Led by Founder & Managing Partner Bobby Sharma and Partner Kyle Charters , Bluestone partners with exceptional management teams and rights-holders leading high-growth, proven Sports, Media & Entertainment businesses. Our team brings together unparalleled global investment, operational, and management experience.
We have held positions as deal-makers, senior executives, and board members at some of the most highly-regarded and respected firms, companies, and organizations in the world, regardless of industry. We are driven by a unique combination of business and investment experience, yielding exceptional expertise.
On a bedrock of integrity and respect, we have built a deep network of trusted industry relationships, extending to the very top leaders and decision-makers across the major leagues, teams, companies, agencies, and federations that comprise the Sports, Media & Entertainment industry.
While firmly-rooted in the United States, our experience, expertise, and relationships extend globally, providing us a unique ability to invest and operate in a range of businesses, looking to grow and scale in many directions.
Our platform brings a varied and diverse perspective, along with industry expertise honed over decades building, operating, and advising businesses in Sports, Media & Entertainment – including at the cutting edge of the technologies and disruptive forces shaping the future.
The emergence of Sports, Media & Entertainment as a institutional asset class presents a timely and compelling market opportunity, given strong fundamentals, low or no correlation with equity markets, and proven track-record of growth and resilience through turbulent macroeconomic cycles, for over a generation.
We are focused on partnering with established and growing businesses, with an opportunity to further grow and scale through elevated strategies and operations, from the capital and resources we can provide.
We have the ability and flexibility to invest across asset and transaction types – on both a minority and control basis – enabling us to construct a differentiated portfolio, built with ideal deal structures, bespoke to individual companies.
Above all, we seek long-term alignment with partners (founders, management teams, Boards of Directors, rights-holders, and other investors and shareholders), who can realize outsized benefit from our long-term, stable capital support, and a collaborative investor relationship.
Sports teams, leagues, associations, governing bodies, and rights-holders – spanning professional to collegiate, and youth to participatory athletics.
High-engagement content and live events, including streaming, gaming, music, and other forms of direct-to-consumer entertainment.
Ancillary and adjacent business and underlying infrastructure supporting the Sports, Media & Entertainment industry – including production, services, data, software, and technology.
Bluestone Equity Partners amasses $300 million to back sports, media and entertainment deals