Kobe Bryant， the former US National Basketball Association league star， launches a $100 million venture capital fund known as Bryant Stibel at the New York Stock Exchange.

Mr Bryant， the former captain of the Los Angeles Lakers， told The Wall Street Journal he felt he has a talent for identifying entrepreneurs.

The "Bryant Stibel” fund will invest in tech， media and data companies. Mr Stibel is an entrepreneur and investor who founded several companies including Web.com.

Mr Bryant， 37， retired from basketball earlier last year after a 20-year career.

He has invested with Mr Stibel before， but this fund is the first formal partnership between them. The pair are financing the fund themselves.

Since 2013， they have invested in 15 companies together including sports website The Players Tribune， video game designer Scopely， and legal services company Legal Zoom.

Mr Bryant who was known for his strong work ethic in basketball said， similar skills are needed for sport and growing a business.

"It's the inner belief that a person has that he will endure no matter what the obstacle maybe. It's that persistence， the entrepreneur doing what he or she truly believes in and truly loves to do，" he said.

The pair said the fund will last a few years and look to target companies where they feel they can add value through their business insight， and not through Mr Bryant's celebrity.

Mr Stibel told The Wall Street Journal， "We don't want to be in the business of investing in companies so someone can use Kobe as an endorser. That's not interesting. The point is to add real value.”

前NBA超級(jí)巨星科比·布萊恩特在紐約證券交易所啟動(dòng)了一個(gè)1億美元的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資基金，名字為布萊恩特·斯蒂貝爾。

洛杉磯湖人隊(duì)前隊(duì)長科比在接受《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》采訪時(shí)表示，他認(rèn)為自己在辨別企業(yè)家方面很有天賦。

據(jù)悉，“布萊恩特·斯蒂貝爾”基金將會(huì)給科技、媒體和數(shù)據(jù)公司投資。斯蒂貝爾先生是一位企業(yè)家和投資者，他曾經(jīng)成立了包括Web.com在內(nèi)的幾個(gè)公司。

去年上半年，在完成長達(dá)20年的職業(yè)生涯之后，37歲的科比最終選擇了退役。

科比之前也和斯蒂貝爾一起投資過，但是這次這筆風(fēng)投資金是他們兩人第一次正式合作。這筆基金是由兩人自己出錢成立的。

自從2013年以來，科比和斯蒂貝爾已經(jīng)一起投資了15家公司，其中包括體育網(wǎng)站“玩家論壇”、電子游戲設(shè)計(jì)公司Scopely，以及法律服務(wù)公司Legal Zoom。

曾因在籃球領(lǐng)域良好的職業(yè)道德品質(zhì)而聞名的科比表示，不管是體育運(yùn)動(dòng)，還是經(jīng)營一家公司，都需要相似的技能。

科比說道：“這是一個(gè)人所擁有的內(nèi)心信念 —— 無論障礙是什么，他都能夠克服。正是因?yàn)檫@種堅(jiān)持，企業(yè)家們才能夠做自己相信、自己喜歡的事情。”

科比和斯蒂貝爾表示，這筆基金將會(huì)持續(xù)運(yùn)作幾年，并且對(duì)那些他們覺得可以用自己的商業(yè)眼光來增加價(jià)值的公司投資，而不僅僅是依靠科比的名人效應(yīng)。

斯蒂貝爾接受《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》采訪時(shí)表示：“我們不想在別人的公司里干商業(yè)投資的工作，因?yàn)槟菢拥脑捒票染蜁?huì)被當(dāng)作代言人。那樣沒什么意思。重要的是要增加真正的價(jià)值。”