Led · Equity · Apr 2026

Free Association Live stages Magic Mike Live, a theatrical revue adapted from the Magic Mike film franchise that has toured and held residencies in cities including London, Las Vegas, Miami, Dallas, Berlin and New York. Since its 2017 debut the production has delivered over 6,000 performances and entertained more than 2 million guests from over 70 countries. The company is led by cofounders Channing Tatum, Peter Kiernan, Reid Carolin and Vincent Marini, with Kosha Shah Eisenberg as chief operating officer and Cody Carolin as brand director. FA Live operates independently of Tatum’s film and television production activities, and Tatum personally invested in the most recent financing. The company has announced plans for multi-year tours across Asia and Europe, a New York residency with strong presales, and a collaboration with Lionsgate on a Step Up–inspired live show slated for 2027.

Led · Equity · Feb 2026

Kings League operates a seven-a-side football competition that leverages popular content creators and retired football stars to drive online viewership. Founded three years ago by former FC Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué, the league distributes its matches free of charge across digital platforms. In 2025 the property generated 150 million hours of streaming viewership and amassed more than 13 billion impressions on its social media channels, positioning it among the most-watched digital sports properties globally. The company plans to scale internationally by launching Kings League and its women’s counterpart, Queens League, in the United States and opening new regional leagues in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and the MENA region. It is also preparing a new national-team World Cup-style tournament. The fresh capital will support this expansion roadmap and deepen the league’s global media footprint.

Participated · Series D · Jan 2024

Build a Rocket Boy is a game development studio led by Leslie Benzies, the former president of Rockstar North. The studio is developing a suite of titles including MindsEye and an immersive, community-driven open-world platform called Everywhere, plus a set of user-generated content design tools called Arcadia. Its first titles have not yet launched and are slated for release "in the near future." The company announced a $110 million Series D round of funding ahead of those launches. Prior to this, it had raised at least $40 million to develop and commercialize its games. Build a Rocket Boy is headquartered in Edinburgh and also operates development hubs in Budapest and Montpellier. Benzies founded the project after leaving Rockstar and ultimately reached a confidential settlement related to his prior legal dispute in 2019.

Participated · Series F · Feb 2023

Fever is a New York City-based live entertainment discovery platform with strong Spanish roots. The company curates and sells tickets for immersive and branded experiences, including Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Van Gogh, Jurassic World, Friends, and the Candlelight classical concert series. Via Candlelight, Fever has become the largest seller of live classical music in the world. Over the last year the company says it doubled its turnover and that North America now comprises over 50% of group revenues. Just over a year after a Series E that raised over $227 million at a valuation above $1 billion, Fever secured a new financing valuing it at about $1.8 billion. The new funding is aimed at doubling down on existing efforts and investing in new content opportunities. Fever is a live-entertainment discovery platform that analyses consumer data to help creators curate unique events and experiences. The platform helped organizers adapt during and after COVID by making experiences more accessible to new audiences worldwide. Fever cites revenue growth of 10x since 2019. Management and investors point to its technology, partnerships, and creator network as the basis for continued growth and expansion. The company emphasizes enabling memorable real-life (IRL) experiences despite the rise of digital ‘metaverse’ propositions. Fever was founded in 2011 by Pep Gomez and is now co-led by Ignacio Bachiller Ströhlein, Alexandre Perez Casares, and Francisco Hein. Fever’s core product is a consumer app that generates personalized event listings and feeds into its Secret Media Network, which collects anonymized user data from the company’s social media channel. That anonymized data is analyzed by Fever’s proprietary algorithms to help companies plan and create events, with examples including themed shows in Hollywood and Los Angeles and Candlelight Concerts aimed at young audiences. The company claims 25 million unique users per month across main markets in London, New York, Paris and Madrid. Fever says it differentiates from other platforms by avoiding discount-driven events and by using firsthand behavioral data to predict demand for new experiences. The startup plans to use the new funding to expand into new cities, targeting Chicago and Barcelona next and then launching new markets every couple of months, mostly in the U.S. and Europe this year and Asia next year. Fever may also collaborate with other Rakuten portfolio companies to help SMBs increase customer engagement. Fever operates an urban events discovery app alongside a branded media network (Secret Media Network and city channels such as Secret London and Secret NYC) to market events and gather community insights. It uses anonymised behavioral data and recommendation algorithms to predict untapped demand and A/B-test themed 'Fever Originals' immersive experiences across venues and cities. The company says its network reaches more than 12M unique users per week in its main markets (London, New York, Paris, Madrid), enabling large waitlists and rapid sell-outs. Fever runs a 'marketing fee' monetization strategy—no booking fees for users—charging organisers commissions tied to its ability to drive ticket sales, which it says is roughly 3–5× a traditional ticketing fee. The business reached break-even about a year ago and reports its current cities have been growing self-sufficiently at roughly 100% year‑on‑year since then. Fever plans to expand its own-brand events and enter new markets across Europe and North America. Fever was founded in June 2011 by Pep Gómez under the corporate name Kzemos Technologies, S.L. The company is listed with locality Barcelona and opened an office in New York in 2012. Fever has raised multiple rounds since 2012, including a 2012 seed via a €1M convertible, further €1M in 2013, $3M in 2014 and larger financings in 2015. In 2015 it reported €6.6M in revenue (five times 2014) and a net profit of €105,000, and the company had about 80 employees. Fever has stated plans to reach profitability for all its markets within a maximum of two months.

