ZoomerMedia acquired Buzz Connected Media Inc., owner and publisher of Daily Hive, from founders Karm Sumal and Manny Bahia for $16.4M comprised of cash, vendor take-back note, preferred stock, and assumption of debt. Continue Reading
Steven Ship and David Fritz’s Creative Intell secured US $3M seed funding from a prominent group of music industry investors, leaders and companies. Continue Reading
VerSe Innovation secured US $375M additional funding from CPP Investments, following US $430M funding round in August 2021 with participation CPP Investments, Ontario Teachers’, Luxor Capital, Sumeru Ventures, Sofina Group, Baillie Gifford and others. Continue Reading
Elliott Investment Management L.P.’s Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. and its institutional partners entered into agreement to take Nielsen Holdings plc private for US $16B. Continue Reading
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC acquired Haven Entertainment Studios Inc. from founders Jade Raymond, Leon O’Reilly, Pierre-François Sapinski for undisclosed amount.
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Postmedia Network Canada to acquire Brunswick News Inc. from J. D. Irving, Limited for $7.5M in cash and $8.6M in 4,095,238 variable voting shares. Upon conversion, J. D. Irving could become the largest voting shareholder. Continue Reading
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited backed and Moses Znaimer controlled ZoomerMedia Limited acquired Freshdaily Inc., owner and publisher of blogTO, from founder Tim Shore. Financial terms were not disclosed.Continue Reading
Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) secured $6.5M Series A led by Round13 Capital with participation from Rhino Ventures, Harlo Equity Partners, Torinit, John Cassaday, Jake Cassaday and others.Continue Reading
TPG Real Estate Partners acquired Cinespace Studios from the Mirkopoulos family in Toronto and the Pissios family in Chicago. Continue Reading
Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with institutional partners, to acquire Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS)’s global lottery services and technology business for up to US $6.05B to be funded with US $2.6B equityContinue Reading
Gallea secured $1.5M pre-seed funding led by THCap with participation of Real Ventures, ACET Capital, Anges Québec, National Social Value Fund, Dispatch Ventures, Manford Technologies, private investors from Canada, USA and Shandong (China).Continue Reading
Penn National Gaming to acquire Score Media and Gaming, Inc. (TheScore) from John Levy family, Relay Ventures, Fengate Asset Management and other shareholders for US $2BContinue Reading
Sports IQ Analytics secured US $7M seed funding from Harlo Equity Partners, The Kraft Group, Velo Partners, sports team owners and gaming executives. Harlo’s Justin Shulman will join Sports IQ board of directors.Continue Reading
Rho Canada, Lune Rouge, BDC backed LiveBarn secured minority growth equity investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE). SGE’s Scott Feldman and Jeff Steinberg will join LiveBarn’s expanded 11-member board of directors.Continue Reading
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and CVC Capital Partners to pay US $210M for majority (60%) stake in BlueFocus’ international group of agencies to form Quebec City based agency group led by Brett Marchand Continue Reading
Hasbro to sell Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) for US $385M in cash to Blackstone. eOne Music will operate as a separate business unit headed by current Global President, Chris Taylor.Continue Reading
Oxygen8 Solutions secured US $4M+ in seed funding anchored by Greensoil PropTech Ventures (GSPV) and with participation of other strategic investors.Continue Reading
