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Fanatics reveals NFL was biggest backer in $1.5B round announced last month at $27B valuation

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Fanatics added that other major investors in the round included Major League Baseball (MLB) and its owners, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the National Hockey League, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai via his fund Blue Pool Capital and the Qatar Investment Authority.

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Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed

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Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. It also says it has companies like Allbirds, Giga and VF Corp (a global apparel and footwear co.), The interface of numbers would tax even the geekiest of CEOs.

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As Allbirds goes public, sustainability is the mantra of the future

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It started with a humble, natural wool (and extremely comfortable) shoe, but Allbirds is not merely an apparel company today. Allbirds rings the bell on the Nasdaq? today and has chosen an apt ticker to do it: BIRD. It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made.

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Fitness startup Aarmy reinvents itself for a remote fitness world

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Beyond the classes, Aarmy has also launched an apparel business, selling a variety of fitness gear on its own website and via Net-a-Porter. In fact, the company says this side of the business has already brought in $450,000 in sales.

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Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its ‘consumer-like B2B checkout platform’

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What that means is that Balance has built a B2B payments platform that allows merchants to offer a variety of payment methods, including ACH, cards, checks and bank wires, as well as a variety of terms, including payment on delivery, net payment terms and payment by milestone. They include Bryzos, Choco, Zilingo and Bay Supply, among others.

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Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A

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Veho wants to make the delivery experience so awesome that it facilitates trust between the consumer and e-commerce company so that consumers return to order again.

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The power players of retail transformation: IoT, 5G, and AI/ML on Microsoft Cloud

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Retail customers are looking to achieve net zero goals by creating sustainable value chains and reducing the environmental impact of their operations,” says Marianne Röling, Vice President Global System Integrators, Microsoft. “TCS’ With 5G-enabled smart mirrors, a person can virtually try on apparel.

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