Valuation during Sophie Watts’ tenure
Media · Entertainment · Technology
Building media companies for what comes next
Founded and led by Sophie Watts, SW Group connects creativity and technology to build businesses around shifts in media.
Explore the track record ↓Views underpinning the performance model
Pay-per-view buys for Tyson vs. Jones
Films released by the studio
Videos analyzed across 4,000+ accounts
Territories in the global distribution network
Sophie Watts
Founder and CEO
Creative ambition,
commercial scale
From the founding of STX Entertainment to Mike Tyson’s return to the ring and AI-powered audience technologies, Sophie Watts brings together talent, capital, and distribution to build companies with worldwide reach and impact.
STX Entertainment
From inception
to global scale
Founding President · 2011–2018
Senior Advisor · 2018–2019
As Founding President, Sophie helped build STX Entertainment from inception into a global, multibillion-dollar film, television, and digital studio. Working with the CEO and Chairman, she helped secure more than $200 million in capital and grow the business from a two-person startup into a company with more than 140 employees. The studio went on to produce and distribute more than 70 films and a dozen television shows.
As a member of the core leadership team, she helped secure output agreements with Universal and Showtime, exhibitor agreements with AMC, Regal, and Cinemark, and guaranteed film distribution across 145 territories. Her remit extended across film, scripted and unscripted television, financing partnerships, and international expansion.
Institutional backing included
TPG GrowthHony CapitalTencentLiberty GlobalPCCW
Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League
Mike Tyson’s return
A new media business
Co-Founder and CEO · 2020–2021
Sophie co-founded Legends Only League with Mike Tyson and served as CEO, bringing together live sport, entertainment, brand partnerships, and pay-per-view distribution in a talent-led business. The Tyson vs. Jones live event, featuring Jake Paul on the undercard, generated more than 1.8 million pay-per-view buys and connected a new generation of audiences with one of sport’s most recognizable figures.
Sophie negotiated a significant eight-figure sale of global broadcasting rights and oversaw the live production, talent partnerships, and multimillion-dollar sponsor integrations.
3.7B+Media impressions generated around the live event
1.8M+Pay-per-view buys
Current leadership
Selected operating, board and advisory roles
New audiences for stories worth discovering
Radical Tempo helps media companies turn their libraries into social discovery and lasting fandom. Its AI identifies the moments audiences respond to, publishes them across social platforms, and learns from performance to guide what comes next.
The platform is built to turn social attention into viewing and commercial value for studios and streamers.
100B+Views underpinning the model
300K+Videos analyzed across 4,000+ accounts
Two Daughters Entertainment
Non-Executive Director
A film and television company developing original family entertainment and global franchises.
Muse System Enterprises
Chair of the Advisory Board
Muse is a patented narrative intelligence system born in Hollywood, helping creators and enterprises produce high-quality stories and deepen audience engagement throughout the creative process, from conception to commercialization.
Wonder Studios
Advisor
An AI-native studio developing and producing film, television, commercial, and music-video work for a new generation of world-class creators.
Daisy
Advisor
An influencer marketing and social syndication platform that connects brands with content creators to boost organic engagement on social media.
Founder and CEO · SW Group
Sophie Watts
Sophie Watts builds companies around changes in how stories are made, distributed, and discovered. Her experience spans the founding of a global studio, the business of live sport, and the application of AI to media. Across each, she connects creative talent with the capital, partnerships, and distribution needed to build a business.
Through SW Group, she works with founders, talent, and investors on company building, growth, and international expansion. As Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Radical Tempo, she is focused on how technology can help media companies find new audiences for the stories they own. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with first-class honors.
Recognition
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Under 40
Under 40
Women in Entertainment
Power 100
Power 100
Women’s
Impact Report
Impact Report