The Los Angeles Dodgers are expanding the baseball franchise’s investment arm from an accelerator to a more all-encompassing “studio”model where new startups, program graduates and partners can work together as a team to build on each other’s success. After providing seed investments over the past few years to a number of sports tech startups, including […]
A new sponsorship deal with a billionaire Bitcoin broker will see one hockey club’s arena in Denmark rebranded to promote cryptocurrencies and its top player (the son of one of the owners) paid exclusively in Bitcoin, a volatile digital coin that has skyrocketed in value over the past few months. On Dec. 27, Bitcoin Suisse, […]
World Series Champion Ryan Howard joins the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein to discuss wearables, athlete data-tracking and automated sports officiating. Plus, hear about Ryan’s work off the field with SeventySix Capital, one of the nominees for Outstanding Investor at this year’s SportTechie Awards. That and more on the SportTechie Podcast. You can also subscribe […]
Visa is introducing payment-connected winter gloves and two other wearables that will enable cashless payments at the upcoming Olympic Games in PyeongChang. The company unveiled Wednesday its plans to offer Olympics attendees smart gloves that contain a dual interface chip with an antenna that will enable contactless payments throughout the venue, where Visa has installed […]
For a while now the Dallas Cowboys have had a reported interest in esports. The team had partnered with Epsilon, a marketing ad agency, to determine potential advantages of buying an esports franchise. Now, team owner Jerry Jones has done so. Jones, along with real estate mogul John Goff, have purchased competitive gaming organization compLexity Gaming. […]
