Real Sports
1 known investors
Real Sports is a social sports data app for live scores, custom notifications, predictions and collectible sports cards.
Also known as Real · Real App
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Real Sports, which operates the product simply called "Real," is a social sports data platform built around live game data rather than user-generated media commentary. The app delivers real-time score and play updates, statistics, and personalized notifications for players, teams and tags, and pairs them with community features including comments, polls, leaderboards, lineups and badges. Coverage currently spans basketball, football, baseball and hockey, with stated plans to add soccer, racing, cricket and other sports.
The product includes two in-app currencies and reward mechanics: Karma, earned through activities such as filling out polls and climbing leaderboards, and Rax, used to open card packs and collect player cards, team cards and play cards. Users can also compete against the community by using Rax to predict game outcomes, with supported markets covering game winners and total points; displayed percentages reflect community sentiment and lower-probability outcomes pay out more Rax. The app is available on iOS, Android and the web at realapp.com and realsports.io, with multi-tab support for following several games at once.
A paid tier, Real Pro, layers on web access, predictions, a free daily card pack, a 10% bonus on purchased Rax, custom and emoji usernames, granular per-play notification settings by sport, custom over/under stat trackers, custom themes, doubled daily leaderboard rewards, link sharing in comments, and early access to new sports and features.
Founding story
The concept originated in February 2020 out of a desire to build a modern social sports platform centered on reacting to live plays, and the team has iterated on the product and added sports since then. Public company profiles list John Antonelli and Louis Antonelli as co-founders.
Business model
Consumer mobile and web application monetized through a premium subscription tier (Real Pro, priced in USD and purchasable via in-app payment methods including Apple Pay, with non-refundable purchases and optional recurring billing) and through sales of the in-app Rax currency used to buy card packs and collectibles.
Premium feature subscription (Real Pro) plus in-app purchases of Rax virtual currency, which is spent on card packs, player/team/play cards and predictions.
Traction
The apps are distributed on the Apple App Store and Google Play and via the web. A third-party company profile lists 21-50 employees across departments including marketing, HR and engineering, and reports no funding raised.
Latest developments
Documentation continues to be updated, including the Real Pro feature set and job postings for a full-stack engineer and a product designer.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself against sports apps run by legacy media companies by centering the experience on objective sports data — plays, players and games — instead of media opinion and user-generated content, while also aiming to be a fast way to check scores and stats. Comparable consumer sports apps include theScore, Yahoo Sports, FlashScore and ScoreStream.
Combines live sports data delivery with engagement layers not typically bundled together: community prediction markets denominated in an in-app currency, a collectible card and pack system, karma-based leaderboards, and notification/stat-tracking configurability down to individual play types, score situations, game time, shot distance, inning and exit velocity.
Technology
Mobile apps for iOS and Android plus a web application supporting multiple simultaneous game tabs. The platform ingests live sports data to drive fast score and play updates, highly configurable notification rules (filtered by play type, score, game time, shot distance, inning and exit velocity depending on sport) and custom player and game over/under stat trackers. Public technology-profile data lists Amazon Web Services, AWS Certificate Manager, Nginx and Open Graph in its stack.
Go-to-market
Direct-to-consumer distribution through the Apple App Store, Google Play and the web, with growth described as driven by social media and word-of-mouth marketing around a member community; a free tier funnels users toward the Real Pro subscription and Rax purchases.
Avid fans of US professional sports leagues — NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL — who want fast score and play updates, granular player notifications, statistical tracking, prediction games and digital card collecting.
Geography
Listed as headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with product coverage focused on US sports leagues and a stated ambition to build a global member base.
History
Idea conceived in February 2020; the company was founded in 2020 and has since built and expanded the product across basketball, football, baseball and hockey, adding premium features under Real Pro, web access, prediction markets and a collectible card system, with stated plans to expand into soccer, racing and cricket.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsReal Pro premium subscription provides web access, community prediction markets using Rax, a free daily card pack, 10% bonus Rax on purchases, custom and emoji usernames, advanced per-play notification settings, custom stat trackers, themes, doubled daily leaderboard rewards, link sharing and early access to new sports.
The concept behind Real originated in February 2020, with the aim of building a social sports platform organized around live plays and sports data; the team has been building, iterating and adding sports since.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Real Pro | Real Sportsdocs.realapp.link · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Real Sports do?
- Real Sports is a social sports data app for live scores, custom notifications, predictions and collectible sports cards.
- Who are Real Sports's investors?
- Real Sports's investors include The Chernin Group (TCG Crypto).