Top California Sports Startups (79)

Aventon was born in 2012 with a small delivery van and a single-roomed warehouse office. Our mission is to provide superior quality performance bicycles and components. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Aventon Bicycles continues shake the industry with innovation & design with passionate and creative team members. Each bicycle we produce extrudes our love and devotion to bicycles. It’s simple: less...

Nex is helping families reconnect with the joy of movement through fun, social, and interactive content that’s accessible to all ages. Its award-winning Nex Playground console, launched in December 2023, uses cutting-edge AI, mobile and vision technologies to merge digital and physical worlds, immersing players in the experience using their natural body movement. Nex Playground games range from original sports...

Athletes First is a full-service sports representation and marketing agency founded in 2001, guiding the careers of elite athletes, coaches, executives, and broadcasters by focusing on contract negotiations, marketing strategy, and brand partnerships.

Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey. We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: videogames. Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay...

Tixr has served as a focal point for evolving the ticketing space and beyond, redefining what it means to plan and attend an event at any scale. Started by fans for fans, we were founded with the mission to upgrade the world of ticketing by delivering an unparalleled experience for event creators and fans. As an experiential commerce partner to some...

Smarkets is a peer-to-peer exchange platform for sports and political trading that has handled over $32 billion in traded volume since 2010. Our goal is to upend the sports betting industry by creating a transparent platform that offers not only the fairest prices but also the best technology and customer experience.

Rec is building the operating system for the activity economy. Every day, millions of people look for ways to play, learn, move, compete, and connect in their communities. Yet the technology powering recreation has been largely ignored for decades. Our platform is modernizing the $105B activity industry, powering registrations, facility reservations, instructor marketplaces, payments, permits, and operations for cities and recreation...

Record your sport - without a camera operator. Veo lets you record your sports match without a camera operator. Automatic recording and video-editing enables coaches and players to watch and share their sport. Veo is founded in 2015 in Copenhagen. Our vision is to democratise the video broadcasting and analytics that today only are available for the professional teams. Veo is offered for...

Relo Metrics is an AI-powered sponsorship analytics intelligence platform that enables brands to track and optimize their sponsorship investments and powers teams and leagues with the insights they need to retain and grow revenue. The company tracks sponsor exposure across live broadcasts, social media, and streaming platforms, delivering actionable insights via a fast, single solution platform. For more information, visit...

5th Planet is focused on the development of core games for mobile and online platforms.

Mojo is an exciting early-stage startup at the intersection of sports and finance. We're pioneering groundbreaking work with complex engineering, advanced data science, sophisticated market making, cutting-edge app design, original content, and more — all designed to give fans a new way to cash in on their sports knowledge and passion. We’re led by visionary founders Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez,...

FORM Lifting is changing how athletes train by revolutionizing how they lift. By quantifying barbell lifts, we are transforming lifting from an art to a science. Athletes and coaches can now work to fine tune form and technique, and also track long term progress towards goals.

TOK.tv allows millions of fans to talk to their friends, while watching a game on TV. It empowers teams and brands to talk to the fans, and monetize the game experience. TOK.tv is the #1 social network in sports.

Religion of Sports is an award winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra. Our work is defined by thoughtful, elevated stories that uncover why sports matter, and distill the spirituality, science and humanity that unite elite performers and people of all kinds. We tell modern day myths. More at religionofsports.com.

StatMuse is the leader in conversational artificial intelligence for sports information and storytelling. Featuring the authentic voices of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Jerry Rice, Todd Gurley and Scott Van Pelt, the proprietary StatMuse knowledge engine provides instant answers to trillions of sports questions. `Ask StatMuse`​ for stats, scores, schedules, standings, bios, recaps and more -- from live games...

Co-founders Aaron Rodgers and Ryan Rottman saw a huge gap in the marketplace for an IMDB like sports site. Online Sports Database is consolidating all sports sites and aggregating that info and housing it under one roof. We're a digital sports platform with athlete/team profile pages that present the most extensive, aggregated and verified information containing agent/management info, contract details,...

Squad Genius simplifies communication in youth sports.

We are building RideBlock - is an activity and motion tracker designed for skateboards and longboards to track the tricks performed, analyse the progress and compete with friends in real-time. Our mission is to empower the action sports community using innovation and data to progress together and use analytics to improve performance.

We're building the Superhuman Sports AI Teammate — transforming sports video and data into instant insights for coaches and individual athletes. Snapp is a sports Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) using agentic system and multimodal encoding that processes visual, audio, and contextual information for human-like understanding of sports content. Our platform enables semantic search, content retrieval, and multi-video analysis across unlimited...

Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater in more than 50 cities across the U.S. and Canada. We’re passionate about enabling incredible shared experiences, so we build technology that gets people out into the real world together. With a bias for spontaneity, we’re focused on making the process simple and smooth while you’re...