Big Frame
Company

Last deal

$3.4M

Amount

Seed

Stage

27.06.2012

Date

2

all rounds

$3.43M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Big Frame is an online resource that provides information and inspiration to improve your life and business.

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founded date

01.01.2011

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

Big Frame offers media production and marketing services, creating video advertising campaigns and providing useful tips on SEO, web design, content marketing, and more. Their website covers a range of subjects including social media, business, marketing, design, tutorials, finance, and technology, with the aim of educating and inspiring their audience.
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Financials

Funding Rounds
2
2

Number of Funding Rounds

$3.43M

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 27.06.2012. Their latest investor Peter Gotcher. Their latest round Seed

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
27.06.2012
14
$3.4M
01.03.2012
$25K
Co-Investors
Investors
14
0

Number of lead investors

14

Number of investors

Investor 
Lead 
Round 
Partners 
Peter Gotcher

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Peter Gotcher attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with a B.A. degree with university honors in 1981.After working at Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco from 1982 to 1984, Gotcher founded Digidesign Inc. and served as its president, CEO, and chairman. Digidesign became the world's leading manufacturer of Digital Audio Workstations during Gotcher's tenure as CEO, and its ProTools products have become the industry standard for audio recording and music production. The company completed a successful initial public offering in December 1993 and was one of the 10 best performing NASDAQ stocks of 1994 (up 137 percent). Digidesign was acquired by Avid Technology Inc. in 1995, and Gotcher remained as the general manager of Digidesign and an executive vice president of Avid until May 1996. He served on the board of directors of Avid until 2002. At the 2000 Grammy Awards, Gotcher accepted the Technical Achievement Grammy in honor of Digidesign's contributions to the recording industry. Digidesign also received a Technical Achievement Oscar from the Motion Picture Academy in 2004. Gotcher became a technology-focused venture capitalist upon joining Institutional Venture Partners as a partner in 1997. In 1999 he was a founding venture partner with Redpoint Ventures of Menlo Park, California, a leading Silicon Valley technology venture capital firm. Since 2003, he has been an independent private equity investor. He has served on the board of directors of 15 public and private companies and currently serves as a director of Avnera Corporation, Dash Navigation, Dolby Laboratories, Line 6, Pandora Media, and Zing Systems.

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Founders
5
Sarah Penna
Sarah Penna

Sarah Penna

Sarah Penna is the Co - Founder & Chief Creative Officer at Big Frame Inc. She founded Bigframe, Inc in early 2010 with the mission of finding and developing online talent. She began her career working in reality TV for shows that aired on Discovery, HBO, Oxygen and Bravo. She was then hired to start Current TV's Outreach Department. She managed hundreds of producers and was responsible for getting over a hundred short documentaries to air. During Sarah's time at Current TV she became an Associate Producer for the critically-acclaimed Vanguard journalism team. She then became a producer for one of the top YouTube stars and in May of 2010, she formed Bigframe. Sarah is responsible for some of the most successful and largest brand deals on YouTube including Disney, Microsoft, Sony and more. She has also helped develop talent just starting out on YouTube who now have millions of subscribers. @severshed bigfra.me

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Brian Brater
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Brian Brater

Brian has spent the last 20 years building and monetizing massive audiences around pop culture. Before co-founding AuDigent he co-founded the legendary Rawkus Records (sold to Universal Music Group in 2004), where he signed and developed classic artists like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Eminem, and Dr. Luke. In 2007 he co-founded digital media giant UPROXX (sold to Woven Digital in 2014), the #1 Entertainment News and Culture destination for millennial males. In 2011 he co-founded Big Frame (sold to Dreamworks Animation and merged with AwesomenessTV in 2014), one of the dominant multi-channel networks providing talent representation and influencer marketing for some of the world’s biggest Youtube stars. Brian is a lifetime New Yorker and a proud jazz musician and electronic music producer.

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Employee Profiles
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Ashley Planks

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Directo, Forefront

David Robles

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Controller

Max Polisar

Max Polisar

Head, Sales

Brian Brater

Brian Brater

Co-Founder

Jarret Myer

Jarret Myer

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Sarah Evershed

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Andrew Graham

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