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| 05.05.2023 | More layoffs hit Tom Brady's NFT startup Autograph, which just cut nearly a third of its workforce | Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Autograph is a star studded NFT platform cofounded by retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady.
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| 17.12.2022 | Tom Brady's NFT company, Autograph, has laid off dozens of people after severing ties with board member Sam Bankman-Fried | Tom Brady. Zach Bolinger/AP Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Tom Brady cofounded Autograph at the height of the NFT sports boom.
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fr... |
| 26.08.2022 | Web3 jobs are still growing despite the economic uncertainty. These are the top 5 skills startup founders are looking for in prospective hires. | Job opportunities at Web3 companies are growing despite the economic downturn. Hiroshi Watanabe / AP This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 26.07.2022 | 5 NFT Platforms Every Sports Fan Should Know | Fan engagement has always been a massive part of sports. This is a large component of the home field advantage, and sports teams have been prioritizing it accordingly. If you’re a sports fan, you’ll want to engage with your favorite teams a... |
| 13.07.2022 | Tony Hawk Skates Into the Metaverse With ‘Largest Virtual Skatepark Ever Made’ | Famed skateboarder and entrepreneur Tony Hawk is the latest celebrity to take his talents to the metaverse, announcing on Wednesday he’ll be creating a skatepark and 3D avatar collection in the virtual land game The Sandbox.
The skatepark w... |
| 07.04.2022 | Tom Brady’s Autograph, ESPN Launch Network’s First NFT Collection | ESPN and Autograph, the non-fungible token (NFT) company founded by Tom Brady, announced Wednesday a multi-year deal to mint the sports network’s first NFT collection.
The collection coincides with the release of the docuseries “Man in the ... |
| 09.03.2022 |
How to Buy a Tom Brady NFT | Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL quarterback Tom Brady recently launched his own non-fungible token (NFT) collection – called “Live Forever: The Tom Brady Origins Collection”– focusing on the early years of his NFL career.
As expected, the collecti... |
| 01.02.2022 | Tom Brady just retired to spend more time at his NFT company. Here’s what it does | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady said he was retiring Tuesday, in part to work on his NFT collecti... |
| 20.01.2022 |
Tom Brady, Richard Rosenblatt Get $170M More For NFT Venture
| Autograph, the NFT ageny which was co-founded by longtime Los Angeles technology veteran Richard Rosenblatt, alongside NFL quarterback Tom Brady, has raised $170M mor follow up investments from 01A and investments from LIghtpeed Partner e i... |
| 20.01.2022 | Autograph Raises $170M in Series B Funding | Autograph, a Los Angeles, CA-based Web3 brand advancing new digital experiences, closed a Series B funding totaling $170M.
The round was co-led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins with participation from Lightspeed Partner Nicole Quinn and Katie Ha... |
| 20.01.2022 | Tom Brady’s NFT startup Autograph raises $170 million from Silicon Valley’s tech heavyweights | Tom Brady is undoubtedly the most popular contemporary football player of our time. He was the 7th quarterback drafted in the 2000 NFL draft and went on to become a 7x Super Bowl champion, a 5x Super Bowl MVP, and a 3x NFL Most Valuable Pla... |
| 19.01.2022 | Tom Brady’s buzzy celebrity NFT startup Autograph banks $170M from Silicon Valley’s top crypto investors | Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold... |
| 19.01.2022 | Tom Brady’s NFT Platform Autograph Raises $170 Million to Issue Celebrity Collectibles | Autograph—the Santa Monica-based NFT agency co-founded by superstar NFL quarterback Tom Brady—has raised $170 million in Series B funding.
The funding was co-led by Silicon Valley venture giants Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, and ... |
| 17.01.2022 | NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Swerves Into the NFT Realm Via Tom Brady’s Autograph | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 17 January 2022, 04:01 pm
(Photo : Dale Earnhardt Jr. )
NASCAR Champion driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. is taking a quick pitstop in the corner of NFTs. The upcoming Hall of Famer announced a new line of racing NFTs that tra... |
| 21.12.2021 | The Weeknd & Billboard Partner with Autograph & OpenSea to Commemorate Blinding Lights’ Historic Hot 100 Achievement with Personalized NFTs | Multi-platinum/Diamond-certified recording star Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, and Billboard are releasing digital collectibles to celebrate his hit single “Blinding Lights” (XO/Republic) being named the new number one song on Billboard’s Gr... |
| 20.10.2021 | Gory 'Saw' Film Franchise to Launch Own NFTs as Announced by Jigsaw Himself! | Urian B., Tech Times 20 October 2021, 03:10 am
(Photo : Image from Commons.Wikipedia.com) Gory 'Saw' Film Franchise to Launch Own NFTs as Announced by Jigsaw Himself!
