VCs invest in Japan sports analytics start-up
Global Brain has joined a JPY 770m (USD 7m) pre-Series B round for Japan’s Run.Edge, a sports video search and analytics platform.
Run.Edge spun out from Fujitsu in 2018 with a suite of image-search and image-analysis tools for the sports sector. Its core product, Pitchbase, analyses pitching and hitting data for 14 professional baseball...
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