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Patrick Murphy

Managing Partner at Tapestry Investor

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Patrick Murphy is a Partner at Tapestry VC in San Francisco, California, where he co-founded and serves as Managing Partner. With a background in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and venture investing at Universal Music Group, Murphy has successfully invested in various companies such as Ladder, Houseparty, and Pluto TV, focusing on sectors like robotics, IoT, and media/content. Murphy's career highlights include founding spudmurphy design and making strategic investments in innovative startups at Tapestry VC, where he has played a key role in successful funding rounds for companies like Jelli and VULCUN.

Work Experience 

TV

Tapestry VC

  • Co-founder & Managing Partner

    2018 - Current

    Early stage investor in breakout companies Hopin, Pitch, Nothing, Manna, Crossbeam, Zapp, MetaMap, Standard AI and over 30 more across software, fintech and breakthrough technology.

Backing technical and repeat founders across Europe & US.

tapestry.vc
UM

Universal Music Group

  • Venture Investor

    2014 - 2017

    Founded UMG's corporate VC fund to invest across consumer tech & media. Portfolio included Houseparty (sold to Epic Games), TikTok / Musically (sold to ByteDance), Jelli (sold to iHeartMedia), Pex, Pluto TV (sold to Viacom), Rockbot, Shazam (sold to Apple), Spotify (IPO), Stance, Streamlabs (sold to Logitech) and Vida (Cimpress exit).

Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.

Raised $8,648,532,087.00 from Bill Ackman.

universalmusic.com
GS

Goldman Sachs

  • TMT Investment Banker

    2008 - 2014

    Worked on numerous sales & IPOs across Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT). Notably: Vodafone’s $130B stake sale of Verizon Wireless; the buyouts of baseball teams LA Dodgers and San Diego Padres; and Universal Music Group's sale of record label EMI to Warner Music, which lead me into VC.

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

goldmansachs.com

spudmurphy design

  • Founder & CEO

    2000 - 2007

    Self-taught web developer. Founded and ran my own agency from teens through college.

Education 

Investments 

Ladder

Series A

Total funding: $320M

nMachine

Pre Seed

Total funding: $1M

Sustain.Life

Seed

Total funding: $9M

Pex

Seed

Total funding: $64M

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