WSC Sports Funding, Investors & Competitors

Suning Sports is the sports arm of Chinese retail and property conglomerate Suning Holdings Group, headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and incorporated as Jiangsu Suning Sports Industry Co., a joint venture of Suning Holdings, which owned 90% at the end of 2016, and Suning Appliance Group. It built a business spanning sports media, over-the-top streaming, sports retail and youth training. Its digital platform PP Sports bought Chinese broadcast rights to major football competitions, including the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Chinese Super League and, from 2018-19, exclusive television and online rights to the Bundesliga for five seasons, along with AFC competitions and WWE, earning revenue from subscriptions and advertising. It opened its first flagship fan store in Nanjing in 2017, planning 152 stores by 2020, and developed grassroots training programmes. Through its Hong Kong subsidiary Suning Sports International, it sits above Great Horizon, the vehicle through which Suning bought a majority stake in Inter Milan in 2016, and the group also owned Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning. In July 2018 Suning Sports raised a $600 million Series A led by Goldman Sachs and Alibaba, with Evergrande, Yunfeng Capital, SenseTime, CCB International and others, valuing it at about $2.6 billion. Under financial strain, Suning halted operations at its Chinese football clubs, including champions Jiangsu, in February 2021.

Synthesia is an AI video generation platform headquartered in London, United Kingdom, converting text to videos with avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. Users create training and marketing content via browser templates, serving enterprises like BBC and Accenture for scalable video production.

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.

Cosm is a technology, media, and entertainment company delivering immersive venue experiences. It designs colossal LED screens exceeding 100 feet in width for live sports broadcasts, concerts, and events. Venues feature proprietary display engines, audio systems, and content platforms. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Cosm operates locations in New York and plans expansions in Atlanta and Dallas.

ONE Championship is a Singapore-based combat sports promotion and media company operated by Group ONE Holdings. It was founded on 14 July 2011 as ONE Fighting Championship by Chatri Sityodtong, who remains chairman and chief executive, and Victor Cui, and held its first event in September 2011; it took its current name in January 2015. Originally a mixed martial arts promotion, it now stages MMA, muay thai, kickboxing and submission grappling bouts, has held more than 200 events across Asia, and runs the flagship numbered series, ONE Fight Night cards aimed at North America, and the weekly ONE Friday Fights series at Bangkok's Lumpinee Stadium, launched in 2023. The company earns money from media rights, sponsorship, ticketing and digital content; its broadcast partners include Amazon Prime Video, which holds US and Canadian rights from 2022 to 2027, beIN Sports and the Seven Network. In October 2018, when its fights were broadcast in 136 countries, it raised a $166 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital with Temasek and Greenoaks Capital at an implied $1 billion valuation; it raised $150 million more in 2021 at a reported $1.35 billion valuation, and in 2022 it moved the parent company's legal domicile from Singapore to the Cayman Islands.

Iyuno-SDI Group is a global media localization provider handling dubbing, subtitling, and language services for film, television, and streaming content. Headquartered in Burbank, California, the company supports over 100 languages and collaborates with studios like Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. for international distribution.

AGBO is a Los Angeles-based entertainment production company creating films, series, and digital content across platforms like Netflix and theaters. It produced blockbusters including Avengers: Infinity War and Cherry while developing story universes in action, sci-fi, and drama genres. AGBO collaborates with studios such as A24 and Amazon MGM Studios to distribute globally.

APX Group is a Los Angeles-based media and entertainment investment firm financing film and TV projects, providing filmmakers with production funding and distribution solutions for independent content.

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.

ElevenLabs is a London and Warsaw-headquartered AI company providing voice synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and generation tools. Its platform supports text-to-speech in over 29 languages, developer APIs for voice agents, and enterprise solutions for content localization. Features include instant voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional tone preservation, and audio editing capabilities used by creators and businesses worldwide.

Sportradar is a Swiss sports technology company headquartered in St. Gallen that supplies sports data, content and related services to bookmakers, media companies and sports organizations. Through its Betradar brand it provides bookmakers with sports data, odds suggestions, managed trading services and streaming, and it also sells integrity services that monitor betting markets for match-fixing, audiovisual distribution, OTT streaming and digital advertising services. Its partners include the NFL, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and the International Tennis Federation, and its customers include hundreds of bookmakers and state lotteries such as Veikkaus, Svenska Spel and Norsk Tipping. It earns subscription and revenue-share income, and reported revenue of 1.29 billion euros and net income of 100 million euros for 2025, with about 3,900 employees in 29 offices across 20 countries. The business began in 2001 in Trondheim, Norway, as Market Monitor AS, founded by Petter Fornæss and Tore Steinkjer to extract betting odds from online bookmakers, with Carsten Koerl, now group chief executive, buying 51%. EQT invested in 2012, and Michael Jordan and Mark Cuban came in through a Revolution-led investment in 2015. Sportradar listed on Nasdaq (SRAD) on 14 September 2021 at a valuation of about $8 billion.

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.

StackAdapt is a Toronto-headquartered programmatic advertising DSP handling native, display, video, CTV, audio, DOOH, and in-game formats via self-serve interface. Ranked number one on G2 for six years through 2023, it processes billions of impressions daily using ML for audience targeting across 30+ countries. Advertisers access premium inventory from publishers like The New York Times and Paramount with transparent bidding analytics.

Santa Clara-headquartered Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video management platform that uses AI for optimization, transformation, and delivery. The company supports digital asset management for brands with features like auto-tagging, face detection, and dynamic media manipulation. Cloudinary serves clients such as Procter & Gamble, Under Armour, and Walmart Labs from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. Founded in 2012, it processes billions of visual assets monthly.

Verbit is a New York-headquartered AI-powered accessibility company founded in 2017, offering live captioning, transcription, audio description, translation, and dubbing services. Solutions integrate with platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for education, media, and enterprise clients including universities and broadcasters. The generative AI tools process spoken content for subtitles and notes.

Damai Entertainment Holdings Ltd is an integrated platform with content and technology as the core, covering content production, promotion and distribution, IP merchandising, licensing and commercial management, cinema and entertainment event ticketing management, and internet data services for the entertainment industry. Its segments are Live entertainment content and technology business, IP merchandizing, Film content and technology business, Drama series production. Majority of revenue comes from Live entertainment content and technology business which engaged in the full life cycle of live performances from the venue operations to the organization, investment, the production and promotion of the performance contents, performance ticketing, on-site services, ticketing system, etc.

Maya is a Philippines-based digital services company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Smart Communications under First Pacific. It develops payment wallets, banking apps, and fintech solutions serving millions of users across the archipelago with remittances, bill payments, and e-commerce integrations.

Amagi Media Labs Ltd is engaged in the business of providing media technologies and related services. The company is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that offers a cloud-native platform for media companies to distribute digital content to end users. The platform enables content providers and distributors to upload and deliver video over the internet through smart televisions, smartphones, and applications, rather than through traditional cable or set-top box services. The company also helps monetize such content through targeted advertising services for advertisers. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from its streaming unification services. Geographically, it derives the maximum revenue from America, and the rest from Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and India.