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How Female Sports Tech CEOs View The Industry In The #MeToo Era

When the New York Times broke a story about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley last summer, Precursor Ventures founding partner Charles Hudson blasted out an email to his portfolio companies letting them know behavior of that sort would not be tolerated. The San Francisco venture capital firm, he said, had zero tolerance for sexual harassment or […]

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Esports Digital Trading Card Platform Epics.gg Raises $2M Seed Round

Baseball cards used to be the gold standard when it came to sports collections. Prior to the internet, baseball cards carried tons of value. The Internet, and online marketplaces like eBay, caused a crash in the value of baseball cards when people realized they just aren’t as scarce as people once believed. Epics.gg is a […]

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Sacramento Kings Participate In Xperiel’s $7 Million Funding Round

Xperiel, the company that has been building predictive gaming apps for sports teams, announced Tuesday that it closed a new $7 million series A funding with participation from the Sacramento Kings to expand beyond sports technology.   Xperiel, which helps companies build augmented reality apps that take advantage of existing technology in brick-and-mortar stores and […]

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Oklahoma City Thunder Look To Help Boost Tech Investment In The State

Duties of the Oklahoma City Thunder extend further than just the basketball court. With OKC being a smaller market than most, the Thunder are working to boost business development within their home state. Their latest initiative is called “Thunder Launchpad,” which seeks to boost local tech investment: The initiative is in partnership with StitchCrew, a local […]

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