SBJ Tech has lots so that you can try this Monday morning. In this week’s SBJ journal, the tech workers dives deep into the Apple Vision Pro and its potential future within the fan expertise. You can read that story here. Also within the magazine, we function the 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies — which will probably be honored at subsequent week’s Sports Business Awards: Tech on March 5 throughout Tech Week in New York City. Also preserve your eyes on this spot for the following few days: we’ll spotlight our SBA: Tech category finalists till the awards ceremony subsequent Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there. – Ethan Joyce

In as we speak’s version of Power Up:

• AI-powered Alfred simplifies wine, spirits administration for sports activities venues
• PLN companions with Panda Interactive
• CrewLAB raises $1.6M in funding

While synthetic intelligence has permeated virtually all areas of life, in sports activities venue operations, that affect usually has been restricted to advertising, ticketing and safety. That’s the place Alfred Technologies, with its roots in managing wine lists at massive accommodations, is making inroads in sports activities, starting with a pair of NHL franchises, the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning, SBJ’s Joe Lemire reports.

By triangulating knowledge from requisitions, purchases and gross sales, Alfred organizes and audits the knowledge for streamlined stock administration. The AI can mechanically notify operators of abnormalities with out ready for handbook month-to-month inventories.

Pro League Network, which owns, operates and livestreams area of interest sports activities leagues, begins its second yr of programming as we speak with the tee-off of the World Putting League’s 2024 schedule, SBJ’s Rob Schaefer reports.

When it does, viewers may have entry to distinctive wagering alternatives because of a partnership between PLN and streaming options supplier Panda Interactive, whose Panda Studio platform affords interactive overlay options like in-stream wagering.

CrewLAB, a digital administration platform for sports activities groups, has raised an oversubscribed funding spherical of $1.6 million. The spherical was led by New Enterprise Associates chairman/CEO Scott Sandell, Schaefer also reports.

Manning Ventures, which is headed by Pat Manning, a former Olympic silver medalist rower, Bain & Company associate and US Olympic Rowing High Performance Council chairperson, was additionally a participant within the spherical. Drew Ginn, a three-time Olympic gold medalist rower from Australia, is an investor as effectively.

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