Sports Tech Special
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How Rooter became India's biggest game streaming and esports platform
From starting off as a sports community engagement startup to pivoting to streaming during the pandemic, Rooter has gone on to become India's largest game streaming platform with an enviable army of loyal users. Here's a deep dive into how they did it
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Games 24x7: How Bhavin Pandya and Trivikraman Thampy turned wild cards into a winning hand
In 2006, the two cofounders played their best hand with rummy. The engineer-turned-economist duo, though, tasted success by building a multi-gaming platform, Games 24x7
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Urgent need to look at esports from a different lens: JetSynthesys' Rajan Navani
For a man who is so deeply involved in promoting esports, the 'taint' of gambling hurts, and Navani explains that there needs to be a very clear understanding and bifurcation of what represents online gaming, esports, fantasy gaming and real-money gaming
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MPL: Forging a league of its own
Mobile Premiere League has grown at an explosive pace over the last three years. And it's not the fantasy games that are driving revenue. The twin superstars are Ludo and Carrom
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Dream11 turned fantasy (gaming) into reality. Now it's eyeing a diversified sports tech future
Dream Sports started off as a fantasy sports platform, and is now expanding across verticals like sports merchandising and experiential tourism. Will it help the company overcome regulatory hurdles the sector is battling?
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Gujarat Titans, and more: How former cricketer Matthew Wheeler's is turning kingmaker in Indian sports, gaming
The former cricketer is the founder of A&W Capital, a boutique investment banking firm behind some of the recent mega deals in Indian sports, including IPL winners Gujarat Titans, and has been slowly but surely building a solid foundation in India
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OneRare: Meet the world's first food metaverse
A first-of-its-kind NFT economy game, OneRare, cofounded by Supreet Raju and Gaurav Gupta, collaborates with celebrity chefs, iconic restaurants, popular cooking shows and food brands to mint NFTs of their iconic dishes, and is bringing the global food industry to Web3
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Dissecting India's gaming pie
Though the Indian online gaming ecosystem has witnessed staggering growth—especially post lockdown—the need of the hour is to kill all legal ambiguities to help it bloom in full glory