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Led · Equity · Jul 2014

SportsManias aggregates 24/7 professional news, tweets, videos and rumors into personalized feeds and “Head-to-Head” beat-writer feeds during gametime, with web and mobile experiences presenting pre-game commentary, scores, stats, live sidelines updates and post-game coverage. The platform recently introduced a second-screen experience and is led by Co‑Founder/Chief Creative Officer Vicente J. Fernandez. It serves more than 2 million users who follow over 700 teams, ingesting roughly 22,000 tweets per day from over 3,000 beat writers covering collegiate, professional and international sports. The company intends to use its new funding to form partnerships with newspapers nationwide and to continue improving its website and mobile apps. The article does not disclose revenue or profitability metrics.