HISTORY
Media Investment Group (MIG) is an investment advisory, consulting, and management services firm specializing in technology, media, film, television, music, AI, and content companies. MIG, along with its affiliates—MIG Tech Advisors VIII LLC and MIG Capital Partners —focuses on a diverse range of sectors including clean energy, carbon-neutral initiatives, social networks, digital media, gaming, AI, mobile, cloud, consumer Internet, , defense, space, mobility, and health, among others.
The firm and its principals have acted as General Partners, Managing Members, and Special Limited Partners in multiple investment vehicles, successfully participating in over US$2.6 billion of capital deployed numerous public and private companies within their areas of expertise.
MIG’s activities and portfolio includes collaborations with leaders in media, entertainment, social networking, gaming, and technology platforms. These partnerships have addressed significant consumer engagement challenges while creating lucrative revenue opportunities across leading Internet, mobile and technology platforms and enterprises.
MIG is also committed to philanthropy, serving as a co-founder and advisor to various global initiatives aimed at enhancing philanthropic efforts on the social Internet. The firm actively contributes to addressing critical issues such as water access and purification, and participates in initiatives supporting technology and job creation through collaborations with government agencies.
The firm’s revenue streams include:
Financial & Strategic Consulting
Investments, M&A, Exits & Advisory
Management Services
Board Representation
MIG champions passionate and diligent founders, C-suite executives, and boards in transforming disruptive ideas into category-leading businesses. We are dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs and visionaries striving to expand the boundaries of what is achievable through innovative technology, products, and platforms.
MIG engages and partners closely with startups across numerous sectors, including media, entertainment, music, sports, consumer tech, global enterprises, AI, applications, clean tech, education, health, space, defense, robotics and related technologies, providing investment advisory and consulting services at all stages of funding.
OUR TEAM
Richard Cooperstein
Senior Managing Partner
Richard received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College, a Master’s Degree in Law from Cambridge University, England and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He has also completed the undergraduate pre-law program at the LSE and the executive program on negotiation at Harvard Law School/MIT.
Experience
Richard is a Founder and Senior Managing Partner of Media Investment Group. MIG provides investment, consulting and management services focusing on technology, social networking, digital media, streaming, VR/ AI and other platform, applications and technologies. Richard was the original senior director and head of international business development & strategy at Facebook He has served as an executive, investor, board member, founder, or consultant to numerous transformative technology companies in TMT, mobile, video distribution, streaming, monetization, advertising, social and content sharing networks.
Prior to FB, Richard served as CFO and Senior Vice President of Disney’s Worldwide Television Group where he managed finance, business development and equity ventures. He coordinated and oversaw financial, business development, strategy, as well as the equity joint ventures group for Disney, representing several billion dollars in annual revenue.
Previously, Richard served in operational, advisory and/or executive management roles within Viacom Entertainment Group, Paramount Pictures as well as HBO International and Warner Bros International Television groups.
Richard has been involved with various philanthropic activities, including serving as chairman of a global charitable initiative driving philanthropic activities across the social Internet, as well as participating in several White House, World Economic Forum and United Nations summits and other leadership initiatives on technology, media, television, social investing, sustainability, philanthropy and job creation. He is on the Board of the University of Cumbria’s Institute for Leadership and Sustainability in the UK.
He has held Series 7 and Series 63 licenses with FINRA. He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, running), travels extensively and enjoys boating.
Josh Elbaum
Managing Director
Josh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Brown University.
Experience
Josh Elbaum is Managing Director of Media Investment Group, LLC. He provides financial and strategic consulting services to global media, entertainment, and asset management enterprises. Josh also participates in the firm’s deployment of private equity capital into new business opportunities within MIGs areas of expertise. Collectively the firm has participated in film financings, venture capital investments, consulting services, strategic alliances, research services, international sales, valuations and new business development.
For nearly 25 years, Josh has traveled worldwide selling television and film content, expanding markets and serving as a catalyst in the realization of new business opportunities across the media landscape.
With strong relationships throughout the creative, production and distribution sectors of the media industry, as well as extensive connections in government, banking and advertising, Josh’s work includes transactions, due diligence, feasibility analysis, IPTV, broadband and social network media initiatives.
Most recently Josh has been involved in projects in the fields of news, sports, children’s and educational programming in the Middle East, working with public and private network and independent broadcasters, independent production studios and multi-media distributors. For over 15 years, Josh has been a juror for the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ International Emmy Awards.
Josh has served in senior executive positions at Turner Broadcasting, CNN, ITC (U.K.) and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer/United Artists. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the National Association of Program Television Executives, and the Los Angeles Committee on Foreign Relations. Josh is conversant in Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Russian.