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By Douglas Fraser
Business and economy editor, Scotland
Among Scotland's most effective technology groups is beginning again with a brand-new firm - and has actually secured the most significant initial financial of any British start-up business.
BetDEX is being led by Nigel Eccles, who co-founded dream sports betting site FanDuel in 2009 in Edinburgh.
The new company has seed funding of $21m.
It aims to launch a new open source software platform, on which others can innovate in sports betting wagering, in the very first half of next year.
The business is hiring staff from a base in Scotland.
FanDuel was offered to Flutter - previously named Paddy Power Betfair - in 2018 and is now worth more than $30bn.
However, Mr Eccles and other co-founders remain in legal conflict with FanDuel's later stage investors over the way in which they structured a takeover, which left the Edinburgh team without a share of the increasing appraisal.
Mr Eccles stated that one thing he gained from the FanDuel experience was to pick financiers thoroughly.
He told BBC Scotland: "We took a lot of lessons from that, among which was the significance of who we pick as financiers in this brand-new service, to ensure their values are lined up with ours, that they take their fiduciary duties responsibly, which they're the right partners for us."
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The $21m seed financing for BetDEX consists of stakes taken by 7 backers of US innovation companies, consisting of two large funds - Paradigm and FTX - which specialise in purchasing business operating with crypto-currencies.
Varun Sudhakar, president of BetDEX, stated: "The sports betting market charges high costs for poor products and limits trades by its most successful users.
"BetDEX is diametrically opposed to this approach. We will successfully contend against incumbents with a considerably exceptional product and low charges, which is now possible with the development of the blockchain technology."
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As chairman of the brand-new company, Mr Eccles stated it might look familiar to retail punters utilized to existing online firms.
'Pool of talent'
However, he states that those who use its platform to run their own sports betting companies will have the ability to innovate and develop a broader variety of wagering items.
He said the common share taken by online bookies is 7% to 10% of a stake, but BetDEX must enable for that to fall listed below 1%.
The business will establish its own sports betting apps to operate on the platform.
Mr Eccles said these would take an "intelligent, thoughtful" technique to the way they are marketed to safeguard those who have problem with problem sports betting.
He said the team of around 500 software application engineers who helped build FanDuel from Scotland showed that it stays the location to build a firm. BetDEX has the same head of innovation, Stuart Tonner.
"A lot of that [FanDuel] success was built on a highly skilled, really skilled engineering team, that built this product that might process countless bets and millions of users.
"There's a genuine talent pool of experienced engineers who assisted us build our item and that's what we want to take advantage of for BetDEX as well."
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