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How 2 Australian sporting brands leverage human-centric digital innovation to drive new fan experiences in and out of the arena

CIO

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. Onsite, Infosys itself harnessed virtual reality in its fan zone activation.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, few spaces were frothier in 2016 than virtual reality, but most VCs who gambled on VR following Facebook’s Oculus acquisition failed to strike it rich. ” While Gigi Levy-Weiss of NFX says that the market is “sadly not happening yet,” Facebook’s Quest headsets have shown promise.

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Podcast recording platform Riverside just raised another $35M

TechCrunch

Like every other podcaster in the known universe, my show went all-virtual in mid-2020. We are not a trivial company, being where we are in the market with the quality and quantity of content creators using Riverside on a daily basis,” co-founder and CEO Nadav Keyson says in a release.

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Hopin buys livestreaming startup StreamYard for $250M as it looks to expand its product lineup

TechCrunch

The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its brand and in-market product. Hopin raised a $40 million Series A in late June of 2020 , and a $125 million Series B last November at a valuation of $2.125 billion. TechCrunch used Hopin’s service to host several of its events in 2020.).

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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. BoxCast dashboard.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

TechCrunch

He also wrote the 2020 book “ The Commando Mindset ”, published by Penguin. Trained on Ben’s coaching methodology and based on each team’s data, Loopin’s ‘virtual coach’ then provides managers tips on how to better support their team and unlock better performance. There is of course, competition in the market.

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SendOwl, a platform for selling digital goods, raises $4.5M from Defy.vc, Stripe and others

TechCrunch

SendOwl says it has delivered nearly $2 billion of value in digital and virtual goods for tens of thousands of paying merchants across millions of transactions. We’re actively hiring across engineering, product, marketing, and more which will enable us to ship SendOwl 2.0 “Our focus is on team, product, and growth.

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