We put capital into the scarcest and most durable audiences in the world, through the teams they love, the venues they fill, the rights they watch and the businesses that serve them.
Ownership positions in franchises across the NHL, NBA and NFL, in the football institutions of the Premier League, the EFL, MLS, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, in the women's game through the WSL and NWSL, in cricket through the Indian Premier League and in other global sports where loyal audiences endure. The mandate runs the full pyramid: tier two and tier three clubs sit alongside the top flight, where earlier entry and promotion upside reward patient owners. We look for situations where stewardship decides the outcome: founding families choosing a successor, leagues vetting new capital, owners seeking an aligned partner.
The value of sport compounds fastest in its rights. Broadcast, streaming, sponsorship and commercial rights, and the intellectual property behind them, are the revenue engine of the modern game, and the place where patient, disciplined capital is best rewarded.
The buildings where sport happens and the real estate that grows around them. Our partnership privately financed and built General Motors Place, the arena now known as Rogers Arena, and has understood venue economics from the inside ever since. We pursue development, redevelopment and operating positions in arenas, stadiums, entertainment districts and the hospitality that serves them.
Around every great club is an economy, and increasingly it runs on technology. We invest in the platforms and ventures that serve teams, venues and fans, businesses that earn recurring revenues and grow with the game rather than against it.
Not every situation calls for our capital. Owners, leagues and institutions engage Kismet for counsel on acquisitions, sales and capital formation, drawing on a partnership that has bought, built, financed and operated at the highest level of the game.
"We underwrite the way leagues approve: character first, capital second, and a plan measured in decades."
The Partnership