Upside Global Tech Scouting Platform
Upside is designed for elite sports practitioners (from leagues such as the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, MLB, NCAA, European soccer, pro rugby, and tennis), sports tech startups, and VCs. Our platform helps them discover, evaluate, and compare the best sports technologies in the world.
Please contact our support team at support@upsideglobal.com with your account details. We’ll resolve your billing inquiries as quickly as possible.
We do not issue refunds for our memberships.
You can contact us directly at support@upsideglobal.com or use the chat feature within the platform. We typically respond within 24 hours on business days.
Access is granted to verified team practitioners, VCs, and vetted sports tech startups. To request access, please fill out our access request form or contact us directly.
The Community section is only available to practitioners of teams. It is not available to startup founders or investors.
You can check out the team data by going to the Team page. There you can search for team profiles, by regions, league type, budget size or even vendors used by teams. It requires a membership to the Upside platform to access this section. You can reach out to julien@upsideglobal.co to get more info on the memberships available.
We update our team performance and technology data on a rolling basis—typically once a year, This data is updated by the teams themselves.
We currently profile over 200 sports tech vendors across performance, health, recovery, fan engagement, data, wearables, rehab, sleep tech, and more. The list continues to grow each month.
You can submit a vendor request by emailing us at julien@upsideglobal.co. Our team will review and add qualified vendors within 3–5 business days.
We host exclusive in-person events, including our annual sports tech summit, which includes expert roundtables, keynotes, a one hour speed dating session with teams, a vendor expo, and thematic panels with top team practitioners, startup founders, and investors. We also host VIP dinners at the NFL Combine, NBA Summer league, MLS Symposium and MLB meetings. Keep an eye on our Summits page or subscribe to our Upside newsletter for updates.
Verified users who sign up to our Annual Upside membership can browse team profiles via the “Teams” section of the platform. Users can search for teams using specific vendors, in a specific league, sports, with a specific sports performance budget.
Head to the Vendor Directory section to access detailed vendor profiles, including product offerings, product reviews, customers, amount of money raised, teams’ survey data, videos, and contact details.
Use our AI-powered Product Comparison Tool to evaluate vendors side by side. You can compare based on features/specs, product reviews, customer ratings, pricing ranges (when available), number of studies and more.
No. Verified vendors cannot get access to the product review page. However, product reviews (written or video) by teams can be seen by vendors on their vendor profile.
Simply go to the Product Comparison section on the Upside platform. From there, users can type questions to compare products, get information about specific vendors, check out product reviews, and more. Our Gen AI engine will surface tailored comparisons, information and recommendations in seconds.
