In October 2017, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill allowing sports betting in the state of Pennsylvania, which took effect the following year with the repeal of PASPA, a federal law outlawing sports betting.

It became the focus of the sports and esports industries that year, piquing the interest of leaders in the field and those investing in related tech ventures.

It was also signal to Brian Goldstein and Paul Lee, founders of a new betting intelligence platform, that a real hole was about to exist in the tech industry in PA. The pair had both gone off to work in other cities and fields, but the introduction of this new industry brought them back to Philly.

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