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• 🎵 Create Music Group, a record label and music distribution platform, raised $165m led by Flexpoint Ford at a $1b valuation. axios.link/3VTkZHX
• Smashing, an online content curation startup from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, raised $3.4m in seed funding from True Ventures, Blockchange, Offline Ventures, Advancit Capital and Power of N Ventures. axios.link/3XF3Y5M
• Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) is in talks to sell digital marketing agency R/GA to India's Tata Consultancy Services for $300m, the Wall Street Journal reports. axios.link/3xtZu7j
• Derek McLay, former EDO theatrical president, acquired EDO Box Office and EDO Screenings from EDO, an analytics firm catered to Hollywood co-founded by Edward Norton. McLay is using the acquisitions to launch his new firm, Insight Theatrical. axios.link/3VVqLJd
• Canada's Sphere Media has acquired Abacus Media Rights, the U.K. distributor that sells "Leaving Neverland" and "Scrublands" in a deal valued at C$24.6m. axios.link/45IPXG1
