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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sam Enrico Williams
Angel
19 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports $10k–$55k
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
Angel
11 Austria, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Health Care, Fitness, Software $300k–$2.7M
Kevin Lin
Angel
10 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games $150k–$20M
Jason Calacanis
Angel
10 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$13M
Daren Cotter
Angel
9 United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $300k–$10M
Roger Ehrenberg
Angel
8 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Advertising, FinTech, Software $800k–$20M
David Stern
Angel
8 United States, Spain Series A, Seed, Series B Sports, Gaming, Software $3.6M–$12M
Edward Lando
Angel
7 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.5M
Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
7 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Apps $325k–$6.8M
George Godula
Angel
7 United States, China, Algeria Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile $1.3M–$37M
Trevor Wright
Angel
7 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Information Technology, Gaming $25k–$10M
Wei Guo
Angel
7 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $150k–$33M
Anupam Mittal
Angel
6 India, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services $60k–$2.7M
Kevin Durant
Angel
6 United States, Canada, France Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, FinTech $1.3M–$100M
Drew Brees
Angel
6 United States, Canada Seed, Series B Sports, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$67M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
6 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $650k–$53M
Christian Edler
Angel
6 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $497k–$30M
Shane Neman
Angel
6 United States, Kenya, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2M–$7M
Samuel Shank
Angel
5 United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce $1.2M–$2M
Stefan Glänzer
Angel
5 United Kingdom, Germany, Spain Seed, Angel, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media $193k–$15M
Albert Armengol
Angel
5 Spain, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Apps, Software $134k–$1.6M
Will Herman
Angel
5 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software $100k–$8.8M
Michael Dornbrook
Angel
5 United States, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Mobile, Software, Health Care $420k–$4M
Mario Götze
Angel
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency $1.1M–$60M
Chad Hurley
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Sports, Software $875k–$7M
Sinan Güler
Angel
5 United States, Turkey, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Wellness, Fitness $180k–$2.5M
Benjamin Ling
Angel
5 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $260k–$50M
Ronnie Lott
Angel
5 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, Sports
Dan Plashkes
Angel
4 Canada Seed Fantasy Sports
Jyri Engestrom
Angel
4 United States, Finland, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Health Care $215k–$1.1M
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Angel
4 Denmark, United States, Finland Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Computer, Collaboration, Software
Andrew Bogut
Angel
4 Australia, United States Seed, Series A, Series D Sports, eSports, Gaming
Ted Leonsis
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Sports, Internet, Social Media $8M–$26M
Mattias Weinhandl
Angel
4 Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
Sean Bratches
Angel
4 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Sports, SaaS, Casino
Jeffrey Howe
Angel
4 Canada Seed Fantasy Sports
Mike Lee
Angel
4 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Software, Fitness, Wellness $375k–$3.1M
Kevin Chou
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Israel Seed, Series A, Angel Gaming, Video Games, eSports $1.3M–$66M
Lee Linden
Angel
4 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Logistics $1.2M–$11M
Mark Cuban
Angel
4 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $600k–$23M
Chris Burggraeve
Angel
4 United States, Ireland Series A, Angel, Seed Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services $2M–$3.6M
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
4 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$2.5M
Ryan Moore
Angel
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $1.4M–$20M
Eric Roza
Angel
4 United States, Germany Seed, Series B, Series A Wellness, Health Care, Fitness $2M–$4.5M
Joe Montana
Angel
4 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $1M–$110M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
4 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $910k–$50M
Benjie Cherniak
Angel
4 United States Seed, Angel Sports, Gaming, Apps
Siqi Chen
Angel
4 United States, India, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Video Games, Gaming $500k–$66M
Bryan Rosenblatt
Angel
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Retail $120k–$22M
Jenny Saft
Angel
4 Germany, The Netherlands Pre-Seed, Seed Fitness, Wellness, Health Care $1.1M–$2.7M
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Sam Enrico Williams
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 investments in Sports startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $10k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFT Metadata Editor — Edit and customize the metadata of your NFTs. Connect your wallet, select the NFT, and this tool will allow you to modify the metadata, charging a fee for the service.
  • NFT Exhibition Space — Showcase your NFT collection in a virtual exhibition. Connect your wallet, select the NFTs, and this tool will create a virtual exhibition space for your collection.
  • Crypto Wealth Manager — Connect your wallet, input your holdings and financial goals, and this tool will provide portfolio management features and recommendations.
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 11 investments in Sports startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.7M; Angel $321k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
  • Storebox — Storebox is the first fully digitized self-storage solution in Europe, with more than 140 locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We offer storage spaces for private and business purposes, which are automatically accessible at any time. With our successful and recently awarded franchise system, we manage to grow and will continueto expand within Europe.Storebox is more than just a self-storage system. FULL-SERVICE CLICK & COLLECT Click & Collect directly in your neighbourhood? Storebox allows you to quickly and easily expand the Click & Collect offer for your customers to new districts, cities and countries. We coordinate the transport and customer communication for you.MICRO-HUBS FOR THE LAST MILE Use central warehouse locations in urban areas as a starting point for the last mile. Storebox as a micro-depot offers you the fastest way to your customers, allowing you to save time, money and emissions. Customer proximity and responsiveness through local storage: Benefit from our strategically positioned storage units and serve the needs of your customers as quickly as possible. At the same time, you can reduce unnecessarily driven kilometres by your employees in the field and thus save time and money.SPARE PARTS WAREHOUSE FOR SERVICE TECHNICIANS With Storebox you can store spare parts and goods directly where they will be used. In this way, you are in close proximity to the customer and save yourself long travel times for collecting the materials from a central warehouse. Create more efficiency by receiving deliveries of goods 24/7 directly to the Storebox and returning them if necessary.
  • Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.
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Kevin Lin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in Sports startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.8M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $722k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
  • CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
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Daren Cotter
Angel · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 9 investments in Sports startups

