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Mr. Samuel Hendel is the Co-Founder of Dataminr, a leading company for event and risk detection, and a Board Member at Wejo. His investment focus areas include B2B software, data/analytics, and fintech. He has a track record of 18 years in the investment management industry, and most recently served as Portfolio Manager and President of Easterly Investment Partners. Samuel partnered with KKR to purchase a music catalog of 62,000 music copyrights for $1.1 billion. Previous investments include Chord Music Partners, Knitting Factory Entertainment, Partisan Records, and Kino Lorber. He typically writes $25,000 checks and aims to build a large portfolio. Samuel Hendel maintains a collaborative style in conflict management.
Location: New York, NY
Country: United States of America
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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
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Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: I found evidence Samuel (Sam) Hendel is Managing Partner of Chord Music Partners, which has active transactions in 2025 (Chord raised new funding and strategic investments in August 2025 and events in Oct 2025). He founded Chord in 2021 and is associated with investments in music catalogs (Chord Music Partners). The most recent public activity tied to Hendel is in 2025 (investment/strategic funding for Chord Music Partners and related events), which is within the last 6 months from the reference date, and therefore classifies as very-active.
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Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.
Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.
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