Steph Curry was introduced as an investor in Unmatched on Monday, including to an extended listing of high-profile stars to align with the startup 3-on-3 ladies’s basketball league.
The four-time NBA champion’s funding was included in Unmatched’s oversubscribed Sequence A funding spherical in December, by which the league mentioned it secured greater than $28 million in Sequence A funding to associate with the $7 million raised throughout the league’s seed spherical, which was introduced in Might 2024, totaling $35 million for the league up to now.
“I’m extremely proud to be becoming a member of the Unmatched household because the league continues to set a brand new normal for a way ladies’s skilled sports activities ought to function,” Curry mentioned in a press release despatched to the league. “Unmatched isn’t just innovating the way in which we play basketball, but additionally how we worth and put money into the athletes who drive the sport ahead.”
Different big-named Unmatched buyers embody Carmelo Anthony and Giannis Antetokounmpo, younger tennis star Coco Gauff — who has been courtside at video games throughout Unmatched’s inaugural season — Olympian Michael Phelps, in addition to Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and girls’s basketball coaches Daybreak Staley and Geno Auriemma.
Unmatched, based by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, simply wrapped up its common season and can host a two-day postseason subsequent Sunday and Monday.
Angel Reese’s second-seeded Rose group will face Alyssa Thomas and the No. 3 seed Laces within the first semifinal. Collier’s top-seeded Lunar Owls will tackle Dearica Hamby, Aliyah Boston and No. 4 Vinyl within the different. The winners will advance to Monday’s remaining.
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