The Weekly Drop 04.07.2022
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. Wearable leader and BTG portfolio company Oura Ring announced a jumbo growth raise. Hypebeast reopens the SPAC merger market. Capital flowed into sports cards, gaming, fitness, and gambling this week.
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Top Stories
Oura Ring Raises Series D Funding
💍 Health wearable Oura Ring closed a substantial new round of funding, elevating their valuation to $2.55Bn. Read
Hypebeast Goes Public Via SPAC
📸 Culture media company Hypebeast is merging with the Iron Spark SPAC entity to go public with a valuation of $530MM. Read
Tech news, capital raises, and more
⚾ Collectors raises $100MM for sports card validation here
🕹️ Fractal announces $35MM for gaming NFT platform read
👾 Liv closes $8.5MM raise for VR streaming details
🤸🏽♀️ Flexia announces $4MM for connected pilates here
🎶 Audio Up partners with Universal Music read
🏋️♂️ High Post acquires Chris Hemsworth’s Centr app details
🐧 Pudgy Penguins NFT platform sold for $2.5MM more
🔮 Zwerner discusses the possible web3 future of Twitter here
Athletes in the News
🏈 Terrell Owens to play in Fan Controlled Football details
🌱 WR Jeudy invests in PlantFuel read
⚽ Goals gets $10MM for blockchain soccer game more
🏈 TAPPP brings in $10MM for in-game betting here
Highlighting Diversity in Tech
🏦 Capway is building inclusive banking listen
👩🏾💼 The Labz is building new digital experience platform read
🏋️♂️ Spotlight on Metric Mate details
💸 Visible Hands diversity accelerator apply
💸 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