The Sports Tech Allstars Podcast

Interviewing Amr El Beheiry, Co Founder and CCO of Fanzword  In this conversation, Amr talks about how fans are the heart and blood of the sports industry and they spend huge amounts of time, effort and savings each year cheering for their favourite teams. There is no platform that helps you monetize cheering for your team. This is when Amr decided that there needs to be someone who rewards the fa...

Interviewing Malik Shishtawi, Founder of Arab SportsTech & Gaming Expo Arab SportsTech & Gaming Expo is based in Qatar and is an opportunity to meet key players & leaders from the Sports Tech, eSports & Sports world in Qatar and the world, & to discuss latest trends and solutions in the industry. It focuses on providing real-world case studies, and learnings, enabling companies...

Interviewing Mohammad Ali Abbaspour, Founder and CEO at Sponixtech   Sponixtech is a technology company that provides services and solutions which helps broadcasters, TV channels and advertisers increase viewers and enhance fan experiences. Through the ‘Immersive Replay technology’, Sponix Tech assists its clients to acquire more viewers, enhance their fan engagement and experience by producing im...

Interviewing Petr Zhukov, Founder & CEO at Indigo SportsTech Founded in 2019 Indigo Sports Tech focuses exclusively on sports tech ventures and participated in Seed pre-A and A rounds. With a segment focus spanning from smart wearables and gadgets to sports media and marketing, fan engagement and e-sports. The fund's geographic focus is the EU, but it also has exposure to the US and Israel...

Interviewing Vasu Kulkarni, Partner at Courtside Ventures  Courtside Ventures is built on the backs of highly specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors. They look to utilize  industry networks and deep domain knowledge to bring unparalleled value to the companies that they invest in and support.  In this conversation, Vasu discusses his love for playing basketball that led him to st...

Interviewing Machar Reid, Head of innovation at Tennis Australia and General partner at Wildcard Ventures Wildcard Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on SportsTech startups, led by Tennis Australia and supported by prominent figures in the tennis industry. In this conversation, Machar discusses the Australian Open's objective of becoming the most accessible and enjoyable sports event globa...

Interviewing Max Feldstein, Vice President of Elysian Park Elysian Park, owned by the LA Dodgers, is a global investment platform focusing on the intersection of sports with health, culture, commerce, and technology. They work across stages from seed to growth to provide companies with perspective, relationships, capital, and powerful strategic resources, their investments include Trailblazer Vent...

Interviewing Simon Thompson, Founder of Trickshot Trickshot is a London-based sports technology company that uses 3D data from live sports to create engaging augmented & virtual reality experiences for fans In this conversation, Simon gives us an insight on how Trickshot's technology can help sports organizations attract younger audiences who are passionate about esports and seek the dynamic a...

Interviewing Brennon D’souza, Founder & CEO of DIBZ DIBZ is an extremely fast upgrade experience that is facilitated through text messaging, for Professional Sports, Concerts & Music Festivals. DIBZ Works closely with the NHL, NFL, NBA, MLS, CFL, NASCAR, WWE, Ticketmaster, TDC, MLSE, etc. Based out of London & Atlanta, DIBZ is a tech startup that is a full-service texting engagement pl...

Interviewing Piyush Kumar, CEO of Rooter Rooter is India’s leading Game Streaming and eSports platform. The company is on a mission to provide a fair and inspiring platform to gaming content creators, helping them produce entertaining content that is unique to their personas while benefiting from monetizable opportunities for their efforts. At the same time, by building a rich and diverse content...

Interviewing Neil Zhang, Co-Founder of Frontrunner Frontrunner is a A decentralized sports prediction market built on blockchain. It is the first zero gas fee, decentralized sports prediction market built on blockchain where you get the best odds with no house edge. Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they wo...

Interviewing Mohammed Kilany, CEO of Fanera Fanera is a sports tech startup based in UAE that aims to revolutionize football by providing fans, clubs, and sponsors with a one-single social platform to connect, engage and monetize. Fanera is also the first crowdsourced, intuitive, scalable and multi-lingual 360 degree social platform that is designed for and by football fans. It enables fans to sha...

