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☆ Amazon makes first foray into live news with election night special hosted by Brian Williams
  + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Amazon said Thursday it plans to host an election night special anchored by Brian Williams, marking the company's first foray into live news coverage. The one-night special will provide election results and analysis on Prime Video starting at 5 p.m. Amazon has been increasingly moving into live sports programming on its Prime Video streaming service as a way to boost subscriptions and drive additional revenue to its lucrative advertising business. Amazon also streams "Thursday Night Football" games and has the rights to stream some NHL games. It offers streaming news channels on Prime Video, including live content from ABC News Live, CNN Headlines, LiveNOW from FOX and NBC News Now.
Persons: Brian Williams, Williams Organizations: Amazon, NBC, NBA, Prime, ABC News, CNN, FOX, CNBC Locations: NBCUniversal
☆ 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
☆ What happened to Something Navy: How Arielle Charnas' clothing brand went from internet sensation to defunct site in 3 years
  + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Something Navy is an apparel brand that was created by fashion influencer Arielle Charnas in 2020. Now, the company has endured losses in sales and more than half its employees and CEO have left. The apparel brand launched by fashion influencer Arielle Charnas in 2020 has faced faltering sales, hordes of employees have left the company, and the brand has fallen behind on payments to suppliers. Currently, no merchandise is being sold through Something Navy's website, where a note says: "The Something Navy site is getting a little refresh. Something Navy, which is a private company, was valued at $100 million a year after the brand launched, the company told Insider in 2021.
Persons: Matt Scanlan, Silas Capital, Silas Chou, Jenny Fleiss, Charnas, Brandon Charnas Organizations: Navy, Service, Something, Kind Venture, Silas, US Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Staples, Something Navy Locations: Wall, Silicon, Hong Kong
☆ Check out the bare-bones pitch deck that AI-powered text editor Macro used to raise $9.3 million from Andreessen Horowitz
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
It raised $9.3 million in a round of seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Investors have bought into the idea with a $9.3 million seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz's Kristina Shen and Zeya Yang. When Macro set out to raise a seed round, Andreessen Horowitz's name floated to the top of the list of dream investors. Macro wants to become the "default" app for handling documents, Beckerman said, without scrambling the Microsoft file format on which millions of people rely. Read the pitch deck that Macro used to convince Andreessen Horowitz to leads its $9.3 million seed round.
☆ The former FTX US president just raised money from Anthony Scaramucci and Coinbase Ventures for his new crypto startup
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former FTX US president Brett Harrison started a new crypto infrastructure trading startup called Architect. The firm raised $5 million in a pre-product financing round, with backing from Coinbase Ventures. After nearly four months since stepping down as president of FTX US, Brett Harrison has raised $5 million for his new crypto trading infrastructure startup. The company, called Architect, is building software that aims to make trading in crypto markets easier for large investors and institutions. He served as FTX US president for 17 months before he stepped down in late September of 2022.
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