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Gary Lineker’s Rest is… outfit Goalhanger has launched a ventures arm.
Goalhanger Ventures’ first finance is successful Charlie Tymon’s Invisble Media, which runs integer media level and YouTube transmission Invisible Hand. It has besides struck a business pinch Backyard Cricket, a sports creator brand.
Invisible Media said its videos “unpack nan forces shaping modern life, from markets and money to world powerfulness and nationalist economies, successful a measurement that feels sharp, ocular and accessible.” It is besides processing caller master formats, including The Invisible Game, connected nan hidden economics down mundane life and business decisions.
Goalhanger has made an undisclosed equity finance successful Invisible Media and will supply backing and strategical support to thief Backyard Cricket turn crossed production, longer-form video, commercialized partnerships, sponsorship and merchandise, pinch some sides sharing successful nan commercialized upside.
Goalhanger co-founder Jack Davenport said: “Goalhanger Ventures is astir giving exceptional creator-led businesses nan infrastructure to turn without losing what made them typical successful nan first place. Invisible Media and Backyard Cricket are very different propositions, but they some person that uncommon operation of editorial clarity, assemblage spot and genuine momentum. Our domiciled is to thief them standard thoughtfully, commercially and creatively, while protecting nan independence, characteristic and value that their communities already respond to.”
Goalhanger makes nan celebrated Rest is… stable of podcasts including connected history, authorities and football. It is soon to motorboat its first regular show connected Netflix pinch Lineker’s Rest is Football during nan World Cup.
The news comes a fewer months aft The Chernin Group (TCG) made a number finance and took a spot connected the Goalhanger board.
