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Sports community platform Stadium Live raises $10M to expand its digital world for Gen Z

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announced its $10 million Series A funding round to continue its mission of bringing fantasy sports to a younger generation. The Canadian startup was founded in 2020 by Kevin Kim and Paul Xu with the goal of gamifying the sports fandom and building a “digital playground” of sorts for Gen Z sports fans.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

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s nest perspective of immediate and long-term tasks to equally strengthen the company culture and customer needs. This is kind of a team sport for us, so itâ??s On having a data-first culture: This is not about just the practitioners of this discipline or these capabilities. But we have to bring in the right talent. But whatâ??s

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Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy

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” Horne says that he’d always wanted to create a fashion brand. . “I I always thought a fashion brand would be something I’d do after crypto,” he tells me. “I I realized that culture itself was shaped and built upon an old financial system that is systemically skewed against artists and communities,” says Horne.

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Sneaker enthusiast group SoleSavy raises $2M, setting the stage for a community-driven commerce boom

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Pralica previously co-founded Kicks Deals, a sneaker shipping site focused on less than retail pricing and Dusanj is the former Director of Operations at New Age Sports, a Nike retailer. .

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

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The Folklore highlights the best design talent across [Africa], and demand for these products that reflect the culture is exploding,” says Folklore’s CEO of its $1.7 million fundraise and its launch of a B2B fashion e-commerce platform.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

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Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

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And, well, ‘tourism’ as a concept is starting to feel rather quaint and old-fashioned vs properly exploring your own backyard.). Happily there’s no option to message individual users via their profile so no fear of stupid in-app spam.). Location-based and social sharing is not new, of course.

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