Burlington Soccer Club began with four police-backed teams and fewer than 100 players. Six decades later, its smartest move is less about trophies than architecture: one local system designed to keep people in the game from toddlerhood to adult league night.
Trace is an Austin, Texas sports technology company that uses computer vision, GPS sensors and AI to automatically film youth sports games and edit a personalized highlight video for every single player - no camera operator required. Originally founded as AlpineReplay to track skiing and snowboarding, the father-and-son team pivoted to team sports and built one of the largest video datasets in youth athletics. Trace has delivered millions of automated highlights to over a million athletes and raised a $47M Series C at a reported $190M valuation.