Richard Cooperstein
Founder of Venture for Good
Beverly Hills, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2019 - Current
Investor | Advisor | Fractional Exec • Lead media-focused investment and advisory platform with $6B+ in deployed and structured capital across entertainment IP, music, sports, and digital networks. • Structured and raised $2B+ in capital for IP acquisition vehicles and advisory on corporate m&a, league, team, and rights transactions. • Executive advisor and investor in Music IP acquisition, Digital Media, FinTech, Energy, and global media and streaming ventures. • Operated as CEO, COO, CFO, and Board Director across media and sports-focused growth companies. • Originate and structure strategic distribution, content licensing, and monetization deals in emerging formats and platforms. • 2024/25 deals in media, sports, defense, space, AI, health, and clean tech via global network.
Investor, Shareholder
2021
TMRW's mission is to redefine protein for the masses by creating protein with more flavor, nutrients and variety than any protein available today.
Investor, Board, Fmr Vice Chairman
2021
IZON is a premium out-of-home media technology platform that delivers entertainment and media to captive, targeted audiences—extending reach for high-quality content creators and advertisers across sports and entertainment verticals.
Investor
2021
Restoring native forests to fight climate change, boost biodiversity, and empower communities. Terraformation supports global forestry teams with solutions for seed sourcing, tracking, training, and financing to revitalize degraded land.
Terraformation wants to solve climate change.
Raised $44,329,108.00 from U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Transaction Senior Advisor, Capital Formation and Equity Participant
2021
Capital formation and equity participation in private capital US$1-$2bn transaction(s) for partners acquiring Kobalt Music catalog IP (over 80,000 titles)
Founder and Partner
2018
Venture for Good is a climate-focused VC backing high-impact startups. We invest in and partner with companies driving breakthrough climate tech with strong commercial and scalable potential to help solve the planet’s biggest challenges.
Investor, Limited Partner
2013
Limited Partner, Investor Portfolio CC3. Branch, Fuzzy Pet Health, Divergence Crypto, Immortals, FanBank, Midnight Electric, Ledger Investing, etc.
LA's first seed fund, backing entrepreneurs developing cutting-edge frontier technologies to address the world's most pressing problems.
Investor, Shareholder
2019
Energy Vault is a portfolio company based in Lugano, Switzerland, which focuses on the development of innovative, grid-scale energy storage solutions. In addition to investment and shareholding in the company, formerly served as EVP & CFO.
Managing Partner
2010 - 2019
Partner | Investor | Advisor Active in TMT investment & advisory—VC, PE, HoldCo/FoF. Founder, board member, advisor, and investor across ~60 companies. Focus areas: media, entertainment, sports, music, IP, clean tech, climate, defense, crypto, AI, mobility, and healthcare. Advisory director to a global investment bank and venture partner at a leading Silicon Valley VC. Extensive experience in late-stage capital formation and strategic growth.
Senior Director and Head of Intl Business Development & Strategy
2008 - 2010
Managed international business/ corporate dev and strategy. Developed and implemented international expansion opportunities, strategic partnerships, and collaborations, on-boarded new partners, drive various bd and user growth initiatives, encompassing portions of FB Connect, Pages, mobile, languages, live streaming, media integrations for global markets at the time of some of FBs most rapid growth from ~ 50m to 450m active users to what is now nearly 3bn.
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.