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
  • Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
  • Vertical Insure — Vertical Insure is an insurance company built for vertical SaaS platforms.
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Sports startups

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$5.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.2M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.
  • FL Newsletter — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
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David Stern
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Sports startups

David Stern completed his three-decade tenure as NBA commissioner on February 1, 2014.As commissioner, Mr. Stern built the model for professional sports in league operations, public service, global marketing and digital technology. He oversaw the NBA’s extraordinary growth with seven new franchises, a more than 30-fold increase in revenues, adramatic expansion of national television exposure and the launch of two leagues, the Women’s National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League. He implemented the first anti-drug agreement in professional sports and introduced the salary cap system and revenue sharing to the NBA.The NBA experienced tremendous global growth during Mr. Stern’s tenure, and that growth continues today: The NBA has 12 offices outside the United States; its games and programming are televised and streamed in 215 countries and territories in 47 languages; and it offers fans 19 international online destinations. The NBA was the first U.S. professional sports league to stage regular-season games outside North America, and the league has played more than 150 international preseason and regular-season games to date.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $3.8M–$5M; Series A $3.6M–$10M; Series B $5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WHOOP — The most advanced fitness and health wearable. Get personalized insights on your body's recovery, strain, sleep, and health with in-app coaching features designed to help you unlock your best self.
  • ShotTracker — ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games. At ShotTracker, they improve the performance of competitive athletes by bringing elite-level analytics to the masses. Their latest innovation, ShotTracker TEAM, captures real-time practice and game stats forbasketball teams, and it's affordable for teams at every level of play.
  • Proteus Motion — The Proteus system by Proteus Motion Inc. (formerly Boston Biomotion) is a new category of intelligent exercise and rehab equipment designed to strengthen, optimize, and restore movements using patented 3D resistance and 3D measurement. One system is used to train and measure any movement during post-op through peak performance, and enhancemovement efficiency through a unique neuromuscular stimulation that can only be achieved by moving in water or mud. Compared to traditional tools like free weights and cable machines, 3D resistance produces up to 3x more muscle stimulation, lower strain on the joints, and greater neuromuscular stimulation to accelerate "muscle memory" and more efficient movement patterns. Subscription software profiles strength for users using a new and comprehensive way to measure muscle performance, offers personalized insights and recommendations, and tracks progress across a suite of 6 proprietary metrics.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Sports startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Andreas Mihalovits
Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 7 investments in Sports startups

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$2M; Series A $1.6M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
  • Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.
  • Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.
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George Godula
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 7 investments in Sports startups

