Sam Englebardt

Sam Englebardt is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired, and financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses as well as dozens of films and television shows over the past decade.

Englebardt is a Co-Founder and Partner at Galaxy Digital and the Head of Galaxy’s Interactive division. Investing from its $325 million Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund, Galaxy Interactive focuses exclusively on companies operating at the intersection of interactive content, blockchain, and other technologies, with particular emphasis on video game studios, eSports, digital objects, and related infrastructure tech.

Englebardt’s involvement with Galaxy reflects his deep interest in the intersection of content, consciousness, and exponential technologies. In addition to the Galaxy Interactive portfolio, he was an early investor in Eyefluence, an eye-tracking technology company that was sold to Google, and he has been an advisor to several start-ups in the mixed-reality space, including the VR company, The Void.

Prior to Galaxy Digital, Englebardt was a Partner and Managing Director at Lambert Media Group (LMG) from 2007 to 2016, where he sourced and managed a portfolio of media-sector private equity investments. Before LMG, Englebardt was a Vice President and Financial Advisor at Alliance Bernstein. He has been a prolific content producer throughout his career and spent three years running LMG portfolio company, Demarest Films. His live-action projects include the acclaimed John Le Carre projects, "The Night Manager", and "A Most Wanted Man".