Funding Rounds: Skydance Media completed a $400M strategic investment round led by KKR with participation from the Ellison family, Redbird Capital Partners, an Tencent. The capital raise and access provided by KKR will further Skydance’s initiatives in sports and interactive entertainment. Skydance has a current co-production deal with Meadowlark Media and upcoming projects with Diana Taurasi, Kylian Mbappe, and others.
Rooter, India’s largest game streaming platform announced a new round of financing $16M and led by Venture Capital company Lightbox. The funding will go to scale the company and help it’s technology capabilities.