North Base Media

North Base Media is an investment firm focused on news, business information, sports and gaming, entertainment media, and other digital-driven opportunities in growth markets. NBM creates value by bringing top-level international expertise and capital to invested companies that will benefit from the deep knowledge, reputation and extensive connections of NBM’s partners. NBM accelerates the digital adaptation and financial success of our partner companies, allowing them become recognized leaders in their national markets. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, co-founder and longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters News and General Counsel of the Journal. Strategic investors include Bloomberg Beta, Graham Holdings, Singapore Press Holdings, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the family offices of Alibaba’s leaders and a former Bell Labs CEO, as well as individuals who led Univision, Time Inc. and investment funds in Asia and China. NBM focuses on both early- and mid-stage companies that show promise in key emerging markets. The portfolio companies, in turn, benefit from being properly capitalized to pursue growth opportunities, by getting access to unique digital, media and journalistic know-how, and by being able to tap one another to jointly produce or share content, ideas and practices, bringing additional economic advantage to the enterprise and its investors. NBM specializes in independently owned media or technologies that enable consumers to participate in their countries’ civic, cultural and economic life and that aim to be essential to key audiences in their markets. NBM does not align itself with governments, political causes or forces in the countries where it operates.