Accomplice is a seed-led venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies. Its specialties are cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, SMB class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces.  Through platforms like AngelList, Boston Syndicates, and Maiden Lane, Accomplice harnesses the community to empower and fund the best founders. It has pioneered a community approach through platforms like Spearhead, BOSS, Rev, and TUGG. A majority of Accomplice’s investments are in Boston, with others throughout the U.S., Canada, and the E.U. Formerly known as Atlas Venture, the firm announced in October 2014 that it was splitting its technology and life sciences franchises. The technology group was renamed Accomplice; the life sciences group retained the name Atlas Venture.  Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Accomplice is one of the most active early-stage firms in New England.

Accomplice

Flybridge is a seed-stage VC investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community. It prefers to invest in computer hardware, software, SaaS, and big data sectors. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Flybridge

The Hub Angels Investment Group is an angel group structured as a fund, with more than 100 members acriss its five funds.  Hub invests in technology-focused businesses primarily in the Boston area.  Through 2015, the Hub portfolio includes 38 investments in companies like Zipcar (IPO), CircleLending (acquired by Virgin Money), Intelligent Bio-Systems (acquired by Qiagen), Copiun (acquired by Good Technology), and Incentive Targeting (acquired by Google).  Between its funds and members, Hub has invested more than $25 million, with co-investors adding another $250 million. The Hub Angels Investment Group was founded in March 2000 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hub Angels Investment Group

Angel Street Capital assists companies in the early stages of their life cycle providing both consulting services and capital. Its principals have a long track record of successfully investing in digital media and related industries, generating impressive returns for themselves and for their partners.  - They have come from traditional media and embraced the transition to digital at an early date.  - They have actually built and run (on a day to day basis) several media businesses and as a result they bring firsthand knowledge of the difficulties in navigating the early stages of a company’s life cycle.  - They are very competitive and hate to lose. They want to be on your team and enjoy the success that comes with profitability or an early exit.  - They believe you should know who the potential buyers of your company are before you launch. Get to know them.  - Strong underlying industry drivers need to be in place.  - Management, Management, Management.  - Networking will lead to opportunities.  - Proper capitalization and capital structure is critical.

Angel Street Capital

Boston Seed Capital provides seed-stage funding for internet-enabled businesses. Boston Seed Capital's experience is in internet-enabled, consumer, B2B SAAS, and the supporting services marketplaces. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston Seed Capital

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

Atlas Venture

Counterview Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm.

Counterview Capital

Redpoint has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones since 1999. The firm invests in startups across seed, early, and growth phases. In total, Redpoint manages $4 billion across multiple funds.

Redpoint

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Notable Capital

An integrated merchant bank advising and investing in high growth sectors of technology, media and telecom.  Offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore.

The Raine Group

21st Century Fox is an American multinational mass media corporation. It is one of two companies created from the 2013 split of News Corporation (as founded by Milo and Mary Switz in 1979); 21st Century Fox retains the previous News Corporation's broadcasting and film assets and serves as its legal successor, while its publishing assets were spun off to form News Corp at the same time. The split was designed to ensure that both companies are operated under more ''focused'' management, which Murdoch claimed would ''unlock'' their true value. Among its holdings are Fox Entertainment Group—owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and Fox television network among other assets, pan-Asian pay channel operator STAR TV, Italian television provider Sky Italia, and stakes in the television providers BSkyB and Sky Deutschland.

21st Century Fox

The Kraft Group is a major player in the world of business. As a holding company with the network and capital resources of a large global corporation, their interests are diverse and concentrated in five specific areas:     * paper/packaging manufacturing and forest products distribution     * sports & entertainment     * real estate development     * private equity investing     * philanthropy Doing business in over 80 countries with tens of thousands of customers, The Kraft Group is comprised of 5,000+ employees, manufacturing and distribution facilities, executive office buildings and sports stadiums located on four continents. But unlike their Wall Street counterparts and despite their growth, The Kraft Group remains a privately owned, family-operated company with a strong entrepreneurial streak. They are nimble, responsive and fiercely independent. The Kraft Group is run by family members and trusted staff that share one thing in common: an uncommon commitment to customer focus.

The Kraft Group

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

DST Global

National Hockey League, L.P. operates as a hockey league of ice hockey teams in North America. The company also provides NHL CENTER ICE, a digital television subscription programming package of NHL regular season games that are played outside the local viewing area. In addition, it sells apparel and gear for men and women players, as well as accessories through its online store. The company was founded in 1917 and is based in New York, New York.

National Hockey League

Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States & Canada and features many stars from the U.S. and around the world.

Major League Soccer

Major League Baseball Ventures is a venture capital sector of the MLB

Major League Baseball Ventures

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City, backing exceptional founders making their mark on the world. FirstMark has proudly invested in founders of remarkable businesses like Pinterest, Shopify, DraftKings, Discord, Airbnb, Stubhub, Riot Games, and dozens more.

FirstMark

Kosinski Ventures is a millennial-focused early stage family fund specialized in entrepreneurial investments.

Kosinski Ventures

Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.

