Top Illinois Sports Startups (25)

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.

Honest Game is reimagining a world where access to college sports is fair, equitable, anchored by data and grounded in integrity. Honest Game's SaaS product builds individualized academic roadmaps to provide real-time strategic eligibility guidance so everyone has a clear pathway to college sports and beyond. Founded in Chicago in 2019, Honest Game is seeking a Principal Engineer to support...

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

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!

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...

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...

The company history began in 1972 creating helmet decals and growing to other custom vinyl products, then custom screen printed apparel and primarily using mailed catalogs. The company is heading in a new direction. Putting the website first as a mode of communication and focusing sales to high school teams.

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.

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.

Loop delivers digitized scheduling solutions to the golf, ski, tennis, and pro sports industries. We offer a suite of software components (native mobile apps and cloud based backend platforms) that improve the quality of life of all our users from corporate schedulers to independent contractors.

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!

Travelsports aggregates, organizes & publishes fragmented information around the competitive youth and adult sports market to facilitate interactions and transactions amongst parents & participants, clubs, leagues, facilities, tournament organizers and related businesses.

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.

Our History Founded in 2003 in a small garage in Lisbon, Illinois by Owner and Founder, Rick Tollefson, Boombah Inc. has grown into a 250,000 square foot facility headquartered in Yorkville, Illinois with additional offices in St. Louis, Missouri and Melbourne, Florida. In 2016, Boombah Inc. opened two factories in the Dominican Republic, moving its apparel and uniform production from Asia to...

Located in the bustling city of Chicago, Focus Time Escape provides an exhilarating and immersive escape room experience, immersing participants in a world of mystery and time-sensitive challenges. In a mysterious domain, adventurers can experience the thrill of uncovering extraterrestrial secrets in the enigmatic Area 51 room or immerse themselves in the dark and twisted setting of Maniac's Basement. Groups of...

At FastModel Sports, we build game-changing software solutions for the professional, collegiate and thousands of youth coaches around the world. Founded in 2004, FastModel Sports is the industry leader in providing cutting edge software solutions for basketball teams and coaches of all levels. Our mission is to bring innovation to every coach and player in the world. FastModel Products were designed to...

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.

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.

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...