February 28th, 2012

StarStreet Launches A Daily Fantasy Sports Game That Turns Athletes Into Stocks

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You may remember StarStreet from last year’s launch – it’s the TechStars and SV Angel-backed sports investing game that turns fantasy sports into a stock market system where you build up portfolios of top players as if they were stocks. Today, the company is launching a new, more addictive game that lets you play head-to-head with other players on a daily basis, both for fantasy wins or for real… → Read More

January 16th, 2012

A Fantasy App Store? CBS Sports To Launch “First Open Platform” For Fantasy Sports

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Fantasy sports, just like everything else, have also been making the transition to mobile, with news aggregating apps turning to fantasy sports (a la Taptu, Evri, and more).

But few of the big media properties have gotten with the times and opened their data-rich platforms to indie developers and data hounds. Today, it looks like CBS Sports is leading the way, as it is officially opening up… → Read More

January 5th, 2012

NumberFire Pockets $750K To Help You Rule Your Fantasy Sports Leagues

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Back in September, we wrote about numberFire, a New York City-based startup that’s attempting to bring a deep, scientific approach to your fantasy football picks. At the time, the startup was preparing to graduate (along with ten other stalwart companies) from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a seed-funding, mentor-providing NYC-based startup accelerator, and we also reported that… → Read More