Most venture capitalists can't boast a fan army of nearly 500,000 Instagram followers. But most are not Jordan Fudge, the movie-star-handsome founder of Sinai Capital Partners, an L.A.-based hedge fund that raised $600 million in new capital late last year.
Much of that is earmarked for tech investment, but $100 million has been set aside for New Slate Ventures, a nascent TV and film fund that's already had success with its first title, Radha Blank's autobiographical dramedy The Forty-Year-Old Version, acquired by Netflix for seven figures at last year's Sundance.
And despite launching just a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, New Slate, which has mandated itself to find stories that are "intersectional, inclusive and culturally impactful,".
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