The Weekly Drop 03.24.2022

The hottest news from sports, gaming, media, web3, and fitness.

Here is the weekly drop of the hottest news from sports, gaming, media, web3, and fitness. Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Apes and new owners of CryptoPunks, raised a jumbo venture round with an eyepopping valuation.  Lots of news from Beyond The Game portfolio companies this week, including our newest investment in Railbird. 

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Top Stories

Beyond The Game Joins the Railbird Team

🏈 We are excited to announce our 18th investment with Railbird, who is building a new way to bet on your favorite sports teams. Read

NextUp Ventures and BTG Demo Day

📆 Please sign up for the NextUp Ventures and Beyond The Game Demo Day on March 30th.  Hear from four great startups and BTG Co-Founder Zwerner. Register

Tech news, capital raises, and more

🐒 Bored Ape team raises $450MM and launches $APE token here

🏏 FanCraze announces $100MM for cricket NFTs more

🚀 Qualcomm launches $100MM metaverse fund details

🚣‍♂️ Hydrow connected rower raises $55MM read

📱 Frvr inks $76MM for casual games more

👾 RamenVR brings in $35MM for new games details

🏓 PingPod closes $10MM for location growth here

📺 DanceFight partners for reality TV show development more

📸 TikTok stars are launching VC funds details

🤝 Zwerner discusses Pseudonymous individuals in web3 here

Athletes in the News

🏈 Get ready for Season 2 of Fan Controlled Football watch

🌐 GreenPark Sports part of Game+ web3 launch read

🏀 Candace Parker joins Syndio cap raise read

Highlighting Diversity in Tech

💸 Katie Haun raises $1.5Bn Crypto fund more

👩🏾‍💼 Inside Amazon’s Black business accelerator read

🦄 Crunchbase on female-led unicorns details

🎙️ Twitter exec TJ Adeshola on the J Will podcast listen

📺 Spotlight on KweliTV streaming service more

💸 Pitch competitions, grants, and events directory here

Portfolio Company Job Postings

Oura Ring (Health): Product and Engineer roles here

Eight Sleep (Fitness): Engineer, Growth, Product roles here

Future (Fitness): Product and Engineer roles here

Artie (Gaming): Engineer and Design roles here

GreenPark Sports (Gaming): Engineer and Creative roles here

Fan Controlled Football (Sports): Marketing and Football roles here

DanceFight (Social Gaming): Developer roles here