Interviewing Iker Zubizarreta, Co-Founder & CTO of Vitruve Vitruve is a Spanish tech startup that develops software and hardware applied to sports performance, focused on strength training sessions in the weight room. Where traditionally, strength training has been based on the subjective perceptions of coaches or athletes, Vitruve applies an objective approach to obtain the necessary data tha...

 Interviewing Rayde Luis Baez, Strategic Commercial advisor of EuroLeague Basketball EuroLeague Basketball is a European professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier league in Europe and consists of 18 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licenses and wild cards, making the league a semi-closed league. The EuroLeague is one of the most popular in...

Interviewing Commodore, Co-Creator at Krause House Krause House is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governed by a community of fans, basketball lovers and purists. s a social, gamified app for basketball fanatics where digital and IRL engagement are rewarded. Users compete to level up and earn rewards by shooting hoops and to learn more, visit https://www.krausehouse.club/ In this con...

Interviewing Henry Lowenfels, Chief Product Officer at OneTeam Partners One Team Partners is a one-of-a-kind solution that helps athletes maximize the value of their name, image, and likeness rights. OneTeam specializes in group licensing, marketing, media, and investing. Through their partnerships with Players Associations, OneTeam’s mission is to transform the way all athletes participate in bus...

Interviewing David Ortiz, Founder & CEO at SimWin Sports SimWin Sports is the world's first digital sports league that provides daily fantasy players and esports fans the ability to watch, predict, collect, play and earn. It is the virtual sports metaverse that fuels 24/7 fantasy sports and sports betting action with NFL players and Hall of Fame owners! At SimWin, the teams are NFTs - owned by...

Kicking off our podcast lineup for our Web3 in Sports month, we have Brian Zwerner, Founder & VC at Beyond The Game Network Beyond The Game Network is an investment community of current and former professional athletes, finance and business executives. By bringing together the best people from across a wide range of backgrounds, BTGN has created a community where their members can learn and gr...

Interviewing Eric Stark, Co-Founder & COO at Slate Slate is made up of a team of experienced social content & brand marketing professionals who have come together out of a passion for solving problems. Born out of the NFL, Slate is a content creation platform for brands that are advertising or have a presence on social media. Slate is trusted by the biggest brand social media teams in spor...

Interviewing Danny Cortenraede, Founder & Managing Partner at Venturerock Venturerock is a digital venture capital platform and ecosystem of founders, backers and venture builders. They support founders who ‘dare to change systems’. Venture rock has combined technology and our expertise in accelerating 700+ startups to design a new investment protocol that enables founders and their teams to f...

Interviewing Sandy Khaund, Founder & CEO @Credenza Credenza enables brands, sports, luxury goods and entertainment clients to integrate web3 technologies into existing operations to enhance direct-to-fan/consumer relationships and create new revenue streams both online and offline. Credenza’s vision of web3 and traditional retail unite to enhance customer experience and engagement. In this con...

Interviewing David Hernando, Head of Strategy @SportBoost SportBoost is an accelerator and co-investment platform that specializes in sport, innovation and technology. The accelerator is founded by Spanish legendary footballer Iker Casilas and has partnered with La Liga as their main partner, Wayra is the co-investing partner and ESIC is their educational partner.  SportBoost was formed aroun...

Interviewing Federico Smanio, Program Director of WeSportUp WeSportUp is Italy’s first innovation hub accelerator specifically for health and wellness. The accelerator is part of the initiative of CDP Venture Capital along with Sport and Health and is managed by Startupbootcamp and Wylab. Fastweb, Renault and Telepass are the corporate partners for WeSportUp. The applications to their flagship 3-m...

Interviewing Thomas Euler, Founder and CEO of Liquiditeam Liquiditeam is tokenizing fandom by using blockchain. It is a fan engagement and financing solutions for professional sports, clubs, athletes and content creators. It enables everyone who has fans to build their own platform. Liquiditeam also uses Web3 content and community management systems. Liquiditeam works at the intersection of three...

Interviewing Anirudh Pandita, Founder @Loco Loco is India's leading live game streaming platform that is building the future gaming community in the country. Viewers can watch gaming videos all at one place. What started as a live trivia game show app developed into a platform for India's best upcoming and top gamers and hosts them as they play and stream the top trending games. It also allows fan...