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Top 50 Sporting Goods Angel Investors (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Sporting Goods startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Sporting Goods startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Lloyd Danzig
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Gaming, Sports, Mobile Apps $2.3M–$20M
Maria Thomas
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail $1.2M–$19M
Peter Troensegaard Jensen
Angel
2 Denmark Angel, Seed Drones, Retail, Sports
Tony Parker
Angel
2 France Seed, Angel, Series A Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
Daren Cotter
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $1M–$19M
Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
2 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $66k–$2.4M
Michael Carrick
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Dave Morin
Angel
2 United States, France, Finland Seed, Series A Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce $1M–$13M
Mark Livings
Angel
2 Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Education, Communities $269k–$5M
Mark Pincus
Angel
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Internet, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$40M
John Elstrott
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Sports, Consumer $1.5M–$7M
David Blitzer
Angel
2 Portugal, United States Series A Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods
Christopher J. Dean
Angel
2 United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, Service Industry, Retail $1.8M–$2.1M
Blake Griffin
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A Retail, Sports, Consumer Goods
Alex Hoye
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Romania Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Internet $20k–$1.5M
Matthew Ocko
Angel
2 United States, Canada, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile $1M–$143M
David J. Adelman
Angel
2 United States Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, Sports, E-Commerce $3.6M–$11M
Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
2 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$55M
Frank Bober
Angel
2 United States Seed Hardware, Mobile Apps, Sporting Goods
Roger Ehrenberg
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Advertising, Software $900k–$20M
Sahil Jain
Angel
1 India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Apps, AgTech
Drew Brees
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series B Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Todd Forest
Angel
1 Australia, United States Series A, Seed, Angel Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace
Andrew Paradise
Angel
1 United States Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
Greg Zeeman
Angel
1 United States Series A E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
Nat Turner
Angel
1 United States, China, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, Medical
Thomas Rebaud
Angel
1 France, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Social Media
Paul Heywood
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Shoes
Kevin Kaplan
Angel
1 United States Series A, Series B Consumer Goods, Hardware, Sports
Ankit Mehrotra
Angel
1 India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing
Georg Kofler
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Angel, Seed Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
Hans Tung
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, India Series A, Series B, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services $5.3M–$216M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, FinTech $550k–$157M
Scott Dorsey
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $350k–$50M
Hakeem Seriki
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Beauty, Media and Entertainment $1.5M–$20M
Jesse Bardo
Angel
1 United States Seed Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Jason Fiedler
Angel
1 United States, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care $1.5M–$75M
Andrew Coppin
Angel
1 Australia Angel Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing $248k–$260k
Joe Zawadzki
Angel
1 United States Seed, Angel, Series A Analytics, SaaS, Software $1.1M–$5M
Robert Nelsen
Angel
1 United States, China, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $13M–$217M
Sean Park
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS $1.8M–$53M
Chris Paul
Angel
1 United States, France, Portugal Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, Sports, Wellness $1.8M–$48M
Sandy Cass
Angel
1 United States, Colombia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $1.2M–$85M
Chung Ng
Angel
1 United States, Spain, France Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Real Estate, Internet $1M–$15M
Trae Young
Angel
1 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Sports, Events, Gaming $8M–$48M
Seth Curry
Angel
1 United States Series A News, Sports, Fitness
Rickie Fowler
Angel
1 United States Series A Sports, Fitness, Wellness
Patrick Mahomes
Angel
1 United States Series A, Series E Sports, Fitness, Wellness
Kelly Slater
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
JJ Watt
Angel
1 United States Series A, Series B, Series C Fitness, Sports, FinTech
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Lloyd Danzig
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Lloyd Danzig is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sharp Alpha Advisors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Sports, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$11M; Series A $5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packz — Packz is a gamified collectibles platform that offers trading cards with fun animations and images.
  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • GridRival — GridRival is a sports betting startup built for race fans with the mission of making motorsports more engaging. We accomplish this through a valuable and unique fusion of fantasy-style gaming & betting, motorsports content, and built-in social functionality.
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Maria Thomas
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Maria Thomas is a consumer Internet pioneer and entrepreneurial business builder. She is also a well-respected member of the Board of Directors of both a publicly traded and a private equity backed company. She's currently (2017) an expert advisor and hands-on contributor to Remote Year.In 2016, Maria was Interim CEO at Glamsquad:http://blog.glamsquad.com/post/145956909567/corepower-yoga-amy-shecter-glamsquad-ceo. Maria is the former CEO of Etsy, a position she took in July of 2008 after Founding CEO Maria Prior to

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.1M; Series B $7.8M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Twice — Buy & sell electronics, cars, clothes, collectibles & more on eBay, the world's online marketplace. Top brands, low prices & free shipping on many items.
  • Catalant — Access on-demand consulting services for strategic business planning, data & business analytics, digital transformation, M&A, market research, and more.
