Jon Gosier — Investor, Builder & Author

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Investor · Builder · Author

Jon Gosier.

Businessman, investor and philanthropist working at the intersection of capital, technology, media and culture.

30+Companies & funds backed
02TED talks
04Founder-led platforms
Jon Gosier at the JUMP launch in San Francisco
Founder & Patron
Gosier Family Office

Build what is missing. Back what is next.

A career shaped by uncommon intersections.

Jon Gosier is the founder and patron of the Gosier Family Office. Across more than two decades, his work has moved between entrepreneurship, private investment, technology, data, media finance and cultural production.

He is the founder of MediaHedge, FilmHedge, Audigent and Southbox Capital; an investor in more than 30 companies and funds; and the author of Code Switch. This site is a living record of that work.

Selected work

Companies built to change the conversation.

From private capital to data infrastructure and media finance, each chapter has started with the same question: what important system has yet to be built?

01

Gosier Family Office

Founder and patron of a family office investing across real estate, technology, media and entertainment.

02

MediaHedge / FilmHedge

Founder of an institutional media-finance and private-credit platform serving film and television.

03

Audigent

Founder and former CEO of the data activation and identity platform acquired by Experian in 2024.

04

Southbox Capital

Founder of the Gosier Family Office investment arm and holding company, established in 2017.

Technology, capital and culture—across eras.

Early chapter

Technology in East Africa

Gosier founded Appfrica and helped establish AfriLabs while working across technology, civic innovation and emerging markets in East Africa.

2009–2018

Ideas on a global stage

A TED Fellow and Senior Fellow, Gosier delivered talks on the distribution of technology’s benefits and the moral responsibilities that come with data.

2015

A new face of leadership

TIME named him one of its “12 New Faces of Black Leadership,” recognizing his work as a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur.

2023

Code Switch

His memoir traces a life in technology, diplomacy and entrepreneurship—and the personal cost of learning to move between very different worlds.

2024–Present

From exit to institution building

Experian acquired Audigent in 2024. Today, Gosier’s work centers on the Gosier Family Office and building the next generation of media-finance infrastructure.

Jon Gosier speaking at the Culture Shifting Summit in Miami

Ideas & speaking

On data, power and who benefits.

Across two TED talks and years of public speaking, Gosier has explored the ethical questions beneath technological progress: who gets access, who absorbs the risk and who participates in the upside.

Cover of Code Switch by Jon Gosier

The memoir

Every life has more than one language.

Code Switch is Jon Gosier’s memoir about identity, ambition, technology and the distance between the worlds we enter and the selves we carry with us.

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The archive

A record of the work.

Selected talks, press photographs, professional milestones and moments from technology, finance and film.

The next chapter is already being written.

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A career at uncommon intersections

Jon Gosier is an investor, entrepreneur, author and patron whose work connects capital, culture, technology and media.

Jon Gosier at the launch of JUMP in Atlanta

Gosier has built his career by seeing value before it is obvious—and then building the infrastructure that helps it endure.

As founder and patron of Gosier Family Office, he oversees a portfolio spanning technology, real estate, venture capital, credit and entertainment. Its investment arm, Southbox Capital, has operated since 2017.

His companies include FilmHedge, a financial technology platform for film and television; MediaHedge, an intelligence and software company serving the media economy; and Audigent, the advertising technology company acquired by Experian in 2024 in a transaction valued at more than $300 million.

Earlier, while living and working in East Africa, he founded the data and technology firm Appfrica and co-founded AfriLabs, a network of innovation hubs across the continent. Those years shaped an enduring interest in how technology, policy and capital can expand access.

He has delivered two TED talks, addressed audiences around the world and authored Code Switch, a book about race, technology and the modern economy. His work has been recognized by TIME and other international publications.

Across each chapter, the through line is consistent: build what is missing, invest in people with conviction, and preserve the story so others can learn from it.

Selected chapters

Companies, capital and public ideas.

A body of work built across several industries rather than a single lane.

01 / BUILD

FilmHedge & MediaHedge

Financial and intelligence infrastructure for the global media economy.

02 / INVEST

Southbox Capital

The investment arm of Gosier Family Office, active across private markets since 2017.

03 / SCALE

Audigent

Advertising technology built to a nine-figure acquisition by Experian.

04 / CONNECT

Appfrica & AfriLabs

Early work advancing entrepreneurship and technology ecosystems across Africa.

05 / SPEAK

Ideas on stage

TED talks and international appearances on data, capital and inclusion.

06 / WRITE

Code Switch

An examination of technology, opportunity and the systems behind both.

20+years building across technology, media and capital
30+companies and funds backed
2TED talks on technology and data
2017Southbox Capital established

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