Venture capital fund Podium Silicon Valley (SV) has launched a new startup competition, modeled on soccer’s World Cup, for early-stage sports technology companies. The SportsTech World Cup will kick off with a Nordic edition this week, with other regional versions planned to follow in the future. Sports technology companies from the five Nordic countries of […]
CHICAGO — If ESPN, CBS or Fox had launched today, what would they look like? That’s the question Dan Scalia, SVP of Revenue for the new 24/7 Sports Network, Stadium, is presented with. “What it looks like now versus what it looked like 35 years ago is quite different,” he said Wednesday at SportTechie Chicago. […]
A new delegation showed up to the Maccabiah Games in Israel on Wednesday, displaying its skills in the sports tech marketplace instead of on the playing field. For the first time in its history, the Maccabiah Games—the quadrennial Olympic-style sports competition for Jewish athletes around the world—welcomed a group of ten Israeli sports tech startups […]
This is guest post from Steve Cobb, co-founder of Hashtag Sports, an annual innovation conference and thought leadership platform taking place in Times Square this June. Register with the code SPORTTECHIE for 30% off your pass. After a year-plus of refining and enhancing, it’s exciting to say that Hashtag Sports on June 26-28, 2017 in […]
Ghent, a small but beautiful city in Belgium, recently hosted a series of 4 SportTechie events that gathered leaders in the Belgium sports technology community. The events were organized by local leaders Kristof De Mey and Jelle Verdoodt. Kristof is working at Victoris, the sports innovation consortium at Ghent University, with its world leading institute […]
