Edition 24 The State of Investing in Sports Betting
Edition 24: The State of Investing in Sports Betting
A month of success I hope you all had a great football weekend over Thanksgiving (sorry, Cowboys fans). This time, I'm going to read a wide range of high-level content on Wagers. com, Profit's website about how to invest in sports betting, and link their other newsletters and notes as I read each week! Let's dive in.
Investment Vehicles
The position of investing in sports rates has never been stronger, but to realize that this landscape is basically accepted, there are actually all kinds of investment methods. From individual traders and venture capitalists, to personal capital and spacs.
Individual Investors
Individual traders come to listed companies. Securities that can be traded by Robinhood or e trade. Think of Penn, $ Wynn, $ MGM. All of these companies have actual assets (casinos), but are starting to invest more and more on mobile sports betting infrastructure. When a personal trader or retailer gets shares, it is always considered a form of investment. The use of this fund is diverse, such as merger and acquisition. Given the recent excitement of the industry, these companies and other companies are actively crushing small rivals and expand their platforms through integration to compete with each other. For example, let's take a quick look at ＄ Penn (pen national gaming). In January 2020, they acquired 36 % of the Sports Media Platform BARSTOOL SPORTS with $ 163 million in cash. Since then, tailors, big cats and other celebrities have advertised personal products in all their ventures, and they have also set BARSTool Sportsbooks to attract rescue users into their game platform. They also came up with Barstool's difficult marketing promotions, and definitely helped BARSTOOL to grow into a brand that is now sponsoring a personal bowling game. Similarly, in August 2021, it announced that it would acquire Score Media and Gaming for $ 2 billion and cash. Penn's CEO Jay Snowden told U. < SPAN> Personal traders come to listed companies. Securities that can be traded by Robinhood or e trade. Think of Penn, $ Wynn, $ MGM. All of these companies have actual assets (casinos), but are starting to invest more and more on mobile sports betting infrastructure. When a personal trader or retailer gets shares, it is always considered a form of investment. The use of this fund is diverse, such as merger and acquisition. Given the recent excitement of the industry, these companies and other companies are actively crushing small rivals and expand their platforms through integration to compete with each other. For example, let's take a quick look at ＄ Penn (pen national gaming). In January 2020, they acquired 36 % of the Sports Media Platform BARSTOOL SPORTS with $ 163 million in cash. Since then, tailors, big cats and other celebrities have advertised personal products in all their ventures, and they have also set BARSTool Sportsbooks to attract rescue users into their game platform. They also came up with Barstool's difficult marketing promotions, and definitely helped BARSTOOL to grow into a brand that is now sponsoring a personal bowling game. Similarly, in August 2021, it announced that it would acquire Score Media and Gaming for $ 2 billion and cash. Penn's CEO Jay Snowden told U. Individual traders come to listed companies. Securities that can be traded by Robinhood or e trade. Think of Penn, $ Wynn, $ MGM. All of these companies have actual assets (casinos), but are starting to invest more and more on mobile sports betting infrastructure. When a personal trader or retailer gets shares, it is always considered a form of investment. The use of this fund is diverse, such as merger and acquisition. Given the recent excitement of the industry, these companies and other companies are actively crushing small rivals and expand their platforms through integration to compete with each other. For example, let's take a quick look at ＄ Penn (pen national gaming). In January 2020, they acquired 36 % of the Sports Media Platform BARSTOOL SPORTS with $ 163 million in cash. Since then, tailors, big cats and other celebrities have advertised personal products in all their ventures, and they have also set BARSTool Sportsbooks to attract rescue users into their game platform. They also came up with Barstool's difficult marketing promotions, and definitely helped BARSTOOL to grow into a brand that sponsors personal bowling games. Similarly, in August 2021, it announced that it would acquire SCore Media and Gaming with $ 2 billion and cash. Penn's CEO Jay Snowden told U.
