In 2017, we’re investing in the future. Join us!

On this Presidential inauguration day, we’re thinking a lot about the challenges in store for us in 2017. Over the next months and years, our focus will be to resist but also to rebuild, by helping to create the future we want to live in. We will be particularly focused at the intersection of media, technology, civic engagement and advocacy, where innovation can have an incredible impact. We’re thinking about how to make media work better for our democracy and look forward to your perspective to help sharpen our thinking.

We’re getting straight to work, and hope you’ll join us! We will be issuing the next Innovation Fund Open Call on Feb 1. During this Open Call, we will look for ways to burst filter bubbles, fight fake news and dark influence, seamlessly bring people together online and in-person to take action, and more.

Entrepreneurs – Want to pitch us for funding? This blog post outlines the types of projects we fund and don’t fund. Sign up for our newsletter, and you’ll get the announcement as soon as it goes out.

Investors – We’re bringing together a select group of funders to sponsor this upcoming Open Call to help fund more groups than we otherwise would be able to. Let us know if you’re interested in making a 501c3 contribution to the Innovation Fund. We also encourage you to apply to join the Screening Committee – it’s an amazing opportunity to get a bird’s eye view of promising innovation, as well as sharpen your diligence skills in collaboration with other funders.

Community – We will be expanding our startup advisor network in 2017. If you’re interested in helping the entrepreneurs in our portfolio succeed, email hello@newmediaventures.org with a bit of information about yourself and your interests.

In 2016, we accomplished great things together. We added 10 startups to our portfolio in April and September, mobilized almost $3m in funding towards entrepreneurs and celebrated 3 exits: Crowdtangle, Attentive.ly and tinyGive. We expanded our work bringing together our community of investors and entrepreneurs, most recently during a Virtual Demo Day to showcase the work of our latest cohort of entrepreneurs. Check-out the recording below and let us know if you’d like to learn more!

Finally, in 2016, we published our first ever white-paper on business models for mission-driven organizations which was downloaded more than 1000 times. We’re currently teeing up our next paper on financing pathways for impact organizations. Email hello@newmediaventures.org if you would like to be interviewed on this topic.

With your partnership, we’re looking forward to expanding our work in 2017! Happy New Year.