The third convergence: Stewart Alsop of TK MediaTech Ventures on media tech’s next big wave

What happens when decades of media and venture capital experience converge?

Stewart Alsop, co-founder of TK MediaTech Ventures and a VC since 1996, brings a journalist’s clarity and an investor’s vision to the evolving landscape of media technology.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

• 00:48 Introduction and Guest Welcome

• 01:02 Early Career and First Impressions

• 01:37 Bluntness and Career Challenges

• 03:00 Investment Philosophy and Media Tech Focus

• 06:45 The Third Convergence of Media and Technology

• 16:20 AI and Media Tech Investments

• 23:56 Finding the Right Entrepreneurs

• 25:27 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

 

In this episode,

Stewart joins Brian Smiga to explore the “third convergence” of media and technology, an era defined by high-fidelity digital twins, immersive media, and AI-powered creativity. He unpacks how this new phase builds on two prior tech-media inflection points and why his firm, TK MediaTech Ventures, is poised to capitalize on this transformation.

The conversation dives into Stewart’s investment philosophy, the value of blunt honesty in venture partnerships, and the thesis behind faster time-to-liquidity in media tech. From the early bets on TiVo and Twitch to today’s frontier in digital avatars and real-time reality rendering, Stewart explains what founders and LPs should know and why the next media revolution may already be here.