# Shane Battier

> Shane Battier is a Series B investor at Palmetto backing Sports and Video. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Palmetto
- Location: Birmingham, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-battier-781663123
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ShaneBattier
- Website: http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/976/shane-battier
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShaneBattier

Shane Battier is a Series B investor at Palmetto in Birmingham focused on Sports and Video. Shane Battier is based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the Chief Culture Advisor of Palmetto. Shane previously worked at Yext as a Board Member. Shane Battier attended the Duke University.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $40M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 6 | 75% |
| Video | 2 | 25% |
| Mobile | 2 | 25% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 88% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| East Asian Super League | EASL creates a premier basketball league while elevating the sport in Asia as the region’s first professional intra-club basketball league. EASL is the premier regional championship competition for club basketball in East Asia. | $40M | Series C | Dec 22, 2022 |  |
| Sleeper | Sleeper is a sports platform intended for fantasy leagues and eSports. The platform connects fans and people to create a community and friendship that enable users to enjoy a sporting event in a communal way that creates lasting memories. | $40M | Series C | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Sports Innovation Lab | The Sports Innovation Lab identifies and evaluates the technology products and services that will power the future of sports. They have developed a digital market research platform and a world-class advisor network to help guide how companies make strategic technology decisions. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| LeagueApps | LeagueApps is committed to a world where all kids and communities have the advantages of sport. Born and bred in New York City, it is the operating system and professional community for the most enterprising youth and local sports organizers—providing them with the solutions they need to succeed. LeagueApps works with thousands of fast-growing andinfluential youth sports organizations, as well as pro teams, leagues, and athletes. Through its software and NextUp platform, which provides organizers with opportunities for leadership development and networking, LeagueApps supports and strengthens the youth sports industry. It also runs FundPlay, a philanthropic program focused on sports-based youth development programs in underserved communities. | $15M | Series B | Jul 19, 2021 |  |
| Mars Reel | Founded in 2010, Mars Reel is a global lifestyle brand focused on high school sports and youth culture. Mars Reel has built one of the largest high school sports platforms in the United States reaching a community of more than 30M viewers per month across basketball and soccer. The company produces original shows, highlights, web series,experiential activations, and luxury apparel through it's apparel brand, The Future is on Mars®. The company is based in Los Angeles and is backed by some of the most well-known and respected investors and advisors across the sports, media, entertainment, and technology sectors including Warner Media, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Dwyane Wade, Drake, Nas, Jean Pigozzi, Brian Lee, Jason Robins, and others. | $4.7M | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Rhone Apparel | Rhone was born out of a need-created to fill the void in the modern mens lifestyle offering. To provide an attire option with purpose-clothing that refuses to be designated as business or leisure or any pursuit between. For the man that values form and function alike. For the man that demands something technical enough to keep up with him in hisactive pursuits and stylish enough to keep up with the rest of his lifestyle. Our aim is to deliver the most premium quality mens active apparel that leaves you inspired. | $5M | Series A | Sep 21, 2015 |  |
| SeatGeek | SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals.The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a setof similar events.SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences.SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States. | $35M | Series B | Aug 28, 2014 |  |
| Socialcam | Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family. |  | Angel | Apr 30, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AFSquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afsquare) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A-Grade Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-grade-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aser Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aser-media) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atom Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atom-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Palmetto

VC Fund · Charleston, United States

Palmetto Clean Technology builds and operates clean energy projects for residential, commercial, and utility customers. It designs and installs solar systems on residential homes, offers customer service support, and financing solutions. Palmetto Clean Technology's products include software technology solutions for home and business thatinclude Palmetto Home where homeowners receive real time energy consumption on in-home devices and solar production on their smart phones, Palmetto Fleet where home management professionals receive real time energy monitoring and solar production insights, and Alchemy, a software solution that empowers solar sales professionals to transform the customer experience and streamline the sales, design, and proposal processes. Christopher Kemper founded Palmetto Clean Technology on February 2, 2010. It has its headquarters in Charleston in South Carolina with additional offices in San Francisco in California, Sea Girt in New Jersey, Charlotte in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Greenville in South Carolina.

5 contacts available at Palmetto.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jared Wray | Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-wray |
| Shane Battier | Chief Culture Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shane-battier |
| Chris Kemper | Chairman, CEO & Founder | — |
| Cory Finnell | Chief Analytics Officer | — |
| Jason Hamilton | General Manager, Aftermarket Products & Services | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Shane Battier invest in?

Shane Battier invests primarily in Sports, Video and Mobile startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 8 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 Shane Battier's check size?

Shane Battier typically joins rounds of $40M–$40M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Shane Battier participates in.

### How do I contact Shane Battier?

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### When did Shane Battier last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Shane Battier closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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