As well as producing our own predictions for the year ahead, each year Sports Loft turns to the industry's leading investors and venture capitalists and ask for their insights, predictions and expectations for sports, media, and technology in the coming year.

Hyzon Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: HYZN), a high-power hydrogen fuel cell technology developer and global supplier of zero-emission heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), today announced its Board of Directors elected Erik Anderson as Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective August 24, 2023. Anderson replaces George Gu, who resigned his position. The Board also elected Andrea Farace as Vice Chairman of Hyzon's Board.

Seattle-area health tech startup Viome Life Sciences, which sells at-home kits that analyze the microbial composition of stool samples and provides food recommendations, as well as supplements and probiotics, closed a $86.5 million Series C round and announced a deal with CVS to sell its gut microbiome test in 200 CVS locations across the U.S.

One year after Tagboard, a next-generation cloud graphics platform, announced Its Series A funding, the fast-rising technology company is announcing an additional $4 million in funding from strategic investors to help fuel growth and innovation in cloud production.

Groopit, an enterprise SaaS platform that makes it easy to crowdsource insights from employees and use that data to solve complex problems.