  • SidelineSwap — SidelineSwap connects athletes so they can buy, sell, and learn about new and used sports gear. They were founded in 2012 by former college athletes who realized how difficult it was to find high-quality used sports gear online. Since launching the marketplace, hundreds of thousands of athletes have joined their community and contributed to theirmission of making sports more affordable.On SidelineSwap you’ll not only find the largest collection of high-quality new and used sports gear on the internet, you will also connect with athletes who know about gear and love their sport. If you browse long enough, you might even find a few pros.We’re entrepreneurs at heart, and we’re proud to empower their community of sellers. Sellers on SidelineSwap come in all shapes and sizes, from high school athletes selling last season’s gear, to former college players unloading a career’s worth of equipment, to business owners like Eric (see below) who make a living on SidelineSwap.We’re backed by Global Founders Capital, Riverpark Ventures, Fullstack Sports Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, FJ Labs, and 500 Startups, and their advisors include former executives from Amazon, Etsy, Seamless, Staples, and ESPN. We’re alumni of 500 Startups, MassChallenge, and the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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Peter Troensegaard Jensen
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Peter Troensegaard Jensen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Retail, Sports
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Robotto — Advanced drone software with cutting-edge ai technology. Giving you the ability to benefit from autonomous flight, dynamic flight paths, situational behavior, and visualized data in real-time. Intelligent drone mapping software that saves lives and saves nature.
  • KEEPR
  • CYKOM — The all-in-one app for runners & cyclists. Discover and join communities, organize and create runs & rides and earn rewards while having fun and being active.
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Tony Parker
Angel · Boerne, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Colizey — Colizey is building a global sports marketplace, starting with France. It is connecting technical and inspiring brands (and edgy retailers) to passionate consumers. It is centralizing, simplifying and elevating the experience of shopping for sports equipment for men, women and children.
  • ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
  • Wavo — Wavo provides debt-free inventory financing for SMEs, allowing them to grow without cash constraints.Unlike traditional financing, Wavo purchases inventory upfront, so businesses don’t have to immobilize cash or take on debt. Repayments are directly tied to sales, ensuring flexibility and preserving financial capacity. The solution is accessibleto fast-growing businesses, as it does not require balance sheet analysis or financial ratios.With Wavo, SMEs can seize new opportunities, optimize working capital, and scale faster—without financial constraints.
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Daren Cotter
Angel · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $3.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onsetto — Onsetto helps banks capture primary operating accounts by seamlessly switching payroll, AR/AP, and cash flows during customer onboarding.
  • Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.
  • Evecxia Therapeutics — Evecxia Therapeutics is dedicated to realizing the therapeutic potential of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) for the treatment of mental illness.
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $638k–$2.4M; Angel $66k–$878k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
  • Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
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Michael Carrick
Angel · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.
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Dave Morin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
  • Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
  • Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
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Mark Livings
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $269k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edoome — The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform.
  • Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
  • Creatively Squared — Digital content that brings consumers closer to brands. Create engaging photos, videos and digital ads at scale
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Mark Pincus
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Mark Pincus is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Playful.AI. Mark previously worked at Tribe.net as a CEO and Co-Founder. Mark Pincus attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ForeVR Games — Virtual Reality games you want to play forever. Bowl forever in ForeVR Bowl! Join our discord community of bowlers.Game on!
  • Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
  • Moon Beast Productions — Moon Beast Productions is a company.
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John Elstrott
Angel · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

John Elstrott is the Mentor, The LePage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation In-Residence Program Mentor at Tulane University School of Medicine. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dinner Lab — Dinner Lab is a membership-based social dining experiment that unites undiscovered chefs with adventurous diners who are looking for something different from the traditional restaurant experience. Whether it happens on the roof of an abandoned building, the floor of a paper mill, or inside a motorcycle dealership, they believe that good people,good food and good drink are the only elements paramount to a memorable meal.The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Tigeraire — The Tigeraire Cyclone helmet airflow system for youth, college, and professional athletes. It's time to get some aire.
  • Good2Go, Inc — Good2Go leverages IoT technology to make everyday experiences more enjoyable. Good2Go handles everything from locating the nearest facility to unlocking and opening the door.
