Investment Summary

KKR Invests In Artlist

On June 29, 2020, private equity firm KKR invested in digital media company Artlist

Investment Highlights
  • This is KKR’s 7th transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is KKR’s 2nd transaction in Luxembourg.

Investment Summary
Date 2020-06-29
Target Artlist
Sector Digital Media
Investor(s) KKR
Deal Type Growth Capital

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Artlist

Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Artlist is a provider of a full suite of high-quality, royalty-free licensed music, stock video clips, and sound effects for digital creative industries. Members with active subscriptions have full and unlimited access to the site’s entire music, SFX and footage catalogs. The music, SFX, and footage are created by a growing community of independent musicians, producers, sound designers, filmmakers, and cinematographers from around the world. Artlist was founded in 2016 and is based in Luxembourg.

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KKR

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1976
PE ASSETS 510.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
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KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.
KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.

KKR is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into several business segments including private markets, public markets, capital markets, and other principal activities. KKR's private equity practice invests in management buyouts, take privates, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, and partnerships with family-owned companies. KKR will invest in a broad range of industries and companies and will consider businesses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Sectors of interest include chemicals, consumer products, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrial, media/communications, retail, and technology. In addition to its traditional principal investment activity business, KKR also invests in infrastructure assets. KKR was formed in 1976 and is based in New York, New York.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 342 of 428
Sector (Digital Media) 7 of 7
Type (Growth Capital) 55 of 63
Country (Luxembourg) 2 of 2
Year (2020) 21 of 38
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-06-28 First Gen

Pasig, Philippines

First Gen is an independent power producer in the Philippines that primarily utilizes clean and indigenous fuels such as natural gas, geothermal energy from steam, the hydroelectric, wind, and solar power. The Company has 3,492MW of installed capacity in its portfolio, which accounts for 21% of the country’s gross generation.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-07-02 JBCPL

Mumbai, India

JBCPL is a branded formulation pharma company in India with a strong domestic brand portfolio and exports to several international markets. JBCPL was formed in 1976 and is based in Mumbai, India.

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