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  • UMASS Amherst Mullins Center Makes The Switch To LED Lights By Ephesus Lighting

    The Mullins Center at UMASS Amherst makes the switch to LED Lights from Ephesus Lighting, sports technology news that is making the world a better place. The University of Massachusetts Amherst, along with Global Spectrum, one of the nation’s leading public assembly facility management companies, announced a series of upgrades to the William D. Mullins…

  • PlaySight Lands $3.5m Investment To Fund Worldwide Distribution of Game-Changing Sports Technology

    PlaySight Interactive, an innovative sports technology Company and creators of an affordable, tennis analytic system (the ‘SmartCourt’), today announced the completion of a $3.5 million investment round from high-profile private investors including Novak Djokovic, Billie-Jean King, Bill Ackman, Mark Ein, Dr. Jim Loehr and others. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to share this…

  • Your 2014 GSS Start-Up Competition Finalists

    The Global Sports Symposium (GSS) Pitch Competition gives sport start-ups crucial exposure to top agencies, teams, leagues, and entrepreneurs in the sports industry plus the chance to win up to one month’s worth of advisory services from 1010 Capital, a global merchant bank that focuses on incubating, advising and investing in consumer brands and ventures…

  • Alchemy Global Crowdfunding Platform First In Sports and Entertainment Space

    Alchemy Global launched a Sports and Entertainment Crowdfunding Platform for Accredited Investors today in Charleston, South Carolina. The Sports Techie community blog chatted with Andy Brusman, Founder and CEO at Alchemy Global Holdings, LLC about his startup, their space in the finance Industry and more business expansion strategy. Together with sports legends Greg Norman, Jim…

  • ScoreStream Eager For Investment, iPhone App Launch And New Media Partnerships

    ScoreStream delivers real time high school and local scores across the country. I spoke to their CEO, Derrick Oien, about his new fund raising efforts, the launch of an upgraded app version for iPhone, their upcoming announcement concerning new TV, radio and newspaper deals, and a nice user story about the UCSD women’s waterpolo team who marched on…

  • BigTeams High School Athletic Websites And Software Company Raises Funds, Hires CEO Clay Walker

    BigTeams, one of the fastest growing, easy to use and most comprehensive website and software systems for high school athletics programs today introduced industry veteran Clay Walker as its Chief Executive Officer and also announced an investment round, led by Capital Sports Ventures. Walker is a long-time sports, entertainment and digital innovator hired to lead…

  • Adidas Stan Smith Sneakers Return For New and Old Tennis Shoe Fans

    The always popular Stan Smith sneakers, one of adidas’ all time classics is back and better than ever. The Sports Techie community blog is helping these legendary shoes FLY off the virtual shelves as an affiliate through the 2014 French Open to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. You can enjoy Stan Smith at adidas…

  • Hyperice Injury Prevention And Recovery Technology Company Has Cornered New Markets

    The new executive vice president of marketing and business development at Hyperice is Jim Huether, someone I met while researching for an iQ by Intel contribution on football helmet technology. Hyperice is an injury prevention and recovery company that recently partnered with Adrian Peterson, who joins Blake Griffin, Hope Solo and a number of other…

  • iSoccer Digital Training Platform Launches Second Round of Funding

    The morphing of sports, technology and gaming has delivered the Sports Techie community blog a start-up company in San Francisco that goes by the name, iSoccer. Scott Leber, CEO and Founder, iSoccer, spoke to me about their pioneering sports tech business model and his recently launched second phase of funding that will meet the current…