AUSTIN, Texas — When he’s not in the trenches looking for his next quarterback sack, Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan is listening to The Full Ratchet, a podcast featuring venture capitalists and angel investors. He’s Slacking with 10 to 15 NFL players and other athletes about off-the-field matters, like life after football, and exchanging business ideas […]
All across the world, the relationship between sport and technology is constantly evolving and being developed. A particular region in Europe — northern parts of Belgium (known as Flanders) and southern parts of the Netherlands — are working together on a project known as Nano4Sports. The EU-Interreg project has a total budget of 4.6 million […]
For KORE Software, which provides business management solutions for sports and entrainment organizations, one of its ongoing goals is to share its success by helping other promising companies develop ideas and initiatives. With that in mind, KORE has announced the creation of its venture capital entity, KORE Software Capital, LLC, which will target investments of up to […]
For episode 5 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, we welcome Kraft Analytics Group CEO Jessica Gelman to the show. Gelman heads up KAGR, which provides data analytics, data management, and marketing strategy to the sports-entertainment industry. This new arm of Kraft Sports Group (KSG) came from the business intelligence that Gelman helped build with the Patriots. […]
BOSTON — Media and marketing executives from the WWE, Major League Baseball Advanced Media and the NBA weighed in on emerging over-the-top platforms, live streaming and reaching new international audiences at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this week. When asked about a platform that’s currently below the radar and potentially poised for growth, virtual reality along […]
