Gary Lineker’s growing media and production company Goalhanger is launching a venture capital arm, as it looks to diversify its business and invest in creator-led media businesses.
The maker of popular podcasts like The Rest is History and The Rest is Politics is launching Goalhanger Ventures.
The VC unit is billing itself as an “investment and partnerships” business, which, it says, will back creator-led media businesses with strong potential across video, social, audio, live and commercial platforms.
Goalhanger Ventures has already struck two deals.
It has made an equity investment in Invisible Media, which is behind The Invisible Hand YouTube channel, which has a focus on “topics that will shape the future of the global economy with infographic videos” from markets to money in an accessible way.
