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3 weeks ago | 
pitchbook.com | Michael Bodley |Nadine Manske
VC investments in fintech startups have declined for three years in a row, but a recent flurry of later-stage deals and exits could point to a rebound. Median pre-money valuations for all venture-backed fintech companies jumped 94.4% year-over-year in 2024, with gains across every funding stage.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Gökhan Çakır |Harrison Thomas |Nadine Manske
VALORANT gives fans all the cosmetics they could dream of via the in-game store, but what happens when you’re not near your PC and you want to see what’s available for purchase? Fortunately, there have been websites that help you check the store on the go. However, Riot Games has been taking them down one by one as Vanguard cracks down on third-party tools. The purpose of this third-party tool block is to make sure you don’t run into anyone in your game using an aimbot or wall hacks to cheat.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Nadine Manske |Rosie Bradbury
Mobility tech IPOs have stalled out. The sector recorded just $2.3 billion in total exit value in the first half of the year—about 76% off last year’s pace—and the heyday of SPAC deals for flying taxis and electric vehicle makers feels like a distant memory. Still, a sea change in electrified and autonomous transportation is creating opportunities. Here are 10 VC-backed mobility tech companies primed to go public when the time is right.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Nadine Manske
Funding for autonomous vehicle startups is again on the rise, and self-driving cars on city streets aren’t the only investment opportunity as the technology becomes a key part of commercial transportation. In Q2 2024, autonomous driving startups received $2.9 billion in funding, according to PitchBook’s latest Mobility Tech report, more than any other area of the vertical—defined as innovations advancing the transportation of both people and goods.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Adam Newell |Gökhan Çakır |Nadine Manske |Tyler Esguerra |Cade Davie
VALORANT is a game that benefits from the incredible diversity offered by its character roster. Each agent in VALORANT is unique and can shape the outcome of a match in different ways. However, you’ll notice when you log in for the first time that most of the game’s characters are locked. Keeping the agent pool small at first allows players to focus on learning the core mechanics of the game, but sooner or later, players will want to try out other agents to see if they like them better.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Nadine Manske |Emily Morrow
Playing support in Overwatch 2 is not for the faint-hearted. Support characters exist to enhance the abilities of their teammates and give them a boost when their health bars are low. Yet, these flexible heroes can also deal out some serious damage, provide utility to their teammates, or debuff their enemies. Sometimes, the key to shutting down the enemy team is to attack their support heroes first, which increases the number of resources tanks and DPS will have to spend to stay alive.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
pitchbook.com | Nadine Manske
Sports have become a highly sought after asset class for private equity firms, and the Paris Olympics—the first to feature an equal number of male and female athletes—placed a spotlight on women’s sports as investment opportunities. “I can’t remember the last time you had as many household names in women’s sports as you do today,” said Jason Menghi, an audit and assurance partner at Deloitte who works with clients interested in sports investing.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Emily Morrow |Nadine Manske
Although Overwatch 2 players may complain about certain heroes being too strong or not easily countered, the developers have generally been great at responding to player concerns, stiff metas, and overtuned characters. Damage dealers, or DPS heroes, are varied in their means and methods of attack. Some are precision fighters who excel at landing individual shots, while others specialize in the chaos of area-of-effect attacks.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Adam Newell |Nadine Manske |Karli Iwamasa
Unrivaled Charizard Tera Raids first landed in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just after the Gen IX games were released in 2022. Now everyone’s favorite fire dragon is back in honor of Pokémon Day. The seven-star Charizard Tera Raid event is making its return from Tuesday, March 12 at 7pm CT until Sunday, March 17 at 6:59pm CT. It follows the previous Venusaur and Blastoise Tera Raid events to close out the Pokémon Day festivities in Scarlet and Violet.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
dotesports.com | Harrison Thomas |Alex Tsiaoussidis |Adam Snavely |Nadine Manske
When you die in Apex Legends, all that’s left behind is a big box with your name containing all the items you carefully looted to set up your perfect loadout for the battle royale. The purpose of these death boxes is not only to allow teammates and enemies to pick up all the loot you left behind but also so your teammates can have a chance to revive you by retrieving your player banner.
