TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Champions Round , a fantasy league startup that caters to Gen Z sports fans, announced today that it raised $7 million in new Series A funding. Users, particularly Gen Z users, are moving away from traditional fantasy sports, where leagues are tied to entire seasons. participate in DFS, up 12% from 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The big news at this year’s show is a number of partnerships with brands across the sports spectrum, including: Adidas Running, Trailforks (cycling/hiking), Wearable X (yoga), Slopes (skiing) and 18Birdies (golf). The company also announced today a $45 million Series B-1, following last April’s $51 million raise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. ASX Sports launched in May 2021 and took its exchange live on the Apple and Android app stores earlier this month. million active rugby fans, per sports analytics firm Gemba.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A mix of business units that it breaks down into four categories: Physical Sports and Entertainment (trading cards), Digital Sports and Entertainment (digital collectibles, apps and games), Gift Cards (gift cards for external brands), and Confections (candy). Why do we care?

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing (3,000 words/12 minutes). Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). Drama and quirk aren’t necessary for startup success (1,900 words/8 minutes). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant would have sported a possible market valuation of more than $300 billion at its IPO price. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. That the IPO was called off is financial news on a scale that is hard to comprehend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“Our biggest advantage and differentiator is that we are strictly focused on the sports world and fan engagement,” he tells TechCrunch. “We love Cameo , but we’re really different and focused on sports.” “We love Cameo , but we’re really different and focused on sports.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

But before we do, we wanted to note that Anna and I are looking into the AI startup market tomorrow morning. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . The company will sport a lower, $3.6 Today it’s Babylon Health, a British healthtech company that is pursuing a U.S. listing via a blank-check company, or SPAC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. It is more like playing an entirely different sport. First, the extremely lucrative exit market has created the economics to support mega late-stage rounds and venture rounds of $100 million or more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobile Premier League (MPL) has raised $95 million in a new financing round, just five months after it secured $90 million as the two-and-a-half-year-old Bangalore-based esports and gaming platform looks to grow in international markets. Indian fantasy sports app Dream11’s parent firm raises $225M at over $2.5B

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

DraftKings is charging into the NFT game, announcing a marketplace aimed at curating sports and entertainment-themed digital collectibles for its audience of enthusiasts. The platform is “debuting later this summer,” and showcases another potentially lucrative expansion for the fantasy sports betting company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Ishveen Anand grew up in England playing sports all of her life, including during her time at Oxford. She wanted to do something sporty for a career and “fell in love” with sponsorship marketing. The round is led by Philadelphia 76ers owner David Blitzer, who is joined by Eric Stern and executives from WWE and Excel Sports Management.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And in the market of sports memorabilia, authenticity (even if it includes sweat, blood and tears) is everything. “We Alston grew up surrounded by philanthropy and sports. After Mov had difficulty scaling its marketplace, he thought of new ways to define his market. We send it as is,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here. The deal is reported to be worth around $500 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Unlike some upstart tech companies that we have seen in the internal application market, Appsmith doesn’t sport a no- or low-code approach. Appsmith has lots of competition in the market, with each rival company taking a different tack to the internal application issue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. Fast growth pushes an unprofitable no-code startup into the public markets: Inside Monday.com’s IPO filing. By 2024, analysts predict cars with voice recognition will comprise 60% of the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

” What interested parties should know not to expect are event contracts around sports outcomes (“that’s very much like gambling, and we don’t [facilitate] that,” says Lopes Lara.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. ” Sports trading card platform Alt launches with $31 million in funding and plenty of market hype.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Now the company is reaping the benefits of its trailblazing status with a new $305 million financing led by some of the biggest names in Hollywood, sports and investing. It’s like the one thing that cryptocurrency can do really well and it’s been embraced far beyond the world of sports collectibles.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The business publication’s news follows BuzzFeed’s journey to the public markets through a blank-check company. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Forbes reports that it will sport “an implied pro forma enterprise value of $630 million, net of tax benefits,” after its completion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

billion pre-packed oats market with his first product, a direct-to-consumer instant oatmeal called The PrOATagonist. To help Chernow tap into the industry, he brought on former RX Bar chief marketing officer Victor Lee to lead the brand’s go-to-market strategy. Chernow raised $2.2 Now he is targeting the $3.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

In the video category, WSC Sports, which uses AI to generate personally tailored video clips for sports fans, landed $100 million in Series D funding nearly a year ago. Crunchbase broke down some of the biggest winners in an early February dispatch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The media licensing business is a massive market, but much of the work involved is still handled manually through emails and spreadsheets. The new round was led by Sapphire Sport, the part of Sapphire Ventures that specializes in sports, media and lifestyle brands. A startup called Flowhaven is working to change that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. — it will likely know exactly who its customers are.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

An intelligent and automated micro-savings feature where users can create personalized rules (such as transferring $15 into a rainy day fund every time their favorite sports team wins). In particular, it plans to next focus on the Brazilian market, and will scale in a few select countries in the Americas. . In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The problem with ‘traditional’ D2C is that product-market fit is a huge unknown,” says Alessio Bruni. “Over the past decade, venture capital funds have invested billions of dollars into D2C businesses and only a very few of those have actually managed to hit product-market fit. . Meanwhile, on U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

It then added massage, beauty treatments, housekeeping, babysitting and sports coaching. Up next, Wecasa expects to launch its service in a couple of new European markets as soon as next year. And Wecasa now seems to be well positioned to build a strong brand and service across multiple markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? Cardless is attempting to shake up a massive market. Cardless is not restricted to working with sports brands. Many consumers use their credit cards to rack up rewards to be used toward travel. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the context of Sprinklr’s own. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. This means we can do some unpacking and thinking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup also plans to expand its team in preparation for the commercialization of AXIS later this year to cater to the rapidly growing market of gamers, tech adopters, content creators and fitness enthusiasts. Refract will continue delivering immersive and engaging XR and VR experiences to a growing market of 2.9 ” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I’ve been thinking about the NFT market quite a lot lately, mostly scratching my head at some of the prices folks are willing to pay for certain ownership signatures on particular blockchains. That’s a pretty darn slim market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A famous sports moment, for example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And while the addition doesn’t work for everyone — LinkedIn and Twitter recently shuttered their Stories features, for example — there’s enough demand for Stories out there on the market that a company called Storyteller has managed to create a revenue-generating business that provides “Stories as a Service.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

It took the initial approach of the popular “card break” concept, where users buy unopened boxes of Pokémon or sports cards and others tune in to watch them reveal the contents live. That has evolved into other collectibles, including sneakers, trading cards, sports memorabilia and rare toys.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Toast, after seeing its shares rise sharply after starting to trade yesterday, sports a similar revenue multiple despite far weaker blended gross margins. The Seattle-based fintech company sold 12,162,777 shares (7,000,000 primary) at $43 apiece.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

We were first to market and, with over 12 million users globally, still hold 88% of market share,” founder and chief executive officer Alex Zaccaria told TechCrunch. Beacons debuts a ‘link in bio’ mobile website builder that helps creators make money, not just list links.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Even more, a wave of SPACs failed to take a market-changing number of unicorns and other high-priced private companies public; the number of private unicorns continues to grow more quickly than even a SPAC-juiced public market has been able to receive them. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. to just $6.56

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