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Skydance Media

Skydance Media IPO

$4B
Last Known Valuation, Aug 2025
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Skydance Media IPO date and status

2016
Founded
Aug 2025
MA Closed

Company details

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, and True Grit. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games.
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Founded
2016
Headquarters
Santa Monica, CA, United States
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Skydance Media became a public company following its M&A on 08/07/2025 and is now a publicly traded company.

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Skydance Media became a public company following its M&A on 08/07/2025.

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When was Skydance Media founded?

Skydance Media was founded in 2016.

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Skydance Media major investors

KKR
Redbird Capital Partners

Skydance Media pre-IPO valuation and funding rounds

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Skydance Media IPO news and media highlights

Paramount Global agrees to merge with Skydance Media

Paramount Global has agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a complex transaction that will join Shari Redstone's media empire with an upstart studio run by the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. The deal breathes new life into an iconic Hollywood brand that's lost more than 70% of its market value since 2019, when Redstone recombined Viacom and CBS. The deal values the new company — for now being dubbed "New Paramount" — at roughly $28 billion and will follow a two-step process, the companies said.

Skydance’s unique offer for Paramount Global would give it a large stake while keeping the company public

Skydance Media’s offer to acquire National Amusements and merge its studio with Paramount Pictures isn’t a conventional takeover. The question for Paramount Global shareholders might be: Is it better than no deal at all? Skydance has made a unique pitch to Paramount Global’s special committee, in charge of accepting or rejecting transactions, and its investors, according to four people familiar with the parameters of the offer. Paramount Global would continue to trade publicly. Skydance would own either a substantial minority stake or a majority stake in Paramount Global by merging its assets and raising new equity, which it would acquire along with its private equity partners RedBird Capital Partners and KKR.

Skydance Lands $400 Million Investment, Pushing David Ellison’s Company Past $4 Billion Valuation

David Ellison‘s media company Skydance has completed a $400 million investment round, led by global firm KKR and the Ellison family. Previous investors RedBird Capital and Tencent have also upped their contributions, bringing the total valuation of the producer behind “Top Gun: Maverick” to over $4 billion. The Ellison family remains the majority stakeholder in the venture. Ellison specifically highlighted Skydance’s sports and interactive divisions as prime beneficiaries from the new investment.

USA Skydance Media Receives $275M Strategic Investment

Skydance Media, a diversified global media company, received $275m in strategic funding. The round was led by RedBird Capital Partners with participation from CJ Entertainment and Merchandising (CJ ENM), the studio behind the multiple Academy Award-winning Parasite, led the round, and current investors including the Ellison family and Tencent Holdings Ltd. The company intends to use the funds to further expand its global reach across its film, television, animation and interactive platforms. Led by David Ellison, Founder and CEO, and Jesse Sisgold, President and COO, Skydance is a diversified media company creating high-quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences.
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