TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. Even with the slowdown in a lot of sporting activity this year due to COVID — in the U.K.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

CIO 100 winner, sports leadership and being ‘too friendly’ Having featured in the CIO 100 in 2021 and 2020 prior to topping this year’s list , Drake says the award is for her team, not just her. “If If this was about me, as an individual, I’d struggle to do a [CIO 100] submission,” she said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

million in seed funding as it brings a healthier approach to the sports beverage market. ” In fact, the average sports drink contains 36 grams of sugar. The company donates 1% of proceeds to the women’s sports nonprofit SheIS.) Cure Hydration is announcing that it has raised $2.6 for a pack of 14, or $16.79

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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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CIO

APRIL 30, 2023

Creating new revenue streams, identifying untapped audiences and better engaging fans onsite and all year-round are just some of the wins iconic Australian sporting events are chalking up thanks to human-centric digital innovation. Here, we explore two stellar examples in the Australian Grand Prix and Australian Open.

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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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Draftea , which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America , is taking fantasy football (not fútbol) to the region in a new partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Player’s Association, a labor union representing the league’s athletes.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. According to Siauw, the effort will help sales teams better work with marketing teams, allowing for more complete information sharing and hopefully better sales results.

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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 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

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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BrainStation Technology

JUNE 4, 2019

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. Taken together, you can see that data has had a profound impact on the sport.

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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

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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Toptal

MAY 24, 2018

In a hotly anticipated move on May 14, 2018, the US Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, paving the way for states to legalize sports betting. This article covers the foundations of sports betting, including its $150 billion market size, implementation timeline, and revenue distribution.

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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

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

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

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 31, 2022

Just how lucrative is the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market? The two companies, Affirm American and Klarna Swedish, are among the most valuable players in the BNPL market today. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Both recently reported financial results. billion in its latest funding round.

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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

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

MAY 17, 2023

Sport and live entertainment company AEG originally owned Uber Boat in London and sold the majority interest to Northleaf Capital Partners last year. Uber is perhaps feeling the pressure to expand into new markets even as ride-sharing rebounds post-pandemic. And unlike Uber Boat in London, it’s not owned by a third party.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021 , and is only expected to rise with an increase in demand for early-detection services as well as lifestyle and age-related conditions. Yet at the same time as demand for radiology services is increasing, the number of available radiographers is decreasing.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Partnering with a company of this type allows access to cutting-edge technologies and ideas used in the context of football and sports management.” So the SAP Sports One solution, a cloud-based sports management suite that makes it possible to visualize in real-time team performance, was developed in close relationship with the club in 2014.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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