For those that saw the "Saw" film franchise and can't get the &... |
| 16.09.2021 | Basketball Brand SLAM Inks First-Look Deal With NFT Platform, Autograph | SLAM will be a launch partner for Autograph’s basketball vertical with iconic magazine covers that ... [+] feature players ranging from Allen Iverson and Vince Carter to Devin Booker and Sabrina Ionescu.SLAM |
| 30.08.2021 | Simone Biles Partners with Autograph | |
| 25.07.2021 | Metaverse Weekly: Snaps’ New AR Acquisition, Roblox Launches Podcast, Facebook Will Be A Metaverse Company, Fox Announces Avatar Singing Competition And More | Metaverse Weeklygetty |
| 21.07.2021 | DraftKings shares plans for launch of NFT collectibles marketplace | DraftKings is charging into the NFT game, announcing a marketplace aimed at curating sports and entertainment-themed digital collectibles for its audience of enthusiasts. The platform is “debuting later this summer,” and showcases another p... |
| 08.04.2021 | Tom Brady throws game-changing pass into the NFT world | Record-breaking Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is the latest celebrity to throw his hat into the NFT ring. |
| - | Gander, an LA Startup Using Videos To Make Online Shopping Easier, Raises $4M | Gander, a Los Angeles-based ecommerce startup that collects and embeds user-generated videos for online shopping sites, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding.
Two New York-based venture capital firms, Harlem Capital and Crossbeam Venture ... |
| - | Netflix Is Turning Hit Shows Like ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Into Mobile Games | As Netflix continues its foray into gaming, the streaming giant is turning to its popular shows to find ideas for mobile games.
The streaming giant on Friday previewed more than a dozen mobile games or TV shows based on gaming franchises. T... |
| - | 3 NFT startups have already landed over $100 million in funding in 2022 as VCs chase Web3 | Tom Brady. Mark LoMoglio/AP Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
It's already a hot year for NFT startups: Three have raised rounds of $100 million or more.
This compare... |
| - | ‘Raises’: Tom Brady’s Production Company Lands $50M, Wavemaker 360 Closes $64M Health Care Fund | This week in “Raises”: San Diego led the way with big funding hauls for a pair of biotech and aviation startups based there, while yet another L.A.-based Tom Brady venture landed a raise of its own. Meanwhile, a Pasadena health care VC laun... |
| - | LA Tech ‘Moves’: Spencer Dinwiddie’s Calaxy Taps New CEO, Nativo Lures New Marketing Chief | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
| - | Clare Paint Founder Nicole Gibbons on How to Build Your Brand and Quit Your Day Job | Entrepreneur Nicole Gibbons joined this episode of Behind Her Empire to talk about how to leave your corporate job and do your own thing.
Gibbons is the founder of Clare, the only Black-owned paint brand in the U.S. Her journey from fashion... |
| - | Fintech Startup Albert Lays Off 20-Plus Employees: Sources | Albert, a Culver City-based fintech startup backed by investors including General Atlantic and Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG, is in the process of laying off a chunk of its locally-based staff, dot.LA has learned.
At least 20 Albert emplo... |
| - | Wavemaker 360 Launches New $64M Fund for Health Care Startups | Despite a venture funding slowdown that has not spared the health care and biotech sectors, one Los Angeles fund is looking to back its next crop of seed-stage health startups.
Wavemaker 360 Health, the Pasadena-based early-stage health car... |
| - | Why people spend so much money on NFTs, according to the CEO of Tom Brady’s NFT marketplace | NFTs are having a record-breaking year.
From a slew of record-breaking sales to celebrity interest, non-fungible tokens — unique pieces of data stored on blockchain ledgers, often in the form of digital artwork — have taken 2021 by storm. T... |
| - | Faraday Future Is Planning a New Factory in China | Beleaguered electric automaker Faraday Future is planning to open a new plant in China.
In an investor presentation filed with the SEC on Wednesday, the Gardena-based company said that it intends to open the factory as early as 2025, TechCr... |
| - | How To Startup Part 4: What Happens To Startups During a Downturn | According to Layoffs.fyi, over 50 tech startups have made significant layoffs since January 2022. Among them are companies like Netflix, Peloton and Robinhood, which after huge growth during the pandemic now face the harsh realities of rapi... |
| - | Casa Verde Capital’s Karan Wadhera on Investing in Cannabis and Emerging Markets | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Casa Verde Capital’s Karan Wadhera talks about the cannabis industry, investing in risky environments and working with music legend Snoop Dogg.
Wadhera grew up playing music and had always wanted t... |
| - | Lovevery Co-Founder Jessica Rolph on Building Products That Educate Parents and Their Kids | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, the co-founder and CEO of Lovevery, an educational toy and play kit company, discusses how keeping in touch with her customers helps grow her business and how it takes a team to run a company.
The idea ... |
| - | TikTok Will Tell You To Take a Break With New Screen Time Tools | TikTok is rolling out new tools to help users limit how much time they spend on the video-sharing app—including one aimed at teens who may be addicted to social media.
The Culver City-based social media firm will introduce a “screen time da... |
| - | Activision Blizzard To Begin Negotiations With Unionized Employees | Activision Blizzard will begin labor negotiations with recently unionized workers at its Raven Software subsidiary, the Santa Monica-based video game publisher said today.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick sent a letter to employees Friday mornin... |
