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Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call it a seed-2, seed-extension or merely a baby Series A; Forerunner Ventures, DCM and Seven Seven Six led the round as a trio. Metafy’s model is catching on with its market. According to its CEO Josh Fabian, the company has grown from incorporation to gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $76,000 in around nine months. That’s quic...

socaltech.com Elysian Park, the investment arm of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is one of the lead investors in fitness ring maker Oura, Oura said on Tuesday. According to Oura, it raised $100M in its Series C funding round, which was led by The Chernin Group and Elysian Park, and also included Temasek, JAZZ Venture Partners and Eisai, Forerunner Ventures, Square, MSD Capital, Marc Benioff, Lifeline Ventures, Metaplanet Holdings and Next Ventures. Oura's rings are used for temperature measurement and other fitness measurement, and are being used by the NBA, WNBA, UFC, NASCAR, and otehrs. The com...

Photo by IronHeart/Getty Images Oura Health, the health tech company behind Oura Ring, has completed a Series C funding round totaling $100 million. The round was led by the Chernin Group and Elysian Park, the investment arm of the L.A. Dodgers, and included new investors Temasek, JAZZ Venture Partners and Eisai. Returning backers Forerunner Ventures, Square, MSD Capital, Marc Benioff, Lifeline Ventures, Metaplanet Holdings and Next Ventures also participated in the round. Oura has raised $148.3 million in lifetime fundings after completing rounds in 2016, 2018 and 2020. WHAT IT DOES Oura Ri...

May 5, 2021 9:45am Oura said it will continue to develop within new use cases focused on recovery, activity, illness, mental health and women’s health. Wearable technology also shows promise for helping manage sleep apnea and high blood pressure conditions. (Oura Ring) During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oura Ring quickly shifted from being just a consumer wearable to a key research tool for early detection of COVID-19 symptoms. Oura Health's wellness ring was one of the first wearables used by an academic research institution, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to potential...

The Series C round led by Temasek and others values the Finland-founded former Kickstarter project at $800 million.