This week we had the honor to interview Luc Julia, Chief Scientific Officer at Renault Group, a leading automaker. Luc has worked for many years in the Silicon Valley for companies such as Apple, Siri, Samsung, and HP. ?Show Notes: Through this interview, we touched on his role [...]
Over the past 12 months there has been a lot of hype about the NFT Sports market with many sports teams, leagues (NBA, AS Roma..), athletes (Tom Brady, Osaka, Tiger Woods..), and major tech funds (Andreessen Horowitz) getting into the space. This brings the following questions: Is the NFT Sports [...]
This week we had the honor to interview again Dr. Ron Dick, associate professor of sports marketing at Duquesne University in the school of business. Ron also worked for 20 years in sports, including 15 years in the NBA with the Sixers and the Nets, and then four [...]
VC name: Causeway Media Partners Headquartered: Cambridge, MA Founded: 2013 Partners: Bob Higgins, Jasmine Robinson, Mark Wan, and Wyc Grousbeck Website: www.causewaymp.com/ Sectors: Sports, fitness, gaming, and media VC type: Growth stage VC Typical investment range: $5M to $15M (Series B and beyond) Causeway Media Partners is an investment fund [...]
This week we had the honor to interview Pierre Barrieu, the Director of High Performance at Toronto FC, a top MLS team. Pierre is a highly experienced high performance director as he has worked in the US (Toronto FC, LA Galaxy, US Soccer Federation), Europe and Middle East [...]
Upside startup: MacLloyd Headquartered: Paris (France), US subsidiary in Miami, FL (USA) Founded: 2013 Company website: www.mclloyd.com Sector: GPS tracking system Customers: 100+ customers in Europe (Stade Rennais/Ligue 1, Standard de liege/Belgian soccer league, Amien SC/Ligue 2, PMU..), North America (PSG Academy. Etc.) McLloyd was born in 2013 in France. [...]
Last year we conducted a 2020 Sports Tech survey to measure the impact of COVID-19 on sports tech budgets. We got great responses from 30+ pro teams (NBA, NFL, MLS, Ligue 1, Premiere League, Laliga..). You can see the survey summary here. We are now running a new GPS vendors [...]
This week we had the honor to interview Alberto Maiorana, the head of licensing at Sorare, a leading NFT sport startup in soccer. Sorare is the world’s leader in the NFT football soccer space with hundreds of thousands of users.
Dear Colleague, Last month was a busy month in the world of sports and technology. In the world of soccer, the European soccer championship saw some major upsets, with France the current World champion, being defeated against Switzerland. Italy won its first International trophy in 15 years by beating England [...]
With a sports tech industry valued at $11B, there has been an increasing focus from pro teams and leagues on sports tech startups over the year. But like most industries, sports teams and leagues are being approached by a myriad of sports tech startups. Unfortunately, most of those sports organizations [...]