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David Blitzer
Angel · Scotch Plains, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

David Blitzer joined HBSE Ventures as Founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
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Christopher J. Dean
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Christopher J. Dean joined Summit Partners in 2001. Prior to Summit, he worked for Morgan Stanley, J.H. Whitney & Co. and Sun Microsystems. Based in Summit’s Boston office, Chris is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia.During his 12 years with Summit Partners, Chris has served as a director ofmany companies. He is currently a director of Aurora Diagnostics, Champion Windows, Commercial Defeasance, Focus Financial Partners and Salient Partners. His prior directorships include optionsXpress Holdings (NASDAQ: OXPS, later acquired by Charles Schwab), PSC Info Group (acquired by Roark Capital Group) and Senior Home Care (acquired by Oaktree Capital Management).Chris holds a BA in history, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Service Industry, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
  • Celcoin — Founded in 2016 by Marcelo França and Adriano Meirinho, Celcoin, the company offers a platform that allows companies to connect to the financial system simply and without bureaucracy to offer innovative experiences to their customers, whether in the digital world, with more than 170 clients including banks, fintechs, brokerages and loyaltycompanies, in other words, in the physical world, where it has its own network of more than 38,000 digital correspondents in 3,200 Brazilian municipalities. A pioneer in its segment, Celcoin adopts a unique multi-channel strategy in its segment, and already processes more than 11 million financial transactions and a volume in excess of R$1.8 billion monthly.Celcoin came up with the idea of ​​facilitating new players to the financial system, which until its inception was completely closed, difficult to access and difficult to connect. With its set of Open Finance solutions (APIs for Transactions, APIs for Physical Networks and Open Banking APIs), more than 8 million Brazilians are impacted monthly in the physical and virtual world with their solutions.
  • SidelineSwap — SidelineSwap connects athletes so they can buy, sell, and learn about new and used sports gear. They were founded in 2012 by former college athletes who realized how difficult it was to find high-quality used sports gear online. Since launching the marketplace, hundreds of thousands of athletes have joined their community and contributed to theirmission of making sports more affordable.On SidelineSwap you’ll not only find the largest collection of high-quality new and used sports gear on the internet, you will also connect with athletes who know about gear and love their sport. If you browse long enough, you might even find a few pros.We’re entrepreneurs at heart, and we’re proud to empower their community of sellers. Sellers on SidelineSwap come in all shapes and sizes, from high school athletes selling last season’s gear, to former college players unloading a career’s worth of equipment, to business owners like Eric (see below) who make a living on SidelineSwap.We’re backed by Global Founders Capital, Riverpark Ventures, Fullstack Sports Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, FJ Labs, and 500 Startups, and their advisors include former executives from Amazon, Etsy, Seamless, Staples, and ESPN. We’re alumni of 500 Startups, MassChallenge, and the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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Blake Griffin
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Blake Griffin, the six-time All-Star, former Rookie of the Year and Slam Dunk Champion, is regarded as one of the most influential players in recent history. Second only to his basketball talent is his innate knack for comedic timing, which has been showcased in numerous national ad campaigns, top-tier media, and through his annual charity comedyshow, Comedy.by blake. Behind the camera, Blake serves as the Cofounder of Mortal Media, his Hollywood production company, which works on projects in the film, TV, and digital spaces. A true triple-threat, adding to athlete and actor, Blake and his brother Taylor also run the Team Griffin Foundation, their non-profit organization that provides young men and women with opportunities to learn the essential lessons of life, competition, and hard work by inspiring them to nurture their passions in athletics, academics and the arts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Sports, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Lemon Perfect — Lemon Perfect is a zero-sugar cold-pressed lemon water that’s full of flavor and packed with antioxidant vitamin C. We squeeze half a California-grown organic lemon into every bottle and can—and add no artificial ingredients—making healthy hydration more convenient, refreshing, and delicious than ever.The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered inAtlanta, GA.
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Alex Hoye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$943k; Angel $20k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Motion - Activity Goals — Use Motion to set your personal weekly activity goal and visualise progress. Create a team with friends and share your goals.
  • Grabble — Grabble is an application that enables its users to discover daily hand-picked fashion. It allows its users to browse, save, and purchase fashion apparel and accessories from retailers. It also provides them with sales alerts. Grabble was launched on May 1, 2013 in London, United Kingdom.
  • Carv — Improve your skiing technique with real-time audio coaching. Carv uses pressure and motion analysis to score your technique and help you improve.
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Matthew Ocko
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Matthew Ocko has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matthew is a co-founder & co-managing partner ofData Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $5.7M–$45M; Series B $13M–$143M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hey — Heyday’s mission is to help people remember the story of their life: the places they go, things they do, and people they’re with – privately, beautifully and effortlessly. Heyday is built around the life, for people to remember life the way they lived it. Heyday is headquartered in San Francisco.Heyday is an automatic journal. It willautomatically keep track of the places people go and the things they see, so they can remember moments big & small. Photos they take are automatically arranged into beautiful collages, which are easily customizable with exclusive layouts and filters. Using Heyday, people can instantly rediscover meaningful moments and memories from years ago. Search the story of their life by time, place, and people.
  • Bizly — Bizly is a meeting-building platform that provides everything you need to plan and run successful meetings. With Bizly, everybody can share ideas and insights across your company, turning every meeting into an opportunity to transform culture and productivity.
