Models, actors and talk show hosts make their careers not only in Hollywood, but also in Silicon Valley. Stars are often renowned for their albums, athletic performance and spectacular red carpet appearances, and less often for their technological literacy. However, some of them program drone flights. Others have gone from Hollywood actors to co-founders of Silicon Valley ventures. Still others have become investors in startups worth billions of dollars. We want to provide some inspiring examples.

 

So, who else wouldn't mind investing their millions of royalties in startups?

Chamillionaire

Chamillionare recorded its hit "Ridin" in 2005 and since then has not shown itself too much in the world of hip-hop. It turns out that all this time he was working on his own entrepreneurial projects.

A Grammy Award winner and renowned businessman Mark Suster spent some time investing with the Upfront Ventures fund, after which Suster appointed a rapper as a guest entrepreneur of the venture fund. The Chamillionaire Foundation and some of its partners were among the first investors in Maker Studios, which was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company.

Now, according to Republic.co, Hakim Seriki, aka Chamillionaire Platinum and a Grammy-winning recording artist, founder of Convoz, former entrepreneur at Upfront Ventures residence, is now investing in crowdfunding and seems to have quickly realized what is crowdfunding and the benefits. investing in projects such as Fleeting (connecting commercial drivers to on-demand trucking jobs) and Sienna Sauce (a delicious, healthy choice for all your sauce needs).

Ashton Kutcher

The typical cute rom-com hero surprised many with his performance as Steve Jobs in the film about the genius of the Apple empire - even though the film itself received a rather restrained assessment from the audience.

The actor is known for investing in high-tech companies such as Spotify, AirBnb, Foursquare, Uber, and Dwolla more than once - 51 times. In addition to his impressive portfolio of investments, Kutcher is also a businessman who founded a media company that produces media events in the entertainment and technology industries; guest speakers included Ben Horowitz, Steve Forbes and Arianna Huffington.

According to WorkandMoney, Ashton Kutcher supported more than 100 startups, including such large companies as Skype and Airbnb. In 2010, the actor founded the venture fund A-Grade Investments. Over the past six years, Kutcher has increased his fund from $30 million to $250 million. He is a co-founder of digital media company aplus.com, located in New York.

Black Coffee

South African DJ is an investor in SweepSouth cleaning service. According to Fin24, the company is an online platform that allows online ordering and paying for cleaning services. Besides Black Coffee, SweepSouth investors are retail solutions company DraperDarkFlow and international company Smollan.

Kim Kardashian

According to WorkandMoney, Kim Kardashian has invested heavily in e-commerce resource ShoeDazzle. The site reportedly serves over 3 million customers who sign up for a selection of personalized shoes and accessories every month.

The celebrity is also an investor in Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Apple and Adidas. According to Time Money, the value of 920 shares owned by Kardashian is estimated at $100,000.

Leonardo DiCaprio

He has not yet won an Oscar, but he managed to say his word in the world of technology. Coupled with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim DiCaprio has created an application “ Mobli” for sharing photos and videos in real time, which should become a worthy competitor for Snapchat. DiCaprio has invested a lot of money into this application, but he is also a consultant for the project on marketing and brand promotion.

Lady Gaga

 

Did you know that Lady Gaga is directly related to a technological startup called Backplane? She owned 20% of the company, while the rest were owned by business sharks such as Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the Menlo Ventures foundation and business angels from SV Angel. The social network Backplane, which allowed users to create their own money, suffered huge losses due to extremely inefficient management, so the application never went to masses. As a result, the project began to work under the new name place.xyz, and if she takes part in it or not we don`t know. 

Magic Johnson

The NBA league star is known not only in the basketball world, but also among venture entrepreneurs. Four years ago he invested millions in Detroit Venture Partners together with ePrize founder Josh Linkner and NBA Cleveland Cavaliers league club owner Dan Gilbert. This foundation continues to make multi-million dollar investments in digital media, mobile application development and e-commerce companies. 14 Bono Vocalist U2 co-founded the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Elevation Partners (Bono named it after his song "Elevation"). His team has made major investments in companies such as Yelp, Facebook and Dropbox, a member of the so-called Unicorn Club, a group of startups with more than $1 billion in capitalization.

 

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg is a partner in a venture capital fund that invests in cannabis startups.

 

His fund is called Casa Verde and he has already invested in a startup from California that delivers medical marijuana in less than 10 minutes to Eaze. According to Business Insider, the company Casa Verde has also invested in the technical company Cannabis in Toronto.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio is known to invest in start-ups that work towards the green world. Among them are the "trash" startup Rubicon Global and Diamond Foundry, which is a manufacturer of ethical diamonds.

The actor also invested in a startup called Mind Maze. According to Fortune, MindMaze is a Swiss startup specializing in virtual reality technology, which is mainly used in the healthcare industry.

 

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