SeventySix Capital
VC Fund
Conshohocken, United States
SeventySix Capital is a sports tech venture capital company led by Wayne Kimmel, Jon Powell and MLB superstar, Ryan Howard. The fund invests in passionate, smart and nice entrepreneurs who are launching game-changing tech startups in the sports, health and retail industries.SeventySix Capital is building the go-to venture capital platform forexecutives, influencers, and professional athletes, offering unique opportunities for them to invest in sports tech startups, and for entrepreneurs to access the financial and social capital that they have to offer.SeventySix Capital’s Athlete Venture Group allows players to invest, learn, and work directly with top sports tech startups and entrepreneurs. The firm aims to bridge the gap between athletes, entrepreneurs, and investors by creating opportunities for athletes to become tech investors and for entrepreneurs to access the financial and social capital that professional athletes have to offer. Athlete Venture Group members, including Ryan Howard, DeMarco Murray, Ralph Sampson and Brian Westbrook, work hands-on with SeventySix Capital's portfolio companies in esports, sports betting, data collection, data analytics, media and more.Additionally, SeventySix Capital has a strategic partnership with Rubicon Talent, a sports marketing and talent agency based in New York City with a wide range of clients including NFL and NBA stars, Hall of Famers, MVPs, Heisman Trophy winners, Olympic icons, media personalities, and celebrity chefs.Kimmel founded the firm in 1999 with top exits to Fortune 500 companies including Aramark, Intel, IBM, Walgreens, and Yahoo. Powell is also the CEO of Kravco Company LLC, a leading real estate company that developed over 30 million square feet of commercial space including the King of Prussia Mall. Howard, a World Series Champion and 2006 NL MVP, is known as one of the all-time great home run hitters.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SeventySix Capital invests in
Stages SeventySix Capital invests in
Countries SeventySix Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $685k–$4.9M
- Series A
- $2.2M–$14M
- Series B
- $1.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (20%)
- Sports 7 (12%)
- Mobile 6 (10%)
- E-Commerce 6 (10%)
- Health Care 5 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 20 (34%)
- Series A 11 (19%)
- Series B 7 (12%)
- Funding Round 7 (12%)
- Corporate Round 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 41 (69%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chad Stender
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Ryan Howard
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Wayne Kimmel
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Dan Mason
Venture Partner and Strategic Advisor
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Venture Partner and Strategic Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
DeMarco Murray
Athlete Venture Group Member
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Athlete Venture Group Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Lucra Sports
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Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports. | $20M / Series B / Apr 22, 2026 | |
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Lucra Sports
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Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports. | $10M / Dec 05, 2024 | |
Quintar
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Quintar is the first AR-centered fan technology platform company enabling content owners, creators, and rights holders to build captivating live action AR experiences | $8.2M / Series A / Apr 08, 2024 | |
Boomerang
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Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners. | $4.9M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 | |
Web3 Pro
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Web3 Pro creates enterprise white-label platforms for global brands in order to make NFT campaigns seamless, easy to execute, and on-brand. The company's platform helps global enterprises strategize, creating, selling, and distributing NFT-based digital authentic assets, allowing brands to engage communities, drive new revenue streams, andboost cross-sales of physical products while ensuring complete company control, sustainability, and global regulatory compliance. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 28, 2023 | |
Epoxy.ai
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We make sports viewing and gaming easy and fun for everyone | Seed / Jul 31, 2023 | |
FORTË (acquired by Echelon Fitness)
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FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios. | Jul 10, 2023 | |
KYX World
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KYX World is the premiere sneaker subscription experience, revolutionizing sneaker culture by providing all-inclusive access to a robust rotation of authentic, limited-release shoes. | Seed / Oct 25, 2022 | |
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KYX World
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KYX World is the premiere sneaker subscription experience, revolutionizing sneaker culture by providing all-inclusive access to a robust rotation of authentic, limited-release shoes. | Seed / Oct 25, 2022 | |
ASENSEI
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ASENSEI provides everything a technology company needs to add motion capture (3D Computer Vision and Connected Apparel) and activity-specific understanding and coaching to their product or service.(APP)AREL AND (APP)ERTUREWe provide sensors harnesses and firmware to apparel companies, and 3D computer vision to apps and fitness products, thatare interoperable.ASENSEI.AI SDKWe provide a cross-platform software development kit to third party developers so that they can easily add motion capture powered experiences to their products and apps.TECHNIQUE LIBRARYAn ever-growing library of exercises and associated coaching cues, progressions and regressions that further reduce a partner’s time to market.COACHING BLUEPRINTSDeliver high-value use-cases out of the box, with prefabricated solution accelerators.(APP)AREL Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI connected apparel.(APP)ERTURE Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI 3D computer vision using an ordinary RGB camera.REAL-TIME COACHING Never miss a movement. Count reps and motivate practice. Identify common movement flaws and cue your customers with real-time corrections.INSTRUCTIONAL LEARNING Onboard new customers through instructional teaching of your platform's common movements.MOVEMENT SCREEN The smarter way to warm up. Identify imbalance, tightness, asymmetry. Warm up intelligently, adjust programming or recommend cross-modality training.TRAINING JOURNAL Provide post-workout feedback, coaching notes, skill practice suggestions and progress tracking.DOJO Train asensei to recognize and understand posture and movement. | Seed / Jul 20, 2022 | |
| See all 59 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
ARK Investment Management
3 deals together
Kleiner Perkins
3 deals together
Cowles Company
2 deals together
Crush Ventures
2 deals together
Elysian Park Ventures
2 deals together
First Round Capital
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does SeventySix Capital invest in?
SeventySix Capital invests primarily in Software, Sports and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is SeventySix Capital's check size?
SeventySix Capital typically joins rounds of $685k–$4.9M at Seed, $2.2M–$14M at Series A and $1.5M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SeventySix Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at SeventySix Capital?
The team at SeventySix Capital includes Chad Stender (Managing Director), Ryan Howard (Partner) and Wayne Kimmel (Managing Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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