Elevation Innovation Partners

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VCMatch tracks Elevation Innovation Partners as an investor focused on Media Entertainment, Social Media, and Gaming companies and Growth and Late Stage rounds. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

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Stages

Growth, Late Stage

Focus Areas

Media Entertainment, Social Media, Gaming

Geography

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Investment Thesis

Elevation Partners invested at the intersection of technology and media, targeting high-growth, transformational companies where the firm could apply both capital and operating expertise to create long-term value. The firm pursued large, private and growth-stage investments (including pre-IPO stakes) and complemented financial backing with board-level and operational involvement from senior executives and operators on the team.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Elevation Innovation Partners is most relevant for founders raising Growth and Late Stage rounds in Media Entertainment, Social Media, Gaming, and Hardware.

Focus statement

Focused on growth and private-equity investments in technology and digital media companies—specifically "the intersection between technology and media"—including making "large, private investments in Facebook and Yelp several years before they went public."

Value Add

Team of senior operators and executives (examples on the site: Avie Tevanian — former Apple software leader; Fred Anderson — former Apple CFO; Bret Pearlman — experienced private equity investor) enabling operational value-add beyond capital.
Track record of early/private investments in future public winners (site notes investments in Facebook, Yelp, Airbnb, Uber, Sonos and others).
Willingness and capacity to make large, transformational private equity investments (firm described as a "trail blazing $1.9 billion private equity investment fund").
Flexible staging: ran both a traditional private equity fund and a multi-stage vehicle ("Elevation Investors II, a multi-stage private investment vehicle") to support different company growth profiles.
Board-level engagement and governance influence (multiple team members served on portfolio company boards — e.g., Bret served as Chairman of BioWare/Pandemic and Fred and others served on boards including eBay, Yelp, MarketShare, Forbes, Sonos).
High-profile cultural/brand connection through a founder (Bono) which likely expanded network, media access, and brand-level strategic value.