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Players Health
Players Health is a Minneapolis-based sports insurtech that combines a digital risk-management platform with tailored insurance products so youth, amateur and collegiate sports organizations can keep athletes safe and stay compliant. Founded in 2015 by former pro football player Tyrre Burks, the company pairs safety assessments, background checks, incident tracking and HIPAA-compliant education with sports-specific coverage. It supports more than 40,000 sports organizations and over 5.5 million athletes, and in December 2024 closed a $60 million Series C led by Bluestone Equity Partners.
Mahesh Devalla
Mahesh Devalla is the Chief Technology Officer of Players Health, a Minneapolis-based sports insurance and risk-management company that protects youth athletes and sports organizations. He leads product and engineering strategy and applies human-centered, ethical AI to athlete safety and real-time decision support. Before Players Health, where he rose from Director of Engineering, he architected enterprise-scale AI platforms across finance, utilities and software at firms including Citi, Bank of America, American Water, Hexagon and App Orchid. He holds a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence from Dartmouth College, authored the book 'The AI Dilemma: Why Businesses Still Fail to Embrace AI,' and has been named a USA 40 Under 40 honoree and ranked among global top AI leaders.