AUSTIN, Texas – Philadelphia 76ers VP of Strategy Akshay Khanna moderated a panel discussion at SXSW entitled “Hitting the Next Home Run: Investing in Sports”. He joined us after the panel to elaborate about the 76ers investment strategy in their upcoming accelerator program and how they view new business ventures through the lens of a professional sports team.
Last September, the Philadelphia 76ers became the first U.S. professional sports franchise to fully integrate itself into eSports following its majority stake purchase of Team Dignitas and Team Apex, eventually merging both under the Dignitas name. At the time, Dignitas had one of the top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams, which had just qualified for the […]
The reality is that 10 to 15 percent of children that play youth or high school sports have a history of asthma, allergies, diabetes or history of concussion. It is also the reality that more often than not, the paperwork with this information gets left on a clipboard in the coaches office or lost in […]
After becoming the first U.S. professional sports team to purchase eSports franchises earlier this fall, the Philadelphia 76ers have already started cross-promotion with Team Dignitas. During the first week of December, the 76ers first displayed the Team Dignitas logo at half court of the Wells Fargo Center. 13 years ago we started out as a Battlefield […]
Athletes want to get the most out of themselves physically without further risking injury. IMeasureU is aiming to help by creating a tool that can precisely manage training and game loads for athletes. Thor Besier, a world-renowned bio-mechanist and co-founder of IMeasureU wanted something that would allow him to get lab-quality metrics, but in the […]
