Brut, the influential digital media publisher which became one of the main partners for the Cannes Film Festival last year, has just finalized its fourth funding round for approximately $40 million.
The company, founded by Guillaume Lacroix, Renaud Le Van Kim and Laurent Lucas six years ago, has enlisted a pair of powerful financial backers: CMA Cgm, the world’s third-largest container shipping company owned by billionaire businessman Rodolphe Saadé, which also recently nabbed 10% of France’s second biggest commercial network M6, and the daily newspaper La Provence; and MoonPay, a leading Miami-based financial service company for web3 whose investors include former tennis star Maria Sharapova, as well as Snoop Dogg, Drake and Justin Bieber, among others. Aryeh B. Bourkoff’s LionTree advised the deal with MoonPay.
With this fourth round, Brut has raised nearly $140 million since its launch, and has been able to keep its former investors on board, including James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems,...
The company, founded by Guillaume Lacroix, Renaud Le Van Kim and Laurent Lucas six years ago, has enlisted a pair of powerful financial backers: CMA Cgm, the world’s third-largest container shipping company owned by billionaire businessman Rodolphe Saadé, which also recently nabbed 10% of France’s second biggest commercial network M6, and the daily newspaper La Provence; and MoonPay, a leading Miami-based financial service company for web3 whose investors include former tennis star Maria Sharapova, as well as Snoop Dogg, Drake and Justin Bieber, among others. Aryeh B. Bourkoff’s LionTree advised the deal with MoonPay.
With this fourth round, Brut has raised nearly $140 million since its launch, and has been able to keep its former investors on board, including James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max Boards ‘Lucy The Human Chimp’
HBO Max has boarded Keo Films’ Channel 4 feature documentary Lucy The Human Chimp, which recounts the story of a chimpanzee raised as a human and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the task of helping to give her freedom by living with her in the wild. Directed by Alex Parkinson, the film premieres this spring and uses previously unseen archive film and photographs, as well as dramatic reconstruction. The HBO Max deal was brokered by Hat Trick International’s senior sales executive Jonathan South.
Cannes Lions Goes Virtual
Advertising festival Cannes Lions is to become a “fully digital” experience this year after it was canceled completely last year amid the pandemic. The event, which takes place June 21-25, will become Cannes Lions Live, just as other events on the French Riviera have embraced virtual alternatives. Next week, the annual MipTV gathering will be staged online.
HBO Max has boarded Keo Films’ Channel 4 feature documentary Lucy The Human Chimp, which recounts the story of a chimpanzee raised as a human and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the task of helping to give her freedom by living with her in the wild. Directed by Alex Parkinson, the film premieres this spring and uses previously unseen archive film and photographs, as well as dramatic reconstruction. The HBO Max deal was brokered by Hat Trick International’s senior sales executive Jonathan South.
Cannes Lions Goes Virtual
Advertising festival Cannes Lions is to become a “fully digital” experience this year after it was canceled completely last year amid the pandemic. The event, which takes place June 21-25, will become Cannes Lions Live, just as other events on the French Riviera have embraced virtual alternatives. Next week, the annual MipTV gathering will be staged online.
- 4/7/2021
- by Jake Kanter and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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