    Terraformation helps plant native forests to reverse climate change. Everyone can plant a tree. Terraformation helps grow a forest.

  • 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

  • Investor, Limited Partner

    2013

    Limited Partner, Investor, Portfolio CC3. Branch Messenger, Fuzzy Pet Health, Divergence Crypto, Immortals, FanBank, Midnight Electric, Ledger Investing, etc.

  • 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.

  • 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.