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The Lacrosse League That Went Looking for a Hometown
Paul and Mike Rabil built the Premier Lacrosse League by taking the whole show on the road. Now local loyalties, a women’s league and $100 million in fresh capital are testing how far that idea can travel.
Velocix and the business of keeping the match on
A live audience arrives all at once. Velocix helps television operators handle the rush with a mix of private infrastructure, cloud capacity and software that keeps an eye on the bill.
The Internet Used to Break Live TV. LTN Built a Business Making Sure It Doesn’t.
Broadcasters spent decades trusting satellites because the public internet dropped packets at the worst possible moment. LTN’s wager was that a managed IP network could be cheaper, more flexible and just as dependable - and the shrinking supply of satellite spectrum is making that wager look timely.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
NBCUniversal’s Second Century Runs Through the Fandom Machine
The company that helped teach America to watch television now has to make broadcast, streaming, cinema and theme parks behave like one business. Its advantage is not a single screen - it is the loop between them.
National Football League (NFL)
The NFL is less a single sports company than a carefully tuned operating system for 32 clubs - one that turns a short season into year-round media, data, merchandise and global fandom.
FloSports
FloSports is an Austin-based direct-to-consumer sports streaming company that broadcasts underserved and niche sports - wrestling, cycling, track and field, motorsports, gymnastics, grappling, hockey and more - with the depth typically reserved for major professional leagues. Founded in 2006 by brothers Martin and Mark Floreani, the subscription platform streamed roughly 40,000 live events in 2024, reached more than 23 million viewers, and reported record revenue and sustained profitability ahead of its 2025 Series D round led by Dream Sports.
Quintar, Inc.
Quintar is a Santa Clara-based extended reality company building a device-agnostic spatial XR platform that turns physical venues into digitally enhanced 'Quintar Places.' Its patented Q.reality platform combines a Spatial Visual Positioning System with True Spatial Video to overlay real-time, data-driven content on live sports and other events. Quintar is the official mobile AR and XR developer of the PGA TOUR and built PGA TOUR Vision, the first professional golf application for Apple Vision Pro. Founded in 2021 by former Intel CTO Dr. Sankar (Jay) Jayaram and Dr. Jeff Jonas, the company has raised roughly $11 million, including an $8.2 million Series A in 2024.
Professional Fighters League
The Professional Fighters League (PFL) is a global mixed martial arts organization that reinvented the sport with a sports-season structure - a regular season, playoffs, and a championship where fighters compete for real money instead of matchmaker whim. Founded in 2017 by venture capitalist Donn Davis, PFL broadcasts to 160+ countries, has expanded into regional leagues across Europe, Africa, MENA and the Pacific, acquired rival Bellator MMA in 2023, and signed marquee names like Francis Ngannou and Jake Paul. It positions itself as the credible global challenger to the UFC.