Unrivaled’s tech-forward performance
Unrivaled has a large performance staff and several tech partners -- Kinexon, Plantiga, Springbok Analytics and VALD -- to improve player care and training.
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Nominees announced for fourth annual Sports Business Awards: Tech
SBJ Tech Week will launch with the SBA: Tech ceremony on May 18 in New York City. Spanning eight different categories, the 46 finalists were selected by in-house judging committees.
Funding Round(up): Breaking down Q4 2025 investments in sports tech
Q4 2025 raised $1.75B with massive sports tech investment fueled by two rounds accounting for $1.6B: a $900M Series E for Oura, and a $700M equity investment for NEP Group.
Teams, leagues discovering AI uses that streamline internal processes
The levels of AI maturity within the sports industry vary, but most leaders agree harnessing the technology to streamline internal processes is a top business priority.
Introducing SBJ’s newest 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies
Sports Business Journal introduces its fourth annual list of the 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies. Honorees will be recognized at the 2026 Sports Business Awards: Tech.
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Genius Sports reports revenue gains, net loss in latest earnings
Genius Sports reported its Q4 and FY25 earnings Wednesday morning, which included big revenue gains but outsized losses for the year.
Sportradar continues growth in latest earnings report
Sportradar continued revenue and profitability growth in both Q4 and the full year of 2025, as highlighted in the company’s latest earnings report this week. For the last quarter of 2025, Sportradar’s revenue jumped 20% year-over-year to $429M, with $96.7M of that revenue coming from its U.S. busine...
Cosm Atlanta venue to open in June
The Cosm dome coming to Atlanta’s Centennial Yards’ mixed-use district has an open date: June 10, the day of Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals, which will be the venue’s first ticketed event.
SBJ gets first look at TOCA Social’s U.S. debut
TOCA Social will open its first U.S. venue Friday with a 20,000-square-foot facility at Grandscape in The Colony, Texas, as the soccer-themed entertainment concept expands from the U.K. into the North Texas experiential venue market.
Unrivaled’s tech-forward performance group seeks to set the industry standard
The Unrivaled season is a three-month sprint, but the size of its performance staff and tech stack are robust enough for a yearlong schedule -- and they are making an impact beyond its own league.
Metta World Peace launching AI avatar platform for celebs
37 Partners, a talent and intellectual property services company co-founded and chaired by former NBAer Metta World Peace, on Wednesday is unveiling a new platform that seeks to help athletes and entertainers create, manage and monetize AI-generated digital likenesses of themselves.
SBJ Power Up: Genius Sports rolls out two new deals
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Genius Sports adds adtech deployments with Magnite, NBC Sports RSNs
Genius Sports continues to expand its media and advertising business, most recently with a pair of deals that the firm believes will showcase its unique, data-driven capabilities in the space.
TWG Global launches ticketing, operations software called RightsHelper
TWG Global has officially launched a new ticketing analytics and operations tool called RightsHelper, which is purpose-built software for the sports industry.
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