San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

29 sports Startups View all

Parser.run

Data as a service.
Simple, custom web scraping tools for researchers, growth hackers, marketing & sales teams.

Exiles - advertising sports bridging online and offline fantasy sports

Exiles

Connecting out-of-market sports fans online and offline
We build passionate communities for out-of-market sports fans – e.g. Yankees fans outside of NYC. 1/2 of sports fans now live out of market - it's a massive, highly fragmented audience that can be aggregated with social tools and fan-perspective content. Being ...

Playpass - SaaS sports marketplaces e commerce platforms

Playpass

Find and play sports. No sweat.
Playpass helps players find and play sports. All ages and skill levels. Find the best local camps, leagues and tournaments, across 30+ sports. For sports organizers, Playpass offers EasySignup and PlayerFinder -- powerful tools to manage and grow player registrations. Non-pro ...

Zignal Labs - financial services sports governments public relations

Zignal Labs

Leader in delivering big data analytics and realtime media monitoring
The Zignal Labs realtime platform enables customers to make informed decisions faster by aggregating data from millions of sources and synthesizing social and traditional media into a powerful interactive dashboard. Zignal Labs’ team is comprised of experts from ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

PlayerPro - mobile sports crowdsourcing social media platforms

PlayerPro

Crowdsource Your Official Soccer Timeline
PlayerPro automatically builds your official soccer timeline from photos, videos and stats taken from each game. We are to soccer players and teams what IMDb is for actors & movies, and LinkedIn is to professionals and businesses. Our API allows 3rd party developers ...

GAGA Sports & Entertainment - lead generation sports social crm sponsorship

GAGA Sports & Entertainment

GAGA is a lead generation software platform that builds a sports team’s fan database.
GAGA has built a Social CRM Platform loaded with engaging applications and reports to help simplify the ticket sales process for our customers. Our products have been adopted and proven to provide a sub-45 day ROI for customers. We align our product success with ...

Kountermove - fantasy MMA - social games sports fantasy sports digital entertainment

Kountermove - fantasy MMA

Fantasy games for combat sports. Featured in Forbes.
Kountermove is the world's best place to play Fantasy MMA. It's like daily fantasy football or baseball, but for UFC / MMA events. #1 Google result – “fantasy MMA”. We are at the intersection of two massive consumer trends – mixed martial arts and fantasy sports. ...

iSoccer - social games education sports software

iSoccer

The social platform for youth to improve and compete in sports
What is iSoccer? A game kids play to get better. Kids earn points, badges and rewards for effort and improvement. Kids can play on their own or with their coach, teammates, friends and/or parents. Soccer is the first sport to launch. Basketball is next. Our ...

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NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

VSporto - mobile digital media sports internet radio market

VSporto

Personalized sports radio
VSporto gives true sports fans unlimited quality audio content on their favorite teams with individual team platforms distributed through iOS apps. The company has 8 team iOS apps that allows fans of each team to get a range of audio content on that team. Users ...

Liftopia - SaaS cloud computing sports travel

Liftopia

Liftopia - Ski lift tickets: Save up to 80% off lift tickets with Liftopia! Buy ski deals online and save on skiing.

Prophecy Sciences - sports finance recruiting human resources

Prophecy Sciences

Predicting performance and fit through neuroscience
Prophecy Sciences lets companies make better hiring decisions and build higher performing teams, using neuroscience. The Prophecy Sciences assessment is fundamentally different from any personality or aptitude test on the market. It uses a 30-minute series of ...

SenseLabs - sports neuroscience health and wellness quantified self

SenseLabs

Higher Performing Brains
SenseLabs produces Versus: a wearable hardware + apps + cloud solution for training peak brain performance. Versus measures and trains the performance of the brain— to help people assert impulse control, increase focus, manage stress, handle stress, improve recovery, ...

Ballers Bridge - social media sports social recruiting content

Ballers Bridge

Ballers Bridge is to an athlete - what LinkedIn is to the business professional.
We provide a unique platform that leverages the Internet to connect the fragmented space between players and coaches in sports recruiting.

XS: Action Sports - mobile sports

XS: Action Sports

Social commerce for Action Sports - think Instagram and Pinterest meet Wanelo
XS is an iPhone app focused on creating a social commerce platform for action sports enthusiasts. The app allows people to easily view & share photos/videos from any device, and discuss products related to their interests. We use behavior and information to help ...

Stanza - SaaS sports machine learning events

Stanza

Powering Calendar Everywhere
Stanza has reinvented the Add-to-Calendar button as a live connection between publishers' dates/events, and their audience. Our smart Add-to-Calendar button is used by major sports teams across NFL, NHL, NBA, NCAA and major broadcasters (ESPN & SiriusXM). Fans ...

