TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The big news at this year’s show is a number of partnerships with brands across the sports spectrum, including: Adidas Running, Trailforks (cycling/hiking), Wearable X (yoga), Slopes (skiing) and 18Birdies (golf). The company also announced today a $45 million Series B-1, following last April’s $51 million raise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

million in seed funding as it brings a healthier approach to the sports beverage market. ” In fact, the average sports drink contains 36 grams of sugar. The company donates 1% of proceeds to the women’s sports nonprofit SheIS.) Cure Hydration is announcing that it has raised $2.6 of you subscribe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. ASX Sports launched in May 2021 and took its exchange live on the Apple and Android app stores earlier this month. million active rugby fans, per sports analytics firm Gemba.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Responsible for global operations and technology services across company and customer websites, staff technology, and THG’s direct-to-consumer Ingenuity service and hosting business, Drake has looked to support the rapid growth of the Manchester-based firm through IPO, a global pandemic, supply chain instability, and the onset of recession.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Robinhood has yet to file its IPO, so we’re looking at other companies in the meantime. Today it’s Babylon Health, a British healthtech company that is pursuing a U.S. listing via a blank-check company, or SPAC. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . The company will sport a lower, $3.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Twitter is abuzz with the news that Topps, a company perhaps best known for making collectible trading cards, is going public via a SPAC. The reverse merger with its chosen blank-check company values the combination on an equity basis at $1.163 billion. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Why do we care?

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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. Helping AGPC was strategic technology partner, WONGDOODY, the global human experience company of Infosys.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

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. “So we did some research and realised there was a massive market gap for this kind of game [fantasy football] in the Middle East and Africa.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a strong open source component to its core business. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. What’s HashiCorp worth?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. It is more like playing an entirely different sport.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Ishveen Anand grew up in England playing sports all of her life, including during her time at Oxford. She wanted to do something sporty for a career and “fell in love” with sponsorship marketing. The round is led by Philadelphia 76ers owner David Blitzer, who is joined by Eric Stern and executives from WWE and Excel Sports Management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. LeadIQ frames its product from the perspective of missed revenue targets at companies, which it claims impact nearly two-thirds of today’s deals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The new product, dubbed “ Gusto Embedded Payroll ,” will allow vertical SaaS companies to provide payroll support to their own customers. Indeed, for many companies payroll is their largest expense. The company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars while private, including $200 million in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Unlike some upstart tech companies that we have seen in the internal application market, Appsmith doesn’t sport a no- or low-code approach.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

DraftKings is charging into the NFT game, announcing a marketplace aimed at curating sports and entertainment-themed digital collectibles for its audience of enthusiasts. The platform is “debuting later this summer,” and showcases another potentially lucrative expansion for the fantasy sports betting company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

We were first to market and, with over 12 million users globally, still hold 88% of market share,” founder and chief executive officer Alex Zaccaria told TechCrunch. Beacons debuts a ‘link in bio’ mobile website builder that helps creators make money, not just list links.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

As anybody in IT can attest, the skills gap companies are facing is real, and it’s getting more pronounced. In sports, teams that play together well generally have an edge over those who don’t. Companies are only as effective as the people they employ. The Great Resignation trend is hitting IT hard. Conclusion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. The company declined to answer our questions today, saying it’s “too early” in its trajectory.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

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. The surge in interest from early-stage VC companies alone is staggering, with a total of $2.2 billion raised in 2022. billion in VC funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

PlayVS , the esports company bringing organized leagues to high schools and colleges, is today announcing its first acquisition. The deal will accelerate PlayVS during its growth phase and help it expand into the Canadian market. The company has also launched a new $900,000 scholarship pool for high schools and colleges.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. ” Sports trading card platform Alt launches with $31 million in funding and plenty of market hype.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The business publication’s news follows BuzzFeed’s journey to the public markets through a blank-check company. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In corporate-speak, Forbes Global Media Holdings is merging with blank-check company Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited. Hot media liquidity summer?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

At Uber’s third annual Go-GET product event Wednesday in New York City, the ride-hailing company announced that it’ll soon launch boat travel in Greece, giving vacationers — and boat lovers — the opportunity to book a boat directly via the Uber app. Uber’s getting into boats.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the context of Sprinklr’s own. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The price of growth.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sports Illustrated and its CEO found this out recently when it was revealed the magazine published articles written by fake authors with AI-generated images. While the CEO lost his job, the parent company, Arena Group, lost 20% of its market value. But what about most enterprises without access to such data?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) boom did not play out as some folks in the technology and business worlds hoped. Despite a wave of optimism through early 2021, private companies that pursued public debuts with the help of blank-check companies have frequently failed to cover themselves in glory in the intervening quarters. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

This enables the Mexico City–based company to expand into South America. We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. Companies across the globe raked in large amounts of venture capital and grew quickly.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Grant LaFontaine and Logan Head founded the company in 2019 as a place where avid collectors could share their interests along with buying and selling things like rare Pokémon cards and Funko Pops. That has evolved into other collectibles, including sneakers, trading cards, sports memorabilia and rare toys.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Just how lucrative is the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market? The two companies, Affirm American and Klarna Swedish, are among the most valuable players in the BNPL market today. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Both recently reported financial results. billion in its latest funding round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Now the company is reaping the benefits of its trailblazing status with a new $305 million financing led by some of the biggest names in Hollywood, sports and investing. The new round values the company at a whopping $2.6 The new round values the company at a whopping $2.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to former employees of human resources startup Free Agency, CEO Sherveen Mashayekhi’s leadership style is holding the startup back as he seems to care more about demanding loyalty and controlling his employees than building a company. This left Mashayekhi as the sole C-suite executive at the company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021 , and is only expected to rise with an increase in demand for early-detection services as well as lifestyle and age-related conditions. As a small company, there are certain things that we just can’t do. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian nation and is gearing up to launch several new titles in the country. The product and the space that the company is operating in are a core concern.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And while the addition doesn’t work for everyone — LinkedIn and Twitter recently shuttered their Stories features, for example — there’s enough demand for Stories out there on the market that a company called Storyteller has managed to create a revenue-generating business that provides “Stories as a Service.”

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