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By Douglas Fraser
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Business and economy editor, Scotland
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Among Scotland's most effective technology groups is beginning once again with a brand-new firm - and has [secured](https://www.tobeop.com/best-u-s-sports-betting-sites-sportsbooks-for-2024/) the greatest initial investment of any British start-up business.
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BetDEX is being led by Nigel Eccles, who co-founded dream [sports betting](https://connectworld.app/read-blog/222_tennessee-sports-betting-top-4-legal-betting-sites-in-2024.html) wagering site FanDuel in 2009 in Edinburgh.
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The new company has seed funding of $21m.
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It intends to launch a [brand-new](https://doum.cn/read-blog/2193_how-much-are-americans-investing-in-sports-betting.html) open source software application platform, on which others can innovate in [sports betting](https://social.vetmil.com.br/read-blog/15500_warner-bros-discovery-sets-stage-for-potential-cable-deal-by.html) wagering, in the first half of next year.
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The business is hiring staff from a base in Scotland.
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FanDuel was sold to [Flutter -](https://nbc.co.uk/read-blog/143_sport-betting-industry-aims-to-protect-itself.html) formerly named Paddy Power Betfair - in 2018 and is now worth more than $30bn.
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However, Mr Eccles and other co-founders remain in legal conflict with [FanDuel's](https://letustalk.co.in/read-blog/11495_just-how-much-are-americans-spending-on-sports-betting.html) later phase financiers over the method in which they [structured](https://jamesrodriguezclub.com/read-blog/6206_things-you-need-to-learn-about-rafting-adventures.html) a takeover, which left the Edinburgh team without a share of the increasing valuation.
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Mr Eccles said that one thing he gained from the FanDuel experience was to select investors carefully.
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He told BBC Scotland: "We took a great deal of lessons from that, among which was the significance of who we pick as investors in this brand-new business, to ensure their worths are lined up with ours, that they take their fiduciary responsibilities responsibly, which they're the ideal partners for us."
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Varun Sudhakar, [president](https://www.social.united-tuesday.org/read-blog/19493_sport-betting-industry-seeks-to-protect-itself.html) of BetDEX, said: "The [sports betting](https://letustalk.co.in/read-blog/11525_the-history-of-the-nfl-and-how-to-bank-on-it.html) wagering market charges high prices for poor products and limits trades by its most successful users.
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"BetDEX is diametrically opposed to this technique. We will successfully complete against incumbents with a [noticeably remarkable](https://wo.linyway.com/read-blog/1756_best-u-s-sports-betting-sites-amp-sportsbooks-for-2024.html) product and low fees, which is now possible with the development of the blockchain innovation."
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As chairman of the new company, Mr Eccles said it could look familiar to retail punters used to existing online companies.
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'Pool of skill'
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However, he states that those who use its platform to run their own [sports betting](https://systemcheck-wiki.de/index.php?title=Benutzer:MerryMoen4) firms will be able to innovate and develop a larger variety of wagering products.
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He said the common share taken by online bookies is 7% to 10% of a stake, but BetDEX should enable that to fall listed below 1%.
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The business will establish its own wagering apps to run on the platform.
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Mr Eccles said these would take an "smart, thoughtful" technique to the way they are marketed to safeguard those who have problem with problem [sports betting](https://wiki.tld-wars.space/index.php/Utilisateur:HattieThorn81).
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He said the team of around 500 software application engineers who assisted develop FanDuel from Scotland revealed that it stays the place to build a company. BetDEX has the exact same head of innovation, Stuart Tonner.
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"A great deal of that [FanDuel] was [constructed](https://kiigasofthub.com/read-blog/10109_sweepstakes-casino-controversy-and-celebrities-039-all-important-role.html) on a highly experienced, extremely gifted engineering group, that constructed this item that might process countless bets and countless users.
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"There's a real skill pool of experienced engineers who helped us develop our item which's what we desire to utilize for BetDEX also."
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