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Elysian Park Ventures Co-Founder Cole Van Nice Invests In the Future of Sports

Religion of Sports, the sports production studio founded by Tom Brady, Gotham Chopra and Michael Strahan, is entering a new arena.

The Santa Monica-based media company launched in 2017 to create sports-focused original content—primarily documentaries for a number of distribution channels including Apple TV+ ESPN and Fox Sports. After six years, Religion of Sports is ready to expand into a European market with the purchase of Jiva Maya, a United Kingdom-based production house that writer and director Manish Pandey founded three years ago.

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Sports media company Religion of Sports announced Thursday it has raised $10 million to build its storytelling brand.

The Santa Monica-based video startup was created in 2016 by football legend Tom Brady, filmmaker Gotham Chopra, and NFL Hall-of-Famer Michael Strahan. Their mantra: "Sports aren't like religion, sports are religion."

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