CMC Valuation, Funding & Investors

Oriental Pearl Group Co Ltd operates a media integration and distribution platform in China. The various business units of the company comprise Channel Products Operation, Video Shopping, and E-Commerce, Culture and Entertainment Themed Tourism, Mobile Transmissions and Video Games among others.

Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Co Ltd operates as a film and television production company. It focuses on the creation of TV dramas, films, and various kinds of fine arts.

Liberty Media is an American media and motorsport holding company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, whose shares trade on Nasdaq as Formula One Group tracking stocks. Its main assets are Formula One, which it acquired in January 2017, and MotoGP organiser Dorna Sports, in which it took an 84% stake in July 2025. Both series earn revenue from race promotion fees paid by circuit hosts, media rights sold to broadcasters and streamers, and sponsorship, hospitality and licensing. In 2025 Formula One revenue rose 14% to $3.9 billion with operating income of $632 million, and MotoGP revenue rose 14% to $573 million. The original Liberty Media was spun off from Tele-Communications Inc. in 1991 under John Malone, who is now chairman emeritus; Robert Bennett is chairman and Derek Chang chief executive. The group has repeatedly reshaped itself through tracking stocks and spin-offs, splitting off the Atlanta Braves in 2023, combining its SiriusXM interest into a separate listed company in September 2024 and separating Liberty Live, holder of its Live Nation stake, in December 2025.

TBS Holdings Inc is a Japanese media and broadcasting holding company that operates television businesses through its subsidiaries. The company operates through three reportable segments: Media & Content Business, Lifestyle Business, and Real Estate & Other Business. The Media & Content Business includes television and radio broadcasting, event planning, video software production, and distribution. The Lifestyle Business handles general merchandise retail, beauty and wellness services, private tutoring, and early childhood education. The Real Estate & Other Business segment involves land and building rentals. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Media & content business segment.

Nexstar is the largest television station owner-operator in the United States with over 200 stations in 116 markets, reaching 220 million people. Of its 200 stations, 155 are affiliated with the four national broadcast networks: CBS, Fox, NBC, and ABC. Pending approval, Nexstar’s merger with Tegna would bring Nexstar’s station total to 259 in 133 markets, reaching 80% of the US population. Nexstar also owns NewsNation (formerly WGN), a cable news network, 75% of the fifth national broadcaster, the CW, and a 31% stake in Food Network and Cooking Channel.

RTL Group SA is a broadcasting television company with interests in television channels, video-on-demand platforms, and radio stations. The company has three main areas of business: broadcast, streaming, content, and digital. Broadcast includes television and radio; content includes content production and distribution, and digital includes online video and advertisement technology. Business segments include Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, Groupe M6, Fremantle, RTL Nederland, and Other segments. The company's business units operate in Europe, predominantly in Germany, France, the United States, the UK, and Other regions.

Beijing Enlight Media Co Ltd is a China-based company engages in the provision of multimedia video content services. Its main business is TV programs and film investment, making and distributing. TV programs including regular TV programs and acting activities broadcasted on television. Acting activities generally are broadcasted on television, belonging to the special type of TV program and drama series.

Nippon Television Holdings Inc is a broadcasting and television company. It is engaged in media, content, life and health-related, and real estate businesses. The company operates through three reportable segments: the Media and Content Business, which handles television advertising, video distribution, pay-TV, retail, and film production; the Life and Health Related Business, which operates comprehensive sports clubs; and the Real Estate Related Business, which manages real estate rental, building operations, and solar power generation. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Media and Content Business segment.

FUJI Media Holdings Inc operates as a certified broadcasting holding company engaged in media, content, and related businesses. The company has two reportable segments: Media & Content Business, which involves broadcasting, film and animation production, music publishing, advertising, and mail-order sales; and Urban Development & Tourism Business, which engages in building rental, real estate transactions, and hotel and resort management. The company earns the majority of its revenue in Japan.

ITV PLC is a broadcasting television company that owns, creates, and distributes the content on its platforms. The company's international content business, ITV Studios, produces programming for ITV's channels as well as other British broadcasters. The company's segment includes ITV Studios and Media and Entertainment. It generates maximum revenue from the ITV Studios segment.

Canal+ SA is a media and entertainment company that also operates short-form video streaming platforms with Dailymotion. It operates in three business segments: Europe, Africa, and Asia, and Content Production, Distribution, and Other. Key revenue is generated from Europe, which includes subscription-TV, advertising-based television, and OTT businesses across France, the Overseas Territories, Poland, and also in Central Europe and the Benelux through M7, and the Group's FTTH business in the Overseas Territories.

China Literature Ltd is an investment holding company. The company along with its subsidiaries provides online reading services, copyright commercialization, writer cultivation and brokerage, and operation of text work reading. It generates its revenue from Online reading through self-owned platform products. it operates in two segments: Online business and Intellectual property operations and others. The Online business segment that derives the majority of revenue comprises online paid reading, online advertising, and game publishing. The Intellectual property operations and other segment include licensing and distribution of film and television properties, copyrights licensing, sales of adaptation rights and scripts, sales of physical books, and in-house online games operations.

Canxing Zhizuo is a Shanghai-based producer of variety television and online programs, creating shows like Go Fighting and Tomorrow's Sons for Mango TV and iQiyi. The company handles content development, casting, filming, marketing, and IP extensions into merchandise and live events. Canxing operates studios in multiple Chinese cities and exports formats to Southeast Asia.

Create Music Group is a Los Angeles-headquartered music technology company providing digital distribution, publishing, sync licensing, rights management, A&R, marketing, and recording services to independent artists. Notable clients include Marshmello, 6ix9ine, and Tory Lanez. The company also runs Flighthouse, a TikTok brand with 28 million followers engaging youth audiences.

Spotter is a creator services platform supporting YouTube influencers with funding, AI software, and community resources. It has deployed $940 million to creators, powering a catalog of 725,000 videos that generate 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes. Brands access transparent, brand-safe ad inventory through its media solutions.

Disney operates in three global business segments: entertainment, sports, and experiences. Entertainment and experiences both benefit from the firm’s ownership of iconic franchises and characters. Entertainment includes the ABC broadcast network, several cable television networks, and the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services. Within the segment, Disney also engages in movie and television production and distribution, with content licensed to movie theaters, other content providers, or, increasingly, kept in-house for use on Disney’s own streaming platform and television networks. The sports segment houses the ESPN family of TV networks and streaming services. Experiences contains Disney’s theme parks, cruises, and vacation destinations and also engages in merchandise licensing.

Higgsfield is a Los Angeles-based AI company developing video generation tools for social media creators, enabling diffusion models to produce cinematic clips from text prompts. The platform powers apps like Luma Dream Machine, attracting millions of users for short-form content on TikTok and Instagram Reels since its 2023 launch.

Runway is a New York applied AI research company founded in 2018 by Cristobal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala. It builds generative video and image models and the web tools around them, which let filmmakers, studios, advertisers and independent creators produce and edit video from text, images or existing clips. Its Gen-series models and world-model research are sold through self-serve subscriptions and enterprise and API agreements, and it has partnerships with Lionsgate, Adobe and CoreWeave. The company raised a $308 million Series D led by General Atlantic in April 2025 and a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic in February 2026 at a reported valuation of $5.3 billion. Lionsgate took an equity interest in June 2026. In March 2026 it launched Runway Fund, which backs early companies such as Cartesia, LanceDB and Tamarind Bio, without disclosed dates or amounts.