Top 9 American Football Tech startups

Aug 01, 2025 | By Paul Schäfer

These startups are revolutionizing American Football with helmet impact sensors for concussion detection, AI-based play calling analytics, real-time player health monitoring, smart footballs for tracking velocity and spin, advanced virtual reality training simulators, etc.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $39.6M
Opendorse operates a SaaS-enabled Marketplace in the athlete endorsement industry.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $25.2M
StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
AFFL is a collective of elite athletes hailing from a variety of sports to compete and entertain on a national stage.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
SAFR Sports is a safety technology company offering concussion protection products.
5
Country: UK | Funding: £250K
ORB Innovations is a deep tech startup that creates Smart Mouthguard, a next-gen smart wearable engineered for contact and combat sport athletes.
6
Country: USA
REPS is a virtual reality quarterback training platform
7
Country: France
SkillCorner is a computer vision startup who uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to broadcast live football match visualization.
8
Country: UK
Rezon is a designer and manufacturer of brain protection sport headband.
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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