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Video game coaching marketplace Metafy cuts 23% of staff despite doubling revenue

TechCrunch

Metafy , a marketplace for video game coaching, laid off 23% of its staff last week, primarily impacting product, design and engineering teams, founder Joshua Fabian confirmed in an e-mail to TechCrunch. June was our best month ever across GMV, AOV, game distribution and total active coaches. You’re in good hands.

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SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach

TechCrunch

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of rules.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

TechCrunch

Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

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You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. But what if that same sales SVP showed up as an active coach in the process? Leaders coach, and reinforce, the skills they’re learning. That all seems a bit much.”

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Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform

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Caliber , a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heels of a $2.2 “My co-founders started testing the idea of coaching people individually and that’s where the light bulb really went off,” said co-founder and CEO Jared Cluff.

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TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform

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TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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Veed, an online video editing platform, picks up $35M from Sequoia

TechCrunch

Video is the beating heart of the most popular content online these days, and it’s not just because it’s entertaining. It’s also because of how accessible it is: it’s become incredibly easy for anyone, whether you’re technical or not, to make, post or watch video.

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