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Algeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.8M; Series A $6.3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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Trevor Wright
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Sports startups

I am entrepreneur and operator. In the past, I co-Founded and sold Vitrue to Oracle for $300 M. I also co-Founded and sold Black Bag Advertising to WPP for $14 M. I was also on the founding team At Flycast Network which had an IPO and was later acquired for $2.2 B. I am currently an angel investor with company exists totaling over $1 B so far.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$9.4M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ByteBrew — Trusted by over 2500 Game Developers! ByteBrew is the world's most powerful all-in-one game analytics platform that houses all your mobile game's analytics, retention, monetization tracking, player progression, remote configs, a/b testing, custom event tracking and attribution measurement in one lightweight SDK - all 100% free.
  • HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Axie Infinity — Axie Infinity is a game about collecting and raising fantasy creatures called Axie, on the Ethereum platform. Besides collecting and raising, you can make a team of Axies to battle in the arena. You can also buy, sell, and trade Axies with others on the marketplace.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Sports startups

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

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  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
  • Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
  • Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
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Anupam Mittal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 6 investments in Sports startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.7M; Angel $77k–$330k; Pre-Seed $60k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pharmallama — Our team of in-house pharmacists at Pharmallama will help you provide the Pre-sorted medicine packs according to the prescription provided.
  • Padcare Labs — PadCare is an unprecedented hygiene management solution that completes the loop of menstrual hygiene economy by generating harmless, recyclable output out of soiled pads.
  • GrayQuest — GrayQuest Education Finance Pvt. Ltd provides Parents and Students with the most convenient and easiest option to pay fees to their Institute.
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Kevin Durant
Angel · Oakland, California, United States · 6 investments in Sports startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Kevin Durant is a 12-year NBA veteran who plays for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP; having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals, two NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He is also a ten-time NBA All-Star. Off the court, Durant is co-founder andpartner of Thirty Five Ventures. Thirty Five Ventures includes his diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, & Coinbase; the media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.Projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include the sports business vertical “The Boardroom,” in partnership with ESPN, which examines the ins and outs of sports business and illuminates the world of sports far beyond what fans ordinarily see. Kevin also served as an executive producer on Fox Sports Films’ “Q Ball,” which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in Spring 2019. Upcoming projects include the scripted series “SWAGGER” with Imagine Entertainment and Apple. Last fall also saw the opening of The Durant Center in Suitland, Maryland, the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation’s college pipeline program in conjunction with College Track.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$100M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
  • League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
  • Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
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Drew Brees
Angel · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 6 investments in Sports startups

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series B $18M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
  • Nightfall AI — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Sports startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $8.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Christian Edler
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Sports startups

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$9M; Pre-Seed $497k–$2.7M; Series A $24M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
  • Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
  • Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
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Shane Neman
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 6 investments in Sports startups

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lindy — Lindy is an AI assistant that puts your life on autopilot.
  • Cortina — Cortina is an ecommerce marketplace saas platform helping brands sell complementary products without inventory or capital risk.
  • Dorsia — Dorsia is the # 1 clinic in cosmetic surgery and medicine in Spain. We have 84 clinics throughout Spain and Andorra and we continue to grow because you ask us to. We like to fulfill your wishes for improvement and we advocate for a Responsible Beauty.
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Samuel Shank
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Sports startups

Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hitch — Hitch Offers Private and Shared Ridesharing Between Cities. Easily Book Online or via the Mobile App. Door-to-door and Station-to-station Rides Available.
  • Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
  • Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Sports startups

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$2.3M; Angel $193k–$241k; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
  • LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
  • ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
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Albert Armengol
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 5 investments in Sports startups

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $343k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.
  • WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
  • Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.
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Will Herman
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Sports startups

Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $557k–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
  • Pristēm — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
  • Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.
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Michael Dornbrook
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Sports startups

Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
  • Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
  • UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.
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Mario Götze
Angel · German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 5 investments in Sports startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.7M; Series A $11M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vivalyx — Vivalyx Omnisol will be a process- and cost-effective one-stop solution for all preservation applications, allowing NMP without the use of blood or human products.
  • Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
  • LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
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Chad Hurley
Angel · Burlingame, California, United States · 5 investments in Sports startups

