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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. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX. Brayton Williams, Boost VC. Greg Castle, Anorak Ventures.

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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. The company is still fairly small, with around 90 employees, though it lists some big-name media powerhouses among its clients, including The New York Times, Fox Sports, Marvel, iHeartMedia and Microsoft.

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

TechCrunch

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. And during a conversation regarding the StreamYard deal, Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat said that the combined entity would sport around $65 million in ARR.

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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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‘PayPal for crypto’ wannabe Ramp raises $52.7M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

TechCrunch

It is also the exclusive on-ramping partner for Sorare, the blockchain-based, global sports video game, and Flow, the blockchain which specializes in NFT marketplaces and digital assets. And in Poland, it has become the first on-ramping company to receive an open banking license from The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) in 2020.

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6 Frontiers for Data Virtualization in 2021

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

You use data virtualization to create data views, configure security, and share data. One: Streaming Data Virtualization. But first-generation data virtualization tools are designed for data at rest. Streaming data virtualization turns live tables into a data virtualization data source. Easy, right?