Led · Series D · Jul 2022

Crunchbase operates an API-driven database and SaaS prospecting platform that combines proprietary company and funding data with contact information and a news division. The product is used for account-based prospecting and includes discovery filters, machine learning recommendations, a Chrome extension, Salesforce sync, and email integrations. The company reports over 75 million unique annual visitors, more than 60,000 paying customers, and representation from over half of the Fortune 500. Crunchbase employed about 220 people and plans to grow the team to around 275 by year-end. In the first half of the year it drove $9 million of net new ARR at $2 million burn and aims to double its business-to-business software ARR to roughly $38 million for that segment. The platform faces competition from PitchBook, CB Insights, Owler and others, and plans include a HubSpot integration and further ML-powered suggestions and dashboards. Crunchbase emphasizes measured growth and efficiency as it scales its product and sales capabilities. Crunchbase provides private-company prospecting and research solutions, combining a rich database with prospecting software used by salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers. The platform includes features such as a Salesforce integration, enhanced search, and updated company profiles. Crunchbase reports over 55 million users and more than 3 billion API calls per year. Customers have reported significant ROI gains from recent features. Leadership says the company will continue building new features and investing in data to help customers grow. Crunchbase is headquartered in San Francisco. Crunchbase began as part of TechCrunch and was later spun out into an independent database and directory of company information. Its core product aggregates company profiles, funding history, executive data, original coverage, and third-party integrations (for example, Siftery and SimilarWeb) to provide market intelligence. The company reports about 55 million annual visitors and "tens of thousands" of paid subscribers, with subscription pricing noted at $29/user/month (varying by contract); it has 120 employees after tripling headcount since 2017. Crunchbase says it performs 3.9 billion annual data updates sourced from user uploads, manual and automatic inputs, and roughly 4,000 data partnerships that drive about 1.6 billion annual API calls. Management is winding down advertising and plans to focus on expanding paid subscribers and adding predictive, personalized features using machine learning and other AI technologies. Since 2017 it has grown its annual revenue run rate tenfold and more than doubled traffic since being spun out, and it is pursuing subscription and licensing revenue growth. Crunchbase is a database that charts startups, other tech companies, the people who work for them, and those who fund them; the company spun out from TechCrunch in September 2015. Its core products include a free service, the Pro tier (launched September 2016 at $29/month), and the newly announced Crunchbase Enterprise business-intelligence product. Enterprise enables BI-style queries to follow investment trends, identify growth industries, and find peer companies, and about 5,000 companies are using it, including Microsoft, IBM Watson, Nestle, Samsung, Slack, Target, Volkswagen, and Deloitte. The free service draws roughly 27 million visitors per year and about 10 million sessions per month. Crunchbase is planning a Marketplace to integrate third-party data via APIs (aiming to secure about 15 providers) and will use the funding to expand analytics, data visualizations, and platform capabilities. The company employed 40 people at the time of the article and plans to double headcount to about 80 by year-end, hiring in engineering and data science. CrunchBase, spun out of TechCrunch/AOL/Verizon late last year, provides a searchable database of private-company information, funding events, investors and people in startups. The company has launched paid data-access plans that tier access to its APIs and live data. It previously offered data under varying Creative Commons and non-commercial licenses and now provides commercial and non-commercial licenses with priced tiers. The free plan offers a 2013 historical MySQL snapshot and limited access to an Open Data Map API but not the full REST API. Paid tiers include a $999/month plan for live internal-business data use and a $4,999/month plan for developers building public apps; CrunchBase positions three tiers as Basic, Commercial and Advanced. CEO Jager McConnell said the new funding will be used to accelerate growth and invest heavily in engineering to build the next generation of CrunchBase.