Chad Hurley is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Greenpark Sports and the Co-Founder of AVOS Systems. He earned his bachelor's degree in fine art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Sports, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $875k–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SportsIcon — Harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
  • NocoDB — Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
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Sinan Güler
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Sports startups

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Wellness, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
  • Digime3D — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
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Benjamin Ling
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Sports startups

Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personalinvestments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $260k–$3.8M; Series A $6.1M–$15M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.
  • Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
  • Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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Ronnie Lott
Angel · 5 investments in Sports startups

Ronnie Lott is a Founder at All-Stars Helping Kids.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Mustard — Elevate your game with real time analytics and instruction from the world's best coaches and athletes.
  • HALO Diagnostics — At HALO Diagnostics, we advance technology to personalize life-changing diagnostic and treatment solutions.
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Dan Plashkes
Angel · 4 investments in Sports startups

Dan Plashkes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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Jyri Engestrom
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Finland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $215k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
  • Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
  • Orchid Labs — The Orchid community believes in Open Source software and that Orchid can enable a brighter, freer and empowered future.
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Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 4 investments in Sports startups

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Collaboration, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Denmark, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
  • Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere is the visual platform for sharing your work. The company aims to bring innovation to a space dominated for years by a single "big blue" category leader by building a platform that represents what work is actually like today and in the future.
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Andrew Bogut
Angel · 4 investments in Sports startups

Andrew Bogut

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, eSports, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SportsIcon — Harnessing frontier technology to build innovative approaches in sports, media, and entertainment.
  • Bare — Bare provides a quality cremation service and a dedicated care team that helps you each step of the way. Arrange online or via phone. Call us on 1800 071 176
  • Live Graphic Systems — Live Sports Graphics - "Next-gen" live graphics for a new era of sports broadcast. No hardware, no designers, no graphics operators, up and running in minutes.
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Ted Leonsis
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Ted Leonsis is the Founder, Chairman, Principal Partner, and Chief Executive Officer of Monumental Sports and Entertainment and a Co-founder at Revolution Growth. He was a CEO at AOL and attended Georgetown University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Series B $8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OxiWear — OxiWear ear-wearable devices for continuous oxygen monitoring and emergency alerting to detect and prevent silent-hypoxia caused by pulmonary hypertension, high altitude & high cardio activities, and COVID-19. Oxiwear's patented, a novel ear-worn pulse oximeter is intended for use in clinical and consumer settings.
  • HumanFirst — HumanFirst enables better integration and analysis of digital health technologies in clinical trials.
  • Kiswe — Kiswe connects at-home viewers with live events and in-venue fans through interactive video experiences that create memorable social experiences and build loyalty. Kiswe’s video production solution, Kiswe Studio uses cloud-based technology to transform the way live games and events are professionally produced and broadcasted. The Kiswe suite ofsolutions is used by the world’s largest broadcasters, media companies, sports and eSports leagues, and music labels, including Big Hit Entertainment (BTS), NBA, Globo, MLS, PGA Tour, Turner Sports, and many more.Kiswe is headquartered in the U.S. and has offices in Europe and Asia.
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Mattias Weinhandl
Angel · Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan, Sweden · 4 investments in Sports startups

Mattias Weinhandl

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Heja — Free app for your sports team. The only app you need to easily handle communication between coaches, managers, parents and players. Management, scheduling, availability, messaging, roster.
  • Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
  • BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.
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Sean Bratches
Angel · 4 investments in Sports startups

Sean Bratches was named Managing Director of the Formula 1® Commercial Operations division in January 2017.With three decades of leadership, management and operating experience at multi-billion dollar scale in the media, entertainment, and sports business. He spent 27 years at ESPN where for 10 years he served as Executive Vice President of Salesand Marketing.Sean lead a sales and marketing team that provided national advertisers access to ESPN and its media, marketing and content platforms. He was also responsible for the first unified sales organization that represents The Walt Disney Company’s premier collection of sports assets across all media platforms.In addition, he oversaw all distribution, licensing, marketing for the domestic cable and satellite networks of The Walt Disney Company to its linear and emerging multi-channel affiliates. In 2010, his team introduced the first live, streaming cable channels online and on mobile devices through WatchESPN.Sean was also responsible for ESPN’s marketing efforts including the development, direction and implementation of all branding, creative services and marketing for its growing media businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, SaaS, Casino
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Opendorse — The best NIL deal marketplace for athletes to build and monetize their name, image, and likeness value. Support your favorite collegiate athlete.
  • Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.
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Jeffrey Howe
Angel · 4 investments in Sports startups

