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. ” Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game. . ” Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Most people opt for sedentary entertainment that involves minimal movement like watching movies or streaming live concerts, playing video games and throwing virtual parties. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX. This summer, the company launched its limited test version of Active Arcade, Lee said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? The startup, which is out to give brands and tech companies a way to launch custom co-branded credit cards, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. ” Elaborating, Huber told me that companies in the same space include Bidstack, Adverty, Anzu and Frameplay. Last year we covered Adtech startup Admix’s $7 million Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. A virtual store created with Emperia’s platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Refract has already secured strategic relationships with the likes of World Taekwondo as part of its virtual sports program, working with the federation to make Virtual Taekwondo a medal event in the near future. “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3. The metaverse has the potential to change that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience. Zaatarah said partnership and integration with 45 telecom operators is the backbone behind the company’s global expansion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

BoxCast , a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and you needed professional help to live stream anything.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. On the consumer side, we’re seeing some companies across gaming, fitness and productivity that are earning and retaining their audiences at a respectable rate.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2022

Packed sports arenas. Customers should be floored by how easy it is to get things done with self-service tools such as a virtual agent. By doing this, companies can consistently give customers what they need, many times, before they think to ask for it. To compete on experience thinking, companies need an Experience Platform. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its brand and in-market product. And during a conversation regarding the StreamYard deal, Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat said that the combined entity would sport around $65 million in ARR. The deal is worth $250 million, paid in a mix of cash and stock.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

” AiFi’s “smart stores” are grocery stores, sport stadiums and convenience stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out. million purchases to date.

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TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Imagine you’re a data engineer at a Fortune 1000 company. Your company has thousands of databases and 14,000 business intelligence users. You use data virtualization to create data views, configure security, and share data. One: Streaming Data Virtualization. It’s the first new frontier for data virtualization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Essentially, those fintech startups are slowly becoming freemium software-as-a-service companies. You also get overseas medical insurance, delayed baggage and flight insurance and winter sports coverage. You can also access advanced features, such as disposable virtual cards and Revolut Junior accounts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company is now clearly on a roll. 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. . “trad-fi” startup Ramp ) de-cloaked like a Klingon battleship in space, with a $10.1

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

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. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports. Loopin has now raised a £1.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It may also have benefited from the pause in professional sports earlier this year, while CEO and co-founder Matt Gunnin told me recently that he also sees fantasy as a way to make video games accessible to a broader audience — he recalled one Esports One user who introduced his sister to League of Legends using the fantasy platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As I write this, I am also enjoying a virtual “holiyay” celebration with my fellow TechCrunchers. million to automate financial workflows for companies to more easily manage customer payments. The company, with its military autonomous flying tech , is a bright spot in the defense sector, which continues to attract investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company just announced that it teleported a 220-foot stack of $20 bills from a number of investors’ bank accounts to its own. The company has sold around 100 full-size PORTLs (called the Epic), and has a number it is renting out for more ad hoc installations and campaigns, as well. We have Netflix, HBO, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The company has signed-up world-famous athletes such as X Games and three-time Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White; World and nine-time U.S. If 10 people can go to an in-person group exercise class led by a very good trainer, then why can’t 1,000 people, or 10,000 people take a virtual class led by an Olympic champion or NBA legend?…

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Founded out of Menlo Park in 2019, Pulse in its initial guise was a “virtual office” platform called Loop Team , but after honing the idea for a couple of years it pivoted and rebranded last November. But Pulse sported myriad integrations with business tools that brought similar functionality. ” Feel the pulse.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The startup aims to increase the GDP of the creator economy and is a remote-first company with employees across three continents and customers in more than 50 countries. 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.

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Trigent

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Companies have started empowering these experiences through emerging technologies. AI plays an important role in enhancing the user experience across all the six segments of the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry: Films & TV, social media, journalism, gaming, music, and sports.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While at the NFL, she drove digital transformation, launched new businesses, and, among other feats, pulled off the virtual 2020 NFL Draft at the height of the COVID pandemic — in just three weeks. For me, doing the [NFL] virtual draft was scary because no one had done anything like it before. IT Leadership

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He explains that there are two phases to getting security right in today’s virtual, SaaS-based environment. It’s now widely accepted that the breach followed a simple theft of key credentials from an unwitting staff member; a situation that is becoming more common because of companies’ increased reliance on the cloud.

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Openxcell

MARCH 10, 2022

Talking about both real words and virtual, the use of NFTs can be done for marketing digital real estate. Talking about decentraland games, digital real estate apps are getting more and more attention in the virtual world. Talking about the virtual world, then in this world, participants opt for constructing and buying spaces.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Twenty startups competed this week on the TechCrunch virtual stage for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and last night, we announced the finalists: Adventr , Cellino , Koa , Nth Cycle and Tatum. for seven years, eventually leading the internet company. The stakes stretch beyond prize money, however.

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Cloudera

JUNE 8, 2022

In this #ClouderaLife Spotlight Hassan talks about three life themes that have kept him moving and motivated: learning from his father’s work ethic despite his family’s forcible displacement from their country of origin, his early experience with organized sports, and the value of mentorship. Sales is definitely a team sport,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. The company is not disclosing its valuation but said c hat revenue grew by 500% in 2020.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There is an increasing popularity of sport and the acknowledgment of its perks is being capitalized on by many different sports ecosystems all over the world. The ambition is clear: to expand sporting tech and innovation to make the sports ecosystem strong. Veo It is the ultimate camera for team sports.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. It’s just a recommendation.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

M&E companies are now putting in a lot of effort to sieve through every tiny bit of information to keep annoying ads at bay. in 2023 with eSports being touted as the future of sports. Legalized sports betting will also see a surge with 5G technology, and several sports stadiums and similar arenas in the U.S.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 11, 2024

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And for e-tailers it touts an average drop of 39% in shoe returns as online shoppers are able to get a virtual gauge on the best fit and so will be able to pick a better sized pair of kicks for their feet — which it also claims translates into a 20% increase in ARPU (or an additional $0.5/month month per user). .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While Meta tries to convince users to attend virtual work meetings in its metaverse , ForeVR Games , a VR gaming startup with casual games like bowling, darts and cornhole, is a reminder that virtual reality is supposed to be fun. The new capital brings the company’s total raised to $18.5 Image Credits: ForeVR Games.

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