Tapas Media Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

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.

Inkitt is a Berlin-based AI-driven publishing platform discovering bestselling novels through data analytics on 5 million writers. Its Galatea app sells 80+ original stories to 10 million readers, generating $1 million ebooks every four weeks. Ranked 11th globally for bestsellers, Inkitt raised $100 million in Series C from Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA, expanding into CandyJarTV production.

Rilla is a decentralized network redesigning content monetization by granting creators equity in protocol revenue. The platform leverages community-driven curation and token incentives to distribute value from audience engagement directly to participants. Built on blockchain, Rilla facilitates ownership stakes for users contributing bandwidth and content discovery, targeting social media influencers and digital artists. Its Web3 infrastructure supports scalable fan economies across global creator communities.

Meow Wolf is an immersive art collective creating interactive installations in permanent exhibit spaces. Locations include Santa Fe's House of Eternal Return opened in 2016, Denver's Convergence Station in 2021, and Las Vegas' Omega Mart. Founded in 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the company employs hundreds of artists producing multimedia narratives blending sculpture, video, and sound.

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.

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.

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.

Minute Media is a sports and culture content platform owning brands like The Players' Tribune, FanSided, 90min, and STN Video. Tel Aviv-headquartered with offices in New York, London, São Paulo, and Tokyo, it powers creation and distribution for 1,500 creators across 14 markets in 10 languages.

WildBrain Ltd is a Canadian media company specializing in children’s entertainment, known for producing, distributing, and licensing popular content. The company operates production studios, a multi-channel YouTube network, and a brand licensing agency (WildBrain CPLG). WildBrain’s content reaches audiences in various countries across TV, digital platforms, and consumer products. Its business spans content creation, audience engagement, and franchise management with offices in Canada and internationally. It has three reportable segments: 1) Content and Licensing; 2) Global Licensing, and 3) Canadian Television Broadcasting. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the management of copyrights, licensing, and brands for third parties.

Cover Corp operates as a platformer for two-dimensional entertainment. It is engaged in developing multifaceted businesses to accelerate 2D entertainment such as distribution system development, VTuber office management, and content development.

Soop Co Ltd is engaged in offering Internet-based services around the social media platform AfreecaTV. It offers digital media storage, streaming, downloading, video-on-demand, and advertising services. Through AfreecaTV, it is not only providing fun and emotion but also a new entertainment culture. Anyone from anywhere can easily live stream in real-time without the use of any special equipment aside from PC and mobile devices.

PT MNC Digital Entertainment Tbk is a content provider in Indonesia, has its core business in producing, developing, and distributing content and intellectual properties across all existing media platforms. The company's main business is supported by its various business units engaged in media and entertainment activities, such as drama production houses, infotainment, reality shows, game shows, animation, films, original content, music labels, advertising agencies, content & IP licensing, talent management, social media, including multi-channel networks (MCN), OTT superapps, and online portals. The company's operating segments include Digital, Content and IP, Talent, and Subscription. The company generates maximum revenue from the Content and IP, Talent segment.

Inkeverse Group Ltd is engaged in operating the live streaming platform and provision of advertising services in the People's Republic of China. The group business activities are mainly in the live streaming business and generate revenue from the same. It engages in the provision of value-added telecommunications services, internet cultural services, online audio and video program services, and talent agency services. Geographically, it derives majority of its revenue from China.

CuriosityStream Inc is a media and entertainment company. It offers premium video programming across the principal categories of factual entertainment, including science, history, society, nature, lifestyle, and technology. Its mission is to provide premium real entertainment that informs, enchants, and inspires. Its product and services are Direct to Consumer Business, Partner Direct Business, Bundled Distribution, Content Licensing, Enterprise Subscriptions and Others. The majority of the revenue comes from the Direct to direct-to-consumer business.

Media Matrix Worldwide Ltd is a B2B focused next-generation technology and services provider, specializing in Value Added Services (VAS) across the mobile and digital ecosystem. Beyond its core VAS offerings, MMWL is also engaged in the distribution of wide range of inventive products in mobility, audio, consumer electronics and IT segment across India through one of its subsidiaries. The group is mainly engaged in the business of digital media content, dealing in related activities in media and entertainment industry and Electronic Items trading and does not have more than one reportable business segment.