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Getty Images James Pallotta, center, is launching a business that will focus on advising companies that his Raptor Group invests in.

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Helping the portfolio companies expand profitably would boost returns for Mr. Pallotta and his venture-capital investors, the principals said.

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Related Foursquare Partners Up Other investors, such as Mr. Pallotta, who once managed money at Tudor Investments and now runs Raptor Group, have a history of backing private companies.

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The convergence of sports and investing isn't new to Mr. Pallotta, 53 years old, whose clients have seen him on television sitting courtside at Celtics games for years.

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Three years after splitting from Tudor Investment Corp., the Connecticut hedge-fund firm where he managed billions of dollars, Mr. Pallotta still is running a stock-picking fund, with his own money representing much of its more than $200 million in assets.

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In the past 12 to 18 months, firms including D.E. Shaw & Co., Maverick Capital, Brookside Capital and Tudor Ventures, as well as hedge-fund investor James Pallotta , have joined Tiger in putting more money into promising yet risky tech companies.

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Ben Kartzman , chief executive of Spongecell, an Internet advertising start-up that received less than $1 million in financing last month from Mr. Pallotta and Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt , says Mr. Pallotta introduced him to an executive at a large media company, opening the door to a discussion about using Spongecell's technology.

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Pallotta and Wolting are working on an interactive web documentary about propaganda called Unspeak and a feature, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, with British director Peter Greenaway, both of which include multi-platform elements.

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The project, which took top honors at the SXSW interactive conference, is the work of Amsterdam-based producer Submarine and director Tommy Pallotta, the U.S.-born director of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.

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James Pallotta , a hedge-fund manager and minority Boston Celtics owner, is marrying investing and sports in his latest venture: a consulting business designed to make use of his networks in both worlds.

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