Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Ted
Investments
OxiWear
Total Funding: $1.2M
Kiswe
Total Funding:
HumanFirst
Total Funding: $19M
Professional Fighters League
Total Funding: $140M
StockX
Total Funding: $690M
Optoro
Total Funding: $210M
Georgetown Venture Lab
Total Funding: $2M
Uptake Technologies
Total Funding: $210M
Resonate
Total Funding: $35M
WinView Games
Total Funding: $12M
Work Experience
Founder, Chairman, Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer
2010
Ted Leonsis is founder, chairman, managing partner, and chief executive officer of Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE). In that role, Mr. Leonsis is the principal owner of the NHL’s 2018 Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals, the NBA’s Washington Wizards, the 2019 WNBA Champion Washington Mystics, the 2021 & 2020 NBA 2K League Champion Wizards District Gaming, and the NBA G League’s Capital City Go-Go. In addition to the teams, Mr. Leonsis owns the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena and operates MedStar Capitals Iceplex, the Capitals’ training facility, MedStar Health Performance Center, the Wizards, Mystics and Capital City Go-Go training facility, George Mason University’s EagleBank Arena, and District E, a premier, nearly 14,000 square foot live-event theater focused on esports, adjacent to Capital One Arena at Gallery Place. Mr. Leonsis also owns Monumental Sports Network, a regional media platform distributed on linear television, digital, mobile, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Monumental Sports Network is the exclusive local broadcast and streaming network for the Washington Capitals, Wizards and Mystics; and operates the state-of-the-art Monumental Sports Network studios located next door to Capital One Arena. Mr. Leonsis serves on the Board of Governors for the NBA, NHL, and WNBA. He is on the Executive Committee of the NHL, the Audit and Finance Committee of the NHL, the Advisory/Finance Committee of the NBA and serves as Chairman of the NBA Media Committee and Chairman of the NHL Media Committee.
2011
Co-Founder
2011
As co-founder and partner at Revolution Growth, a $1 billion set of investment funds, Mr. Leonsis and his partners make a select group of speed-up capital investments each year in businesses outside of Silicon Valley that are leveraging technology and new models to disrupt existing, multi-billion dollar industries. Investments includes companies such as, Tempus, CLEAR, Scopely, Carbon Robotics, Meati, Sportradar USA, DraftKings, Bedrock Manufacturing (parent company of Shinola and Filson), Optoro, CustomInk, Cava and sweetgreen.
Board of Governors
2010
Mr. Leonsis serves as chairman of the NBA Media Committee.
Board of Governors
1999
Mr. Leonsis serves on the NHL Executive Committee, NHL Audit and Finance Committee, and is Chairman of the NHL Media and Content Committee.
Board of Governors
2005
Mr. Leonsis serves as a member of the WNBA Board of Governors.
2016
Co-Executive Chairman
2016
Mr. Leonsis serves as Co-Executive Chairman of aXiomatic, which includes a portfolio of dynamic company holdings in the esports and video gaming industry. The portfolio includes a controlling interest in one of the world’s premier esports brands, Team Liquid as well as Epic Games, Niantic, Dapper Labs and many more.
2010
Board of Directors
2010
Mr. Leonsis serves on the Nominating, Governance and Public Responsibility Committee and the Compensation and Benefits Committee.
2009
Board of Directors
2009
Mr. Leonsis serves as Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee.
2008
Founder and Chairman of the Board
2008
In 2008, Mr. Leonsis founded SnagFilms, which enabled online audiences to watch, share and support documentary films. SnagFilms grew out of his experience as a producer of award-winning documentary films, including "Nanking," which won Peabody and Emmy awards. Snagfilms, which is now called ViewLift, offers a complete end-to-end solution to content owners to distribute and monetize their content across multiple device platforms, including web, mobile, over-the-top, connected TV, smart TVs and gaming consoles.
2024
Co-Founder and Lead Director
2024
Proxy Foods enables food & beverage companies to efficiently create new or optimize existing recipes and products through its AI recipe formulation platform. The solution leverages industry-changing AI and precision analytics in response to the urgent demand for sustainable food solutions and increasing consumer awareness around nutrition and animal welfare. The platform meets the needs of research and development teams, food scientists, product developers, and chefs from multinational F&B manufacturers, food service providers, alternative protein companies and novel pet food startups looking to streamline complex R&D processes by weaving together ingredient data with advanced machine learning algorithms. It simplifies analysis and interpretation in the food development process, empowering companies to create responsible products with tastes and textures discerning consumers love.