The company also reported 50,000 active daily users and as many as one million registered players. In February 2014, it was reported that the company awarded $50 million in prizes in 2013 to players in weekly fantasy football, daily fantasy baseball, daily fantasy basketball and daily fantasy hockey. The investment was not disclosed at the time. In April 2013, Major League Baseball invested in DraftKings, becoming the first US professional sports organization to invest in daily fantasy sports. The company's first product was a one-on-one baseball competition, launched to coincide with Major League Baseball's opening day in 2012. The company initially operated out of Liberman's house. History ĭraftKings was established in 2012 by Jason Robins, Matthew Kalish, and Paul Liberman, former Vistaprint employees. ĭraftKings became a publicly traded company through a reverse merger with SBTech, a Bulgarian technology company, and special-purpose acquisition company Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp in April 2020. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users. However, the merger was terminated in July 2017- blocked by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent potential monopoly, as the combined company would have controlled 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. states consider fantasy sports (including daily fantasy sports) a game of skill, rather than gambling. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Connecticut, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New Hampshire on Decemafter reaching agreement with the New Hampshire Lottery. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports (the MLB, the NHL, the NFL, the NBA and the PGA), Premier League and UEFA Champions League football, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts (MMA), Boxing, Tennis, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and WWE.ĭraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey. DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting company.

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