Jeffrey Howe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OwnersBox — OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍The company building a best-in-class Fantasy Sports platform that will provide a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide.With the rising popularity of fantasy sports showing no signs of slowing down combined with the fact that sportsleagues seem like they're returning sooner than later, the OwnersBox team has a major opportunity to take advantage of our positioning. Their vision is to create a socially driven hybrid-product that will appeal to the 60+ million fantasy sports users in North America.
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Mike Lee
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fitness, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
  • Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.
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Kevin Chou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Kevin Chou is Managing Partner of the SuperLayer web3 venture studio and co-founder of Rally, a crypto platform that allows creators and artists to launch their own digital currency and to build sustainable, independent economies with their fan communities. Kevin currently serves as the Chairman of Forte, a new blockchain whose mission is to builda more collaborative future in gaming by realigning the economic relationship between players and developers. He is also Chairman of Gen.G, a new esports enterprise bridging Asia and North America. Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, a top developer of mobile games. Kevin led the company from business plan founding to over $400M in annual revenue serving over 500 million players. Kabam developed leading partnerships with Marvel, Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Lord of the Rings, and Hunger Games. Kabam was profitable from 2012 until the sale of the company's studios to Netmarble, 21st Century Fox, and GAEA, which in total generated nearly $1 billion in value. He's been honored by Fortune in 40 under 40, CNN in Smartest People in Tech, and Business Insider's Silicon Valley Top 100. Kevin Chou graduated magna cum laude from the UC Berkeley undergraduate Haas School of Business program. He serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
  • Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
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Lee Linden
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Series A $3.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
  • Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
  • Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
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Mark Cuban
Angel · Dallas, Texas, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Broadcast.com. Mrk attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
  • Bequest Finance — Compliant, easy and non-custodial digital asset management.
  • Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition uses AI based solutions to extract data and enter the data into TMS or ERP systems to automate your data entry process with paperentry.
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Chris Burggraeve
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Chris Burggraeve - Founder @ Vicomte

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Marketplace, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $3M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Greenrush — Get weed delivered to your door with greenrush's cannabis delivery service. Our app let's you buy weed online from a network of local dispensaries near you.
  • Arcview Group — The Arcview Group is a vertically integrated company servicing the cannabis and hemp industry, built with social justice and responsibility at its core.
  • Finclude — Finclude revolutionizes creditworthiness & affordability assessment of individuals with machine learning on their transactions, powered by PSD2 APIs.
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Sports startups

