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Novig operates a peer-to-peer sports betting marketplace that allows users to place bets directly against friends or the market without the involvement of traditional sportsbooks. By eliminating the house's cut from the betting process, Novig aims to create a more social and enjoyable betting experience. The platform facilitates users in making bets and tracking their performance, emphasizing a model that prioritizes profitability for its participants. This approach seeks to democratize sports gambling, making it accessible and engaging for a broader audience.

FanPlay Technologies operates as a real-money gaming startup. FanPlay looks to create a unique proposition in Real Money Gaming (RMG) with live video integration and takes social gaming to the next level with high interaction between the hosts of the games and players

Gamerpay is a marketplace that offers a safe way to trade and own gaming skins and assets. GamerPay is free to use for sellers and costs only 5% for buyers.

StartPlaying.Games are a marketplace for hiring hosts for social tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. DMs for Hire! Meant to help new players learn to play, or help existing players find experienced hosts. Hosts set their own prices. Currently seeing a GMV of over $10k per month.

Vice Lotteries, Inc. owns and operates an online betting platform. Its platform offers gamblers with transparent and statistical data for gambling and turned money wagered as prize money. Vice Lotteries, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in South Bend, Indiana.

Camelot.ai, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing application software for esports betting. Established in 2018 and headquartered in the United States, Camelot.ai provides users with comprehensive statistics about various sports, including information on teams, players, and matches. The platform allows users to place wagers on their favorite teams and players while offering real-time game analytics and data-driven projections. Additionally, Camelot.ai provides historical results through charts, enhancing the betting experience for its users.

Gamelynx Inc. develops digital gaming platform that allows users to play board games or cards without using physical items. The company is based in Waterloo, Canada.

Players' Lounge Inc., also known as Players' Lounge Online, is an online platform that enables gamers to compete for cash and prizes through e-sports competitions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company caters primarily to casual gamers by allowing them to find opponents willing to wager on their favorite video games or participate in tournaments. Players' Lounge aims to provide a gaming experience that offers financial opportunities to the vast majority of gamers, as opposed to just the small percentage of professional players who earn substantial incomes. By facilitating social gaming tournaments that can be played both in-person and online, Players' Lounge fosters a competitive but accessible environment for gamers looking to enhance their gaming experience while potentially earning rewards.

Gamelynx Inc. develops digital gaming platform that allows users to play board games or cards without using physical items. The company is based in Waterloo, Canada.

Gameday allows its users to play fantasy sports on Messenger. Gameday, a startup part of Y Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch, has made a few tweaks to daily fantasy sports so it can be accessible to everyone. First, they’re building it into Messenger. This means you don’t have to visit a dedicated site each day and navigate a complicated UI – you just open Messenger and start chatting with their bot, which walks you through entering games and creating lineups. It’s also totally free to play, which also cuts down on the intimidation factor and makes it fan (and family) friendly. Users can select real prizes like apparel and gift cards that can be bought with in-app currency awarded to contest winners. And the last difference is that the games offered are simpler and designed to be more fun to play than traditional daily fantasy sports.

On DraftMix fantasy sports fans can sign up and play pickup games against other players on the site for virtual dollars or for real money . Open games are listed in a lobby, where players can sign up in groups ranging from 4 to 10 players each paying into a prize pool. DraftMix also ponies up a nightly cash prize for a free game as well. When a game is full, players pick their teams from active profession players. Each fantasy manager's team is scored on their players stats in the upcoming "real world" games. Since stats are needed to find the winning team, the time it takes to finish a game varies by sport. Football fantasy games are finished weekly, since all the teams play each Sunday. Basketball can finish a bit faster since teams play daily. The manager with the most points wins the money pot, with 10% of real cash games going to DraftMix. Now all this may sound fine playing fantasy sports for fantasy dollars, but doesn't bringing real money into play amount to internet gambling? No, says co-founder Matt Maroon, who points the the fantasy sports exemption in the [Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act](http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4411). The act, which was a big blow to sites like PartyPoker, specifically exempts "participation in any fantasy or simulation sports game or educational game or contest". Fantasy sports is seen as a game of skill and played for a fixed cash prize. Although a quick perusal of the exemption leaves feeling they're at least bending the rules. Also in the realm of fantasy sport startups are [Screaming Sports](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/screamingsports) and [Fleaflicker](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fleaflicker).