Comcast Ventures


Comcast Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in New York and Pennsylvania. Since 2011, Amy Banse has been the Managing Director and Head of Funds. The firm’s partners also include Gil Beyda, Andrew Cleland, Sam Landman, Dinesh Moorjani, Rick Prostko, Dave Zilberman, Daniel Gulati, and Kim Armor.

History

In early 2011, Comcast and NBCUniversal combined their two venture arms, Comcast Interactive Capital founded in 1999 and the Peacock Fund, to form Comcast Ventures.
In 2012, Comcast Ventures set up the Catalyst Fund with $20 million under management to invest in underrepresented entrepreneurs. In January 2020, NBA Champion Andre Iguodala joined the Catalyst Fund as a Venture Partner.

Investments

Comcast has been ranked the 4th Corporate Startup Investor in the World. In the past six years up to 2017, the corporation had invested in 105 early-stage companies. These companies include Away, CloudPassage, Dandelion Energy FanDuel, Quantifind, Slack Technologies, Vox Media, Yieldmo, and ZeroFox.