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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

TechCrunch

Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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

TechCrunch

Employing a combination of Open AI’s ChaptGPT, combined with its own proprietary coaching platform for staff well-being, Loopin hopes to break out from the rest of the field. After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United.

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How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

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. The way we play may soon never be the same. The result? said Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie.

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Smart dumbbells? Sure, why not?

TechCrunch

Of course, given the smart home fitness explosion of the past several years, why not? Today Kabata is announcing a $2 million round, featuring a bunch of names from the sports and VC worlds. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb suggesting that dumbbells aren’t at the top of anyone’s list when it comes to connectivity.

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

We are all familiar with the success of platforms like Peloton (IPO’d), but there are of course new upstarts such as FiiT (raised £9 million) or Fitplan (raised $9.9 Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. Each course is presented in high-quality video. Masters app. Image Credits: Masters.

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Connected strength-training startup Vitruvian eyes US with $15M raise

TechCrunch

There’s been some leveling off of late, of course. The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up to ~440 pounds. There are still plenty of opportunities in the category, of course — particularly for some novel approaches. The company also pushes back a bit on the gym question.

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