Amit Sharma, Chief Expertise Officer of Dream Sports activities, is leaving the corporate after a decade-long stint to begin an AI enterprise.
Sharma joined Dream Sports activities in 2016 after spending greater than a decade within the US, together with roles at Netflix and Yahoo. Throughout his tenure, he helped scale the corporate’s expertise operations and engineering workforce as Dream11 grew into one in all India’s largest sports-tech platforms.
His departure comes amid a restructuring at Dream Sports activities. Final 12 months, the corporate cut up its operations into a number of enterprise items, with Sharma taking cost of the AI-focused division, Dream Sports activities AI, as its founder and CEO.
The exit additionally follows the shutdown of Dream Play, the corporate’s AI-powered sports activities efficiency analytics app, and the winding down of fintech platform Dream Cash. Each companies had been a part of Dream Sports activities’ diversification efforts past fantasy gaming.
In a LinkedIn publish, Sharma stated he was shifting on to his “subsequent journey” after ten years on the firm. He famous that Dream Sports activities had expanded its expertise workforce from round 20 members when he joined to greater than 600 staff through the years.
Based by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports activities was final valued at $8 billion in 2021. The corporate has been reshaping its enterprise following regulatory challenges confronted by India’s real-money gaming business.
Final week, Dream Sports activities chief advertising and marketing officer Vikrant Mudaliar additionally left the corporate after an eight-year stint.