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| 29.03.2023 | BLAST partners with esports and video games betting platform unikrn | BLAST partners with esports and video games betting platform unikrn
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Esports entertainment company BLAST has announced a multi-year global partnership with unikrn, the most expansive video game... |
| 15.11.2021 | Rahul Sood returns to gaming with $5M raise for Irreverent Labs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gaming veteran Rahul Sood is returning with a new startup today dubbed Irreverent Labs, which has raised $5 million to build games with... |
| 15.11.2021 | Rahul Sood returns to gaming with $5M raise for Irreverent Labs | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Gaming veteran Rahul ... |
| 05.11.2021 | Dyne dynamic in pitch competition. Plus, a serial Seattle entrepreneur looks north up the Cascadia Corridor—and likes what he sees. | Four weeks culminated in five minutes for Vancouver startup Dyne whose five-minute pitch won Thursday’s virtual Valhalla Summit.
The Summit, co-hosted by investment firms Volition and Valhalla Angels, is the crescendo of a four-week investm... |
| 16.08.2021 | Unikrn to be acquired by the betting and gaming giant, Entain |
Unikrn allows people to bet on esports matches in games such as League of Legends or Counter-Strike. Founded in 2014 by Rahul Sood and Karl Flores, it was backed by, among others, celebrity investors such as Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher.... |
| 12.08.2021 | Online gambling giant Entain to acquire Seattle esports betting startup Unikrn | Unikrn co-founders Karl Flores (left), and Rahul Sood. (Unikrn Photo)
Entain, one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming companies, announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Unikrn, a Seattle startup that operates an esport... |
| 06.05.2021 | Odds slashed on Dogecoin hitting $5 as fans await Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live debut | Bookmakers are cutting the odds of Dogecoin reaching $5 before the year’s out as fans of the ‘running joke’ cryptocurrency prepare to see if it gets mentioned by Elon Musk when he guest hosts US comedy show Saturday Night Live. |
| 09.04.2021 | Kanye West, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates tipped to be next big names in Bitcoin | Rapper Kanye West has been tipped as the next celebrity to invest heavily into Bitcoin, with one odds maker putting Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband at 2/1 to buy at least $100m of the cryptocurrency. |
| 24.03.2021 | Bitcoin tipped to hit $100,000 this year | Bookmakers have shortened the odds on Bitcoin breaking $100,000 before the end of 2021. |
| 03.03.2021 | Twitch Has Already Banned 270 Top Partners In 2021 | Twitch has issued nearly 300 bans in 2021. ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| 26.01.2021 | Esports Industry Forecasting: How Much Will Esports Grow in 2021? | Share
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The global video gaming industry saw revenue surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020 after Covid-19 lockdowns boosted demand, according to IDC data. Newzoo analysts expect revenue to increase to $189.3 billion in 2... |
| 12.01.2021 | Esports’ Biggest Winners In 2020: Prizes Plummet, Chess Leads Pack | Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was the biggest winner in esports in 2020.Getty Images |
| 07.10.2020 | How To Get The Best ‘FIFA 21’ EPL Ultimate Team Starter Squad | 'FIFA 21' is here, and with it, a whole new year of Ultimate Team development. EA |
| 15.09.2020 | Unikrn Tokens are “Retired” as Company Settles with SEC Regarding Initial Coin Offering | Unikrn, a token issuer that attempted to remain compliant while issuing digital assets, has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding allegations of an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO) of digital securities... |
| 15.09.2020 | eSports betting startup Unikrn to pay $6.1M in SEC settlement over unregistered initial coin offering | Unikrn CEO Rahul Sood speaks at GeekWire Startup Day in 2015. (GeekWire File Photo)
Seattle startup Unikrn will pay a $6.1 million fine and disable its UnikoinGold (UKG) cryptocurrency to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges th... |
| 07.08.2020 | Most-Watched Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Twitch Streamers of 2020 & Warzone Season 5 Update | wyrdarah, Tech Times 07 August 2020, 09:08 am
Listen up! This week there is a significant change on Season 5 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Warzone. The update brings a lot of changes to the Verdansk--expect a new look on the map, new we... |
| 30.07.2020 | Here Are Fortnite’s Top Five Most Powerful Weapons Right Now | Epic Games |
| 19.06.2020 | What The World’s Top 25 Esports Players Have Won In 2020: ‘Fortnite’, ‘Dota 2’ And ‘Chess24’ Pay Big | 'Fortnite' found itself in the top 25, unsurprisingly with the youngest big-money winners.Epic Games |
| 27.05.2020 | Digital goods in computer games and their value: skins | Imagine that you could change your appearance for a few hours. Would you be willing to pay for it? Avid players do this on a regular basis – they change the character models, weapons, and other items they use in the virtual world. For skins... |
| 13.05.2019 | Unikrn launches new ways to wager on esports and streamer play | Unikrn is startup that enables gamers to bet on esports matches, and it’s launched Unikrn Virtual, a way to bet on esports matches around the clock by placing wagers on randomly selected matches from the past.
