# Global Sports Venture Studio

> Global Sports Venture Studio is a VC fund in New York backing Sports and iOS. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Nov 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GlobalSportsVS
- Website: https://www.globalsportsventurestudio.com/

Global Sports Venture Studio is a VC fund in New York focused on Sports and iOS. The Global Sports Venture Studio brings together the world's leading sports organizations to collaborate and engage with the sports innovation ecosystem and bring the future of the fan and athlete experience to life.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 3 | 60% |
| iOS | 1 | 20% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| Android | 1 | 20% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cole Van Nice | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cole-van-nice |
| Dylan Boyd | Director, R/GA Ventures | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dylan-boyd-2 |
| Kyle Bunch | VP, Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Nick Coronges | Technology Partner, R/GA Ventures, R/GA | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-coronges |
| Richard Ting | Past Employee - EVP, Global CXO, R/GA | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greenfly | Greenfly is an enterprise SaaS company and the leader in advocacy marketing. The Greenfly digital media exchange platform enables organizations to fuel brand love by tapping the social media power of their advocates. Emotional connection is the key to building a brand that people love. You can’t buy it – brand love is earned through genuineinteractions, personal connections and real word-of-mouth. Sports, media, entertainment, social causes, and agent-driven organizations depend on Greenfly’s advocacy marketing platform to easily share short-form media. When advocates share great photos and videos on their social profiles, it creates personal engagement with the brand’s customers. Organizations can extend their organic social media reach by 1,000% or more, and brand advocacy can be more effective and much less expensive than social advertising.Greenfly started helping sports and entertainment brands in 2014, and has been named one of the fastest-growing organizations in California by Inc. magazine. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Greenfly has sales offices across the U.S. and Europe. | $6M | Series A | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Renegade Brands | Renegade Brands high performance cleaning products (Sweat X and Gas Off) are 100% non-toxic, 100% biodegradable with no dermal impact on skin.The company is owned and run by a group of six athletes with unmatched experience, passion, and integrity. Renegade Brands and its employees design and deliver the highest quality products that provideexceptional performance, while at the same time producing no toxic impact on the environment. | $5M |  | Oct 19, 2016 |  |
| ShotTracker | ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games. At ShotTracker, they improve the performance of competitive athletes by bringing elite-level analytics to the masses. Their latest innovation, ShotTracker TEAM, captures real-time practice and game stats forbasketball teams, and it's affordable for teams at every level of play. | $5M | Seed | Oct 19, 2016 |  |
| Keemotion | Keemotion delivers automated production solutions enhanced with coaching tools for basketball games. The production is professionally created thanks to a proprietary technology. Keemotion’ solution offers a large specter of advantages amongst which : - The ability to capture and produce games at a very affordable price.- The ability tocategorize and retrieve online all games produced.- The ability to tag games manually (based on a personalized iPad application) and get back all video segments instantly.Media companies can produce games from lower leagues and/or stream seamless any video content from a game without any production team to tablets and smartphones.The personalized summary allows a fan to retrieve specific actions according to its own preferences and comment live games building a social sharing of the best highlights of games. |  | Convertible Note | Aug 22, 2016 |  |
| FocusMotion | FOCUS is the parent company of TRAINR, the first fitness software that can auto-quantify your training workouts by utilizing wrist sensors. FOCUS is building the next generation of quantified-self fitness devices to track, evaluate, and guide resistance and sport specific training. FOCUS also provides a virtual trainer environment, permitting usersto receive ongoing personal and professional feedback to reach their fitness goals. | $20K | Seed | Aug 24, 2015 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [R/GA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/r-ga-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Los Angeles Dodgers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/los-angeles-dodgers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TACK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tack-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eldridge Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eldridge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Global Sports Venture Studio invest in?

Global Sports Venture Studio invests primarily in Sports, iOS and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Global Sports Venture Studio?

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### Who are the partners at Global Sports Venture Studio?

The team at Global Sports Venture Studio includes Cole Van Nice (Managing Partner), Dylan Boyd (Director, R/GA Ventures) and Kyle Bunch (VP, Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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