  • FetchyFox AI — FetchyFox is the digital infrastructure and intelligence platform to help public spaces, like airports, improve the customer experience, maximize revenue, and extract insights with AI. We are a passionate team of technologists and innovators on a mission to deliver seamless end-to-end customer experiences of the future.Based in the heart ofSilicon Valley, California, the AI company has attracted top industry experts from AI, airports, airlines, and leading organizations around the world to invent the ultimate end-to-end integrated travel experience of the future. As avid adventurers, curious engineers, climbers, martial artists and travelers, ourselves - we are working tirelessly to improve the customer experience for everyone, everywhere.
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David J. Adelman
Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

As the CEO of Campus Apartments, David Adelman leverages more than three decades of experience in real estate investing and development to oversee a portfolio of student housing properties at 80 schools in 23 states. He was mentored from an early age by the founder of Campus Apartments and has played a major role in the company’s growth sincetaking over as CEO. Specifically, David Adelman fostered a relationship with sovereign wealth fund GIC Real Estate of Singapore to invest in the company in 2006. Mr. Adelman is also the founder of Darco Capital and co-founder and vice chair of FS Investments. Through Darco, he has invested in dozens of venture capital and private equity businesses, including digital healthcare company Virta, tequila brand Lobos 1707, Fleetzero electric ships, Prolific Machines cultured meat, Crystal Palace football club, and athletic apparel maker Fanatics. FS Investments is a prominent manager of alternative investment funds with more than $38 billion in assets under management. A basketball fan, David Adelman leveraged his success in real estate and business investing in October 2022 to purchase a $250 million equity stake in Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, the firm that owns the Philadelphia 76ers NBA franchise. Mr. Adelman is also the chairman of 76 Devcorp, through which he is leading efforts to build a new sports and entertainment venue for the team and revitalize the Fashion District mall at Tenth and Market Streets in Center City. David Adelman is a former Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the real estate category for Greater Philadelphia. He currently belongs to the Young Presidents' Organization and Real Estate Roundtable and serves on the University City District Board of Directors and Penn Medicine Board of Trustees. In addition, he is a past chairman of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation. He holds a bachelor of arts in political science from Ohio State University. Away from work, he enjoys spending his free time with his wife and daughters.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Sports, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $3.6M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Framebridge — Framebridge makes online custom picture framing ridiculously easy, fast, and affordable.
  • Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment — Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment (HBSE), founded by Josh Harris & David Blitzer in 2017, is a proud family of diverse, global brands and sports properties including the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils among many others.
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.1M–$42M; Series B $7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • Respeecher — Voice cloning: create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators.
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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Frank Bober
Angel · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Frank Bober founded Stylesight in 2003 in response to the growing industry demand for a faster and more effective Web-based approach to the process of product inspiration and development.Stylesight is the continuation of a career that spans every aspect of the fashion industry including design, manufacturing, trend forecasting, productdevelopment and merchandising.Frank’s career began in the 1960s as a menswear designer with an eponymous collection. He later held senior executive positions at Arthur Richards and Polo Ralph Lauren before founding CMT Enterprises in 1979. At CMT, he pioneered the private label concept by both designing and producing private label men’s and women’s apparel for many of America’s top retailers. He sold CMT Enterprises in 2000 after 21 successful years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Mobile Apps, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FUSAR — FUSAR Technologies builds a platform for connected cameras, communication, and safety technology. FUSAR stands for the fusion of technology and adventure. Their mission is to make technology as easy to use in motion as it is when standing still. The FUSAR app is the cornerstone of their ecosystem and their line of companion hardware devicesallows users to interact with the app on-the-go, enabling entirely new experiences.It was founded in 2014 and is based in Kearny, New Jersey.
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Roger Ehrenberg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, a firm that invests in companies creating competitive advantage through data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$5M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evertune — Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services
  • Fantasy Life — Fantasy Life keeps you up to date on all of the latest NFL news, fantasy analysis, sports betting tips, and hot topics around the fantasy watercooler.
  • Gemini Sports Analytics — Your Next-Gen Roster Management Command Center
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Sahil Jain
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Sahil is an alumnus of B.M.E College of Engineering, with a strong foundation in Engineering. He further went to IIM Kozhikode to study MBA in finance, strategy, and marketing. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 13 years in information technology and data analytics space. Focusing especially on building innovative and scalable techproducts, Sahil is spearheading the product development and growth retention strategies at Dineout. Sahil, along with the other 3 Co-founders, has successfully led Dineout to India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech platform which seats over 3.5 million diners every month and has 45,000 restaurants on its platform. Before Co-founding Dineout, Sahil served as a senior marketing analyst for NexTag and was settled in Chicago. He has also worked with globally recognized data analytics firm Mu Sigma as a senior business analyst and managed a team responsible for revenue management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Apps, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eggoz — Welcome to the World of Eggoz Nutrition, where you will get bright Orange Yolk Eggs which is an indicator of better nutrition.
