International Sportstech News
Techstars Sports Tech NYC Accelerator Announces the 2023 Winter Class
Techstars
Date: 14-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Techstars New York City Accelerator is pleased to announce the 12 remarkable companies that have been selected for the Winter Class of 2023. On Demo Day, February 15th, 2024 the founders will present their companies and progress to the NYC tech ecosystem in person and virtually to VCs around the world.
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Bhout Raises $10.7M for AI-Powered Boxing Bag
Bhout
Date: 13-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Bhout, a Portuguese connected boxing startup, has raised an impressive €10 million ($10.7 million) in seed funding for its AI-powered gamified boxing bag, scalable studio concept model and omnichannel approach. Dubbed the “boxing bag with a brain” by Bhout founder Mauro Frota, the innovative fitness startup opened a boxing club in Lisbon, Portugal, in the summer of 2021 and was crowned the 2023 Startup Spotlight award winner at The Fitness Technology Summit in Washington, D.C.
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More VCs in SportsTech: 31 new funds with $4B+ to deploy
SportsTechX
Date: 10-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
2023 has been a rough year for SportsTech startups looking for funding, with amounts invested at a 5 year low. However M&A deal flow has been at an all-time high. So it’s not that there’s no capital, it’s just being deployed in a different way. It’s been most interesting to see the sheer number of funds coming into the space over the last 12 months - both from new investors and existing investors with follow-on funds. 31 Funds with at least $4b+ of announced capital over the last 12 months. Yes some of that has already been deployed but most of it is yet to hit the market.
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Arctos Partners and Oak View Group's GOAL sustainability platform join forces to lead Climate Action
Arctos Partners and Oak View Group
Date: 9-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
The GOAL sustainability platform, founded by Oak View Group, the Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Arena, Fenway Sports Group, and green building expert Jason F. McLennan, today announced a strategic partnership with Arctos Partners, to expand the tracking performance of the GOAL sustainability program and increase sustainable operations in venues around the country.
Legends acquires leading venue management company ASM Global
Legends and ASM Global
Date: 8-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Legends and ASM Global today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which Legends will acquire ASM Global to create a premium live events company dedicated to providing outstanding experiences for fans around the world. The acquisition of ASM Global’s venue management capabilities will enhance Legends’ services portfolio, positioning Legends to meet the expanding needs of sports organizations, entertainment venues, convention centers, and attractions globally while supporting its vision to deliver exceptional live experiences for fans in the digital age.
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FIBA presents Venue Guide to world-leading stadium architects
FIBA
Date: 7-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
FIBA has presented its Venue Guide at the IAKS Congress in Germany to an array of the world's leading architects. The FIBA Venue Guide is overseen by the FIBA Equipment and Venue Centre, and provides technical recommendations, best practice examples and inspiration to support the build and renovation of basketball venues to ensure that they are suitable for potential future hosting of competitions.
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Chiliz unveils SportFi blockchain ecosystem with 25 key partnerships
Chiliz
Date: 6-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Chiliz, a sports blockchain company, has announced 25+ projects in its SportFi ecosystem, where the worlds of sports and decentralization converge to deliver new products and experiences to fans. The Chiliz vision for SportFi is that blockchain technology has the potential to transform sports into valuable, tradable digital assets, and create a new paradigm of interaction between sports entities and their communities
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FC Barcelona looks to score big in Asia’s sports tech arena through its innovation hub
FC Barcelona
Date: 6-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Barça Innovation Hub (BIHUB), an innovative division of the iconic football club FC Barcelona, has set its sights on Asia Pacific, aiming to create a lasting impact on the sports industry across the region. BIHUB looks to collaborate with regional startups whose values align with the club’s mission. The club, whose Asia Pacific office is headquartered in Hong Kong, also plans to open a physical office in Singapore.