Venture Capital
The second is a venture capital invested in sports games. Venture capital provides funds to early stage companies, emerging companies, and growth companies. These companies are expected to have a great possibility of growth, so they can survive the initial stage and guarantee great profits. Considering that the sports gambling industry is still in the early days, it is completely appropriate that financing from venture capital and sports gambling is closely related. The main sports betting venture capital has been featured in BETTOR CAPITAL, Sharp Alpha Advisors, KB Partners, EKG Ventures, Raine Capital, SEVENTURES. There are X Capital, Acme Capital, etc. With such a influx of funds, almost all companies were able to grow and develop. For example, last month (October 2021), Sharp Alpha Advisors was interested in $ 10 million for investing in sports gambling. They have been investing in Gridrival, Prochet, and Pickup. Similarly, SEVENTYSIX CAPITAL launched a $ 50 million fund in September 2021, specializing in sports betting. This is their second fund, and the first fund raised about $ 40 million. They attracted popular heads and athletes such as Arthur Blank, Brian Westbrook, Demarco Malay, and Emmanuel Sanders.
Private Equity
The next investment method is not well known, but it is a direct investment. This is not an open market, but usually a private equity company acquires and rebuilt the company. This method is usually used in lon g-established companies with a proven track record, so there is not much demand in sports games and betting fields. Since this is a relatively new industry, most companies tend to focus on venture investment rather than personal equity. Instead, it can be seen that PEs are deeply involved in the professional sports industry through companies such as Arktos, Redbird, Garatioto, and Inner Circle. A few months ago, I introduced BLACKSTONE Growth and the company's participation in GeoComply. As the market develops, it is expected that PEs and institutional investors will play a greater role in this field.
SPACs
Finally, the sports betting and gambling industry is using special purpose acquisition companies (spacs) to raise capital and go public. SPACS are essentially companies with immutable checks, designed to buy private companies and their public properties without having to go through the complicated classical IPO process. The most catchy of these was DraftKings, which entered the exchanges through a SPAC in December 2019. DraftKings merged with Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp (SPAC) and gambling and sports betting company SBTech. Jason Robbins, Executive Director of Draftkins, explained how it happened: "The company wanted to buy SBTECH, then the exchange, or first expired on the exchange, then had to arrange the purchase, but this draft was allowed to dominate all the time. "Generally, this requires funding so that this branch continues to grow and expand. Given the upcoming legalization in several states, almost all of these companies will expand distribution and create a large number of odds to stop the company itself, for example traders, merchants, from making more than the necessary income.
Investment Trends
B2B Software
The current landscape of the operator's technology stack is that some operators, like these PointsBet and Caesars, use their personal, proprietary technology stack, while other operators, like these Fanduel and Circa, use what is once the backend of the installation list for their own operation. Geocomply (we knew a certain number a few months ago), IGT and Kambi These companies own wide moats and barbecues in the face of danger from fresh players and wins in real time in terms of price and risk in industrial sports betting. These companies use the data purchased from these companies as genius sports and sports radar, and it enables sportsbooks that do not worry about their own infrastructure to provide products and defenses against fraud. As sportsbooks try to uncover the possibility of attendance, the competitive advantage of owning a technology stack and personal activities becomes more and more necessary for traders. DraftKings has translated most of its own operations in the state to its own platform SBTech, Fanduel runs entirely on a personal platform of Flutter, and Penn National bought SoCore to control its own technology for personal forces (as a small setback, I am not aligned with thescore-application in Nue-Jersey, so Barstool Dave Vanagmond @Dave_Vanegmond
Direct response to pennannouncements: There's something about paying $2 billion to transfer your own technology by acquiring a company that hasn't built everything yet. This should be a nice exit bonus for the port company!11:40 am ∙ 5 August 2021
17 Likes 1 Retweet Vertical integration of acquisitions and investments with risk and pricing is on the rise, and this is an aspiration that The Handle team is keeping an eye on. In fact, we expect that investments in B2B infrastructure that ensures the digitization of sports betting will continue to increase in the coming months.In recent months, the line between sports betting operators and media companies has become increasingly thin, with media personalities moving left and right and sports betting brands moving left and right. Classic operators invest in content and the ability to introduce their promotions to as many visitors as possible, while the brand loyalty and fan base of content developers serve as important cogs in the media machine. For example, Caesars has partnered with the Manning family, Trey Wingo, and Kenny Maine, and is rumored to be in the running to acquire ESPN's Adam Schefter. Other branded content partnerships include Fanduel with The Ringer and Bleacher Report, DraftKings with Meadowlark Media and VSiN, and almost every other operator and associated media brand. For our take on sports betting operators' content investments in June, see The Handle's inaugural issue, "Content Is King." Since the summer, the number of media personalities and brands working with operators has increased significantly, doing everything they can to attract and retain visitors. Only time will tell how justified this investment thesis will be, but we don't see this appetite waning in the near future. It will be interesting to see the public's reaction to the move away from the first big sensation class (Shams, Voy, Schefter, Passan, etc.).
