The Weekly Drop 04.21.2022
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. It was a big week in esports and the Metavese with the sale of Rekt and capital raised by Genies and Oxygen. BTG portfolio company leaders from Fan Controlled Football and Eight Sleep were podcast guests this week as well.
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Top Stories
Infinite Reality Acquires RektGlobal for $470MM
👾 Metaverse company Infinite Reality bought one of the leading esports teams RektGlobal this week. Read
Shoutout Atlanta Features Beyond The Game
🙏 Thanks for the team at Shoutout Atlanta for this great profile on Brian Zwerner and Andre Fluellen from BTG! Read
Tech news, capital raises, and more
📺 Viral Nation brings in $250MM for digital media read
📸 Genies raises $150MM for celebrity avatar platform here
🎥 Trace closes $47MM for youth sports camera details
🕹️ Oxygen esports adds $20MM more
🏎️ Animoca buys web3 racing game Gear.Club for $15.3MM details
🛌🏼 Eight Sleep on rest and fitness listen
🏆 SportsIcon checks in at #44 on the OnDeck Top 100 read
📝 SportsTechX North American Sports Tech Report download
🏋️♂️ Zwerner on how web3 can get you fit here
Athletes in the News
🏈 Hear the backstory of Fan Controlled Football listen
⚡ MLB stars Judge and Freeman join $29MM raise for SHOC Energy more
🙏🏿 The Players Lounge gives back to current UGA football players here
Highlighting Diversity in Tech
🥣 General Mills invests $15MM in diverse-led VC funds here
🏀 Founder of Round21 on Joe Pomp Show listen
👩🏾💼 Emory students launches Peachtree Minority Venture Fund details
💸 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