  • MetaShot — Experience cricket like never before with Metashot. Immerse yourself into the ultimate cricket gaming with our groundbreaking console-like cricket game.
  • Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.
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Drew Brees
Angel · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, an entrepreneur, and an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
  • Nightfall AI — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
  • WeBuild Stuff — WeBuild Stuff is a disruptive fabrication, manufacturing and installation firm focusing on wood furniture.
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Todd Forest
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Apps, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
  • DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,315,473 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!
  • RecruitLoop — Zippia analyzed thousands of resumes and developed an AI algorithm to help you find the best candidates to fill your job posting.
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Andrew Paradise
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of DoublePicture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Outdoors, Sporting Goods
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FORTIFIED Bicycle — Hoki178 adalah situs slot88 online terbaik dan judi slot online terpercaya yang menyediakan berbagai provider slot gacor resmi dengan jackpot besar dan rtp live slot tertinggi.
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Greg Zeeman
Angel · Lake Forest, California, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Greg Zeeman is the CEO at Oasis Financial.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Swag Golf — Premium milled golf putters designed and assembled in the USA, insane limited release golf club head covers, men's golf clothing & apparel, and the coolest golf accessories for all players who don't give a putt.
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Nat Turner
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Nat Turner is based out of New York, New York, and is the CEO and Chairman of Collectors. Nat previously worked at OneOncology as a board member. Nat Turner attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Connie Health — At Connie Health, our Medicare advisors help older Americans find the right Medicare plan - all at no cost to you.
  • Memora Health — Meet patients where they are. Digitize your clinical workflows to modernize and simplify patient care.
  • Iterative Scopes — Iterative Scopes provides gastroenterologists with machine learning-powered diagnostic tools that help them prevent colon cancer and improve patient outcomes
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • 58 Facettes — Jewelry
  • The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.
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Paul Heywood
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Paul Heywood is Chief Operating Officer at IPInfo, Chairman at Memory.AI, Board Member at UNRVLD and Partner at York.IE. He is the former Chief Revenue Officer of Puppet, VP Worldwide Sales at Oracle, VP Worldwide Sales at Dyn and Chairman of DevOpsGroup. He attended University of Wales, Cardiff.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Shoes
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OXYGEN Healthcare — OXYGEN Healthcare - one-stop shop platform for healthcare providers combining:Artificial Intelligence Intelligent automation & Robotic Process Automation Real-time patient monitoringDigital healthcare technologies that provide a unique hybrid virtual-first healthcare experience. Oxygen Healthcare gives for caregivers the tools toincorporate real world data to deliver individualized care to their patients in a modern platform with direct integrations for labs, diagnostic tests, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, e-prescriptions, supplements, and billing. OXYGEN Healthcare is aggregating and merging all forms of individualized patient and medical data (EMR, EHR, PHR), resulting in a more holistic and longitudinal understanding of each patient’s health and needs. This, in turn, is leading us to better health outcomes, more precise clinical research for drug development, and a better underwriting of risk for value-based care.It's a multi-platform - patient portal (mobile & web) and provider web application. Applications are integrated to create automated workflows and customized experiences. OXYGEN Healthcare system is enrolled in the largest interoperability networks, APIs are based on the newest, most trusted standard for healthcare IT systems (FHIR and HL7). ISO 27001 certified and HIPAA compliant.
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  • Athena Alliance — Discover Athena Alliance, a SaaS-based executive community that makes it easy and accessible for women leaders to learn from their peers.
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Kevin Kaplan
Angel · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Kevin Kaplan is an enterprise onboarding specialist at Qualia. Attended School of Visual Arts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Hardware, Sports
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fundrise — Fundrise helps locals claim ownership in the development of their city. Its first project and the first-ever crowdfunded real estate deal, was the development of acclaimed D.C. restaurant and retail store, Maketto, in 2013. It has grown since then, but its mission of providing people with a simpler, smarter, and more reliable way to invest hasremained the same.Today, Fundrise continues to shape the investment industry, creating a new alternative to investing in stocks and bonds. By combining technology with new federal regulations, they have opened up the once-unattainable world of direct private investments to everyone in the US, regardless of net worth.Fundrise was launched in Washington, D.C. in 2012.
  • Schiller Bikes — Schiller water bikes are extraordinary machines designed to propel you across the water. Water biking is the penultimate human sporting experience for a modern age, blending physical stamina and the drama of competition with an escape from the confinements of land.
  • Knightscope — Knightscope builds Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) that are patrolling across the country 24/7/365 helping secure the places you live, work, study, and visit.
