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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

CIO

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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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

Being that I’m not much of a sports person — my preferred type of game involves controllers and screens — I hadn’t given All-World much thought until Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch’s managing editor, assigned me to write a first impressions piece. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture?

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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

CIO

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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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

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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VCs continue to pour dollars into generative AI

TechCrunch

According to a PitchBook report released this month, VCs have steadily increased their positions in generative AI, from $408 million in 2018 to $4.8 million in 2018. 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.

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The venture bull market is great for founders, but not in the way they might expect

TechCrunch

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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Eksab gets $3M to scale its fantasy football platform across MENA and Africa

TechCrunch

Football or soccer, the latter commonly used in the US, is the most popular and watched sport globally with over five billion football fans according to its apex governing body , FIFA. Founder and CEO Aly Mahmoud started Eksab in 2018. ” Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game. and Europe.

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