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JH Design puts a price on team spirit. From $120 to $10,000.
A reversible varsity jacket and a crystal-covered leather edition live in the same catalog. Inside the Los Angeles company that gives sports loyalty something to wear.
The Racecar Driver Who Made Football's Lightest Helmet - and Landed in 30 NFL Locker Rooms
Nicholas Esayian bought a bankrupt racing-helmet business from a legend, halved the weight of a football helmet, and now has Virginia Tech calling his Apache the best-rated helmet it has ever put on a crash rig.
The Only NFL Team Its Fans Actually Own
How a community-owned football club in a city of 105,000 became the winningest franchise in the NFL - and the only major American sports team that answers to its fans instead of a billionaire.
Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota's NFL franchise has spent six decades turning purple, ritual and recurring heartbreak into a durable consumer business. Its real product is bigger than football: a weekly reason for millions of people to belong.
GLD (The GLD Shop)
GLD (The GLD Shop) is a Miami-based direct-to-consumer jewelry brand founded by Christian Johnston in 2015. It designs classic and custom chains, pendants, watches, and accessories that blend streetwear culture with fine-jewelry craftsmanship. Backed by officially licensed partnerships with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA, and WNBA plus pop-culture collabs and celebrity fans, GLD has grown from a Pittsburgh basement into an international brand often called the 'Nike of men's jewelry.'
SportsManias
SportsManias is a Miami-based digital media company and the self-described leader in animated sports emojis, GIFs, and augmented reality effects. It builds officially licensed emojis and AR filters of pro athletes and their signature celebrations, distributing them across messaging keyboards and platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Google, and GIPHY, while also running a real-time sports news app powered by patent-pending AI. Through partnerships with leagues, players associations, and major brands, the company turns fan passion into shareable, monetizable digital content.
WIT
WIT is a New York-based gamification and digital activation platform that helps pro sports teams and Fortune 1000 brands turn casual fans into engaged, identifiable participants. Through a library of 30+ turnkey experiences - giveaways, polls, brackets, vote-to-win, fan maps and fan walls - WIT collects first-party data, sources authentic fan content, fulfills sponsor obligations and drives revenue. Founded in 2018 by Vaidhy Murti, it now powers activations for roughly 100 venues, leagues and teams across the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, MLS, NWSL and NCAA, plus brands like Coca-Cola and Bud Light.
PredictionStrike
PredictionStrike is a sports stock market where fans buy and sell shares of professional athletes with real cash. Share prices rise and fall based on how athletes perform against their fantasy projections plus supply and demand. Founded in 2019 by childhood friends Deven Hurt and Brad Chabra, the New York company has raised roughly $16M, counts 275,000+ registered users, and has processed over $140M in lifetime transaction volume across football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey, and MMA.