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More than just fans: How women are reshaping baseball on and off the field

Fast Company Tech

Kim Ng made history in 2020 when she became the first woman general manager of an MLB team, the Miami Marlins. As of 2023 , women made up 30% of central office professional staff and 27% of team senior administration jobs. At womens colleges such as Smith and Vassar, students organized baseball teams as early as 1866.

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Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami, or …

TechCrunch

Substack, Clubhouse, and Miami as a major tech hub are compelling bets. And Miami is a bet that you can take a top global city without a massive startup ecosystem and agglomerate the talent necessary to compete with San Francisco, New York and Boston. Is it really so hard to believe that Miami, a metro region of 5.5

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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. operations, with an office in Miami. million) in a Series B round of funding.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

And then, during a trip to Miami, he and his friends actively sought out beautiful places to eat — and take photographs. But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos.

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

TechCrunch

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another one. Team effect.

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Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

TechCrunch

Two of these are being announced today to coincide with the funding news: Remote has launched a Global Employee API that HR platforms that focus on domestic payroll can integrate to provide their own international offering powered by Remote. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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Irish eSports giant’s new startup bets big on rugby in bid for US market share

TechCrunch

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. But the company, which just moved its headquarters to Miami from Dublin, is betting on rugby’s growing traction in the U.S, which has 8.8 NFTs are such an exciting buzzword, and the U.S.

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