Sinclair Digital Ventures

What is Sinclair Digital Ventures?

Sinclair Digital Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm based in Seattle, Washington, specifically formed to enhance Sinclair Broadcast Group's digital capabilities through strategic investments and acquisitions across several sectors. With a clear focus on growth equity, they invest in seed and series A rounds, contributing maximum investment amounts of $5,600,000 per venture.

The industries they target include, but are not limited to, software with special consideration for web marketplaces and SaaS platforms, IT and TMT sectors, retail, and e-commerce. Additional specialty areas include ad-technology, mobile, content, distribution, data and analytics media, social media, advertising, and marketing.

Aligning with Sinclair Broadcast Group's diversified media presence, they maintain a broad scope of interest, which is reflective in their strategic approach to investment—seeking opportunities that not only generate financial returns but also offer synergistic potential to the parent group's array of services and influence within the media space.

Sinclair is dedicated to fostering innovation and seizing the technological forefront in an ever-evolving digital landscape, an effort reflected in both their choice of portfolio companies and their parent company's expansive reach in broadcast television, content delivery networks, varied media channels, and marketing solutions.

Through Sinclair Digital Ventures, the Sinclair Broadcast Group leverages its industry expertise, networks, and resources to propel growth in selected startups and business ventures that align with its greater mission of advancing the broadcast industry and bolstering its service offerings to consumers and advertisers alike.