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The Highlights App
Techstars '23Aventura, US · Founded 2021 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Mobile app that condenses sports games into short personalized highlight clips for fans.
Also known as The Highlights App
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026The Highlights App is a mobile platform that lets users watch recent sports highlights instead of full games. Partners supply roughly five-minute highlight videos, which the company's editing team trims further into clips of about one to two minutes, so that a user can cover five or six games in five to ten minutes. The feed is personalized, improving its recommendations as a user consumes more content on the platform.
The app covers several sports, including soccer, tennis, golf, basketball and watersports. Co-founder Daniel Benchimol has described an ambition for the editing operation, supported by artificial intelligence, to eventually process 500 games in an hour. The stated goal is for the app to become a primary destination for sports highlight consumption.
Founding story
Co-founder Daniel Benchimol grew up between Argentina and Colombia, attended high school in Miami and college in New York on a soccer scholarship. After graduating he worked at a venture capital firm and then at the sports platforms fuboTV and Fanatiz. He moved with his family from New York to Miami during the pandemic and co-founded The Highlights App there with Humberto Ciffoni.
Business model
The company aggregates highlight footage supplied by partners and redistributes it as short-form, personalized clips through its consumer mobile app.
Traction
Users watch an average of 10 games per week each, with typical viewing sessions of around 30 seconds per clip; the company has not disclosed user counts.
Latest developments
The company joined the Techstars Sports Accelerator and stated plans to enter the US market and to raise a further funding round.
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Technology
The service relies on an editing workflow that condenses partner-supplied highlight reels into shorter clips, plus personalization that tailors the content feed to each user's viewing behavior. The company intends to apply artificial intelligence to scale editing throughput.
Go-to-market
Growth to date has been organic, supplemented by participation in the Techstars Sports Accelerator.
Sports fans who prefer condensed highlights over watching full live games.
Geography
The app was available only in South America at the time of reporting, with plans to launch in the United States. The team of ten includes two people in Miami, with the remainder distributed across Latin America.
History
The app launched in 2022 and had raised a $700,000 pre-seed round as of the 2023 Refresh Miami report. The company joined the Techstars Sports Accelerator, where Benchimol was among 13 founders selected for the 13-week mentor-driven program, after an earlier application had been declined. At that time the company planned to launch in the US in the first quarter of the following year and to raise an additional round by the end of the third quarter.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company had raised a $700,000 pre-seed round as of the report.
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The company joined the Techstars Sports Accelerator; co-founder Daniel Benchimol was one of 13 founders selected for the 13-week mentor-driven program.
The sports highlights mobile app launched in 2022, initially available in South America.
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primary sources listed
- Miss a game? No worries, just check out The Highlights App - Refresh Miamirefreshmiami.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does The Highlights App do?
- Mobile app that condenses sports games into short personalized highlight clips for fans.
- Who are The Highlights App's investors?
- The Highlights App's investors include Techstars.
- Where is The Highlights App headquartered?
- The Highlights App is headquartered in Aventura, US.