Keith Richman
Partner at 31 Atlantic
Keith Richman
Partner at 31 Atlantic
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2019 - Current
Boosted Commerce is a CPG platform focused on accelerating the growth of beloved consumer brands. We do this by acquiring, investing in, and growing third party seller businesses and via original product development across verticals we believe offer exceptional opportunity.
Co-Founder
2018
Voi, like the US based companies Bird and Lime, is a leading urban mobility company creating a system of electrically powered scooters around city centers to provide an affordable, sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network. Voi has raised over $50 million from Balderton Capital, Creandum, Project A, Local Globe, and many top angel investors.
Partner
2018
Provides early stage investment to European based start ups and technology companies. 31 Atlantic has offices in Los Angeles and Stockholm. Sample current investments include Voi Technology, and Memmo App.
Member, Board of Directors
2016
Grubhub is the nation's leading online and mobile food ordering company dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local takeout restaurants. The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow diners to order directly from approximately 40,000 takeout restaurants in more than 1,000 U.S. cities and London. Every order is supported by the company’s 24/7 customer service teams. Grubhub has offices in Chicago, New York and London.
Investor
2019
www.memmo.me is a platform that offers personal video messages from athletes, actors, musicians, YouTubers and other profiles to their fans and followers. The videos are recorded, sent and received on the platform. memmo enables modern fan experiences, and make them more personal than ever before. Memmo is backed by Luxor Capital, a global investment firm that previously backed companies like Delivery Hero, VOI and Flixbus. Additional investors include 31 Atlantic Capital (Voi, Black Tux) Altitude Capital, and angel investors including Per Brillioth (CEO Vostok New Ventures), Patrik Hedelin and Magnus Wiberg (eEquity), Fredrik Hjelm (Voi), Keith Richman (GrubHub), Niklas Lundell and Joel Borg (Telegram), Erik Engellau-Nilsson (CEO Norrsken), Christoffer Norman (Northzone) and Eric Finnås Dahlström (ex-Avito).
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2018
Member, Board of Directors
2013
Serve on the board of Vostok New Ventures, a publicly traded investment company focused on investing in online based marketplace businesses. Current holdings include Avito (the largest classified property in Russia), GETT (on demand rides), BlaBlaCar (ride sharing service), Property Finder (UAE based housing search), and Wallapop, among others.
President
2013 - 2018
DEFY was a large original programmer for Gen-Z and Millennials (13-34 y/o) that built passionate communities and significant video audiences across all social media platforms through the creation of compelling original digital video content. This content ranged from high end short form productions that in the past has evolved into SVOD/cable programs to short form influencer based programming. Defy brands drove over 800MM video views a month and amassed over 75 million fans across Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and many more. The combination of the scale and passion of the audience allowed Defy to create a significant digital advertising business with extensions in the content licensing and direct to consumer areas.
CEO
2005 - 2013
Break Media is one of the larges independent digital media companies with an audience of over 125 million unique visitors monthly. The company's properties include the largest humor site —Break.com—as well as other leading properties and mobile apps in the humor, gaming and men's lifestyle verticals. In addition to top editorial content, the company is known as a leader in online video where is a leading acquirer of UGC and producer of award winning original and branded content. The company has over 178 people in offices in Los Angeles (Headquarters) New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto and Detroit