Tagged: sports-tech
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SeatGeek
SeatGeek is a New York-based ticketing company that runs a mobile-first marketplace for live sports, concerts and theater alongside an enterprise platform that powers primary ticketing for teams, leagues and venues. It is best known for Deal Score, an algorithm that rates every listing by price and seat value, and it competes with Ticketmaster and StubHub across both the primary and secondary ticket markets.
Jimmy McCloud
Jimmy McCloud is the Founder & CEO of DISTINCT Technologies, a live data intelligence platform that helps global brands capture and act on consumer data at live events - concerts, sports activations, fan zones, and brand experiences. With a career spanning MLB Advanced Media (where the team built what became Disney+), Entercom/Audacy (as EVP of National Business Development), and Division I baseball at Holy Cross, McCloud brings a rare combination of sports media pedigree and enterprise sales acumen to solving one of marketing's oldest problems: making live brand moments measurable. DISTINCT raised a $3.5M seed round in June 2024 led by York IE.
Joe Chin
Joe Chin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sparrow, a New York-based sports AI startup using edge AI and computer vision to analyze athletic motion in real time. A 4x serial entrepreneur with 22+ years of leadership experience and three prior exits, Joe built Sparrow around a simple observation: golfers forget lessons the moment they leave the range. Sparrow's flagship golf app has helped 250,000+ golfers analyze their swing against a dataset of 1 million pro golf data points, delivering instant, personalized feedback via smartphone. The company has raised $8.27M in total funding and is expanding into soccer, basketball, and other major sports.
David Overmyer
David Overmyer is the CEO of Raw Engineering, a San Francisco-based digital product and cloud engineering firm that built Contentstack - now the world's leading headless CMS - and the DfanX sports fan engagement platform. A California-certified CPA with a career spanning auditing, CBS Interactive, and CFO roles at Bunchball and Thismoment, Overmyer joined Raw Engineering's orbit as CFO of Contentstack in 2017, steering its transition from a bootstrapped services company to a high-growth SaaS venture. Since 2018 he has led Raw Engineering as CEO, overseeing engagements for clients including the Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings, American Airlines, and VMware.
Wen Miao
Wen Miao is the co-founder and CEO of Lava.ai, a San Francisco-based company building real-time AI-powered customer engagement and loyalty platforms for sports teams, entertainment venues, and enterprise brands. Before Lava.ai, he was SVP and GM at TIBCO Software, where he led global client services and launched real-time predictive customer engagement platforms. Lava.ai counts Real Madrid, the LA Rams, the Sacramento Kings, and the Cleveland Browns among its clients, and has raised over $33.7M in funding. In 2015, Computerworld named Miao a Premier 100 IT Leader.
Max Blacker
Max Blacker is an Investment Analyst at LDV Capital, a venture firm focused on visual technology and computer vision. A former professional soccer player who played for Crewe United FC in Belfast's Northern Irish 4th Division, he turned a leave of absence from Brandeis University into a founding moment - launching SETGK, a goalkeeper glove company that became one of the fastest-growing brands in the space. He holds a BA in Business from Brandeis and an MS in Finance from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, where he also kicked field goals for the football team and was a Global Finalist in the 2024 Venture Capital Investment Competition. At LDV Capital, he focuses on the intersection of visual technology with sports, health, and nutrition.
Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro, the action camera company he built from a rubber band and a wrist-mounted 35mm film camera during a 2002 surf trip in Australia. After two failed dot-com startups, he turned a frustrated attempt to photograph himself surfing into one of the world's most recognized camera brands. GoPro went public in 2014 at a $2.25B valuation, making Woodman briefly the highest-paid CEO in America. Despite a severe post-2015 downturn, he remains at the helm, having waived his salary, personally invested $2M in company stock, and launched the Mission 1 camera line in 2026.