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FanDuel was founded by Nigel Eccles, Lesley Eccles, Tom Griffiths, Rob Jones and Chris Stafford on July 21, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a pivot from Hubdub, a news prediction site, after taking in $1.2 million in venture capital funding from Pentech Ventures and Scottish Enterprise.
Hubdub was a web-based prediction market in which players used virtual money to trade predictions on future events. Over time users built up a portfolio of live predictions across their chosen categories of interest such as politics, sport, entertainment, technology or other categories.
Nigel launched the online political prediction market Hubdub in 2007. [4] He admitted that Hubdub "didn’t really have a good business model," which made him change the focus of the company. [5] Hubdub later turned into FanDuel. [6] Eccles co-founded the daily fantasy company FanDuel in 2009. [7]
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In June 2007, Fantasy Sports Live, one of the first daily fantasy sites, was launched. [41] In November 2008, NBC launched a daily fantasy site called SnapDraft, and FanDuel was founded in 2009 as a spin-off of a Scottish prediction market company. [42] DraftKings was founded in 2012. [41] [43]
Nik Bonaddio is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding and serving as the CEO of the popular sports analytics site numberFire. In 2017, he was named Chief Product Officer at FanDuel , who acquired numberFire in September 2015.
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