Team
Partner & Co-Founder John Salter
Biography
John is a Co-Founder and Partner of Raine. He is responsible for Raine’s interactive entertainment, real money gaming, and digital media practice. Prior to Raine, John was Global Head of Digital Media at UBS Investment Bank, where he worked for more than eight years in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Group in San Francisco. Prior to UBS, John worked in the Internet and New Media group at Volpe, Brown, Whelan & Co. in San Francisco.
While at Raine, John has led Raine’s investments in DraftKings, Tripledot, Games24x7, Huuuge, Midnite, Zumba Fitness, and Jagex. He has led a variety of advisory assignments, including the acquisition of AppLovin’s mobile games business by Tripledot, the sale of SuperPlay to Playtika, $3.0 billion of capital raises for Epic Games in two transactions, DraftKings’ combination with Diamond Eagle and SBTech, the sale of Playtika (a unit of Caesars Interactive) to a consortium led by Shanghai Giant Network Technology, the sale of SoftBank’s majority stake in Supercell to Tencent, and the sale of Legendary Entertainment to Wanda, among other transactions.
John serves on the board of directors of Midnite, Huuuge, Beachbody, and Games24x7, all Raine portfolio companies.
John holds a B.A. from Stanford University.