TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. While competing services to Public also sport zero-cost trading, Public’s model hinges on a social focus (TechCrunch covered an element of Public’s social platform here , for example).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ten years later, Earbuds has raised a $3 million Series A round for its social listening app, led by Ecliptic Capital with additional investment from the Andre Agassi Foundation and LFG Ventures. As streaming services like Spotify grow, social listening apps like Earbuds are emerging too.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion. How businesses use social proof. Social proof for B2B. Social proof for SaaS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The platform offers over 20,000 hours of content covering entertainment, creators, sports, and XR, VR, and AR experiences virtually anywhere in the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

With Elon Musk’s recent interest in Twitter, Facebook’s growth flattening and TikTok’s meteoric rise, it feels like the world of social media is back into some kind of inflection point period. Thus WeAre8 was born as a new social media app to capitalise on this model. s Channel 4 TV channel. Sue Fennessy, WeAre8.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Social recommendations remain an area today’s app stores don’t address. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For Colsubsidio , a non-profit provider of a wide array of social services in Colombia, the recent pandemic underscored the need to respond quickly to a major crisis to diminish the harm felt by communities with limited resources.

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CIO

APRIL 3, 2023

Digital solutions and data analytics are changing the world of sports entertainment at a rapid clip. From how players train, to how teams make strategic decisions during games, to how venues operate and fans engage, sports organizations are turning to software engineers and data scientists to help transform the sport experience.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Black Swan taps into data from conversations on social media and analyzes the data to map “growth opportunities” for companies, attempting to identify trend signals more accurately than traditional market research approaches.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Green and Kirschner saw how social media was driving new sources of revenue for organizations like sports teams, politics and consumer brands, but needed a way for real-time distribution of media to be easily shared. He considers Greenfly “instant access to a media gallery” that he can share on his social media accounts.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2023

Sports fans today have more ways than ever to watch their favorite teams beyond the traditional, live stadium experience, including television, streaming services, even highlights on social media. In response, sports teams and venue operators are working hard to improve and differentiate the in-stadium experience.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. Live commerce is today where social media was 15 years ago. Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

At that time, the decision was made to produce the official match footage themselves rather than by the broadcasting station J Sports. Until now, we didnt own the copyright to match footage, so we had to get it from broadcasters and others when promoting the sport, says Muroguchi. So we had meetings with AWS staff almost every week.

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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. However, what she found was that the process was inefficient — the sports world was slow-moving in terms of brands getting contracts with athletes. OpenSponsorship deals page.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

From watching sports to watching movies to perhaps even reviewing X-rays with one’s doctor some day, both say more web surfing together is inevitable, particularly for younger users. from NBC Sports to YouTube to Disney+), and it relies on data synchronization to ensure that every user sees the same original video quality.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Here: Americans wagered $106B+ on sports between January and November 2023. That was made possible by a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that ended a federal ban on sports betting. And sports betting apps are gaining steam: PrizePicks is Apple’s most downloaded free sports app. 12 in Apple’s App Store sports app rankings.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Whatnot intends to use the capital infusion to continue developing its in-app live and social commerce marketplace and roll out additional categories for collectors, including diecast cars, stamps and action figures. That has evolved into other collectibles, including sneakers, trading cards, sports memorabilia and rare toys.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 It also quietly launched a fantasy sports app called Jeet early last year, as reported first by TechCrunch. billion, up from about $650 million last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The idea for Storyteller spun out of the Edinburgh, Scotland-based specialist entertainment agency Storm Ideas , founded by Bob Thomson , which provides a range of services to media companies along with various social products. Image Credits: Storyteller. Storyteller emerged from that same process. Image Credits: Storyteller.

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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

MAY 30, 2022

The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world. What this means is that celebrities do not have to rely on their social media following to drive transactions. Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). based major league sports team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

The rapid sequence of venture capital injections were likely designed to fuel growth as demand for grocery delivery services surged while people attempted to quarantine or generally spend less time frequenting high-traffic social environments like grocery stores. Instacart raises $200M more at a $17.7B

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

. “In my life, I’ve got very few true passions: I love trivia and I love sports,” Bonaddio told me. “I’ve already started a sports company, so I’ve got to start a trivia company.” ” , which he used to start the sports analytics company numberFire ( acquired by FanDuel in 2014 ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ” While Fatmap is incorporated in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But not every company going public via a SPAC is an EV company with an issue telling the truth or a social networking “company” of a former president famous for sporting a lack of connection to reality. We’ve also seen SPAC deals announced or completed with companies of imperfect repute.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Because the company sports a combination of rapid growth and expanding losses that make it a good heat check for the IPO market. So, let’s talk about SentinelOne’s cybersecurity IPO price range; Sprinklr’s social-media software debut will play foil. The price of growth. Or simply very high losses.

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CTOvision

APRIL 28, 2015

This social intelligence company integrates content into new experiences for consumers and also provides enterprises with new ways to deliver value from social media. WayIn provides an ability to aggregate, curate, integrate and measure social content and data in real-time. Source: About Wayin - Our History and Mission.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Gym Class’s product head Paul Katsen tells TechCrunch that the startup is thinking about the experience as more of a social hub than a simple game, one that allows people to hop into a virtual space and bond over the sport and culture around basketball.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. Studio aims to offer a similar vibe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Pralica previously co-founded Kicks Deals, a sneaker shipping site focused on less than retail pricing and Dusanj is the former Director of Operations at New Age Sports, a Nike retailer. . And bets on social token outfits like Zora are also focused on community as the glue that holds together a user base. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. “I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads , Meta’s Twitter competitor. Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. I know better than to take anything Elon says at face value. . The Musk v.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms and personalized feeds. “I wanted to do something that had a larger social impact. The publishers cover topics like U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kalshi is also emerging during a time when people are consuming more, and sometimes narrower, news stories through their social media feeds and elsewhere. That matters, suggests Lopes Lara, because the “contracts are pretty much tied to news and things that are going on in the world and relevant in the world right now.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The startup also added some celeb investors to this round, including Charli D’Amelio, Justin Timberlake and The Chainsmokers, as well as big names from the world of sports, like Eli Manning, Kelvin Beachum, Larry Fitzgerald and Andre Iguodala. This is notably Charli D’Amelio’s first startup investment, Step tells TechCrunch.

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