Jacked Wins NBC Partnership, Reveals Funding
ALARM:CLOCK | December 20, 2007
Santa Monica-based Jacked will power the NBCSports.com Play Action for "Sunday Night Football" broadcasts. NBC will use Jacked's publishing platform, to provide statistics and other real-time content to the site which is used by fans who look at the site while watching corresponding games on TV.
Jacked further says that it has raised $6.5M from Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners, and Gabriel Venture Partners. Jacked is led by Bryan Biniak who is Managing Director of Provenance Ventures. Biniak was GM at American Greetings.
Jacked's software displays play-by-play information, player profiles, and other statistics and information in real time. Jacked trots out stats that the more than 102M US consumers watch TV while surfing the web simultaneously, Jacked analyzes live broadcasts to aggregate and deliver contextually relevant content to online users in real-time.