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Ankit Mehrotra
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Ankit Mehrotra is the CEO & one of the four Co-founders of Dineout, India’s largest dining out and restaurant tech solutions platform in B2C and B2B front offering the most comprehensive suite of F&B tech products. An engineer by a degree and a technology lover at heart, Ankit started Dineout with his friends in 2012 to change thelandscape of the dining industry in India. Before turning into a passionate entrepreneur, Ankit lived in London for 10 years and worked for 7 years with BNP Paribas in London in various divisions including Investment Banking & Wealth Management, managing a portfolio of UHNWI while also studying for the CFA charter, which he got in 2011. He has enjoyed a fruitful career of over 10 years in the internet product space, including e-commerce marketplaces, online payments, operations and trade logistics.Ankit’s work has led him to be a winner of the 2016 Education UK Alumni Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year award 2016, and Young Entrepreneur of the year award in the year 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Food Processing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Samaaro — Award-winning end-to-end event management software solution that empowers global brands to manage and execute their events seamlessly.
  • MetaShot — Experience cricket like never before with Metashot. Immerse yourself into the ultimate cricket gaming with our groundbreaking console-like cricket game.
  • Bullspree — Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app.
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Georg Kofler
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
  • KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
  • Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.
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Hans Tung
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Hans Tung is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital and also Board Member of Wispr Flow. Hans previously worked at Poshmark as a Board Member. Hans Tung attended the Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$40M; Series B $17M–$90M; Series C $38M–$216M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Melonn — Melonn enables any retailer to offer Amazon Prime-like deliveries with its e-commerce fulfillment & back-end technology services
  • Laurel — Time by Ping frees lawyers from timekeeping so they can focus on their work, and firms can understand where time is being spent.
  • Prisms VR — The new paradigm for math education. Learn math through movement, experience, and meaningful discovery.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5.4M; Series A $550k–$13M; Series B $10M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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Scott Dorsey
Angel · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Scott Dorsey is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at High Alpha and was a Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman at Salesforce. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the Indiana University - Kelley School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$10M; Series A $12M–$28M; Series C $30M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ergatta — Ergatta is a game-based connected rowing machine designed for your living room. Get inspired to achieve your fitness goals, establish a routine, and row with a community.
  • Menguin — Find high quality, fashionable tuxedo rentals for your special day.
  • Pioneer Square Labs — PSL is a startup studio and early-stage venture capital fund in Seattle, WA.
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Hakeem Seriki
Angel · Houston, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Hakeem Seriki is the Founder and CEO at Convoz.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Beauty, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Parfait — Discover and customize premium luxury wigs at Parfait. Create your perfect look with our customization tools.
  • Lumi Story — Free The Creator. Democratize storytelling and unlock the innate storyteller in all of us.
  • Hairtelligence — Discover and customize premium luxury wigs at Parfait. Create your perfect look with our customization tools.
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Jesse Bardo
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Jesse Bardo is the Director at Silicon Valley Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SidelineSwap — SidelineSwap connects athletes so they can buy, sell, and learn about new and used sports gear. They were founded in 2012 by former college athletes who realized how difficult it was to find high-quality used sports gear online. Since launching the marketplace, hundreds of thousands of athletes have joined their community and contributed to theirmission of making sports more affordable.On SidelineSwap you’ll not only find the largest collection of high-quality new and used sports gear on the internet, you will also connect with athletes who know about gear and love their sport. If you browse long enough, you might even find a few pros.We’re entrepreneurs at heart, and we’re proud to empower their community of sellers. Sellers on SidelineSwap come in all shapes and sizes, from high school athletes selling last season’s gear, to former college players unloading a career’s worth of equipment, to business owners like Eric (see below) who make a living on SidelineSwap.We’re backed by Global Founders Capital, Riverpark Ventures, Fullstack Sports Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, FJ Labs, and 500 Startups, and their advisors include former executives from Amazon, Etsy, Seamless, Staples, and ESPN. We’re alumni of 500 Startups, MassChallenge, and the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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Jason Fiedler
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Jason brings to early-stage investing a combination of experience as a startup founder, VC-backed operator, growth-stage institutional investor, and angel investor. In early 2013, Jason joined Uber in San Francisco where he launched and managed three of Uber's first 100 market launches. Prior to Uber, Jason spent two years at Insight VenturePartners as an investment analyst focused on growth-stage internet and software. Jason began his career in startups as a college Senior, co-founding Splash.FM, a social music discovery platform. Jason graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and received the Frederick H. Gloeckner award in Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School. Jason was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital in 2018.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.1M; Series A $8.1M–$20M; Series B $9.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tablelist — Provides instant access to VIP bottle service, private tables and exclusive events in a growing number of cities across the country.
