Goalhanger Invests in Creators via New Ventures Division

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Goalhanger invests in creators via new Ventures division

Podcast production company Goalhanger has launched an investment and partnerships arm to back creator-led media businesses. Goalhanger Ventures has made an equity investment to support the next stage of growth at Invisible Media and signed a commercial partnership with Backyard Cricket, both creator-led brands primarily based on Youtube. Goalhanger co-founder Jack Davenport said: “Goalhanger Ventures is about giving exceptional creator-led busin…

Goalhanger Launches Ventures Arm; Invests In Invisible Media

Gary Lineker’s Rest is… outfit Goalhanger has launched a ventures arm. Goalhanger Ventures’ first investment is in Charlie Tymon’s Invisble Media, which runs digital media platform and YouTube channel Invisible Hand. It has also struck a partnership with Backyard Cricket, a sports creator brand. Invisible Media said its videos “unpack the forces shaping modern life, […]

Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, an arm to provide infrastructure and funding, and makes an investment in Charlie Tymon's Invisible Media (Max Goldbart/Deadline)

Max Goldbart / Deadline: Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, an arm to provide infrastructure and funding, and makes an investment in Charlie Tymon's Invisible Media  —  It has also struck a partnership with Backyard Cricket, a sports creator brand.  —  Invisible Media said its videos …

Goalhanger Ventures opens its chequebook to creator-led media with Invisible Media stake and Backyard Cricket deal

Goalhanger, the production house behind some of Britain’s most successful podcasts, has formally moved into the venture business. The company has unveiled Goalhanger Ventures, a new investment and partnerships arm designed to back creator-led media businesses with credible plans to scale across video, audio, social, live and commercial channels. The unit launches with two opening moves: an equity investment in Invisible Media, the company behind…

The Rest is investing: Lineker-backed Goalhanger launches venture capital arm

The UK’s biggest independent podcast group is launching its own venture capital arm, City AM can reveal, as it reinvests the fruits of its success by building stakes in other media startups. The Kennington-based business, which was co-founded by former BBC presenter Gary Lineker and produces The Rest is History, The Rest is Entertainment and The Rest is Money, is setting up Goalhanger Ventures, a unit aimed at investing in “creator-led media bus…