Quarterly Breakdowns: Media & Content, Health & Fitness, NFT’s

We breakdown the top-10 deals across media, health & fitness and NFT’s in the January to March quarter. 💰 The 10 Biggest Media & Content Funding Deals: January – March 2022 With 52 deals in the quarter it is one of the bigger industries tracked and taking a closer look at the top-10 funding went towards
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Deal & Funding Breakdown: April 6th – April 20th

We breakdown some of the highlights of the deals tracked by Bullpen in the last fortnight. 💰 Top-10 Biggest Funding Deals (April 6th – April 20th) VerSe Innovation, $805m Viral Nation, $198m Sky Mavis, $150m Improbable, $150m Genies, $150m Cinq Music, $100m Cocos Technologies, $50m Trace, $47m VideoVerse, $46.8m Strivr, $35m 🎮  Gaming Deal Highlights
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Sound Off: Signals & Trends

With over 400 deals tracked in Bullpen’s Deal Tracker, I consider some of the trends and companies within the sports, media, NFT, gaming, fitness and media spaces. Masterclasses Masterclass based startups are seeing decent funding because of several factors that can be taken in combination, video technology is both better and accessible, education is borderless and
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💰 The 30 Biggest Funding Deals: January – March 2022

We present the 30 biggest funding deals tracked by Bullpen in the January to March quarter. Fanatics – $1.5b Fanatics – $500m Yuga Labs – $450m PureGym – $400m Animoca Brands – $360m iFit Health & Fitness – $355m OpenSea – $300m Dream Games – $255m Fever – $227m Immutable – $200m Spotter – $200m
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Deal & Funding Breakdown: Fanatics, iFit Health & Fitness, Immutable, Bloomreach & thatgamecompany are the Highlights

Headlining the last fortnight of deals is six companies pulling in over US$10m in funding. Fanatics is making big moves to own the sports fan space in every way, we’re talking collectibles, streaming, betting, NFT’s and more. They’ve raised $1.5b just a couple months after raising $350m. iFit Health & Fitness raised $355m in funding lead by L
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Startup Spotlight: FitOn

I turn a gaze onto a startup you should check more about. In this spotlight I look at digital fitness startup FitOn. The company’s fitness app has hit 10 million users. Company: FitOn What is it? Digital fitness and wellness What did they raise? The company recently raised a US$40m Series C round, following on from an $18m
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The Breakdown: Uppbeat, Curv Health, DNABLOCK & BetDEX Lead the Latest Deals

Here at Bullpen we track a number of investments regularly so check in as we blitz through some of the recent deal and funding highlights in our breakdown. For a full list of deals tracked by Bullpen check it all right here. Starting at the top, music and sound effect licensing platform Uppbeat closed a $6.15m Series A round. Canada-based digital health company, Curv Health, closed
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Startup Spotlight: Tripledot

I turn a gaze onto a startup you should check more about. In this spotlight I look at Tripledot, the UK-based mobile gaming unicorn. Company: Tripledot What is it? Casual games studio What did they raise? They raised $116m Series B at a $1.4b valuation. This round follows a $78m Series A in April 2021. The round was led by 20VC, the
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Funding Breakdown: Wave Sports + Entertainment, Fast Break Labs, Good-Loop and Bloomreach Lead the Deals

Here at Bullpen we track a number of investments regularly so check in as we blitz through some of the recent deal and funding highlights in our funding breakdown. For a full list of deals tracked by Bullpen check it all right here. Sports media startup Wave Sports + Entertainment raised a $27m Series B from a lot of investors including reigning NBA
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Sounding off on Musicbiz Deals: Peloton, Ye, Snoop Dogg & NFT’s

Nearly 50 new deals were tracked in the last fortnight headlined by two $200m deals in the media and content space. What stood out was the diversity of the music business deals made. Money went towards music tech deals for wellness, fundraising, augmented reality, live experiences and decentralised music licensing. Very diverse, and both physical
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