San Francisco Unicorns and Rocketship.vc renew partnership for 2024 MLC season

• Bay Area venture capital firm Rocketship.vc will partner with the San Francisco Unicorns for the second season of Major League Cricket (MLC).
• Rocketship.vc logo will be present on Unicorns’ player hats for the tournament, which takes place in Texas and North Carolina this July.
• The sophomore season of MLC will begin on July 5, with the first of the Unicorns’ seven regular-season matches taking place on July 7. Tickets for all matches are available now at tickets.majorleaguecricket.com.

The San Francisco Unicorns has renewed its partnership with Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm Rocketship.vc for the second season of Major League Cricket.

As an Official Partner for the 2024 MLC season, Rocketship.vc will see its logo emblazoned on the playing caps of the Unicorns team for the full season, kicking off on July 5 and continuing through the playoff final on July 28.

Rocketship.VC is a global early-stage venture capital firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley,  investing in disruptive technology startups across different sectors. Rocketship’s investment approach is very differentiated and based on its proprietary database of global startup activity. Rocketship’s managing team has built public global startups, spearheaded the anchoring code for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission and written the most popular textbook on data mining, which has over one million downloads and has been translated into 14 languages. 

Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc said: “Last season was a major success for the Unicorns and MLC as a venture, and it was an obvious move to continue our partnership for 2024, bringing our support to the team in its mission to bring cricketing success to the Bay Area. With a growing support base and the recent hype of the T20 World Cup, we’re excited to be a key partner for a second season of success.”

Madhu Shalini Iyer, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc added: “Rocketship.vc is a futuristic Venture Capital fund that has always been at the forefront of taking innovative leaps, for example, our data driven platform revolutionizing venture investment to identify and invest in world class startups across the globe. Partnering with SF Unicorns is in that same innovative spirit to be a key partner in bringing Cricket to the United States”

Anand Rajaraman, co-owner of the San Francisco Unicorns and Founding Partner at Rocketship.vc, added: “Rocketship.vc is known for its investment in ambitious, innovative ventures, and that perfectly aligns with our aspirations at the San Francisco Unicorns. The company has coded for interstellar missions, and we’re excited to see its ballistic expertise rub off on our batters come July 7.”

The 2024 Major League Cricket season will commence on July 5, with San Francisco Unicorn’s first match coming on July 7, when they take on the LA Knight Riders at Grand Prairie Stadium in Grand Prairie, TX. 

The Unicorns’ 2024 roster features Australia captain Pat Cummins, explosive batters Finn Allen and Matthew Short, express bowler Haris Rauf, and rising superstar Jake Fraser-McGurk. For the second successive season, the Unicorns will be coached by two-time Indian Premier League (IPL) Player of the Season Shane Watson.

ABOUT ROCKETSHIP.VC
Rocketship.vc is a global early-stage venture capital firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley, investing in disruptive technology startups across different sectors. Rocketship’s investment approach is very differentiated and based on its proprietary database of global startup activity. Investments are made through a data-driven methodology, globally, using multiple machine learning and other quantitative models. Among Rocketship’s 70+ investments to date are Moxion (Silicon Valley), Wasabi (Boston), True Anomaly (Utah, LA), Zenskar (New York), Lithic (New York), Dhan (India’s premier Brokerage firm), Agnikul (India’s SpaceX), Edpuzzle (Spain),  Later (Canada), , Chemify (UK), Hived (UK) and many others.