#StartupsFight at Vicente Calderón

9ineSports Network
Aug 9, 2017 · 3 min read

Fundación COTEC, in partnership with Fundación Atlético de Madrid collaborated to bring a soccer and innovation festival called #Imperdible_02 this past 10th and 11th of June, 2017. The festival, carried out at Atlético de Madrid’s former home, the Vicente Calderón stadium, brought together a series of events and tournaments, including the ‘Cantera Empresarial’; a soccer start-up competition hosted by Deloitte. The competition consisted of 8 soccer-related technology start-ups competing against each other to be crowned as the most innovative and effective new soccer business. The 8 start-ups were graded in terms of their capacity to offer different solutions to problems posed in daily economic and business activities, as well as its contribution to economic development and benefits to society.

The scene at Vicente Calderón Stadium

9ineSports was proud to form part of the 8 finalists who participated. The other participants in the tournament included Futboltek Technology for Training, Sukan Sport Technology, Goldenboy App, JoinSP, TOOOLS, DefyU, and Teem Players, all of which provided spectators with innovative new ways of improving their soccer-fueled life.

The tournament’s methodology, dubbed #StartupsFight consisted of three stages:

· First, the 8 finalists had to pitch their idea in 90 seconds to 8 different groups of audiences.

· After this round, the entrepreneurs were asked to do a 60 second pitch to the entire audience stating the reasons why their startup should win the competition.

· Finally there was an enthusiastic debate between each other and the judges, allowing for critique and questioning where defending own ideas was imperative.

The event allowed 9ineSports to go head-to-head with the most innovative start-ups in the country, as well as expose itself to important actors and businesses within the soccer Spanish community, including important teams such as Valencia Club de Fútbol and the aforementioned Atlético de Madrid.

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#sports #technology #fanengagement #innovation #entrepreneurship #barcelona

· Covered by: Francisco González-Cos

9ineSports is the Ultimate Network for Sports Fans; the first complete solution. The platform integrates content from the main social media channels, while providing sports specific information such as Calendar, Results, Stats, Standings and Higlights; it also includes e-commerce components to purchase tickets, sporting goods and merchandising. The solution is integrated through a trademark gamification system and tools like FanMatch to generate an active and engaged community of users.

The Startup from Barcelona has currently signed partnership agreements with the RCD Espanyol from La Liga and the CF Reus from the Spanish Second Division.

9ineSports has succesfully launched the Beta 2.0 version of the Web App. The mobile applications for iOs and Android will be launched by September of 2017.

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