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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

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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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

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Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language.

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Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

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Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. 1 box office films that have grossed more than $4.23 Venture funding inequity remains a big issue. Just part of Kevin Hart’s impressive Hollywood CV includes eleven No.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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Weird week: Tomato taxes, cultivated chicken’s debut is done, and more

The Hustle

In its 2023 financial report, the company disclosed that its CEO’s proclivity for combat and extreme sports, like MMA and hydrofoiling, poses a risk of death and serious injury that, if actualized, would have a “materially adverse impact” on its operations. Here’s the thing, though: most of the filming took place in Los Angeles.

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Plastic upcycling startup Novoloop raises $10M Series A extension to accelerate commercialization

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Wang said they learned that less than 9% of all plastic is actually recycled — and many things put into the recycling bin don’t get recycled because there is a lack of market demand for contaminated, low-grade plastic waste. Image Credits: Novoloop.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

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We’ve had phenomenal growth last year, some of it from our mid-market customers, but mostly from customers like Target and Kroger,” Kalb said. Meanwhile, Amanda Groves, partner at PLUS Capital, said her firm works with about 65 individuals who are in film, television, sports and culture, including the four new investors in Shelf Engine.