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Get Rewarded For Sleeping
Sleepagotchi, an app that rewards users for meeting consistent sleep goals with digital collectibles, raised $3.5M from 6th Man Ventures, Collab+Currency, Shima Capital, 1kx, DeFi Alliance, Sfermion, Emoote, LCA Game Guild, Cem Kansu, Santiago R Santos, and Justin Melillo.
In Sleepagotchi, users enter their target bedtime and wake-up time that they hope to achieve consistently and receive different levels of rewards depending on how close their actual bedtime and wake-up times were to their target and how consistent they were.
The Sprint
Goldenset Collective, a platform focused on investing in and supporting the next generation of digital creators, raised $10M+ from A.Capital, Lerer Hippeau and Thirty Five Ventures.
knownwell, a weight-inclusive healthcare company that provides comprehensive care for all bodies and eliminates weight bias, raised $4.5M from Flare Capital Partners, Flybridge LTV Operator Fund, Oxeon, Larry Summers, Brynn Putnam, Lydia Gilbert, and Varsha Rao.
Prescribe FIT, a remote monitoring and virtual lifestyle health startup that helps patients improve their musculoskeletal health at home with changes to nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle, raised $4M from Tamarind Hill, the Grote family and Mike Kaufmann.
Slay, a platform aiming to promote mental wellbeing among teenagers through normalising and reinforcing positive social media interactions, raised €2.5M from Accel, Harry Stebbing’s 20VC, Ilkka Paananen, Scott Belsky, Mario Götze, Kevin Weil and Alex Pall.
SphereOne, a crypto payment platform that allows users to make purchases with any cryptocurrency across any blockchain, raised $2.5M from Distributed Global, Newark Venture Partners and Zero Knowledge.
Hollywood Unlocked, a platform offering the latest articles and insights on the world of Hollywood, raised $1.7M from Hidden Empire Film Group, Brown Venture Group, Black Capital, Bracket Capital and Intuition Capital.
Fund Talk
Courtside Ventures, an early-stage VC firm investing in companies across sports, gaming and lifestyle, raised $100M from Dick’s Sporting Goods and the ownership groups of professional franchises such as Atletico Madrid, the Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Shaquille O’Neal and Larry Fitzgerald.
Courtside Ventures has previously invested in companies such as the Athletic, a sports-focused news website, sneaker marketplace StockX and the Drone Racing League.
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