Too often, betting on esports ... |
| 13.05.2019 | Unikrn launches new ways to wager on esports and streamer play | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Unikrn is startup that enables gamers to bet on esports matches, and it’s launched Unikrn Virtual, a way to bet on esports matches arou... |
| 26.03.2018 | Lerer Hippeau is taking over management of Binary Capital’s debut fund | Lerer Hippeau, the New York-based early-stage venture firm, is taking over the $125 million debut fund created by Binary Capital, a young San Francisco-based venture firm whose cofounder’s misdeeds became the talk of Silicon Valley last sum... |
| 04.02.2018 | How Unikrn uses blockchain and cryptocurrency for esports betting | Rahul Sood made his name as an enthusiast gamer and the cofounder of VoodooPC, a maker of custom gaming PCs that he started in 1991. He sold that business to HP in 2006, and he headed HP’s efforts in gaming computers through 2010.
He moved ... |
| 04.02.2018 | How Unikrn uses blockchain and cryptocurrency for esports betting | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rahul Sood made his name as an enthusiast gamer and the cofounder of VoodooPC, a maker of custom gaming PCs that he started in 1991. He... |
| 04.12.2017 | ConsenSys Ventures has made its first four investments | A scant three months after its launch, the $50 million ConsenSys Ventures fund that was created to back companies developing applications on Ethereum (by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin’s ConsenSys Systems) has made its first four investments... |
| 23.10.2017 | Mark Cuban-Backed Unikrn Raises $31 Million in E-Sports Token Sale | E-sports betting startup Unikrn has raised roughly $31 million in an initial coin offering.
The firm collected 112,720 ethers – an amount worth approximately $31.4 million at press time – in a token sale that took place in two phases, inclu... |
| 22.09.2017 | How to run a token sale | Seed funding is drying up. Accelerators are scrambling for revenue. Things are changing drastically in the startup ecosystem.
Why?
First, as we all know, it’s easier than ever to build a startup. An MVP can hit the app stores in a few days ... |
| 27.08.2017 | The Next Big ICO? Unikoin Gears Up for Offering Next Month | For the moment, there is no stopping the hype swirling around the hot Initial Coin Offering market. Even the SEC’s comment that it expects ICOs that are deemed to be securities to file an exemption has just been a minor bump in the road. Cr... |
| 17.08.2017 | Mark Cuban-backed Esports betting platform Unikrn looks to sell $100M in cryptocurrency | Unikrn CEO Rahul Sood. Photo via Unikrn.
Seattle-based Esports betting startup Unikrn today announced that it will look to sell $100 million in cryptocurrency “tokens” as part of an initial coin offering, or ICO.
On Sept. 22, the company wi... |
| 25.07.2017 | Former Voodoo PC head Rahul Sood talks about the road to real token sales | This week on Technotopia I interview Rahul Sood, former founder of Voodoo PC and the current CEO of Unikrn, an e-sports betting service. Sood, who spent a number of years at Microsoft Ventures, started Unikrn because he saw the e-sports spa... |
| 18.07.2017 | Eyes Wide Shut: ICOs as a New Path to Startup Fundraising (Password Required) | This article is my attempt at providing a definitive guide to the complex, and so far, self-regulated, landscape of ICOs. Warning: mature content. What on Earth is ICO?
Just as how in the ancient movie “Eyes Wide Shut” the password “fidelio... |
| 14.01.2016 | Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports | Radio host Colin Cowherd doesn’t like it, but corporations that specialize in traditional sports are taking more and more interest in competitive gaming. And now that includes Disney’s flagship cable sports network.
ESPN is the latest compa... |
| 14.01.2016 | Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Radio host Colin Cowherd doesn’t like it, but corporations that specialize in traditional sports are taking more and more interest in c... |
| 05.01.2016 | 100+ Sports Business Professionals Discuss Hot Topics, Bold Predictions For 2016 | Last year, I posed two questions to 85-plus sports business professionals heading into 2015: what are the trends and hot topics to follow in the industry and also, how will the different niches within sports (legal, business, fantasy, media... |
| 03.12.2015 | The Seattle 10: Top startups sketch business models on giant cocktail napkins | A marketplace for algorithms. An eSports gambling platform. A new venture that promises to change the way people manage their health.
These are just some of the Seattle-based startups that made the cut for this year’s Seattle 10, a group of... |
| 19.11.2015 | Video game gambling startup Unikrn creates pro eSports team of all-female gamers | Team Unikrn: Julia “Julie” Strunkowski; Perrine “Lalita” Allesiardo; Melania “Gina” Mylioti; Sophia “Kim” Benfakir; Camilla “ParmaViolet” Hart
Unikrn has been making a name for itself in the world of professional video games with a pioneeri... |
| 03.11.2015 | Meet the Seattle 10: Innovative startups transforming everything from virtual reality to health care | Seattle startups are shaking up all sorts of industries, from gaming to health care to consumer Internet.
