secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Skillz Inc. (SKLZ)
CIK:        0001801661
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-05T21:21:22+00:00
Accession:  0001801661-26-000106
Event type: m_and_a
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 1.01, 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Firy sells Exit Games stake back for $55M cash, ~1.1x on its $50M 2021 investment
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- $55.0M cash sale of 14,708 Exit Games shares, ~10.5% of Exit Games' outstanding capital; closed October 2, 2026, proceeds received in full.
- Firy bought the stake for $50M in July 2021 under former name Skillz Inc.; sale is above purchase price at ~1.1x realized.
- Company cites 2021-vintage US VC funds' 0.05x average DPI at five years; FIRY's return is ~22x that benchmark (PitchBook, Aug. 6, 2026).
- CEO Andrew Paradise: cash back on the balance sheet 'gives FIRY optionality in our other endeavors'; Exit Games is the Hamburg-based developer of Photon networking tech.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801661/000180166126000106/0001801661-26-000106-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801661/000180166126000106/sklz-20261002.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001801661-26-000106

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