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UK-based ticketing, merch and streaming platform DICE has acquired Boiler Room for an undisclosed sum.

The news comes only days after DICE announced it had secured $122 million in investment led by venture capital giant SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, Billboard reports. Another of the investors is Future Shape, the company run by former Apple executive Tony Fadell, who co-invented the iPhone. Fadell is also joining the board at DICE.

The DICE funding came from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, launched in 2019 to invest in technology start-ups.

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The magazine reports that nearly 15 million viewers watched the exclusive red carpet live stream hosted by guests Keke Palmer and Ilana Glazer for Vogue.com and the magazine’s Twitter account. That figure — which combines all global views of the video, both live on and VOD, and across Twitter and O&O — totaled approximately 54 million minutes of content watched. Vogue’s Met content pulled in more than 200 million views across all social platforms.

Read more –> Variety

The $21 million financing round was led by Greycroft Partners and SignalFire, with additional participation from Primary Venture Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Red Sea Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
Angel investors joining the round include music-industry luminaries Coran Capshaw, Bill Silva, Marty Diamond, and Larry Webman, Bay Area concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment, Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, WIRED magazine co-founding editor John Battelle, and LionTree Partners.

Read more –> Pollstar