Group Nine Media Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

iQiyi Sports is a Beijing-based streaming service under iQiyi providing live and on-demand sports content including football, basketball, and esports events. It covers Chinese Super League matches and international tournaments via its dedicated platform. Launched as part of iQiyi's diversification, it integrates with the parent company's video ecosystem.

Pocket FM is an India-based audio entertainment platform, founded in 2018, offering short- and long-form audio series and podcasts in regional languages including Bengali, Tamil, and Hindi. The platform hosts more than 100,000 hours of content and 400,000 episodes across genres such as romance, self-help, and motivation, monetizing through microtransactions and subscriptions on a freemium, pay-as-you-go model. Pocket FM has expanded from India into the United States and other international markets, reaching over 200 million users and processing tens of millions of paid transactions.

Panda TV was a Shanghai-based online video streaming platform founded in 2015 that focused on live broadcasting of video games and esports content, letting users stream and watch live gameplay. Backed by investors including LeCloud and Qihoo 360, it grew rapidly to claim over 80 million monthly active users and 150,000 active presenters at its peak. The platform ceased operations around 2019 after failing to secure further financing amid intense competition in China's live-streaming market.

NewsBreak is a Mountain View-headquartered app delivering hyper-local news from 10,000 U.S. sources to 40 million users. Founded in 2015 by former Baidu engineers, it achieved unicorn valuation in 2021 with $115 million Series C funding. The platform monetizes through publisher tools and local ad campaigns, expanding to 500 cities.

Kuaikan Manhua is a Shanghai-based online comics platform founded in 2014 targeting young readers with original digital artwork. It hosts thousands of titles in romance, action, and slice-of-life genres via app and website at www.kuaikanmanhua.com. Backed by Tencent, it dominates China's comic market and fosters creator communities.

RIDI is a South Korean digital content platform often described as the country's Kindle, built around e-book retailer Ridibooks alongside Manta Comics, a subscription webtoon service, and Laftel, an animation streaming service. Founded in 2008, the Seoul-based company spans web novels, webtoons, video, and original soundtracks, competing with Naver and Kakao in Korea's webtoon and web novel markets. It has also pursued licensing deals to supply intellectual property to streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney Plus.

Brut. is a Paris-headquartered media company producing short-form videos on politics, technology, social issues, and culture. Founded in 2016, it publishes content in English, French, and Spanish across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube from offices in London and New York.

RUM Group Inc focused is to maximize the power of human imagination through an independent technology ecosystem built on privacy, resilience, and an open alternative to Big Tech. Rumble gives human creativity a voice, a video and media platform built for creators and audiences who value free expression. Quake AI is a cloud and AI-infrastructure business, delivering the compute, data-center capacity, and blockchain infrastructure for the agentic era.

Caffeine is a live streaming platform hosting interactive broadcasts in gaming, sports, and entertainment. San Francisco-headquartered, it partners with FOX Sports, ESPN, Riot Games, and DreamHack for official streams, enabling creators to monetize shows via tipping and sponsorships on iOS and Android apps.

Viu is a Hong Kong-headquartered video-on-demand service owned by PCCW Media, launched in 2015. Available in Southeast Asia markets such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Middle East nations including UAE, Saudi Arabia, plus South Africa, it streams Asian dramas, movies, and original series with multilingual subtitles.

VIDAA is a smart TV operating system powering devices from Hisense and Toshiba across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Launched in 2019, it integrates global apps like Netflix and YouTube with local content, featuring universal search, personalized recommendations, and compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and TÜV certification for privacy.

Viaplay Group AB is a Sweden-based company that offers television channels and radio stations, broadcasting and production services. The company generates revenue from Viaplay, Linear Subscription & others, and Advertising. The company's operating segment includes Core operations and Non-core operations. The Core operations include the Group’s operations related to the Viaplay streaming service available in all Nordic countries and the Netherlands, pay-TV channels in all Nordic countries except Iceland, commercial free-TV channels in Sweden, Denmark and Norway; and commercial radio networks and audio streaming services in Sweden and Norway. The non-core includes the international markets the Group is exiting, ie. Poland, the UK and Baltics.

Kuku FM is a Mumbai-based audio content platform producing audiobooks, stories, summaries, and courses across 50-plus genres in five-plus languages. Available on Android and iOS apps, it serves users from age six to over 60 in India since its founding in 2018.

SoundCloud is a Berlin-headquartered online audio distribution platform enabling creators to upload, share, and monetize tracks. It hosts content from independent artists and major labels, supporting reposts, comments, and stats analytics. Launched in 2007 with offices in New York and London, SoundCloud connects over 175 million users across web, iOS, and Android.

Wirtualna Polska Holding SA is a holding company based in Poland. It owns and runs internet portals. Its core operations comprise the sale of advertising services on the Internet and operating Internet portals such as . o2, Pudelek, Money.pl, domodi.pl, wakacje.pl, nocowanie.pl, Extradom.pl, totalmoney.pl as well as providing electronic services. Its segment include: Advertising and Subscriptions, Tourism and Consumer finance.

Saregama India Ltd is a holding company, which engages in the production and distribution of music, television programs, and movies. It operates through the following segments: Music, Films/TV Serials, and Publication. The Music segment deals with the business of manufacturing and sale of Music storage devices viz. Carvaan, Music Card, etc, and dealing with related music rights. The Films/TV Serials and Event segment engaged in the production and sale/telecast/broadcast of films/TV Serials, pre-recorded programs, organizing live musical events, and dealing in film rights. The Publication segment publishes the weekly current affairs magazine ‘OPEN’ through its publication business. The firm derives a majority of its revenue from the Music segment.