National, September 11, 2025 – Audacity Venture Capital, a sector-focused venture capital firm specializing in media-tech investments, today announced its landmark $50 million exit from VideoVerse following the company’s strategic acquisition by Minute Media, a global leader in sports technology and content.
Record-Breaking Exit Validates Media-Tech Strategy
This milestone represents Audacity’s first exit and stands as India’s largest media-tech acquisition to date. The firm’s general partners were among VideoVerse’s earliest institutional investors through a previous fund, initially backing the company at a $5 million valuation. As one of VideoVerse’s largest institutional investors, Audacity’s successful exit in under two years demonstrates the firm’s conviction-driven investment approach.
“As a sector-specific, stage-agnostic fund, our strategy centers on creating alpha by identifying undervalued opportunities early and supporting them through multiple growth stages,” said Kabir Kochhar, Founding Partner at Audacity Venture Capital. “VideoVerse perfectly exemplifies this conviction-led approach. We backed them at their earliest stage, believed in their transformative vision, and supported their evolution into a global leader in AI-powered sports content solutions. This exit validates both our media-tech thesis and provides a strong foundation for our next fund.”
VideoVerse: Transforming Sports Content with AI
VideoVerse’s flagship AI-driven SaaS platform, Magnifi, revolutionizes how sports media rights-holders, leagues, and publishers create and distribute content. The platform automatically detects key moments, generates real-time highlights, and distributes short-form content with unprecedented speed and precision. Through the Minute Media acquisition, Magnifi will expand its global footprint as part of a comprehensive content creation, distribution, and monetization ecosystem for premier sports organizations worldwide.
Vinayak Shrivastav, Co-founder & CEO of VideoVerse, reflected on the partnership: “From day one, Audacity recognized our vision and AI’s disruptive potential in media. They transcended the typical investor role, serving as true strategic partners who guided our thinking, challenged us to scale bigger, and provided unwavering capital and conviction support. Their belief has been instrumental in shaping VideoVerse’s success story.”
Strategic Backing Enables Focused Growth
Audacity’s investor base includes prestigious limited partners such as prominent U.S. fund-of-funds, global family offices, and media conglomerates. This strategic backing enables the firm to execute its focused approach of building category-defining leaders in the media-tech space through early-stage discovery combined with strategic growth-round investments.
Strengthening India’s Media-Tech Investment Leadership
The VideoVerse exit reinforces Audacity’s position as a pioneer in India’s media-tech investment ecosystem. The firm’s portfolio strategy blends early-stage identification with strategic capital allocation across growth phases, maximizing distributions per invested dollar (DPI) for investors while supporting transformative companies.
This successful exit comes at a time when India’s media-tech sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by digital transformation, AI innovation, and increasing global demand for content technology solutions.
About Audacity Venture Capital
Audacity Venture Capital is a specialized media and technology investment firm operating across India and the United States. With deep expertise spanning Entertainment, Sports, Gaming, AdTech, and MarTech sectors, the firm pursues multi-stage investment opportunities from Seed through Growth rounds.
Audacity partners with visionary founders building globally scalable businesses, combining sector-specific knowledge, international perspective, and a founder-first philosophy to support companies shaping the future of media and technology. The firm’s stage-agnostic approach allows for continued investment support as portfolio companies scale from early-stage startups to market leaders.