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Minnesota Twins Sports Tech Accelerator by Techstars Announces Third Annual Cohort
Minnesota Twins Accelerator by Techstars
Date: 6-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
After successfully completing two classes, the Minnesota Twins Accelerator by Techstars today announced its third cohort. Pioneering a unique pathway in the sports landscape, this accelerator is the first of its kind in Minnesota sports and just the second to be operated and funded by a Major League Baseball club.
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Aspen Institute release international rankings on the value of sport system design
Aspen Institute
Date: 2-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
The Aspen Institute studied the governance models and ecosystem results in 11 peer countries, with a focus on youth sport participation rates and elite performance. The countries studied (which included Australia) vary in population, geography, culture and forms of government, but all have found success in either youth sports or elite sports, or both.
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NBA Teams Embrace AI Weightlifting Tech From Perch
Perch AI
Date: 2-Nov-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
NBA teams are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to get an extra competitive advantage. The Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat and Orlando Magic are among the first teams to leverage Perch, a cutting-edge AI-powered weight training platform. Developed at MIT, Perch’s technology utilizes 3D cameras and machine learning to quantify weight room performance, with the goal of enhancing player motivation, safety and on-court performance.
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Nike Partners With Dove to Help Build Body Confidence in Girls
Nike
Date: 31-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Nike has partnered with Dove to launch Body Confident Sport, a first-of-its-kind, scientifically proven set of coaching tools for coaching 11- to 17-year-old girls that will help build their body confidence and make them feel like sport is a place where they belong. The free open-source tool is available at bodyconfidentsport.com.
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ŌURA and Nutrition Tracking App Cronometer Collaborate on New Menstrual Cycle Tracking Functionality
ŌURA and Cronometer
Date: 31-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
ŌURA, known for its Oura Ring, and Cronometer, a nutrition tracking app, have recently announced a collaborative feature for menstrual cycle tracking. This partnership integrates ŌURA’s Cycle Insights into the Cronometer app, aiming to provide a detailed understanding of menstrual health.
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adidas and Calm partner to progress sports performance through mental wellbeing
adidas and Calm
Date: 30-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
adidas has announced a new partnership with Calm, the world’s leading mental health platform with the ambition of progressing sports performance through supporting mental wellbeing. The partnership will kick off as a pilot in the UK and the US with adiClub members being able to redeem points to unlock Calm Premium services. There will also be a specially tailored set of Calm created content available to all global users, curated by adidas and aligned to supporting sports performance.
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FORM smart goggles allowed in World Triathlon sanctioned events
FORM and World Triathlon
Date: 27-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
FORM, the fitness technology company pioneering real-time visual feedback to elevate athletic performance, today announces that under the current rules, World Triathlon has confirmed that FORM Smart Swim Goggles are allowed in all World Triathlon Competition formats after review from the World Triathlon Technical Committee.
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Kitman Labs launch ‘Football Intelligence Platform’ for PL Academies
Kitman Labs
Date: 26-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Kitman Labs, the sports technology and analytics company setting the industry standard for how elite sports organisations use data, today announced a new partnership with the Premier League. The partnership will provide all Premier League and EFL club Academies with a centralised, fully integrated "Football Intelligence Platform" designed to aggregate and mobilise player and staff data across coaching, medical, sports science, operations, player care and education.
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Loughborough University’s sports research with Adidas wins best UK industry-academia partnership
Adidas and Loughborough University
Date: 26-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Loughborough University’s twenty-year partnership with global sports brand adidas was announced the winner of the 2023 Royal Academy of Engineering Bhattacharyya Award in recognition of their stellar academia–industry collaboration.
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Metabolic health & weight loss platform Signos Announces Series B Funding Round of $20 Million
Signos
Date: 25-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Signos, a comprehensive metabolic health platform that includes a proprietary AI-engine with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to provide real-time data and recommendations for healthy weight management, announced $20 million in Series B funding.
