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STATSports put a number on the hard yards. Sony bought in.
The Newry company turned a GPS vest into a business serving professional teams and weekend players. Its next test is making all those numbers worth a coach’s time.
Sony Electronics Sells You the Camera - and Quietly Builds the Sensor Inside Your Phone
The San Diego electronics giant sells cameras, TVs and headphones at retail - and makes the tiny CMOS sensor behind most premium phone cameras. Here is how one company ended up on both sides of the counter.
Sony Sells the Console at a Loss. The Real Money Starts When You Turn It On.
Inside Sony Interactive Entertainment - the PlayStation maker that turned a spurned Nintendo partnership into 93 million consoles sold, 125 million monthly players, and a $31 billion games business built on selling hardware cheap and everything after it dear.
Darkgrade
Darkgrade (YC F24) is building a protocol that lets large language models talk directly to image sensors. Its first shipping product is an open-source TypeScript SDK that connects to and controls Canon EOS, Sony Alpha, and Nikon Z cameras in about two lines of code, using the standardized Picture Transfer Protocol. Founded in 2024 by Kevin Schaich, a former Palantir engineer, the one-person company works from Denver and New York and is aiming to become the plumbing that helps cameras understand the world.
Startale Group
Startale Group is a Singapore-headquartered Web3 infrastructure company building the onchain stack for finance, entertainment, and consumer applications. Led by founder and CEO Sota Watanabe - who also created Astar Network - Startale operates a vertically integrated portfolio spanning the Sony-backed Ethereum Layer 2 Soneium, the Astar Network, the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and real-world assets, the JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, and a consumer Startale App. Backed by Sony and SBI, the company aims to bring Web3 to billions by bridging traditional finance with onchain systems.