{"id":7678,"date":"2017-01-27T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/jeffrey-katzenberg-raises\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:06:07","slug":"jeffrey-katzenberg-raises-nearly-600-million-for-new-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/jeffrey-katzenberg-raises-nearly-600-million-for-new-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises Nearly $600 Million for New Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"
BEVERLY HILLS: Jeffrey Katzenberg has raised $591.5 million for a new venture, WndrCo, setting up the next chapter for the former DreamWorks Animation CEO.<\/p>\n
An SEC filing lists Katzenberg as the manager of the new LLC, which is said to be a digital media and technology investment firm. The minimum investment accepted from any outside investor for the new venture is set at $25 million.<\/p>\n
Katzenberg co-founded DreamWorks back in 1994 along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. In 2004, DreamWorks Animation became a publicly traded company, with Katzenberg as CEO and director. Last year, DreamWorks Animation was sold to Comcast’s NBCU for $3.8 billion, and Katzenberg took on the role of head of DreamWorks New Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEVERLY HILLS: Jeffrey Katzenberg has raised $591.5 million for a new venture, WndrCo, setting up the next chapter for the former DreamWorks Animation CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1170],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-jeffrey-katzenberg"],"yoast_head":"\n