Content
In the next year, several sports betting exchanges operating by analogy with existing economic markets will be launched in New Jersey, such as Prophet Count (with pending funding from Sharp Alpha Advisors, IEAD Sports), Sportstrade (pulled $36 million during 2nd Funds of funding) and decentralized sports betting betdex protocol ($21 million seed round). Investments in the developing exchange model in the United States are expanding along with the popularity of major commodity and cryptocurrency exchanges, and the coming meaningful fraud in sports betting is to follow them. The influx of the largest number of market companies into the ecosystem will demand significant barriers to training and implementation, and it will also be difficult to achieve a critical mass of wired law influence standards. Finally, we believe that traditional operators will be required to introduce personal user skill innovations and offer more friendly products to compete with economic products.
Financial Productization ( from Lloyd Danzig )
Operators love iCasino, and so far New Jersey gamblers have shown the same dedication. Last month (October 2021), internet gambling profits almost surpassed those of sports gambling, reaching $127 million for iGaming and $84 million for sports betting. Slot machines have the highest internet and land-based retention rate, and operators will never forget this, even if iGaming begins to develop much more actively than sports betting nationwide. Morgan Stanley estimates that the online casino market size in the United States could reach $3. 5 billion by 2025. First, iGaming is somewhat less accepted by the general public than sports gambling, and does not have the same social acceptance that sports gambling brought to the years of Super Bowl and March betting. Secondly, almost all states have agreements on gambling rights with indigenous peoples in South America. But when it comes to sports betting, everything has been somewhat ambiguous. Casinos are the bread and butter for these tribes, and there is a reasonable concern that iGaming has the ability to destroy this business. Let's take a look at some of the big players. International Game Technology (IGT) is said to be the hippopotamus of the casino industry. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and has a market capitalization of just under $6 billion. They are
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Igaming is allowed in Delaware and the United States, but we hope that the market will grow rapidly in the next few years, leading to further innovation and investment.
On The Horizon
In the next year and a half, the investment fields that will continue to inflow funds are wide, and there are various characteristics, such as ashes, collapses, and stagnation. As the funding of institutional investors continues to flow into this section, we are waiting for a product innovation that pushes the limits of what is possible to improve the skills of the panant and operator ecosystem. As the situation continues to evolve, not everything is perfect. Following New York, 51 % of other states will be significant pressure on business performance. Also, as the market begins to evolve in many states, the pressure on profitability will increase. It cannot be denied that the maximum return to product development in this field has decreased, and almost all companies have received a large amount of funding, but they do not necessarily expand their gambler wallets. As is the case with any investment, there are winners and losers. It will definitely be exciting for the next few years.
Miscellaneous Content Consumption
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- Kevin Durant and Chris Paul belong to ThirtyFive Ventures, participating in the 6 million dollar Series A investment round of Betsperts led by HbSE Ventures. Click here for press release.
- Genius Sports stock prices dropped by 30 % in the third quarter of Tuesday, fell by more than 60 % from the high price of this year. Brad Allen reports on the sale of Legal Sports Report.
- FANSUNITE will acquire partner Wagers. com's parent company American Affiliate for $ 58. 2 million and accelerate personal access to the US gambling market. Details from Yahoo Finance.
- The Federal Court paused legal sports betting in Florida due to excessive supply of seminol tribes. Governor Ron Desantis has arranged appropriate approval in the court's opinion.
- See the super interesting topic of Dave Vanegmond, the founder of Better Capital, about the synergistic effects of media companies and sportsbook operators.
The topic is how to maximize the price with sports betting and media companies that try to freeze businesses + lon g-term opportunities. I am based on the highest strategic officer of@Fanduel and $ Penn's @barstoolsports in this field.
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- The following is the appearance of Nigel Ekrs, the founder of the distributed sports betting exchange BETDEX, appeared on a lucky trader podcast with Preston Johnson. It was a wonderful episode, so please take a look!
From single game parlays and player props to in-game bets, Matt and Ed pull back the curtain and show you how today's oddsmakers work their magic. Tender offer document expected to be published in mid-July, with the acceptance period expected to commence shortly afterwards. The gamblification of investing produces novel challenges for the regulation of both financial markets and gambling. Keywords: trading, gambling.
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