Michael Jordan is one of several individual investors and venture capital firms that recently invested in the Series B round for Gigster, a platform that connects companies with freelance software developers and engineers for project-based hires, according to an announcement. Redpoint Ventures led the round with contributions from VC firms Andreesen Horowitz and Y Combinator, but […]
Esports’ meteoric rise over the last five years has been astounding. Leading the charge is Skillz, a mobile esports platform with over 12 million active gamers. Inc. Magazine recently released its annual Inc. 5000 list, ranking the top privately held U.S. companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period, and Skillz was at the […]
Opening herself up to a room of potential judgement, Ashley Wellington-Fahey, the founder of the female-targeted digital sports network The Relish, sat alongside major male athletes at The Players Technology Summit in San Francisco and reminded herself that she deserved to be in the room. The inaugural mostly off-the-record event, hosted this week by Golden […]
Aerospace giant Boeing earlier this week announced an investment in C360 Technologies. Wexford, Pa.-based C360 is focused in 360-degree video and augmented/virtual reality and had a hand in providing camera systems for recent FOX Sports telecasts such as Super Bowl LI, the Daytona 500 and MLB All-Star events. Boeing HorizonX is joined by BlueTree Capital […]
At the end of March, swimming pool monitoring company Sutro won the San Francisco Poe Man’s Challenge, which connects youth to entrepreneurs with the prize of a $15,000 investment for the top startup. Now, Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Dontari Poe is making good on that deal and investing in Sutro, which makes smart sensors that monitor […]
