Past venture winners

Accelerated Cycles

Founded by: Cole Brauer, Jude Brauer, Seth Altobelli | Accelerated Cycles makes biking safer, more accessible and fun so that more people can experience the joy of biking.

Barrage Striking Sleeve

Founded by: Ricky Johnson | The Barrage Striking Sleeve is a wraparound for free standing or hanging punching bags that has LEDs and pressure sensors embedded within it to indicate where to strike.

Baseball Rules Academy

Founded by: Christopher Welsh | Baseball Rules Academy is a site where users can look up any rule in baseball, access articles and fi nd other baseball information.

Billibars

Founded by: Trevor Heder | Billibars makes detachable handlebars that reduce a bike’s width when not in use and creates a unique storage mount to hold the bike.

Fair Future Co.

Founded by: Jeminise Parris | Fair Future Co. is a mobile application that helps students from the Caribbean apply to U.S. universities by matching prospective athletes with interested coaches.

Fanalyze Inc.

Founded by: Juan Juan | Fanalyze is a sports search engine and analysis platform designed to speed up research for fantasy sports and sports betting while providing users with aggregated relevant data to help with winning decisions.

Force Impact Technologies

Founded by: Bob Merriman | Force Impact Technologies provides wearable mouthguard technology for young athletes, to enhance their performance through better tracking and reporting of head impacts.

Freebowler

Founded by: Pratheek Palanethra | Freebowler is revolutionizing the future of cricket by creating the first nonelectric and portable ball thrower.

Futbar

Founded by: Rachel Masterson | Futbar is a sports and entertainment venue that combines the fast-paced game play of 3v3 soccer with food and beverage, video entertainment and family activities.

FutureForm

Founded by: Nathaniel Fink, Jacob Figueroa | FutureForm manufactures activewear that utilizes next-generation materials to bridge the gap between sustainability, performance and style.

GMDY Inc.

Founded by: Danny Harris | GMDY Inc. is a premier real-time consumer and analytics engine that gives athletes the ability to monetize their social capital and measure their true brand influence.

GoSurf

Founded by: Aleksei Stojanovic | GoSurf is a database, service and review application focused on connecting all resources in the surf industry.

HAT-TAC LLC

Founded by: Domenic Fotino | HAT-TAC produces customizable hat racks that can be mounted on walls, helping hats maintain their shape.

Hoolest Performance Technologies

Founded by: Nicholas Hool, John Patterson, Sami Mian | Hoolest Performance Technologies develops drug-free technologies for athletes to help reduce stress, anxiety and boost performance.

Hourglass Swimwear

Founded by: Demetra Mary George | Hourglass Swimwear provides and designs swimwear that focuses on shape to fi t every woman’s body.

Keep the F.A.I.T.H

Founded by: Ceci Shell | Keep the F.A.I.T.H. is a program that teaches life skills to young athletes through a curriculum that can be offered in schools.

Liquid Fuel

Founded by: Kyle Coleman | Liquid Fuel provides healthy sports drinks and hydration beverages for consumers who seek optimal health, performance and energy balance.

Meal Plan Ninja

Founded by: Tanner Tegtmeyer | Meal Plan Ninja is meal planning software that helps busy people eat healthier in less time. The software generates new meal plans with grocery lists each week that are personalized to an individual’s tastes and diet.

Murphy Mobility

Founded by: Garrett Murphy, Luis Castillo | Murphy Mobility supplies patented technology that helps track exercise performance for patients’ recovery.

Navajo Mountain Bike Initiative

Founded by: Peter Bugala | The Navajo Mountain Bike Initiative works closely with members of the Navajo Nation to develop a series of bike trails in their communities, creating opportunities for ecotourism and providing outdoor activities for the children of the community.

Nextiles, Inc.

Founded by: George Sun | Nextiles makes fabric that captures everything related to movement and force.

Organic Robotics Corporation

Founded by: Rob Shepherd, Ilayda Samilgil | Organic Robotics Light Lace™ offers biomechanical analysis on the fi eld without any constraints on location or temperature. Using sensors that are soft and stretchable and rely on photonics instead of electronics, Light Lace™ can easily be integrated into garments or shoes to help athletes avoid injuries.

Phlex LLC

Founded by: Luke Torres | The smallest, most intuitive device that is revolutionizing the way you train, measure progress and enjoy every swim, the Phlex Edge is a premium swimming fitness tracker in a seamless, goggle-worn design that features heart rate feedback, stroke analysis and professional workout planning.

Power House Foods

Founded by: Miguel Carrillo | Power House Foods serves healthy food options to those active in the gym.

REV Canvas

Founded by: Rebecca Varney | REV Canvas uses sport and expressive arts to allow athletes to find, believe in and reach their full potential.

Speedy Castillo

Founded by: Luis Castillo | Speedy Castillo produces molded carbon fiber plates designed to attach to a bike wheel and increase its aerodynamics.

Streaker

Founded by: Nick Vandam | Streaker is a sports betting platform that uses blockchain technology to validate the results of bets, allowing players to sell their picks.

Skip NN’ Hole

Founded by: Jarron Lodge | Skip NN’ Hole is the world’s first floating cornhole game set that combines the fun of stone skipping with the gameplay of corn hole.

Strax Gear LLC

Founded by: Sean Dicke | Strax Gear helps you organize and display your gear, while helping to save the environment.

Temp Defender

Founded by: Abigail Davis | Temp Defender combines wearable technology with athletic equipment to provide innovative, real-time data that communicates with the athlete during their performance and its design protects the body, aiding them in sustaining a healthy athletic career.

Trestle Automation

Founded by: Tarek Salama, Ryan Brown, Ahmed Ahmed, Mustafa Salih, Devan Shivers | Trestle provides sustainable and solar-powered skateboard racks for campuses that allow students to lock and unlock their skateboards with their RFID-enabled student IDs.

Wager Champs

Founded by: Rayan Vatti | Wager Champs is a risk-free, social and competitive way to experience sports betting.

Wild Portals LLC

Founded by: Michael Anthony Wild | Wild Portals creates immersive mobile experiences for entertainment and sporting events.