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North Base Media

https://www.northbasemedia.com
Last activity: 10.08.2025
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North Base Media is an investment firm focused on news, business information, sports and gaming, entertainment media, and other digital-driven opportunities in growth markets. NBM creates value by bringing top-level international expertise and capital to invested companies that will benefit from the deep knowledge, reputation and extensive connections of NBM’s partners. NBM accelerates the digital adaptation and financial success of our partner companies, allowing them become recognized leaders in their national markets.

NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, co-founder and longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters News and General Counsel of the Journal. Strategic investors include Bloomberg Beta, Graham Holdings, Singapore Press Holdings, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the family offices of Alibaba’s leaders and a former Bell Labs CEO, as well as individuals who led Univision, Time Inc. and investment funds in Asia and China.

NBM focuses on both early- and mid-stage companies that show promise in key emerging markets. The portfolio companies, in turn, benefit from being properly capitalized to pursue growth opportunities, by getting access to unique digital, media and journalistic know-how, and by being able to tap one another to jointly produce or share content, ideas and practices, bringing additional economic advantage to the enterprise and its investors.

NBM specializes in independently owned media or technologies that enable consumers to participate in their countries’ civic, cultural and economic life and that aim to be essential to key audiences in their markets. NBM does not align itself with governments, political causes or forces in the countries where it operates.
Portfolio
31
Mentions
7
Location: United States, Maryland, Chevy Chase
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A

Portfolio 31

DateNameWebsiteTotal RaisedLocation
10.08.2025TNL Mediag...tnlmediagene.com--
09.02.2024NEXDnexd.com-Estonia, T...
19.09.2014inklinkl.com$250KSri Lanka,...
-Pocket Ace...pocketaces.in-India, Del...
-Syte.aisyte.ai$69.5MIsrael, Te...
-Vietcetera...vietcetera.com-Vietnam, H...
-cielo24cielo24.com$5MUnited Sta...
-Rapplerrappler.com-Philippine...
-Minute Med...minutemedia.com$112MIsrael, Te...
-The News L...thenewslens.com$8MTaiwan, Ta...
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Mentions in press and media 7

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01.06.2022Serbian ads automation startup Hunch raises €4M to become leader in adtech industryBelgrade, Serbia ~ Company: Serbia-based creative ads automation startup Hunch raised €4M in a round led by VC fund Catalyst Romania, backed by 3TS Capital Partners, alongside co-investors Euroventures, North Base Media, SeedBlink and South...
31.05.2022Hunch chips in €4 million for real-time social media placementEngaging consumers in personalised ways is critical for all B2C marketers. Yet this goal has remained difficult to achieve at scale as customer, product, and creative data sets are trapped in multiple departments and in disparate informatio...
05.09.2016Indonesia’s IDN Media raises funds from North Base, East Ventures, othersPremium Indonesian digital publisher IDN Media has concluded an investment from a consortium of global investment firms that is lead by North Base Media and joined by GDP Venture, East Ventures, and MNM Creative, a multimedia and entertainm...
19.04.2016Serbian Content Insights Lands EUR 1.1 Million to End ClickbaitContent Insights is a startup company based in Novi Sad that has just received one of the highest amounts of VC investment in Serbia. A combined total of EUR1.1 million has been invested by three VC funds: Eleven, North Base Media, and Neve...
03.11.2015Hitbox Raises $4M in FundingHitbox, a Vienna, Austria-based livestreaming community for gamers, raised $4m in funding. The round was led by Speedinvest, with participation from online game developer and publisher Wargaming, North Base Media, and other angels. The comp...
21.10.2015Daily funding roundup - October 21, 2015`Arvinas bagged $41.6M; Clavis Insight received $20M; Adjust landed $17M LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley healthcare SaaS provider, today announced its first institutional funding round of $3 million led by Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc...
-Hunch chips in €4 million for real-time social media placementEngaging consumers in personalised ways is critical for all B2C marketers. Yet this goal has remained difficult to achieve at scale as customer, product, and creative data sets are trapped in multiple departments and in disparate informatio...

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