Enthuse - mobile location based services sports loyalty programs

Enthuse

Sports reward platform
Enthuse is a sports-focused loyalty platform. Our app makes it easy for teams to instantly launch a loyalty program to their fans and integrate local & national sponsors for targeted activation. Our SDK empowers teams to reward-enable their existing content ...

Vulcun - social games sports video games fantasy sports

Vulcun

Platform for Fantasy E-Sports
We're building a platform for people to host and play the largest prize pools in fantasy eSports. Over $10 million available for our inaugral season, with more on the way. Watch eSports games, draft your team, and win big. Just like Fantasy football, but for eSports.

Bleacher League Entertainment - gambling sports fantasy sports

Bleacher League Entertainment

Changing the interaction between sports fans and the game
We are keeping the details for those who know us and will hear more about us in 2012.

SportHold - games sports fantasy sports prediction markets

SportHold

Crowd Sourced Predictions
Our algorithm correctly predicts what will happen on the spread 54.65% of the time. That's a crushing edge in a $1T annual market. We do that by collecting data only we have access to and building a clever algorithm using AI to identify trends we can use to arbitrage ...

Sqor Sports - advertising sports mobile advertising social media marketing

Sqor Sports

Sqor Sports is the world's most engaging editorial and social network for Sports
Sqor (www.sqor.com) is an editorial and social content platform focused on exclusively on sports. We filter out the noise. Sqor was founded on the premise that the athlete should be in full control of his/her digital presence, including the monetization of their ...

SportsLab - mobile analytics sports quantified self

SportsLab

MyFitnessPal for High School and College Sports
SportsLab is MyFitnessPal for highly competitive sports! - sportslabhq.com SportsLab helps coaches modernize player development in the weight room, classroom and on the field (or court)...with a mobile and cloud app, we use teamwork, analytics and competition ...

Cadee - mobile social media sports small and medium businesses

Cadee

Cadee is helping golfers understand and improve their game
In 2002 U.S. golfers spent $20,000,000,000 on green fees alone. They are fanatics - driven by personal development and a constant struggle to improve. They are always trying to assess their ability and understand what they need to work on to get better. Cadee ...

Hitpost - consumer internet mobile sports tablets

Hitpost

Acquired by Yahoo!
TechCrunch says our app "turns you into a sports reporter." The Huffington Post calls Hitpost "a nationwide sensation for sports fans." We make crowd-powered sports coverage, and our apps are the fastest sports channel in the world. They're personalized to ...

Mitoo - mobile social media sports marketplaces

Mitoo

The platform for the world's sports
The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands

Clip - music sports film social news

Clip

Realtime experience modeling and event analysis
Clip developed a system to model any live experience in realtime anywhere around the world. This enables: - The realtime reconstruction of any event. - The creation of immersive interactive video. - Other realtime products such as digital magazines. We did this ...

BeRecruited - sports freemium college recruiting high school students

BeRecruited

LinkedIn/Match.com for College Athletic Recruiting
BeRecruited helps high school student athletes achieve their dreams. We do that by connecting over two million registered high-school student athletes with over 30,000 college coaches. Student-athletes are able to be recruited, gain admission, and earn scholarships ...

SPOTS - mobile sports local social media platforms

SPOTS

Your local sports community.
SPOTS is the fun, easy way to play sports you love with people nearby. 1. SPOTS shows you people nearby who are looking to play your sports e.g. tennis, basketball, soccer, rock climbing, ping pong, volleyball, squash, billiards and over 140 more... 2. Connect ...

Chat Sports - digital media sports social media platforms content discovery

Chat Sports

Personalized news and scores, shared with friends.
Chat Sports delivers personalized sports news from thousands of sources. It's the only app with live play-by-play for multiple games on a single screen and the best way to share sports with friends. Users choose teams and follow friends to get every relevant article ...

Swing by Swing Golf - mobile social media sports disruptive models

Swing by Swing Golf

Building the largest interactive audience in golf.
Swing by Swing is building the largest interactive audience in golf. Our users consume and create user generated content across web, mobile, and email. 2M golfers have downloaded our flagship mobile application, and each week we send 3.5M original content ...

unseat.me - consumer internet sports ticketing collaborative consumption

unseat.me

Social StubHub- Sell Your Tickets to Your Friends
You have tickets; your friends want them. Until now the only option was to meet on the street to make the exchange. unseat.me gives ticket buyers and sellers an easy way to export listings from popular marketplaces like StubHub into their existing social networks. ...

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