Broadway Video Ventures

Broadway Video Ventures (BVV) is the corporate venture capital arm of Broadway Video, the entertainment company founded by Lorne Michaels — creator and long-running producer of Saturday Night Live. Based in New York City and active since 2011, BVV targets early and growth-stage investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures across media, entertainment, and technology. The fund deploys a minimum of $1.1 million and can commit up to $34.3 million in a single investment, with a portfolio of 14 companies across media, SaaS, gaming, and health tech. Notable portfolio companies include Headspace (meditation and mental wellness app, now merged with Ginger to form Headspace Health), Houseparty (social video app, acquired by Epic Games), and Futurefly (gaming). BVV also incubated Above Average, a digital comedy network. The broader Broadway Video library — spanning SNL, The Tonight Show, and other marquee television properties — gives the firm unique access to talent relationships, content licensing opportunities, and entertainment industry networks. BVV's investment thesis is rooted in the belief that media, entertainment, and technology are converging irreversibly, and that a capital partner with deep content industry relationships can offer technology startups distribution, talent, and branding advantages that pure financial investors cannot. The five-partner team evaluates opportunities through the lens of Broadway Video's ability to add strategic value beyond capital.