Global sports activities betting and know-how firm PointsBet has opened its European headquarters in the Liberties in Dublin.
he opening of the Dublin workplace marks the primary operational presence in Europe for PointsBet, which acquired Irish startup Banach Technology final 12 months.
Banach was acquired for $43m (€41.3m) in March 2021.
PointsBet’s Dublin workplace presently employs 70 builders, quantitative analysts and product managers, with plans to broaden additional over the subsequent 12 months.
PointsBet stated the Liberties workplace might be “the long-term dwelling of its European operations”, with the crew additionally supporting their American counterparts from Dublin.
The enlargement plans in Dublin comes following a latest $65.8m funding in the corporate from monetary buying and selling agency Susquehanna International Group.
The firm additionally lately unveiled a partnership with Dublin-based Nellie Analytics, a sports activities analytics firm, which is owned by Susquehanna.
PointsBet offers gaming services, in addition to on-line and retail betting, to clients throughout regulated American states via its cloud-based know-how platform. Its headquarters are presently situated in Denver, Colorado.
“We see the opening of our new workplace as a jumping-off level for elevated native recruitment and engagement exercise in Ireland and Europe, and supporting our US groups as properly,” stated chief government Johnny Aitken.
He added that he hopes the funding will result in “additional, mutually essential areas of collaboration between US and Irish enterprise”.
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