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Sports Performance Tech is  🔥  Up!

Sports Performance Tech is  🔥  Up!
October 26, 2020

Technology has transformed our lives in so many ways. For athletes, pro and amateur, they have been able to push their performance to their limits, in ways that were unimaginable just half a century ago. Sports performance tech continues to be a hot business industry especially as some companies are expanding beyond professional leagues to the prosumer. 

  • Partnerships galore. HYPERICE, a sports technology company that specializes in rehabilitation equipment using vibration, percussion, and thermal technology, has been grabbing attention from investors and sports leagues. It bagged an equity funding this month of $48MM from NBA and NFL as well as individual athletes such as tennis star Naomi Osaka and Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis. It has also been announcing a slew of partnerships from MLB to the PGA tour in the past week.

  • Massage therapy competitor Theragun also packs a celebrity punch, welcoming tennis star Maria Sharapova as an Angel investor in August this year. Like HYPERICE, their products markets on being available to consumers, beyond Hollywood stars and the sports industry, although it comes with a heavy price tag.
     

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  • Video analysis tools. Video technology company Hudl is used by 6 million coaches worldwide, both professional and amateur, to analyze and review outcomes from a ball play to a high school cheerleading performance. The Lincoln, Nebraska-headquartered company received new funding from Bain Capital in May as the sports analysis business continues to grow at a reported 27%+ CAGR according to IT Intelligence Markets. 

  • AI for Sports. The Dublin sports analytics company Kitman Labs uses AI to increase athletic performance and health for professional sports teams and its software is used by the largest sports leagues in the world such as NFL, NHL, and English Premier League. Midst the pandemic, it still raised $6MM in July from Qvidtvm by including COVID-19 symptom monitoring with its analytics.

  • Science to reduce injury. Sparta Science is a company that uses movement diagnostic software to minimize injuries and optimizes performance. Aside from professional sports, it is used by military forces as well. It received a $16MM Series B funding from GSR Ventures U.S. and Arsenal Growth, the only firm that has managed investment funds from the United States Army and for the United States Treasury Department. 

  • Smart clothing for the military. Athos, a Redwood City, California-based wearable tech company, manufactures outfits that are equipped with EMG sensors that capture muscle behavior in real-time and transmits the data to a mobile device via Bluetooth. Aside from its use by professional sports teams in the U.S. it also pivoted to deliver outfits to tactical units. 

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