Melo7 Tech Partners

Founded by Steve Case in 2005, Revolution partners with passionate entrepreneurs upending traditional industries with innovative products and services, leveraging its areas of specialized expertise to create significant value. Through its family of funds that include The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution Growth, Revolution partners with entrepreneurs at every stage of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. Revolution focuses on venture communities in high-potential geographies and believes that while talent is well distributed, the opportunity is not. The firm’s vision that great companies can start and scale anywhere is supported by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality of life.

Revolution

Revolution Growth, part of the DC-based venture capital firm Revolution, invests in growth-stage companies around the country.

Revolution Growth

Eldridge Industries invests across insurance, asset management, technology, mobility, sports & gaming, media & music, real estate, and consumer industries. The firm seeks to build and grow businesses led by proven management teams that have demonstrated leadership and experience to scale an enterprise.  Eldridge Industries is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with additional offices across the United States and London.

Eldridge Industries

MVP is a principal investor and advisory specializing in the secondary market for private venture-backed technology companies. MVP pioneered the institutionalization of this once-democratized asset class. Since 2010, the partners at MVP VC have been integral in the institutionalization of the Direct Secondary market. We are pioneers in this space, and the partners have collectively engaged in more than $10B of primary and secondary venture investments. Our belief is that Direct Secondaries are the evolution of the Secondary LP investing strategy established in the early 1980s and should be treated accordingly. MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the secondary process by being a principal and advisory to private companies and their shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. This is accomplished by bringing together the full expertise of our Secondary as a Service™ platform, investment banking expertise, research team, and the All-Star Funds (~$1B AUM Jan 2022).

Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)

DraftKings

Using autonomous, green, IoT, and digital technologies to shape the future of ocean-based transportation

Shipping Tech

Sea Machines Robotics is a pioneering company that develops autonomous command and control systems, as well as advanced perception technology for the maritime industry. Their flagship product, the SM300 Autonomous Command and Control System, enables vessels to seamlessly transition between unmanned autonomous mode and human manual navigation. It employs cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, computer vision, and sensor fusion to facilitate precise control over vessel position, steering, speed, route planning, obstacle avoidance, and data collection during voyages.
In April 2024, Sea Machines unveiled SELKIE, an unmanned surface vessel (USV) designed for various applications such as hydrographic surveys, offshore asset inspections, environmental studies, and security missions. The SELKIE 7, a 7-meter HDPE hull vessel powered by the SM300 system, boasts impressive range and endurance capabilities, with a capacity of up to 500 nautical miles and 15 days of operation. Its robust autonomous functions, intuitive user interface, and survey-ready features, including sonar mounts and payload deployment capabilities, make it a versatile and efficient solution for marine operations.
Sea Machines' technology has demonstrated its potential in groundbreaking achievements. In October 2021, the autonomous tug Nellie Bly, equipped with the SM300 system, successfully completed the world's first 1,000-plus-nautical-mile autonomous and remotely commanded voyage of a commercial vessel at sea, covering 96.9% of the journey in fully autonomous mode.
The company's innovations have garnered significant interest and investments. In February 2024, Sea Machines secured a USD 12 million funding round led by Emerald Technology Ventures and other prominent investors, enabling further technological advancements and market expansion. Additionally, Sea Machines has collaborated with the US Coast Guard (USCG) to evaluate and refine its computer vision technology for maritime domain awareness, collision avoidance, and target detection on USCG vessels.

Picklebet is a social daily fantasy sports (DFS) app.

Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers. It allows the sale and purchase of tickets for sporting events, concerts, theater, and other live events through its portal. It counts ESPN and The Rolling Stones among its partners. The company was founded in 2001 by Jerry Bednyak and Eric Vassilatos and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Meadowlark Media is a content company focused on sports.

An autonomous technology company, Sea Machines Robotics builds autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. It develops advanced control systems for boats and ships, and specialized unmanned surface vessels to enhance operational safety and productivity on the water.  Sea Machines Robotics builds RC NXT, an autonomous control and remote command system for PLC-based wireless control of vessel in existing or new build marine vessels, such as work boats, tugs, and launches; and DP-NXT autonomous control system that upgrades traditional manually piloted vessels to be operated with a reduced or zero on-board crew. It offers solutions for various unmanned applications, such as unmanned bathymetric survey vessels, AUV-tender, unmanned visual inspection of subsea assets, mobile unmanned passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing.  Michaerl G. Johnson founded Sea Machines Robotics on January 4, 2014. It has its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts.

DraftKings provides online daily and weekly fantasy sports contests for cash prizes in major sports in the United States and Canada. It offers daily leagues for fantasy football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, college football, and college basketball.

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Technology solution providers for sports venues, which includes solutions for stadium management, connectivity and entertainment, and video assistant referee (VAR) technology

Platforms and devices that aid the training process and/or measure player statistics and other metrics, such as health and movement data, to improve player performance

Platforms that assists the management of teams, leagues, tournaments, and other sporting events

Providers of sports data for other sports-related platforms

Online media platforms that distribute sports-related content

Online sports betting platforms and platforms where virtual teams composed of proxies of real players of a professional sport compete based on player performance in actual games

Companies that develop apparel products equipped with technology to track and improve performance

Platforms that enable fans to engage with sports brands and other fans, and developers of solutions such as audience behavior and sentiment analytics, and audience engagement

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