Dan'L Hewitt

Moonbug

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
4
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2
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1
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13y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Jul 2022
Invisible Universe is an animation studio rewriting the playbook on developing kids & family entertainment. While franchises have traditionally been born from mediums such as publishing, tv & film, we believe the most beloved animated franchises of the future will be born where people are spending most of their time - social media. We thrive on taking risks and iterating quickly. Our in-house studio enabled by AI, proprietary software and talent allows us to produce content at the speed of social and at a fraction of the cost of traditional studios
Limited Partner | Investor
Jan 2022
Sandbox Studios is a $30m seed stage fund based in Hollywood and exclusively invests in consumer brands founded or backed by A-list celebrities. Current portfolio includes brands with Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Aniston, Charlie DAmelio, Sean Mendes, Serena Williams, and more. Deal flow is accessed by the GPs 20+ years as founder of world renowned sponsorship agency Slingshot - working directly with clients including The Rolling Stones, Richard Branson, Elton John, Prince and more to develop commercial strategies and deals. Having exited Slingshot for 1000x MOIC, the GP formed Sandbox Studios to utilize this capital as well as take in outside capital from a select number of outside LPs who are strategic in retail, digital, branding and UX. Sandbox Studios is a new type of venture capital fund - one that thinks holistically with the consumer at the heart of emotional engagement, and has the network and team to amplify growth quickly. Sandbox is currently raising - if you are a strategic LP who wants to be part of building the future of brands globally, wed like to hear from you!
Investor & Advisor
Dec 2013
Established in 2004, TCO London is a creative studio and the name behind culture, food and entertainment brands Huck, Sandwich Magazine and Little White Lies. We specialise in helping brands connect with influential, hard-to-reach audiences, leveraging the insight and access that comes from our owned media channels to tell credible, authentic stories for brands. We access original talent, and tell their stories using our global creative network of the world’s top journalists, illustrators, photographers and filmmakers, who help us to create authentic content. Huck. The Original Changemaker Magazine. Sitting at the centre of a switched-on audience who crave original stories and quality journalism, we offer a unique lens for capturing personal stories of cultural movements as they happen. Little White Lies. Truth and Movies. As Europe's largest premium film brand, we offer proudly independent journalism across cinema and TV, with a focus on craft over PR, delivered through a unique illustrative style. We are known as being "the most beautiful magazone on the shelf"​ (The Guardian). The TCO team is made up of award-winning journalists, strategists, designers and branded-content producers, who have worked across MTV, ITN, New York Times, Guardian, Dazed, Wired and beyond. They’ve received awards across multiple disciplines from D&AD to Sundance Film Festival, Gold Cannes Lions and beyond.
Investor & Advisor
Dec 2013
Quill is the global leader in multi-language content production for ecommerce, defining a completely new model for high-volume, high-quality, multi-language content creation, based on the powerful combination of technology and talent. We specialise in Performance Content: the critical pre-purchase information that directly drives ecommerce revenues – such as product and category descriptions, Amazon A+ content, buying guides, hotel reviews and destination guides. We create over 4 million words of bespoke content a month – plus videos and graphics – for 240+ clients, including global brands such as Amazon, Google, eBay, Tommy Hilfiger, M&S, TUI, Trivago, Farfetch, Dunhill, John Lewis and Louis Vuitton. Our innovative model leverages a highly flexible, global network of 7,000+ freelance content specialists, centrally managed through the Quill Cloud platform: pioneering technology that streamlines and automates complex production and quality control processes to enable a level of efficiency, speed and scale that’s impossible to attain in-house or via traditional agencies. Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/Quill_Content
Experience · 8 entries
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Investments (4)
Founder (1)
2022
Investor
Jul 2022
Invisible Universe is an animation studio rewriting the playbook on developing kids & family entertainment. While franchises have traditionally been born from mediums such as publishing, tv & film, we believe the most beloved animated franchises of the future will be born where people are spending most of their time - social media. We thrive on taking risks and iterating quickly. Our in-house studio enabled by AI, proprietary software and talent allows us to produce content at the speed of social and at a fraction of the cost of traditional studios
Limited Partner | Investor
Jan 2022
Sandbox Studios is a $30m seed stage fund based in Hollywood and exclusively invests in consumer brands founded or backed by A-list celebrities. Current portfolio includes brands with Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Aniston, Charlie DAmelio, Sean Mendes, Serena Williams, and more. Deal flow is accessed by the GPs 20+ years as founder of world renowned sponsorship agency Slingshot - working directly with clients including The Rolling Stones, Richard Branson, Elton John, Prince and more to develop commercial strategies and deals. Having exited Slingshot for 1000x MOIC, the GP formed Sandbox Studios to utilize this capital as well as take in outside capital from a select number of outside LPs who are strategic in retail, digital, branding and UX. Sandbox Studios is a new type of venture capital fund - one that thinks holistically with the consumer at the heart of emotional engagement, and has the network and team to amplify growth quickly. Sandbox is currently raising - if you are a strategic LP who wants to be part of building the future of brands globally, wed like to hear from you!
2018
Mermade
Partner
Sep 2018
2015
CalorieX & The Exchange Foundation
Founder
Jul 2015
2014
Managing Director, UK
Mar 2014
Maker Studios is a global digital media brand and the original creator network. Founded in 2009 as a collaborative content engine, Maker Studios continues to innovate with global creators by producing award-winning, original short form series. Beyond social platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, original series and creator content can be viewed across more than 20 distribution platforms worldwide. Maker Studios is rooted in creator relationships and offers original programming, distribution, enterprise, and brand partnership opportunities to its global network – pairing advertisers looking to reach millennial audiences with the world’s biggest digital names across multiple genres. Maker Studios, a division of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Medias Disney Digital Network, is headquartered in Culver City, California, with operations in 12 markets across the globe under The Walt Disney Company umbrella. For more information visit ddn.disney.com.
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