Monday, June 4, 2018AT&T Links With Esports Events Firm ESLAT&T said on Monday that it has linked up with esports event organizer ESL, saying that it will provide charging stations and free Wi-Fi, plus will promote its 5G wireless at ESL's events. According to AT&T, it will become the Official Telecommunications and Mobile Gaming Partner of ESL North America, taking part in events such as the Arena of Valor Pro League, the E3 ESL Arena, ESL One New York, and Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) North America. Financial details of the partnership deal was not ann (More info...)
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PlayVS Finds $15M For High School eSports InfrastructureLos Angeles-based PlayVS, which is developing eSports infrastructure centered around creating an official high school eSports league, has raised $15M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included startup studio Science Inc, CrossCut Ventures, Coatue Management, Cross Culture Ventures, the San Francisco 49ers, Nas, Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club, Kevin Lin of Twitch, and other angels. PlayVS has created a set of rules and regulations--plus infrastr (More info...)
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Interview with Jay Goss, WaveMaker Three-Sixty HealthPasadena-based WaveMaker Three-Sixty Healthcare (www.wavemaker360.com) recently ,announced a new healthcare focused venture capital fund, worth $25M. We caught up with one of the co-founders, Jay Goss, about what the new investment fund is looking for in a startup, and the types of investments it makes.
First, tell us about the fund and what you are looking to invest in?
Jay Goss: It's a fund focused on early stage companies, Seed or Series A. We're looking for companies that are doing hea (More info...)
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Solarflare Gets New, Funding From Oak, XilinxIrvine-based Solarflare, which develops low latency network interface cards (NICs) said this morning that it has received a strategic investment, which was led by Oak Investment Partners and also included FPGA developer Xilinx. Financial details of that investment were not announced. According to Solarflare, it will use the new funding to expand beyond its current market. Solarflare's current products are used in low latency networking, typically used in system clustering, financial applications (More info...)
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KitSplit Adds Camera Rental Insurance To Camera Rental MarketplaceLos Angeles-based KitSplit, which operates a camera, lens, and related peer-to-peer rental marketplace, has added a new online insurance program for gear rentals, the company said over the weekend. KitSplit said the new insurance options comes as a result of a link with the Heffernan Insurance Group's InsureMyEquipment.com, and will be called KitSplit Instant Insurance. KitSplit focuses on very high end equipment used by filmmakers, and offers up access to equipment in New York, Los Angeles, and (More info...)
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SpaceX Delivers SES-12 Satellite Into OrbitHawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered another satellite payload into space early Monday evening, launching the SES-12 satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) at 12:45 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. According to SpaceX, the SES-12 satellite was deployed about 32 minutes after liftoff. The launch used a "previously flown" Falcon 9 first stage. SpaceX did not attempt to recover the first stage again on this launch.
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