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The Pitch Document Dstlry Used To Raise Another Five Million Dollars

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  • Dstlry, founded by David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, raised $5M from investors including Kodansha and Groupe Delcourt.
  • Investors in Dstlry's new seed round include 1AM Gaming, 2 Punks Capital, Deftly Ventures, and ESPT Ventures.
  • Photos of the confidential pitch document reveal how Dstlry secured the $5M investment, with insights from Bleeding Cool.
  • Gregory Milken of 1AM Gaming led the investment round and joined Dstlry's board, signaling strong support.

Recently, Bleeding Cool reported that boutique comic book publisher Dstlry, founded by David Steinberger and Chip Mosher had raised $5 million in a new seed round of funding. The investors included the following;

The Pitch Document Dsltry Used To Raise Another Five Million Dollars

  • 1AM Gaming – venture capital firm for gaming run by Gregory Milken and Frank Liquido
  • 2 Punks Capital – an early-stage investment fund run by Stephen Sullivan and Jacob Martin, targeting web3, social, and gaming startups
  • Deftly Ventures – a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in early-stage technology-based startups, and who previously invested in Dstlry's first round.
  • ESPT Ventures – an early stage fund focused on interactive entertainment, gaming, sports and consumer, founded by Ryan Gately.
  • GFR Fund – a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology startups disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, especially AI.
  • Groupe Delcourt –  French book publisher, one of the biggest comic book publishers in the world.
  • John Schappert – Programmer on John Madden Football, COO at EA Games, VP at Microsoft for Xbox Live, COO of Zynga and CEO of Shiver Entertainment
  • Kodansha USA – US wing of Japanese publisher and multimedia corporation, one of the other biggest comic book publishers in the world.
  • Lorenzo di Bonaventura – producer of Transformers, GI Joe, Stardust, Constantine, The Meg, and Red movies, Jupiter's Legacy on TV, discovered The Matrix, and bought the film rights to Harry Potter.

This has also seen 1AM Gaming's Gregory Milken, who ran this year's seed investment, join the board of Dstlry. But how did they get that five million? Well, Bleeding Cool has had a peek at the confidential investor's document used to convince such folks to part with their hard-invested cash. And even Bleeding Cool gets a mention along the way…

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Yup, that looks like me. And it seems that it was.

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Flywheel, shysters and flywheel? Still, they seem to have made it work.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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