Damian Collier

Helping the world’s leading brands solve problems using AR/VR/3D

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2014
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Seed Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jul 2014
Community is the leading SMS platform that is redefining how businesses, brands, public figures, and creators engage with their audiences. Community transforms SMS from a transactional tool into a powerful channel for building relationships, fostering trust, and inspiring action. The platform’s advanced segmentation capabilities allow brands to deliver personalized, meaningful messages to key audiences—free from the constraint of algorithms and misinformation. By enabling authentic, high-intent interactions, Community helps businesses deepen connections, capture valuable insights, and increase customer lifetime value. Community is led by Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Schultz, who joined in November 2024. The company was founded in 2019 by Guy Oseary, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Rosenheck, and Matthew Peltier. In 2022, Robert Wolf joined as Community’s Chairman.
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2016
Founder & CEO
Feb 2016
Blend Media has been helping brands and businesses find the best Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 360 and 3D content and solutions since 2016. The understanding of what’s possible, coupled with access to high-quality XR content and world-class talent is a significant challenge when embarking on an immersive project. That’s precisely where Blend Media comes in. Our experience in the XR industry has seen us work with hundreds of clients from small start-ups to large enterprises and blue-chip companies, including Disney, Deloitte, Intel, L’Oréal, Facebook, Google, Framestore, McCann, Universal Music, The Macallan and many more. We have been at the forefront of immersive technologies, techniques and creators for over six years and our team of experts are experienced in creating all types of XR projects, supporting from idea to implementation. As we are product agnostic, we find the best XR solutions for the clients. Our 360˚ content library is the worlds largest and most comprehensive premium collection, with over 46,000 minutes of breathtaking 360˚ video stock content and programmes from 4K to 12K, 2D & 3D. Contact us to discuss your XR ambitions hello@blend.media
2014
Seed Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jul 2014
Community is the leading SMS platform that is redefining how businesses, brands, public figures, and creators engage with their audiences. Community transforms SMS from a transactional tool into a powerful channel for building relationships, fostering trust, and inspiring action. The platform’s advanced segmentation capabilities allow brands to deliver personalized, meaningful messages to key audiences—free from the constraint of algorithms and misinformation. By enabling authentic, high-intent interactions, Community helps businesses deepen connections, capture valuable insights, and increase customer lifetime value. Community is led by Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Schultz, who joined in November 2024. The company was founded in 2019 by Guy Oseary, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Rosenheck, and Matthew Peltier. In 2022, Robert Wolf joined as Community’s Chairman.
2012
Founder & CEO (Acquired July 2014)
Jan 2012
Viral Spiral, now part of Rightster (www.rightster.com), connects brands, creative agencies, production companies and publishers with the worlds most-viewed and shared Social Video Content/Influencers. We work creatively through a range of services including licensing, research & consultancy, cross promotion/seeding, production and distribution & monetisation. We have connected the best of viral content with the likes of Coca-Cola, Honda, Delta Airlines, Nike, VW, Google, blackberry, Pampers, Viacom, BBC, AOL and many more. In addition to working with some of the biggest YouTube creators, Viners, Instagramers and memes, we identify the hottest new social video trends as they break, which makes Viral Spiral the source for Social Video Content/Influencers.
2001
In House Counsel (secondment)
Mar 2001
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures