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Mustard looks beyond baseball as it raises another $3.75M for sensor-free sports coaching

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Los Angeles-based sports training platform Mustard this week announced a $3.75 Led by Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Fund, this latest raise follows a $1.7 The list of additional sports includes golf, soccer and football. million round. “For me, that was football. . “For me, that was football.

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

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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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MLSE looks to revolutionize sports experience with digital R&D lab

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Digital solutions and data analytics are changing the world of sports entertainment at a rapid clip. From how players train, to how teams make strategic decisions during games, to how venues operate and fans engage, sports organizations are turning to software engineers and data scientists to help transform the sport experience.

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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

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Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. Risk Mitigation Modeling can then be used to analyze training data and determine a player’s ideal training volume while minimizing injury risk. Souza says this is true of all businesses, not just sports.

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

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Now a new startup — in beta since 2021 — hopes to become that platform where elite athletes can train mere mortals such as myself. is an app that lets users train with some of the world’s most famous athletes and learn the tricks of their trade via four-week guided, on-demand training programs.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

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To help CIOs figure out what they should be doing with the metaverse, I queried a select group of CXOs at large enterprises about their metaverse plans and immersed myself for several weeks digesting and synthesizing as much information as possible on the topic, including a series of exercises I posed on various social media platforms.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

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It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX. This latest round comes after NEX raised an $8.5

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