Top Illinois Sports Startups (29)

At Catch Co, our purpose is to rescue people from the indoors by connecting them with America’s top outdoor sport: fishing. More than 50 million Americans fish every year and Catch Co is the industry leader in creating products, content, and experiences that modern anglers love. Most importantly, we aim to have the most loyal customers in the outdoors industry....

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...

Founded in 2009, TeamSnap is the #1 platform for organizing youth, recreational, and competitive sports activities. Over 25 million users use TeamSnap’s web and smartphone apps to sign up, schedule, communicate and coordinate everything for the team, the club, and the season. TeamSnap makes organizing as simple as click, tap, and go.

CHAMPRO® is a manufacturer of sports equipment and apparel and distributes via sports specialty retailers. Mission Statement: Champro Sports® will deliver high value traditional and innovative athletic equipment and apparel to sporting goods specialty stores via outstanding, integrity driven customer service.

Our goal at Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is simple: free our patients to be more active, more athletic, and to move freely in their bodies – accessible to everyone, not just the select few. That our patients, regardless of walk of life, move more freely, function better, and experience life to the full. We accept all public insurance as...

Volley is on a mission to revolutionize racquet sports. We are the world’s first digitally enabled robotics as a service (RaaS) training platform focused on sports such as platform tennis, pickleball, tennis and padel. Combining a digitally controlled ball trainer with an AI vision network, Volley creates opportunities for players, pros and clubs. Players experience workouts that provide tailored live-play scenarios,...

Subme is a mobile platform that allows users to easily play recreational sports league games and pickup games nearby. Teams use Subme to find subs each week and add new players to their roster on a permanent basis.

Premier USA manufacturer of clinical-strength red & infrared light therapy pads for pain and circulation. Discovered by scientists and prescribed by professionals.

We’re inventors, marketers, sports enthusiasts, creatives and strategists who like to go BIG. We work with properties large and small to generate the solutions that drive results and revenue. Corporate Sponsorships. Digital Executions. Innovative Strategies.

Swing King is golf’s first fully digital gaming platform designed for everyday play. The current iteration of our proprietary technology solution is a cash entry fee hole-in-one contest that adds entertainment and new revenue streams to golf courses of any type and provides golfers with added excitement, meaningful cash payouts and an HD video of their ultimate golf experience. We...

Youth sports and extracurricular activities are becoming more expensive, and every day it’s pricing out more and more families from the critical benefits of participation. The technology we’re building solves this problem in an industry that has yet to be disrupted.

StreamLayer is a stealth B2B technology company focused exclusively on audience engagement around live OTT video content.

Lateral Edge focuses on training athletes in multiple capacities. We have two lines of business. Our on-site B2B contract training which is primarily for youth sports clubs. And our second B2C line which is video classes that are streamed daily. We differentiate ourselves from competitors by our workouts and content.

Sprocket Sports is a rapidly growing technology company based in Chicago that is quickly emerging as a national leader in the youth sports marketplace. Our software and services help clubs streamline operations, reduce expenses and accelerate growth – freeing them up from the business of running a club so they can focus on what really matters: kids playing sports!

SuperTailgate is the US’s largest sports travel site, enabling travelers to “Make Gameday Perfect!” SuperTailgate provides fans a complete guide to every single stadium in the NFL, MLB, NASCAR, NBA, NHL, CFL, MLS, AAA + AA Baseball, College Football, Basketball & select high profile special events! Check us out and make your next Gameday Perfect!

We are a team of young, but experienced entrepreneurs who believe in the future of smart urban mobility, and also in the advance of science in integrating the brain and body’s biomarkers with the mechanics and electronics of the most beloved mode of green transportation – the bicycle.

Phenix is the go-to provider for real-time video streaming solutions and the only company that can stream synchronous real-time video to broadcast sized audiences. We offer an end-to-end solution that delivers video with less than ½ second of latency. Real-time is the next frontier for companies to drive interactivity, enabling them to acquire, engage and retain viewers in areas such...

Heritage Werks is the heritage agency for sports, brands and entertainment. We specialize in establishing and maintaining state-of-the-art archival programs and curating compelling content and narratives to fuel interactive experiences, new stadiums, corporate anniversaries, social/mobile content, exhibits, museums, storytelling campaigns and much more. Our clients include DOW 30 and Fortune 500 companies, major technology, luxury and fashion brands, MLB, NBA, NFL and...

PromoShare is a fan activation and promotion platform that empowers sports organizations to engage more fans on social media to drive ticket and merchandise sales. By harnessing the power of superfans and their social networks, PromoShare enables teams to amplify their messages authentically to promote events, offers, and sponsor engagements. The platform enables teams to recruit ambassadors based on specific...

We’re Zcruit, a Chicago-based startup that helps college sports teams recruit more efficiently. While we currently work with over 50 Division 1 football programs (including every National Champion since 2002), we now have our sights set on expanding to help coaches across all sports and divisions discover prospective student-athletes.