Genius Sports

In this week's episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Jahm Najafi, chief executive of The Najafi Companies and vice chairman of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns. Eric and Chris also discuss the recent deal in which venerable trading card entity The Topps Co. will become a public company, the continued growth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), New York state enacting mobile sports betting, and the emergence of Genius Sports following its landmark agreement to acquire National Football League data rights.

League gains warrants for 22.5 million shares in addition to rights fees

Specialist sports data and technology firm Genius Sports Group has today (Wednesday) unveiled a company rebrand that will unite its various entities under one identity

League gets equity in London-based sports data and technology firm

Sports data company Genius Sports Group has signed a long-term deal with the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) covering a range of club competitions

Sports data and technology provider Genius Sports Group has appointed Rob Pietroforte, vice-president at merchant bank the Raine Group, as its new director of mergers and acquisitions

Experienced US sports media industry executive David Levy has been appointed the new chairman of sports data company Genius Sports Group

Major League Rugby has made its first significant move into the sports betting industry by striking a data and streaming partnership with sports data company Genius Sports

Digital sports content and technology company Genius Sports Group has further enhanced its presence in volleyball by forming an exclusive official data and streaming agreement with Lega Volley, the governing…

Digital sports content and technology company Genius Sports Group has rolled out its LiveStats platform for use among ice hockey leagues and federations

Sports data and technology company Genius Sports has announced it has signed a multi-state official data partnership with WynnBET, Wynn Resorts’ online sports betting product.

Sports data and technology company Genius Sports has extended its data technology contract with Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL).

Betting data services company Genius Sports has sued rival data company Sportradar in the UK High Court in the latest twist to the companies’ ongoing legal dispute about the data rights to the English P…

Superstar Racing Experience, the new six-race, short-track motorsport series, has struck an exclusive data partnership with Genius Sports to launch its first official betting platform

Specialist sports data and technology firm Genius Sports Group has filed its registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it moves to complete its merger with publicly-traded…

UK-based data services provider makes first US acquisition

Sports data and technology company Genius Sports has secured the exclusive data and betting streaming rights for the Beach Soccer Worldwide series

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed an application from Football DataCo, the data rights-holder for the English Premier League, English Football League and Scottish Professional F…