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Jan 2025
The GOTHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL is a special event and incredible day when literally the entire hot jazz & swing community comes together… be it musicians, dancers, or jazz fans.
Many people tell me this Festival is their favorite event of the year… it’s simultaneously a music festival with incredible live bands & artists, and a swing dance with all your favorite bands on one day. It’s a choose-your-own adventure to sit and listen, get up and dance, or do both!
At PROHIBITION PRODUCTIONS, we produce over 300 events per year in NYC, each with live hot jazz and swing bands. The Festival is our way to celebrate the previous year, and look forward into the future.
This year we started GOTHAM JAZZ INC, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, to help further the mission of spreading live jazz and social dancing to the public. Your tax-deductible donations through the PATRON CIRCLE is a meaningful way to support the Festival, and keep jazz alive, maintaining a thriving jazz community year round.
Investor
Jul 2021
Superhuman Platform: AI-native email and calendaring for high-performing teams.⚡️Fly through your inbox, be more responsive to what matters most, and collaborate faster than ever before. Superhuman helps teams save four hours per person, every single week.
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May 2019
📸 🎥Hire professional photographers and videographers at a fraction of the cost in 500 cities in 106 countries
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Dec 2018
-Live Like You Live Here-
We build communities through our network of media brands. Today, we publish The New Tropic in Miami, The Evergrey in Seattle, Pulptown in Orlando, and Bridgeliner in Portland, and The Incline in Pittsburgh.
We’ve engaged millions of locals in cities around the country, and built a profitable model for local journalism and community engagement.
Investor
Nov 2018
STEEZY’s mission is to make dance the next big sporting and fitness category, starting with online dance classes from the world’s best instructors.
We’re a dance technology company that provides curated classes & programs for dance fans who are looking for an easy-to-enjoy dance experience. We use data and insights to enable a delightful learning experience, so our audience can feel the joy of dance faster
Investor
Sep 2018
The LeadIQ platform is built to help you prospect smarter and build pipeline faster. Find prospect data, track sales triggers, and personalize cold outreach all in one place with our smarter B2B contact database.
We make outbound work.
Investor
Aug 2018
Executive briefings of the news you need. Join the waitlist for product launch mid-2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF3zupwgUiJ90O2dy5IXdCb6ZaYT28w7JCgpcUMi5z912tvA/viewform
Founder: Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis co-founded and was the CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a network of popular weblogs that was sold to AOL in November 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior vice president. In addition, he was named general manager of AOL’s Netscape and was responsible for the July 2006 relaunch of the iconic browser as a social bookmarking news site.
Investors include: Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, Matt Coffin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus and Fred Wilson.
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Apr 2018
Live Anyplace, work anywhere. Rent flexible-term furnished apartments with high-speed WiFi and fully equipped workspaces.
• Move-in ready apartments
• Equipped home offices
• Gigabit-speed internet
• First-class customer service
• Rent for 30 days or longer
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Feb 2018
In 2013, Unsplash launched as a modest Tumblr blog. Since then, Unsplash has evolved into one of the most impactful online communities. Today, over 10 billion Unsplash images are seen every month. A photo featured on Unsplash will now be viewed more than the front page of The New York Times.
The Unsplash community is fueled by contributors who offer their images freely for anyone to use, inspiring hundreds of millions of creators from 13-year-old graphic designers to multi-platinum recording artists.
Unsplash is a special community, where the powerful principles of sharing and openness have taken the place of strict copyright and legal red tape.
The web was meant to connect, inform, and inspire us in unprecedented ways. The Unsplash community embodies this philosophy fully. Unsplash has become a place where the impact of our connected world is on full display. Instead of images being hoarded and shut down, images on Unsplash are fuel for creativity.
At Unsplash, our mission is to enable everyone to create. You don’t need to know someone, or have an agent, or have a name to be great on Unsplash. Were a place where creators meet their audience. A place where individuals become a community. And a source of inspiration for millions of people from every country in the world. We’ve seen how the willingness to give a single image unlocks the creative potential that exists in us all.
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Board Member
Jan 2025
The GOTHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL is a special event and incredible day when literally the entire hot jazz & swing community comes together… be it musicians, dancers, or jazz fans.
Many people tell me this Festival is their favorite event of the year… it’s simultaneously a music festival with incredible live bands & artists, and a swing dance with all your favorite bands on one day. It’s a choose-your-own adventure to sit and listen, get up and dance, or do both!
At PROHIBITION PRODUCTIONS, we produce over 300 events per year in NYC, each with live hot jazz and swing bands. The Festival is our way to celebrate the previous year, and look forward into the future.
This year we started GOTHAM JAZZ INC, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, to help further the mission of spreading live jazz and social dancing to the public. Your tax-deductible donations through the PATRON CIRCLE is a meaningful way to support the Festival, and keep jazz alive, maintaining a thriving jazz community year round.
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
The mission of the American Piano Awards is to discover, promote and advance the careers of young, American, world-class, jazz and classical pianists.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Superhuman Platform: AI-native email and calendaring for high-performing teams.⚡️Fly through your inbox, be more responsive to what matters most, and collaborate faster than ever before. Superhuman helps teams save four hours per person, every single week.
2019
Limited Partner
Nov 2019
Founded by Jason Calacanis. LAUNCH is on a mission to support founders and inspire innovation.
Our small team of rebels put on the largest startup conference in the world, the LAUNCH festival, the podcast This Week In Startups and we run the LAUNCH Incubator.
We invest millions of dollars into 40 promising founders a year, some of which go on to change the world. Most of these founders spend 12 weeks in our very intense -- but fabulously fun -- accelerator.
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