Joseph Hopkins

Executive Leader in AI Technology & Media Innovation | Scaler of Teams & GTM Strategy | Trusted Advisor, Investor & Board Member

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
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Seed Investor
Mar 2025
Elevate is a private, invitation-only membership network and AI platform connecting vetted founders with senior operators, executives, and strategic investors worldwide. Were industry agnostic, with deep concentration in technology and enterprise AI, media and entertainment, and venture. Rooted in Los Angeles with strong ties to Silicon Valley and a global footprint, our network of 2,000+ includes leaders from Capital One, Red Bull, Disney, Meta, and Amazon and across the Fortune 500, alongside venture funds, unicorn founders, and strategic family offices. We find and vet emerging companies, convene the rooms where founders and decision makers compare notes firsthand, and turn the right introductions into pilots, partnerships, and investments. At the center of the platform is Ellie, your AI head of community. She powers the network over voice, text, and email and helps members surface the relationships and opportunities worth their time.
Seed Investor
Feb 2025
Flikforge is building the trust layer for generative AI. Our AI-native data and licensing platform turns media, likeness, and other high-value assets into structured, traceable, and legally licensable inputs for generative AI. We help creators, companies, and AI developers move beyond scraped data—unlocking the legal right to publish, monetize, and scale GenAI outputs. Where others stop at sourcing or labeling, Flikforge automates the full licensing lifecycle: registering ownership, setting terms, validating use, tracking provenance, and enforcing rights post-generation. We support: Media Owners: Monetize video and image libraries by licensing them for AI training or controlled generation, backed by enforceable terms and usage audits. AI Developers: Access and license premium, structured datasets—ready for training foundational or fine-tuned models with full commercial clearance. Brands & Agencies: Train AI tools on product visuals or campaign content while embedding brand guidelines into generation pipelines to ensure on-brand, rights-cleared outputs. Individuals: Protect and monetize your digital likeness. Flikforge gives you the tools to control where, how, and by whom your AI-generated images and videos can be used. Think of it as SSL for generative media: verifiable, enforceable, and built for scale.
Investor - Advisor
Oct 2024
Audiotool is an online platform for music creators to produce, collaborate and share music in the cloud.
late stageMusicians
Seed Investor
Feb 2022
Stakeholder Labs develops enterprise software to help public companies measure and increase shareholder engagement. Offering a comprehensive suite of solutions, including interactive corporate websites, digital shareholder verification, and targeted communications and rewards programs, Stakeholder Labs provides investor relations officers with the latest tools to connect with todays shareholder. For more information about Stakeholder Labs, please visit stakeholderlabs.com.
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2025
Seed Investor
Mar 2025
Elevate is a private, invitation-only membership network and AI platform connecting vetted founders with senior operators, executives, and strategic investors worldwide. Were industry agnostic, with deep concentration in technology and enterprise AI, media and entertainment, and venture. Rooted in Los Angeles with strong ties to Silicon Valley and a global footprint, our network of 2,000+ includes leaders from Capital One, Red Bull, Disney, Meta, and Amazon and across the Fortune 500, alongside venture funds, unicorn founders, and strategic family offices. We find and vet emerging companies, convene the rooms where founders and decision makers compare notes firsthand, and turn the right introductions into pilots, partnerships, and investments. At the center of the platform is Ellie, your AI head of community. She powers the network over voice, text, and email and helps members surface the relationships and opportunities worth their time.
Seed Investor
Feb 2025
Flikforge is building the trust layer for generative AI. Our AI-native data and licensing platform turns media, likeness, and other high-value assets into structured, traceable, and legally licensable inputs for generative AI. We help creators, companies, and AI developers move beyond scraped data—unlocking the legal right to publish, monetize, and scale GenAI outputs. Where others stop at sourcing or labeling, Flikforge automates the full licensing lifecycle: registering ownership, setting terms, validating use, tracking provenance, and enforcing rights post-generation. We support: Media Owners: Monetize video and image libraries by licensing them for AI training or controlled generation, backed by enforceable terms and usage audits. AI Developers: Access and license premium, structured datasets—ready for training foundational or fine-tuned models with full commercial clearance. Brands & Agencies: Train AI tools on product visuals or campaign content while embedding brand guidelines into generation pipelines to ensure on-brand, rights-cleared outputs. Individuals: Protect and monetize your digital likeness. Flikforge gives you the tools to control where, how, and by whom your AI-generated images and videos can be used. Think of it as SSL for generative media: verifiable, enforceable, and built for scale.
2024
Investor - Advisor
Oct 2024
Audiotool is an online platform for music creators to produce, collaborate and share music in the cloud.
late stageMusicians
2022
Seed Investor
Feb 2022
Stakeholder Labs develops enterprise software to help public companies measure and increase shareholder engagement. Offering a comprehensive suite of solutions, including interactive corporate websites, digital shareholder verification, and targeted communications and rewards programs, Stakeholder Labs provides investor relations officers with the latest tools to connect with todays shareholder. For more information about Stakeholder Labs, please visit stakeholderlabs.com.
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