DBTH Capital Ventures

DBTH Capital Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in July 2018 by Virginie Berger, a music and entertainment executive with more than 20 years of experience across companies including Microsoft, NRJ, Omnicom, and MySpace France. The firm's name derives from Don't Believe The Hype, Berger's long-running consulting brand in the music industry -- a signal of its contrarian, specialist orientation. DBTH Capital focuses exclusively on rights technology and content technology, with emphasis on music tech, entertainment rights infrastructure, artificial intelligence applications, and blockchain within the creative industries. The firm raised its debut fund, DBTH Capital Fund I, at approximately EUR 35 million (USD 38.5 million) in a first close announced in September 2019, established in partnership with a US-based family office controlling nearly $5 billion in assets. The fund writes checks of $500,000 to $5 million at seed and Series A stages, targeting companies building infrastructure for digital rights management, royalty distribution, music licensing, and AI-powered content tools. Seven investments span media and entertainment, AI, Web3, and software. Berger's position at the intersection of music industry leadership and technology investment gives DBTH Capital access to key ecosystem partners -- labels, managers, publishers, and streaming platforms -- that purely financial investors cannot replicate. The firm forms strategic partnerships with these stakeholders to support portfolio companies in navigating the complex rights and licensing landscape that defines the music technology sector.