North Base Media

North Base Media is an operator-led investment firm focused on opportunities in digital media in emerging markets. The firm specializes in news, business information, sports and gaming, entertainment media, and other digital-driven opportunities in growth markets. North Base Media creates value by bringing top-level international expertise and capital to invested companies, accelerating their digital adaptation and financial success, and allowing them to become recognized leaders in their national markets.

Founded in 2013, North Base Media is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States, with additional offices in Singapore. The firm focuses on both early- and mid-stage companies that show promise in key emerging markets. Its portfolio companies benefit from being properly capitalized to pursue growth opportunities, gaining access to unique digital, media, and journalistic know-how, and 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.

The firm's co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and Sasa Vucinic, co-founder and longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). 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. North Base Media does not align itself with governments, political causes, or forces in the countries where it operates.