YouTube influencer group Dude Perfect scores more than $100M investment

The popular YouTube channel Dude Perfect announced Tuesday it landed an investment of more than $100 million from private investment firm Highmount Capital as the group looks to expand into a larger media company.

Dude Perfect began in April 2009 as a YouTube channel started by five roommates at Texas A&M University that featured them performing trick basketball shots. In the years since, Coby and Cory Cotton, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones and Garrett Hilbert have expanded Dude Perfect into one of the most popular channels on YouTube, with more than 60 million subscribers to their main channel on the platform that features sports stunts a