Stephen Curry Joins Unmatched As Investor

Steph Curry became as soon as launched as an investor in Unmatched on Monday, adding to a prolonged list of high-profile stars to align with the startup 3-on-3 ladies’s basketball league.

The four-time NBA champion’s funding became as soon as incorporated in Unmatched’s oversubscribed Sequence A funding round in December, in which the league acknowledged it secured greater than $28 million in Sequence A funding to switch alongside with the $7 million raised right thru the league’s seed round, which became as soon as launched in Could perhaps additionally merely 2024, totaling $35 million for the league up to now.

“I’m extremely proud to be joining the Unmatched family as the league continues to danger a fresh identical outdated for how ladies’s official sports actions would possibly perhaps additionally merely soundless operate,” Curry acknowledged in a assertion despatched to the league. “Unmatched will not be any longer staunch innovating the technique we play basketball, nonetheless additionally how we value and put money into the athletes who power the game forward.”

Varied spacious-named Unmatched traders embody Carmelo Anthony and Giannis Antetokounmpo, younger tennis necessary individual Coco Gauff — who has been courtside at games right thru Unmatched’s inaugural season — Olympian Michael Phelps, to boot to Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and women’s basketball coaches Break of day Staley and Geno Auriemma.

Unmatched, founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, staunch wrapped up its neatly-liked season and would possibly perhaps additionally merely host a two-day postseason subsequent Sunday and Monday.

Angel Reese’s second-seeded Rose crew will face Alyssa Thomas and the No. 3 seed Laces in the first semifinal. Collier’s top-seeded Lunar Owls will take on Dearica Hamby, Aliyah Boston and No. 4 Vinyl in the opposite. The winners will come to Monday’s final.

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