2021 was a big one For the last 5 years, the end of Q1 has brought a round of new SportsTech Ecosystem reports from the SportsTechX team. In April we published the 2022 editions of our Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific reports covering data and insights from the last 5 years, with special focus on…

A bit late in the day to say Happy New Year but certainly never too late to wish everyone a fantastic 2022! Team SportsTechX is particularly excited for this year since it’s a bit of a landmark for us, we turn 5 in June (Woohoo!). …

Investment in SportsTech crosses $8.3 till Sept 2021. On track to surpass $12b by end of year, more than last 3 years combined. Wow. What a year 2021 has been for SportsTech. In August, we’d written an article highlighting that investment in SportsTech had crossed $5b by the end of…

Investment crosses $100m till August 2021 Transfer windows usually are a rollercoaster ride of emotions for football / soccer (referred to only as football from now on) fans, swinging wildly from hopeful optimism to back-breaking disappointment to wide-eyed elation based on the latest tweet from your favourite news source. But…

Investment crosses $5b in 1st half of 2021, sets record We’re well over halfway into 2021 and there’s been plenty of excitement in the sports world already. The Euros could hardly have been better, the Olympics are finally here to tell wonderful stories and as the new season of European…

A new & improved SportsTechX framework Earlier this year, the SportsTechX team published the latest editions of our geography based ecosystem reports. We took a fresh look at Europe & North America and expanded our scope to cover the entire Asia-Pacific region including Australia, a very important SportsTech market.

The world of SportsTech certainly wasn’t listening to the Greenday anthem about the month of September since it was clearly wide awake. The last month of Q3 2020 saw a number of really big investment rounds that significantly change the outlook for 2020. Seems like no pandemic was going to…

Looking beyond funding and investment We’ve talked a lot about funding and investment in the SportsTech ecosystem and that is understandable since that’s the news that attracts the most attention. But what about all the ones who haven’t raised money yet or perhaps don’t need to? A flourishing ecosystem needs a steady supply of startups…

Comparing the major SportsTech markets: Europe, North America & Asia So, 2020 has been quite a year already hasn’t it? It started with the tragic demise of two icons of modern sports in David Stern and Kobe Bryant. …