  • SidelineSwap — SidelineSwap connects athletes so they can buy, sell, and learn about new and used sports gear. They were founded in 2012 by former college athletes who realized how difficult it was to find high-quality used sports gear online. Since launching the marketplace, hundreds of thousands of athletes have joined their community and contributed to theirmission of making sports more affordable.On SidelineSwap you’ll not only find the largest collection of high-quality new and used sports gear on the internet, you will also connect with athletes who know about gear and love their sport. If you browse long enough, you might even find a few pros.We’re entrepreneurs at heart, and we’re proud to empower their community of sellers. Sellers on SidelineSwap come in all shapes and sizes, from high school athletes selling last season’s gear, to former college players unloading a career’s worth of equipment, to business owners like Eric (see below) who make a living on SidelineSwap.We’re backed by Global Founders Capital, Riverpark Ventures, Fullstack Sports Ventures, Teamworthy Ventures, FJ Labs, and 500 Startups, and their advisors include former executives from Amazon, Etsy, Seamless, Staples, and ESPN. We’re alumni of 500 Startups, MassChallenge, and the Harvard Innovation Lab.
  • The Farmer's Dog — A smarter, healthier dog food: 100% human-grade food, pre-portioned and delivered to your door. Better for them & easier for you. Create your plan today!
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Andrew Coppin
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $248k–$260k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DisruptSports.com — Disrupt Sports offers a full range of promotional, custom, branded and wholesale sports equipment in USA, UK & Australia, that is premium quality.
  • Freight Exchange Pty Ltd — Multi-Carrier Shipping Software | TMS | FMS | ERP
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Joe Zawadzki
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Joe Zawadzki is the General Partner at AperiamVentures. He attended Harvard University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bomoda — Bomoda makes China simple, clear and profitable for the world's leading brands. Our business intelligence platform provides companies with a clear understanding of their current competitive positioning with the Chinese consumer. Our strategists leverage these insights to create a foundation for profitable growth.
  • Ergatta — Ergatta is a game-based connected rowing machine designed for your living room. Get inspired to achieve your fitness goals, establish a routine, and row with a community.
  • Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
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Robert Nelsen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Robert Nelsen is a co-founder and a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. He joined ARCH at its founding and played a significant role in the early sourcing, financing and development of more than 100 companies, including nineteen which have reached valuations exceeding $1 billion. His seed and early-stage investments include Illumina (ILMN);Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY); Juno Therapeutics (JUNO); Unity Biotechnology (UBX); Sienna Biopharmaceuticals (SNNA); Vir Biotechnology, Agios Pharmaceuticals (AGIO); Sage Therapeutics (SAGE); GRAIL, Ikaria; Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH), Receptos (RCPT); Aviron (AVIR); Denali Therapeutics (DNLI); Rubius Therapeutics, KSQ Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, NetBot; Bluebird Bio (BLUE); R2 Technology; XenoPort (XNPT); Caliper Life Sciences (CALP); Trubion Pharmaceuticals (TRBN); Adolor (ADLR); deCODE Genetics; Array BioPharma (ARRY); Editas (EDIT), IDUN Pharmaceuticals; Classmates.com; Hua Medicine; Fate Therapeutics (FATE); WuxiNextCODE; and Everyday Learning Corporation.Mr. Nelsen is a director of Vir Bio, GRAIL, Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Unity Biotechnology, Denali Therapeutics, Arivale, Syros Pharmaceuticals, and serves as Chairman of Hua Medicine, among others. He previously served as a Trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, the Institute for Systems Biology, and was a director of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Nelsen holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the University of Puget Sound with majors in Economics and Biology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Series A $13M–$217M; Series B $20M–$200M; Series C $31M–$205M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
  • Katalyst — With one strength training session, you'll get a full-body workout in 20 minutes, with no external loads or joint impact. The Katalyst Training System uses low frequency impulses to stimulate and contract up to 90% of the muscle fibers in your body, for an intense workout equivalent to spending 2+ hours in the gym.
  • Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.
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Sean Park
Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Sean Park combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking.Founder of Anthemis Group SA, author of The Park Paradigm, andserving as non-executive director on the board of a number of high growth companies, Sean has a proven track record of successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups.A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and an early investor in Zoopla, before founding Anthemis Group, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. He was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European fixed income markets in early 2000s and authored the seminal “AmazonBay” video exploring the future of finance in 2005.Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is now based in Geneva and refuses to give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $6.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Topia — Discover our professional services designed to elevate your business with expert solutions tailored to your needs. Contact us today for trusted support.
  • Perkbox — Discover a global employee benefits and rewards platform. Perkbox delivers perks, wellbeing, and engagement tools to help your teams thrive worldwide.
  • Roam International — Sign a single lease, and you can roam among magical properties across 3 continents.
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Chris Paul
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Sports, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Series A $13M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scout - Make Money Moves — Scout is the financial wellness platform for student athletes in the new NIL era. We empower athletes to make better financial decisions with live financial education sessions and personalized, tech-enabled service.
  • Buoy — Nutrients in their original forms. Bioavailable and complete support, the way nature intended. No synthetics, sweeteners, isolates or additives.
  • Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
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Sandy Cass
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

CFO / COO at Artsy Managing Partner at Red Swan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Colombia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M; Series A $3.5M–$17M; Series C $25M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leal — Leal is the largest and fastest growing loyalty network in Colombia with over 400 participating brands.For affiliated merchants, Leal provides the technology they need to compete in a digital world. Their digital platform combines business analytics, a powerful CRM, and Point of Sale (POS) system integration to enable merchants to grow theirbusiness and communicate effectively with their customers.For registered users, Leal brings together multiple loyalty programs in a single app/card that allows them to earn rewards for their purchases at their favorite merchants.
  • Lockstep — Connected accounting starts at Lockstep. Eliminate cash traps with our AR automation software and discover our modern, easy-use accounting API platform.
  • Disco — Co-op commerce is a network of the world's best brands partnering together to grow.
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Chung Ng
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Solving Human Problems for over 25 years as ex-CXO @Publicis Groupe | Exited $50M ARR Agency | Web 2&3 Investor & Advisor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Real Estate, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Spain, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stuf — Stuf Storage Homepage
  • Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.
  • Hero Cosmetics — Hero Cosmetics is creating solutions for those times they have a pimple emergency. Their broader vision is to create products that can be their hero when their skin is in a pinch.
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Trae Young
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Rayford Trae Young is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Events, Gaming
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
  • Overtime — Overtime is the leading brand for the next generation of sports fans. As both a publisher and an influencer, we've built the inclusive world of sports we all wish was the norm by giving a platform to our community to be seen AND heard.
  • StarStock — StarStock is a marketplace for sports fans and card hobbyists to buy, sell, and invest in their favorite athletes.
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Seth Curry
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Seth Curry is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Sports, Fitness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • eFuse — efuse is an AI-powered ad-tech company delivering access to gamers at scale.
  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
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Rickie Fowler
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Rick Yutaka Fowler is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He was the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world for 36 weeks in 2007 and 2008.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
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Patrick Mahomes
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Patrick Lavon Mahomes II is an American football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He is the son of former Major League Baseball pitcher Pat Mahomes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A, Series E
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
  • WHOOP — Optimize sleep, strain, and recovery with WHOOP, the most advanced fitness and health wearable. With personalized insights, improve performance, build healthier habits, and extend healthspan with continuous health monitoring.
  • Throne SPORT COFFEE — Throne Sport Coffee is Premium Charged ready-to-drink Cold Brews and Lattes with 150mg of natural caffeine, B vitamins, electrolytes, and Lattes with 10g of protein. Cold Brews are Low calorie, low sugar, and dairy-free. NSF Certified for Sport. Fuel your performance, whatever your game.
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Kelly Slater
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer, best known for his unprecedented 11 world surfing championships

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
  • Vessel — Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home. With Vessel, users can test 10 different health metrics in less than 10 minutes for around $10. Vessel works with some of the best doctors, nutritionists, and scientists to create its wellness cards and buildfood, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations tailored based on the results. A variety of membership plans enables one to see how diet, supplements, and lifestyle affect the body over time so users can start to feel and perform better. With Vessel, the science of feeling great fits in the palm of the hand.
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JJ Watt
Angel · 1 investments in Sporting Goods startups

JJ WATT Dream Big Work Hard. Those four simple words have helped to transform Pewaukee native JJ Watt from small-town Wisconsin boy to being selected #11 Overall Pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans. Watt won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year three times in his first five seasons. The journey from backyard football to the big stageof the NFL was not always smooth or easy and filled with adversity, but with unbelievable support from his friends and family, JJ turned his childhood dreams into reality. Since joining the Texans, Watt has been selected to the Pro-Bowl Team three times and won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award twice in his first four seasons. He is the first player in NFL history to record two 20+ sack seasons in a career. He also occasionally shifts to defensive tackle and has also taken snaps as a tight end. He was voted #1 on the 2014 – 2015 NFL Top 100 list, which is voted on by fellow NFL players. Watt is the president and founder of the Justin J. Watt Foundation, which provides after school opportunities for children in various communities encouraging them to get involved in athletics in a safe environment. In the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, Watt organized a crowdfunding campaign to help Houston recover. His campaign raised more than $37 million through over 209,000 donations, nearly doubling his initial $20 million goal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Sports, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperice — From massage guns to compression boots and contrast therapy. Hyperice creates professional-grade recovery tools trusted by elite athletes and everyday movers worldwide.
  • Future — Get a dedicated coach, personalized training plan and unlimited workouts.
  • Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.
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Sporting Goods Angel investor funding at a glance

Stats across 105 deals from 196 investors.

196
investors
in Sporting Goods startups
105
deals
in Sporting Goods startups
$1.7M
median round
in Sporting Goods startups
12%
lead investors
lead at least one round
35%
Seed
most common funding stage

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