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Sportsbet.io has announced a new multi-year partnership with Newcastle United. The online sports technology and betting platform – owned by Yolo Group – will work with the club to create content and incentives that will ‘benefit fans in territories around the world’. Tim Heath, Founder of Yolo Group, commented: “This partnership represents an incredible opportunity to connect with fans not …

Southampton FC, in partnership with Sport Republic and Yolo Group, has launched ‘The Future of Football’ challenge to find and accelerate the next group of sportstech disruptors.  A first-of-kind accelerator competition hosted by a Premier League football club, The Saints will welcome all “early-stage sportstech to test their solutions to innovate football and create new experiences”. Led by Yolo Group …

Kero Gaming has closed an oversubscribed ‘seed-2’ funding round, raising capital of $2m to develop its portfolio of ‘contextual in-game micro betting innovations’.  The seed round was led by enterprise-stage VC fund and accelerator Happyhour.io, who backed the Miami start-ups vision to “create Tik-Tok betting experiences for modern sports audiences”. Founded in 2020 by sportstech entrepreneur Tomash Devenishek, Kero’s prospects …

This September saw igaming venture capital fund Yolo Investments close a multi-million € funding round, backing the growth prospects of BETEGY, a proven specialist in developing automated solutions for igaming and sports betting incumbents.  CEO Alex Kornilov details why industry tech observers should be monitoring BETEGY developments closely as igaming enters its era of multi-product convergence and web3 innovation – key …

Yolo Investments has cemented its partnership with BETEGY even further after closing its latest round of funding. The investment, which is said to total “an undisclosed sum in the millions of euros”, will enable BETEGY to scale its products further and power the next stage of its global expansion. Commenting on the investment, Tim Heath, GP at Yolo Investments, said: …

German start-up Apparat Gaming has secured its first round of investment, as Yolo Investments acquires an interest in the firm. Purchasing the stake for an undisclosed sum, the Guernsey-based venture capital fund made the decision after noticing that the games developer was ‘making waves’ in the European sector.  The move falls in line with Yolo’s commercial focus on seed and …

Yolo Investments has completed an equity investment in igaming retention and reactivation firm Enteractive, which amounts to several million euros for a non-controlling interest equity stake.  Founded by entrepreneur Tim Heath, the Venture capital firm has stated that the purpose of the funding is to further boost Enteractive’s ‘pace and capability’ to scale globally. Tim Heath, GP of Yolo Investments, …

Jim Hogan, Head of Learning and Development at Coingaming, on how the company’s pioneering Management Development Programme builds company culture and encourages promotion from within. One of the secrets behind the growth of the Coingaming Group – from 40 employees to more than 600 in a few short years – has been our reliance on the individual growth of our …

Tim Heath’s Yolo Investments venture-capital fund has launched a sub-fund focused on the gaming and financial technology sectors. The newly established sub-fund will search for seed and A-stage opportunities across the gaming and fintech industries. Prior to launching the sub-fund, Yolo has already made investments in casino content studios OneTouch and Green Jade Games, fintech disruptions coins.io, Credis Bank and Yeahka, …