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Pixellot and 3Step partner to implement 300+ cameras & produce 35,000 sports events
Pixellot
Date: 25-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
3STEP Sports, the youth sports club and event operator, has partnered with Pixellot, a provider of AI-driven sports video technology, to elevate the production of live sports events for its 185 sport operators and 1.1+ million athletes across the US. 3STEP Sports will be able to deliver over 35,000 high-quality sports events to fans, athletes, and families worldwide, tripling its previous year’s production of game film with 300+ AI-automated Pixellot cameras implemented across all leagues.
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World Athletics launches online tool to track Paris 2024 qualification
World Athletics & Paris 2024 Olympics
Date: 25-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
World Athletics has launched an online tool that tracks the qualification process for next year's Olympic Games in Paris. "Road to Paris 2024" can be used by athletes, media and fans and provides a real-time view of each event in the qualification period.
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F45 Training Collaborates With WHOOP on Holistic Lifestyle and Fitness Program
WHOOP
Date: 24-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
F45 Training, a leading global fitness community specializing in innovative, functional group workouts, in collaboration with WHOOP, the human performance company, is delivering a first-of-its-kind F45 Challenge. The Challenge allows participants to track their holistic fitness lifestyle including recovery and sleep, and correlating that to their performance both inside and outside the studio for healthier habits.
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Highlights of the FIFA Quality Programme Conference & Research Symposium 2023
FIFA
Date: 23-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
FIFA hosted its annual Quality Programme Conference and Research Symposium which acts as a gathering and information point for stakeholders in the football industry on 18 and 19 October.
The FIFA Quality Programme offered attendees the opportunity to receive updates on the programme and stay informed about the latest standards and developments in football. The Research Symposium focused on sharing the latest football-related research, aiming to enhance the sport by democratizing technology and using it to create a safer environment and make it more accessible to all.
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New Apple research highlights the health benefits of pickleball
Apple
Date: 20-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Researchers from the Apple Heart and Movement Study share new insights into one of the fastest-growing sports around the world: pickleball. To see how this emerging sport compared against the long-standing game of tennis, and how it impacts overall health, researchers turned to the data.
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NFL+ viewing experience transformed through Genius Sports AI-powered data-driven technology
Genius Sport and NFL
Date: 20-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Genius Sports Limited has expanded its partnership with the National Football League to power NFL+, the NFL’s video streaming subscription service, with data-driven on-screen graphic overlays and visualizations that bring the live action to life in real time. Starting this weekend, Genius Sports will provide two new customized viewing modes for every NFL+ game this season. These alternate streams will utilize the NFL’s Next Gen Stats player-tracking data to display crucial fan insights including ball-carrier speed, yards after catch, closing speed, and time to throw—all in real-time.
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Zelus Analytics Raises Series A Funding to Accelerate Growth in Sports Analytics
Zelus Analytics
Date: 20-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Zelus Analytics announced today that it has successfully completed the first tranche of its Series A. The round includes participation from Teamworthy Ventures, Gametime Capital, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's 35V, Billy Beane, and others, who join existing investor RedBird Capital. Zelus Analytics is known for its advanced data and analytics platform that evaluates, predicts, and improves player and team performance. The company's world-class data science and engineering staff drives success for team partners across six sports, including baseball, basketball, hockey, football, cricket, and soccer.
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Peloton Is Partnering Up With the NBA. Here's How to Watch Games on Your Bike
Peloton and NBA
Date: 19-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Peloton, the exercise bike company known for its streamed fitness classes, announced a new partnership with the National Basketball Association and the Women's National Basketball Association for the upcoming NBA season. Peloton users will have access to NBA-influenced classes, and those who also have a subscription to NBA League Pass will be able to stream games on the attached screen while they're working out.
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Populous Announces Minority Investment from Providence Equity Partners
Populous
Date: 19-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Populous today announced a strategic minority investment from Providence Equity Partners, a premier private equity firm specializing in growth-oriented investments in media, communications, education and technology companies. Populous and Providence anticipate the investment will support Populous’ continued growth and allow the company to pursue opportunities to expand its service offerings and geographic presence for the benefit of clients, partners and its workforce around the globe.
