Sports Tech Startups

Utrain is a mobile booking app for basketball trainers that lets them manage schedules, handle client bookings, collect session payments, and communicate with athletes. It also offers features like a free booking website, in-app messaging, location-based trainer search, and organization accounts for multiple trainers, serving the basketball training market in the United States.

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The uvex group develops, manufactures and distributes safety and protective products and services for people in professional, sports and leisure settings, spanning brands such as uvex safety, uvex sports, ALPINA, and Filtral. Based in Germany with 49 locations across 23 countries, it operates a fully integrated value chain from design and engineering to production and sales.

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Valor Vision turns a smartphone into a 3D biomechanics tool that gives athletes a movement profile, injury-risk asymmetry flags, and personalized training plans tracked from baseline through return to play. It serves professional and college sports teams, training facilities, coaches, trainers, and physical therapists for long-term athletic development.

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Vandeyk.racing makes cycling apparel, including a Woven Bibshort marketed to endurance and ultracycling athletes. The brand positions its products for long-distance and ultra-cycling races.

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Velofix offers a mobile bike shop service that comes to the customer's chosen location to perform bicycle and e-bike repairs, tune-ups, assembly, and parts and accessories installation. Customers book appointments online or by phone for scheduled at-location service.

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Venezia FC is an Italian professional football club, offering match tickets and official merchandise through its web store. The site covers both its men's and women's teams for the 25/26 season.

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HEARTBEATS, Inc. plans, develops, and operates fan-business services and applications for the sports and entertainment industries, including projects tied to Korean professional baseball (KBO) teams. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Vermont Adaptive is a nonprofit organization that runs adaptive sports and recreation programs, including cycling, paddling, and other outdoor activities, for people with disabilities across Vermont. It also recruits and trains volunteers to support participants during these programs.

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VICIS designs and manufactures protective football helmets for athletes across all ages and levels of play. The company sells to teams and leagues.

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ViDay is an all-in-one business management and online booking software for health, sports, and wellness centers, combining an admin panel, a professional app, and a branded client app. It handles appointment scheduling, payments, client records, automated reminders, electronic invoicing, and expense tracking, and is marketed in Spain.

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Virtual Tables provides a fan engagement platform for sports teams, leagues, brands, and rights holders that integrates video, commerce, sponsorship opportunities, and data collection to drive audience participation beyond the venue. The platform operates across 130+ countries in 10 languages and has activated 200,000+ fans.

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Visaic provides an AI-powered platform for sports leagues, clubs, federations, and conferences to stream content, engage audiences, and monetize through direct-to-consumer services including live games, pay-per-view events, and digital distribution. The platform serves sports entities of all sizes globally, from small teams to major leagues, with tools for content delivery, audience engagement, and revenue generation.

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Vitality (Vitality Blueprint) analyzes bloodwork through performance-oriented models to identify physiological constraints and deliver personalized nutrition, supplement, training, and behavioral protocols. It serves athletes, performance-focused individuals, and coaches, with a Coach platform for managing clients' bloodwork, analysis, and protocols.

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Vivid Picks operated a fantasy sports/gaming app where customers played contests using a cash wallet balance. The company announced it is closing operations and stopping new cash deposits as of July 2025.

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Vizual Edge offers an online eye-brain training system that uses 3D exercises to develop athletes' visual and cognitive skills for faster reactions and decision-making. It provides an Edge Test to score users' abilities and personalized training programs completed remotely on personal devices.

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VNN (now part of PlayOn) provides website, streaming, ticketing, scheduling, and roster-management tools for K-12 school athletic programs. The PlayOn Sites platform integrates fan-facing school sports websites with the GoFan app and management through PlayOn HQ for athletic directors and coaches.

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Volo runs adult recreational sports programs including leagues, drop-ins, pickup games, corporate events, and premium court rentals across multiple U.S. cities. It also supports the Volo Kids Foundation, which provides free youth sports programs.

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Vozzi provides an SMS and mobile engagement platform for sports organizations, venues, and live-event companies to drive ticket sales and sponsorship revenue through real-time messaging and data-driven fan engagement.

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VSiN produces sports betting media, including news, expert picks, Vegas odds tracking, shows, and podcasts for sports bettors. It offers betting analysis, tips, and tools across sports such as the NFL, NBA, and college basketball.

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WaterfowlAI builds operational software for waterfowl hunting clubs, leases, and outfitters, including member management, blind scheduling, harvest tracking, and embedded payments (BlindBook), plus AI-powered species identification from wing photos (WingID) and a conservation data dashboard for wildlife agencies and researchers (TerraWing). Aimed at U.S. hunters, hunting operators, and conservation organizations, it turns logged hunts into geo-tagged species and harvest data for population and habitat monitoring.

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Wattbike designs and manufactures smart indoor bikes and air bikes with real-time performance metrics, pedal-stroke analysis, and a companion training app for cyclists, athletes, and home fitness users. Its bikes are used by elite sports teams, performance labs, gyms, and individuals, and are sold through a distribution network across multiple continents.

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Wave.tv produces original shows and series designed for digital platforms, targeting digital-first sports and entertainment fans. It also offers brands advertising placements through its talent and content.

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WaveClear is a personalized mindset and skills training tool for League of Legends players that tracks focus and in-game performance in real-time (without hardware) to help gamers improve consistency, ignore toxicity, and rank up. It combines wellness research and pro-coaching methods to train mindset, mechanics, and goal setting during gameplay.

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WellnessSpace Brands makes recovery and wellness equipment for fitness clubs and wellness spaces, offering products such as dry cold-plunge, infrared saunas, water massage loungers, and contrast recovery chairs. Its turn-key wellness suite is aimed at gym and club operators to add dedicated recovery areas.

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