# Ryan Sports Ventures

> Ryan Sports Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago backing SaaS, Sports and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ryan-sports-ventures/
- Website: https://www.ryansportsventures.com

Ryan Sports Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on SaaS and Sports. Ryan Sports Ventures is the sports investment arm of the Ryan family,it is formed to expand the family’s investments in sports technologies.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Sports | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 29% |
| News | 1 | 14% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Snow League | The Snow League is the global league for snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions. | $15M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Men In Blazers | Men In Blazers is a soccer-focused media company that covers sports events, leagues, and TV shows. | $15M | Series A | Jan 20, 2025 |  |
| The Snow League | The Snow League is the global league for snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions. | $15M |  | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Youth | Youth Inc is a digital media network and commerce marketplace focusing solely on youth sport. | $4.5M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Sportable | Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England. | $15M | Series A | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Tagboard | Tagboard is a simple production platform for complex live programming. Tagboard is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format.Tagboard's turnkey solutions allow marketers toleverage powerful tools designed to filter positive influence, amplify engagement, and showcase branded experiences through social curation and integration. End-users can self-discover, interact with, and join the discussion all within a single, easy-to-use feed.Tagboard helps some of the biggest brands in the world play a more active role in the social conversation by encouraging their audiences to share their experiences on a branded, moderated platform.Based in Redmond, WA, Tagboard has discreetly pioneered hashtag marketing since 2012. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 13, 2023 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Will Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Kuvare — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Left Lane Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/left-lane-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- NBA Equity — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ADvantage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-sports-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Sports Ventures invest in?

Ryan Sports Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Sports and Software startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ryan Sports Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Sports Ventures closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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