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The Private Equity Firm That Refuses to Separate the P&L From the Point
One Planet Group owns the machinery that turns consumer intent into revenue, then uses the same operator’s discipline to back early-stage ideas. Its wager is unusually explicit: profit and purpose should share a balance sheet.
Radio’s Second Act Is Hiding in Plain Sound
Audacy still owns the morning commute. Now the 58-year-old broadcaster is turning local voices, sports obsession and a rebuilt balance sheet into an audio network that travels far beyond the dial.
Telfaz11
Telfaz11 is a Riyadh-based creative media studio that pioneered Arabic online video in the early 2010s and has since grown into one of Saudi Arabia's leading film and content producers. Founded in 2011 by Alaa Fadan, Ali Al Kalthami and Ibraheem Alkhairallah, it began as a YouTube-first network aimed at Saudi youth and evolved into feature films, streaming originals and branded content. Its 2022 wrestling comedy 'Sattar' became the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, and the studio holds a multi-picture deal with Netflix.
Meadowlark Media
Meadowlark Media is a New York and Miami based sports content studio and creator network founded in 2021 by former ESPN president John Skipper and longtime on-air host Dan Le Batard. It develops and produces premium, personality-driven sports storytelling across podcasts, radio, streaming video, and documentary film for third-party buyers such as Netflix, Apple TV+, and DraftKings. Anchored by The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and a roster that includes Pablo Torre Finds Out and Nothing Personal with David Samson, Meadowlark blends daily audio programming with prestige documentary work like Good Rivals and The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox.
Jacob Braunstein
Jacob Braunstein is the co-founder and CEO of LiveControl, a Santa Monica company that turns any venue into a professional live-video studio using PTZ robotic cameras run by a remote team of producers. He invented the remote-camera system at the core of the platform, which now produces thousands of streamed events each month for churches, schools, theaters, government bodies and memorial services. Braunstein was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and has raised roughly $33 million, including a $30 million Series A led by Coatue Management in 2021.
Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts - operating today as Callaway Arts & Entertainment - is a New York media and publishing house founded by Nicholas Callaway that designs and produces museum-quality illustrated books, luxury limited editions, award-winning children's apps, and immersive cultural experiences. The company is known for landmark titles including Madonna's Sex, The Beatles: Get Back, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, and a three-volume Sistine Chapel edition shot in gigapixel detail with the Vatican Museums.
Nicholas Callaway
Nicholas Callaway is a New York publisher, app maker, and television producer who has spent more than 40 years making books and media that push the limits of how art can be reproduced. As founder and CEO of Callaway Arts & Entertainment, he produced Madonna's 'Sex' (still the best-selling illustrated book of its era), David Kirk's 'Miss Spider' series, the $22,000 life-scale Sistine Chapel three-volume set, and the panoramic 'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine.' In 2010 he spun off Callaway Digital Arts with backing from Kleiner Perkins, after Steve Jobs took notice of his children's apps, and went on to publish #1 hits like 'Endless Alphabet.'
Genvid Holdings Inc.
Genvid Holdings Inc. is a New York media-technology company that invented the Massively Interactive Live Event (MILE) - part TV show, part video game, where thousands of viewers vote on what happens next in real time. Founded in 2016 by Square Enix cloud-gaming veterans, Genvid has produced the Emmy-winning SILENT HILL: Ascension, the Webby-winning The Walking Dead: Last Mile, Rival Peak, and DC Heroes United. Backed by $166M in funding, the company is now extending its production infrastructure into studio-grade generative AI tooling for professional creators.
LucidLink
LucidLink is a San Francisco-based company that makes cloud storage feel like a local hard drive. Its Filespaces platform streams file data on demand from cloud object storage, letting creative teams and enterprises around the world collaborate on huge files - video, design, datasets - without syncing or downloading. Customers include Paramount, Spotify, Adobe, A&E Networks, BuzzFeed and Shopify.