And all of those industries, and more, are on display in this year’s class of the Seattle 10, which we’re hosting again in partnership... |
| 22.09.2015 | Unikrn Acquires DotaProHub | Unikrn, a Seattle, WA-based gaming and eSports company, acquired DotaProHub, an India-based 18-month old eSports startup.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The acquisition will allow Unikrn to add DotaProHub to their evolving... |
| 01.09.2015 | Unikrn Receives Further Funding in Series A Round | Unikrn, a Seattle, WA-based gaming and eSports company, received additional funding from Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures.
Sound Ventures joined Unikrn’s recent Series A round announced on June 30, 2015.
Led by Rahul Sood, CEO... |
| 01.09.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Yummly cooks up $15M to help you choose what’s for dinner
Recipe search engine Yummly announced today that it closed a $15 m... |
| 01.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 1, 2015 | IDG nabbed $120M; Cequr raised $100M; Cloud Apps Capital Partners bagged $53.7M
Cloud business software companies are currently in a strange position when it comes to venture capital. They require more capital and board support than the see... |
| 01.09.2015 | Ashton Kutcher invests in esports startup Unikrn as it launches a global platform | First, billionaire investor and Shark Tank television celebrity Mark Cuban invested in Unikrn. Now Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary are investing in the esports gaming startup through their Sound Ventures investment firm. Unikrn is also launch... |
| 01.09.2015 | Ashton Kutcher invests in esports startup Unikrn as it launches a global platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
First, billionaire investor and Shark Tank television celebrity Mark Cuban invested in Unikrn. Now Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary are in... |
| 01.09.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 03.07.2015 | Seattle Roundup: State Budget, Unikrn, Skykick, & Korner | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Heading into Independence Day weekend, Washington state still has a functioning government. The budget deal reached this week had implications for life sciences, the tech indu... |
| 01.07.2015 | Unikrn — букмекерский сервис для киберспорта Статьи редакции | Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — система ставок для киберспорта Unikrn.
Unikrn — проект, котор... |
| 30.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 30, 2015 | Chrome River announced $100M; Adaptive Insights raised $75M; Spire scored $40M
Chrome River Technologies, a company that automates the process for employees getting reimbursed for their expenses, saving companies time and money in the proce... |
| 30.06.2015 | Unikrn raises $7M from Mark Cuban and others to create a global eSports betting powerhouse | Unikrn Co-Founders Karl Flores, CMO (left), and Rahul Sood, CEO (right).
Seattle-based eSports betting platform Unikrn said today it has raised $7 million from a list of well-known investors and celebrities, including Mark Cuban, the owner ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Unikrn Closes $7M Round |
SEATTLE, WA, Unikrn, a gaming and eSports company, today announced it has raised an additional $7 million.
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| 30.06.2015 | Unikrn Raises $7M in Funding | Unikrn, a Seattle, WA-based gaming and eSports company, raised an additional $7m in funding.
The round was led by Jonathan Teo and Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital with participation from Mark Cuban, Advancit Capital, Freelands Group, 500 ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban and friends pour $7M into esports platform Unikrn | Billionaire investor and Shark Tank television celebrity Mark Cuban has joined a group of investors putting $7 million into esports gaming startup Unikrn.
The deal is a sign that esports is maturing, and that entrepreneurs are figuring out ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Unikrn Picks Up $7M To Bring Betting To Esports | Unikrn, a startup focused on esports betting, has raised a fresh $7 million, bringing its total capital acquired to $10 million. Binary Capital led the infusion. Previously, Mark Cuban invested in the company.
The startup, whose name is pro... |
| 30.06.2015 | Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban and friends pour $7M into esports platform Unikrn | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Billionaire investor and Shark Tank television ce... |
| 30.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Financial planning software company Adaptive Insights raises $75M
Adaptive Insights, a company selling cloud-based software ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 11.12.2014 | Microsoft Plans More Startup Accelerators in Seattle, Elsewhere | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Microsoft feted the first batch of startups to go through its Seattle accelerator Wednesday with a demo day in the heart of Amazon’s neighborhood. And despite their competitio... |
| - | Former Microsoft GM Rahul Sood Raises $2.5 Mn For His Gaming Startup Unikrn | Rahul Sood, the former general manager of Microsoft Ventures has closed $ 2.5 Mn in funding for his gaming startup Unikrn.
According to the SEC filing, Rahul is joined by Karl Flores, the CEO and co-founder of Australian in-game video ad st... |
| - | SEC Issues Warning, US Securities Laws May Apply To Initial Coin Offerings | The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken the first step to control startups that have raised money by selling their own virtual currencies through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). In a recent statement, the SEC stated that at le... |
| - | Не только «Криптокотята»: как блокчейн меняет компьютерные игры | В конце прошлого года канадская студия AxiomZen выпустила блокчейн-игру CryptoKitties, в которой пользователи примеряют на себя роль заводчиков виртуальных котиков и одновременно осваивают азы использования смарт-контрактов Ethereum. К март... |
