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Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital Partners and Guy Oseary’s venture capital firm Sound Ventures are partnering to invest $1 billion in emerging platforms at the convergence of tech, media and culture. The firms said the partnership “will capitalize on RedBird’s global reach and business-building expertise, alongside Sound’s access to founders and marketing a

Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital Partners, coming off its major investment in David Ellison’s Skydance, announced a pact with Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures to jointly invest up to $1 billion in “emerging platforms at the convergence of technology, media and culture.” As part of the agreement, RedBird will contribute the “expertise” of RedBird X, the firm’s […

The Skydance and Artists Equity backer and the talent manager's investment firm will deploy the cash toward companies "at the convergence of technology, media and culture."

Longtime Skydance Sports chief Jesse Sisgold is exiting his post and moving to an advisory role at company backer RedBird Capital. Sisgold was formerly president and COO of Skydance when it was a boutique production shingle being scaled up by David Ellison. Now that Ellison is running a massive media entity after the merger of […]

A longtime confidant of David Ellison and the former president and COO of Skydance Media, Sisgold most recently led the company's Paramount Sports Entertainment division.