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Ryan Moore
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Ryan is known as a founding investor who takes on the riskiest sectors and business models. Undaunted by regulatory risk around antiquated gambling laws and convinced of a new generation of sports fans indoctrinated into the world of reality TV and experiential media, he was the first institutional investor in the United States to bet on andvalidate Daily Fantasy Sports and online gambling. In 2011 a small team of performance marketers at Vistaprint founded DraftKings; Ryan seeded the company with $500k and for the first two years of the company’s existence was its sole institutional investor. In 2013 Ryan brokered DraftKings’ landmark partnership with Major League Baseball, paving the way for the company to establish partnerships with every major professional league and a majority of professional teams in the US. He has structured every round of capital on DraftKings’ cap table since its founding, facilitating over $900M in fundraising despite significant regulatory headwinds. Today, DraftKings is operating the first legal online sportsbook in the US and has 11M, active users, on its platform that generate over $3B in entry fees and handle.In 2012 Ryan was the founding investor in Plastiq, an online payments platform founded by Harvard undergrads. Payments is a legacy industry reluctant to change and fraught with regulatory barriers, but Ryan was undaunted by the risk of both the sector and first-time founders. Since founding, Ryan sourced and facilitated each of the company’s fundraising rounds, most recently bringing in Kleiner Perkins and DST for a $27M financing. Plastiq processes over $1B in transactions annually.In 2013 Ryan was the founding investor in Crew, a design and development services marketplace. In 2017 he and the founders crafted and spun out Unsplash, the world’s largest photo-sharing community built on the theme of decentralization of photos and visual content. Unsplash has outpaced both Shutterstock and Getty combined. In 2018, Ryan facilitated Unsplash’s $12M Series A with Bedrock Capital.Ryan is a well-networked fundraiser. Most recently he sourced and structured financings at Currencycloud (Sapphire Ventures, Series C/D, $43M; Google Ventures, Series E) and Skillz (Telstra and Liberty Media, Series C, $17M; NFL and Wildcat, Series D, $35M). Before joining Atlas, he sourced and facilitated the sale of Enpocket to Nokia, WHERE to Paypal, and Vela Systems to Autodesk.Ryan also sits on the board of MOO, Globoforce, and Secret Escapes, all of which generate over $100M in revenue annually. He graduated with an AB in economics from Princeton, where he captained the football team and served in the ROTC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.6M; Series A $4M–$13M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jock MKT — Jock MKT is where daily fantasy sports becomes a stock exchange. Buy and sell in real-time for real money. Stay in the game and start trading today!
  • WePlayed — WePlayed Sports' intelligent short-form video platform automatically converts full-length game film into ready-to-share highlights.Powered by pioneering technology, the WePlayed Sports platform is focused on providing a new, efficient way to make the most meaningful #moments in sports readily available to fans everywhere. By automaticallyconverting the full-length game film into ready-to-share #moments, WePlayed empowers teams, leagues, and other sports-centric organizations to meet fans’ growing demand for short-form video.WePlayed has partnered with several industry leaders, including LEARFIELD, SIDEARM Sports, WMT, and the NCAA along with schools from the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Ivy League, Sun Belt, and NEWMAC conferences. WePlayed is helping these organizations increase fan engagement and showcase athletes through short-form videos.
  • FanUp — FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan.FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market.We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater.Most apps focus on35-60-year-old middle-age men.FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals.Our users:- Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencersOur mantra: Fans and innovation first, always.We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture.Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues.FanUp, and may the best fans win.
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Eric Roza
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Eric Roza is the Managing Director of Vista Equity Partners. He previously worked at Crestone Capital, LLC as an Advisory Board. Eric Roza attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Octane11 — Octane11 is a B2B marketing analytics platform that connects, enriches, and transforms siloed enterprise data to drive sales & marketing impact.
  • Most Days — Most Days is a subscription-based life improvement platform for mental, physical, and emotional wellness. Most Days helps the users to understand what they need to do to improve their lives and achieve change. The company aims to measurably increase quality and length of life, globally.
  • SnapCalorie — SnapCalorie is the app where you can take a photo of ANY meal and get an accurate calorie count.
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Joe Montana
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Joe Montana is the Founder and Managing Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures. He attended the University of Notre Dame.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $4.7M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.
  • Rupa Health — Rupa Health is a telehealth solution that makes it easier to practice root cause medicine. The company was established in 2018 and was founded by Tara Viswanathan in San Francisco, California.
  • Boba Network — For visionary developers, Boba Network is the only hybrid blockchain that delivers off-chain data and compute, enabling smarter applications for mass adoption.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Sports startups

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $910k–$7.5M; Series A $5M–$31M; Series B $50M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arbonics — Fair income for landowners and proven carbon credits for companies through afforestation and impact forestry. We help landowners earn income from carbon.
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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Benjie Cherniak
Angel · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Benjie Cherniak

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Gaming, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Betcha — Betcha is a real money sports app that is turning to predict the game into a game of its own.
  • GridRival — GridRival is a sports betting startup built for race fans with the mission of making motorsports more engaging. We accomplish this through a valuable and unique fusion of fantasy-style gaming & betting, motorsports content, and built-in social functionality.
  • Ultimate Odds — A Fantasy sports betting platform which allows users to compete against each other using a familiar fantasy sports format, combined with sports betting lines.
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Siqi Chen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Video Games, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
  • Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.
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Bryan Rosenblatt
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Sports startups

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
  • Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
  • Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money
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Jenny Saft
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Sports startups

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
  • Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
  • LEVY Health — The first digital platform for holistic fertility medicine.
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$1.5M
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in Sports startups
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