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☆ A sports startup for bettors and creators raised $3.7 million. Read 10 key pitch-deck slides it used to get seed funding.
  + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Tiara White | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Sports-media startup SoBet is building a sports-betting community around content creators. Its platform, which launched in June 2022, distributes exclusive short-form videos and other content from sports creators popular on social platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The company announced on May 1 that it closed a $3.7 million seed round led by Third Kind Venture Capital to help grow the platform. "We've built a platform that looks and feels a lot like a social-media platform that houses exclusive content in the form of short-form writeups, short-form videos, etc. — all posted by sports-betting creators in the space."
Persons: Cooper Lycan, Lycan, that's, SoBet Organizations: Third Kind Venture, Business, Action, BI
☆ Behind the divorce at Fishwife, the internet's favorite tinned fish brand
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Jack Newsham | Katie Notopoulos | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Fishwife, a trendy tinned seafood company, was valued at around $5 million on Shark Tank. Millstein said on the ABC program that her premium preserved fish company has grown to about $5.8 million in annual sales. "I don't know these people, I don't eat tinned fish, and I am here for this drama," one viewer commented. The Shark Tank episode aired this month, but it was filmed in the summer of 2023, per an ABC spokesperson. On Shark Tank, Millstein reeled in Nelson and Greiner, receiving $350,000 in exchange for 6% to 8% of the company.
Persons: Becca Millstein, Caroline Goldfarb, —, Rebecca Millstein, Condé, Goldfarb, Fishwife, Millstein, Lori Greiner, Candice Nelson, Casey Lewis, Lewis, Greiner, we're Organizations: Service, Vogue, The New York Times, ABC, Fishwife, Google, Securities and Exchange Commission Locations: writeups, The, Millstein, Nelson
☆ How Charlie Javice's Frank Sale to JP Morgan Wound up in Allegations of Fraud
  + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +21 min
Her financial aid startup, Frank, was featured in the New York Times, CNBC and Wall Street Journal. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, Javice traded on her reputation, bolstered by glowing profiles, as a successful entrepreneur. In a 2018 interview with Insider, Javice claimed Frank secured an average of $28,000 for its users, and was helping students get "thousands off their tuition." "Charlie's first company fizzled after 18 months, so after losing all her investors' money, she convinced every one of them to fund her next company, Frank." At Frank, Javice admitted she sometimes painted a more positive picture of the company's health than was supported by the facts.
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