In recent years, professional athletes have been focused on leveraging their personal brands and athletic gifts to become more business-savvy and get involved in tech startups and digital content creation. In selecting the SportTechie Award for Most Tech-Savvy Athlete, there were dozens of strong candidates from across the sporting spectrum who demonstrated investment savvy, digital […]
At a time when demand for new technologies that improve the fan experience are at an all-time high, the New York Jets have worked hard to maintain an edge over other teams. This season, the team began engaging fans at the stadium with real-time graphics featuring Next Gen stats collected from Zebra chips in shoulder […]
In building Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta, the ownership of the NFL’s Falcons and MLS’s Atlanta United understood the comfort of a living room couch in front of a flat-screen television and endeavored to compete with that appealing proposition. Certainly no one’s home theater can compete with the stunning visual arrays at Mercedes-Benz, which include […]
Investment dollars are flowing into the sports technology industry at a rapidly increasing rate. Athletes, traditional venture capitalists and team owners have invested in or acquired dozens of sports technology companies this year. But one group in particular stood out for making an aggressive play to reshape the burgeoning youth sports industry with technology. Blue […]
A person who introduces new methods, ideas or products. Look up “innovator” and you’ll find that definition, or something like it. Then ask a friend: “Who is an innovator?” You may hear “Steve Jobs,” “Thomas Edison”, “Leonardo da Vinci”. No wrong answers there. Now ask the same friend, “How did they innovate?” and the response […]
