Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures Team on $1 Billion Fund Targeting Tech, Media and Culture Investments

Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital Partners, coming off its significant financial investment in David Ellison’s Skydance, revealed a pact with Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures to collectively invest approximately $1 billion in “emerging platforms at the merging of innovation, media and culture.”

As part of the arrangement, RedBird will contribute the “knowledge” of RedBird X, the company’s devoted AI financial investment and incubation platform.

New York-based RedBird has financial investments in more than 50 business, which in aggregate represent $205 billion in business worth. RedBird had actually invested $2 billion in Ellison’s Skydance Media for its takeover of Paramount Global, an offer that closed in August 2025 and invested $4 billion more in the business for Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The company likewise has actually bought Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity, Ari Emanuel’s Mari international occasions and experiences business and the Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox and other sports groups and organizations. RedBird just recently tattooed an offer getting control of Puck, valuing the media start-up at $250 million.

Noise Ventures, led by Oseary and Effie Epstein, is an L.A.-based venture-capital company with more than $2 billion in possessions. It has actually bought business consisting of Anthropic, OpenAI, Airbnb, GitLab, Hugging Face, Robinhood, Spotify, Uber and World Labs. In addition to his investing activities, Oseary is a skill supervisor who is Madonna’s long time supervisor.

Cardinale, creator and handling partner of RedBird Capital Partners, stated, “The next fantastic innovation business and the business owner creators behind them require flexible partners who comprehend the long-lasting trajectory of business structure and alpha generation. Noise Ventures has actually developed a strong performance history developed on creator relationships and high conviction plays in innovation and AI, that includes early financial investments in both Anthropic and OpenAI. This collaboration puts the power of RedBird’s institutional financial investment platform and tactical network strongly behind this next generation of service contractors.”

Said Oseary, “RedBird brings a various sort of outlook that matches what we have actually constructed at Sound, with the resources and scale to intensify the effect of our financial investments.”

Hamid Biglari, RedBird partner and executive chairman of RedBird X, included: “RedBird X’s function in this collaboration is to bring the very same AI know-how we use throughout our own portfolio to work along with Sound’s group on diligence, portfolio assistance and assisting business optimize their capacity. It’s a natural extension of what we do throughout RedBird’s wider platform, now used at even higher scale.”

Noise Ventures’ Epstein commented: “Our 2 companies bring a shared aspiration to invest at the leading edge of development and assistance business as they scale. RedBird is renowned for working carefully with business it backs, which mirrors our method. Together we can assist creators gain access to individuals, chances and resources that accelerate their aspirations.”