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Netflix launches first live sport event
Netflix
Date: 18-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Netflix has announced its first live sport event, the Netflix Cup. The competition will see F1 drivers and professional golfers from its behind-the-scenes docuseries Drive To Survive and Full Swing compete in a match play golf tournament at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas, teeing off at 11pm GMT on 14 November. This is the same week as the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix.
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Nike Launches Strength Training Equipment
Nike
Date: 18-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
The apparel giant debuted Nike Strength, a line of premium strength training equipment. Nike is all-in on fitness and wellness, with equipment joining a growing list of developments. In August, the company announced Nike Studios, planning to open its own boutique fitness studios. Now, in addition to outfitting its gyms with custom-branded equipment, Nike Strength becomes a standalone business.
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WNBA Teams Embrace AI-Powered Platforms As Fan Engagement Surges Amid League Growth
WNBA
Date: 18-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
As the WNBA continues to expand and evolve, an increasing number of its franchises are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance fan experiences and cater to the rising demands of their supporters. The defending champion Aces, for instance, have partnered with ON, formerly known as GameON Technology, to leverage an AI chat system through the company’s enterprise-grade platform.
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Sportworld to unleash power of smart TVs and smartphones through integration with Opta data and video
Stats Perform and Sportworld
Date: 17-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
B1 SmartTV GmbH today proudly unveiled an extensive multi-year partnership between its pioneering Smart TV and Smartphone sports streaming platform, Sportworld, and Stats Perform, the global leader in sports data, content and analytics.
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Soccer Tech Company Playermaker Raises Funds to Spur U.S. Growth
Playermaker
Date: 16-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Sports tech startup Playermaker recently raised a growth funding round as it looks to expand the use of its shoe-mounted wearables in the U.S. ADvantage led the round and was joined by Ryan Sports Ventures, an investment vehicle founded by Patrick Ryan, whose family owns stakes in the Chicago Bears and AFC Bournemouth. Financial details of the funding have not been announced. Former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger previously invested in the company. Since being founded in 2014, Playermaker has raised more than $50 million.
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IOC President Thomas Bach: Exploring plans to create Olympic Esports Games
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Date: 15-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Based on remarks by its President at 141st IOC Session in Mumbai, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is exploring plans for the creation of Olympic Esports Games.
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Nike surges ahead in the ‘war of the super shoes’ as Kiptum breaks marathon world record
Nike
Date: 12-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
At this weekend’s Chicago Marathon, Kelvin Kiptum broke the men’s marathon record in an astonishing time of 2:00:35. The 23-year-old raced in a pair of the new Nike Dev 163 prototype shoes, which are legal under World Athletics rules. And, on Tuesday, Nike confirmed these shoes are in fact the Alphafly 3, on sale in January 2024.
World Rugby integrates smart mouthguard technology to the Head Injury Assessment
World Rugby
Date: 12-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
World Rugby will advance the Head Injury Assessment (HIA) by introducing in-game alerts from smart mouthguard technology to show if a player has experienced a high level of acceleration which could lead to an injury.
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A Coach In Your Pocket: WHOOP Ventures Into Generative AI, partnering with OpenAI
WHOOP
Date: 9-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
With the fusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biometric data, the realm of personalized fitness is entering a new frontier. WHOOP, a key player in performance optimization, has collaborated with OpenAI to venture into Generative AI, creating a revolutionary in-app chatbot.
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New digital experiences set to transform ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023
International Cricket Council
Date: 9-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Cricket fans across the world will be able to experience and engage with the game like never before through new digital activities, placing fans at the centre of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
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Revolutionary helmet technology in American Football
Gallaudet University and AT&T
Date: 6-Oct-2023 | Category: International Sportstech News
Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and AT&T introduce the 5G Connected Football Helmet to enable and enhance communication between coaches and deaf or hearing impared student players. Previously having to rely on eye contact between the player on the field and the coach on the sideline, the technology uses augmented reality to receive communication from coaches.
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