Top 100 Sport Tech startups in USA

Jul 17, 2026
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Racquet 360
Funding: $9M
Racquet 360 is trying to build a full ecosystem around the sport of padel as it expands in the US. The company operates four core businesses: the National Padel League, an amateur team competition; RacquetX, a racquet sports festival held in Fort Lauderdale; Racket Central, its digital commerce platform; and Racket Social Club, which develops padel facilities. The idea is that, together, these individual businesses provide all the elements necessary to scale padel stateside.
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Arkero
Funding: $6M
Arkero is an AI-native platform designed for sports businesses, focusing on planning gamedays, driving renewals, and coordinating teams. Arkero’s AI works with existing systems and tools including data warehouses, Slack, email, ticketing, and more. It learns from past procedures to inform new decisions around programs, activations, partnerships, and fan-engagement strategies and help teams make more money with faster, data-driven decisions.
3
Streamline
Funding: $1.4M
Streamline is an application unifieing sports, shows, and movies with AI scheduling, subscriptions, and social features.
4
Whoop
Funding: $979.8M
WHOOP is a sports tech company that makes wearable fitness trackers to monitor calories burned, sleep, strain, recovery, and stress 24/7. The company also provides personalized coaching to enhance sports and fitness performance.
5
Skydio
Funding: $850M
Skydio is a robotics company that makes flying autonomous drones dedicated to sports tracking. They enable valuable insights from recording training sessions, help athletes to create marketing content, and enable sports organizations broadcast ski races, running competitions and high-speed cycling events. The drone works in conjunction with the Skydio app on the user's smartphone and can be controlled through the app if the user wishes to disable autonomous mode.
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Fitura Brands
Funding: $20M
Fitura Brands focuses on racquet sports, athletic reformer pilates, and contrast therapy recovery. The startup wants to provide franchisees a turnkey solution by fusing centralized infrastructure with high-end customer experiences. This franchise-first architecture allows the brands to benefit from shared resources in marketing, site selection, and architectural standards while maintaining their individual brand identities. Fitura is placing a large wager on its committed concept, Padel/swt, as padel continues to expand as one of the fastest-growing sports in the world. This brand is intended to be a cutting-edge indoor club that puts community and competition first. Padel/swt aims to become a top social and athletic destination by fusing top-notch courts with hospitality-focused settings and organized leagues.
7
Otto Sport AI
Funding: $16.5M
Otto Sport AI is a platform that combines tournament ticketing capabilities, recruiting and club management tools. The company focuses exclusively on volleyball, soccer, and lacrosse to build AI models with deeper sport-specific datasets. More than 1,000 clubs, nearly every college volleyball program, and thousands of tournaments are already using the platform
8
Wunderfan
Funding: $2.5M
Wunderfan is a sports platform that provides sports content, podcasts, and live game services.
9
Marquee
Funding: $1.2M
Marquee develops AI platform that unifies club data to streamline scouting and recruitment, aiming to reduce costly transfer mistakes in a global market. It connects all club's data sources and filters them through club's DNA.
10
Zimmer Biomet
Funding: $2.8B
Zimmer Biomet is a medical device manufacturing company that offers orthopedic reconstructive, spinal, and trauma devices.
11
Peloton
Funding: $2.2B
Peloton is changing the way people get fit through a comprehensive and socially connected-experience that makes every workout both efficient and addicting. By merging hardware, software, and content, Peloton creates the most unique, efficient and addicting workout experience on the market. Peloton is sold online and in their growing number of showrooms across the country.
12
Zwift
Funding: $619.5M
Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
13
Wellhub
Funding: $605M
Wellhub is a fitness discovery platform that connects a global network of fitness centers with companies and their employees. Companies sign an annual contract with Wellhub (the amount of which depends on the size of the team) and use the online platform to manage adoption, engagement, and track ROI (revenue savings on employee healthcare costs). Employees pay a monthly subscription fee for a plan tailored to their needs at a deeply discounted rate and gain access to over 90,000 gyms and studios, over 3,800 virtual personal trainers, and over 99 premium health apps covering fitness, nutrition, sleep, and mindfulness.
14
Tonal
Funding: $580M
Tonal uses intelligent technology, expert coaching, and personalized guidance to help any Tonal member be his or her strongest.
15
Evolv
Funding: $558.3M
Evolv Technology is developing a contactless, AI-enabled screening system for stadiums. Evolv's weapon detection technology is designed to ensure a seamless fan experience during peak hours, ensuring a comfortable experience. The connected IoT system combines intelligent hardware, cloud analytics, and integration with other systems to provide analytics and data-driven security management.
16
Bioventus
Funding: $427M
Bioventus delivers clinically proven, cost-effective products that help people heal quickly and safely.
17
Teamworks
Funding: $422.2M
Teamworks is an operating system for sports that supports talent acquisition, seamless operations, and holistic performance development.
18
SeatGeek
Funding: $400.1M
SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticketing platform that allows fans to buy and sell tickets at the best prices to sports events around the world. SeatGeek connects fans with all major sports leagues: professional basketball, American football, baseball, hockey, soccer, and many more. SeatGeek's interactive seating maps allow users to explore stadiums and arenas in detail, so you can confidently compare views, prices, and sections. Its value-scoring technology ranks each ticket offer based on price and quality, so you can find not just any seat, but the right seat at the right price.
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Hydrow
Funding: $367.2M
Hydrow is a provider of a connected indoor rowing machine.
20
GoPro
Funding: $338.2M
GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Editor: Paul Schäfer
Paul is a sport journalist for more than 11 years. He specializes in writing match previews across several leagues and competitions around the world, and his insightful tips have amassed a total readership in excess of 5.2 million till date. He graduated from the Universität Hamburg (Institute of Human Movement Science). He is a huge fan of Bayern Munich. In his free time, Paul enjoys playing tennis and padel with his friends and collegues. You can contact Paul at paulschafer(at)sportstartups(dot)com