Top 26 Basketball Tech Startups

Updated: Feb 25, 2026
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These startups are revolutionizing basketball with AI-driven shot analytics, smart wearable sensors and dynamic LED court tracking.
1
SportIQ
Country: Finland | Funding: $10.2M
SportIQ is a sports tracking and analytics platform providing tracking solutions for sports, analytics, and broadcast integration.
2
Overtime
Country: USA | Funding: $215.1M
Overtime is a sports network that produces several sports-focused series and short-form content for the next generation of sports fans.
3
Unrivaled
Country: USA | Funding: $163.7M
Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.
4
Veo
Country: Denmark | Funding: $113.3M
Veo is a solution for recording and watching sports without a cameraman.
5
SkillCorner
Country: France | Funding: $60M
SkillCorner uses computer vision to analyze matches for professional football and basketball teams. It provides automated player and ball tracking (including extrapolation of player positions outside the camera's field of view) from any image source, including broadcast, tactical or wide-angle video. The system also analyzes events from current and past seasons, providing critical context for player scouting, modeling and performance analysis. SkillCorner is used by Liverpool Football Club, nine NBA teams, two NFL teams and most MLS teams.
6
NEX Team
Country: USA | Funding: $42M
NEX Team Inc. is a mobile artificial intelligence company. Using phone cameras and image recognition on the back end, its primary app HomeCourt helps to improve basketball shots.
7
HomeCourt
Country: USA | Funding: $42M
HomeCourt is an interactive basketball app that acts as a personal skills trainer for basketball players.
8
ShotTracker
Country: USA | Funding: $33.8M
ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games.
9
Huupe
Country: USA | Funding: $27.4M
Huupe is a smart basketball hoop that allows players to train like pros, track their progress, and compete against other huupe users.
10
Sportsvisio
Country: USA | Funding: $9.3M
SportsVisio develops a sports statistics platform that uses computer vision on sports video feeds to capture statistical information.
11
Forever Network
Country: Australia | Funding: $6M
Basketball Forever is the leading ball community on social, bringing the best of hoops to your feed.
12
Equip Sport
Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF5M
Equip Sport offers self-service lockers for premium sports rental.
13
Peripheral Labs
Country: Canada | Funding: $3.6M
Peripheral Labs is incorporating spatial intelligence into live sports broadcasts. Its technology generates volumetric video that allows users to view the game from multiple angles, creating an immersive experience. The system reduces the number of cameras from over 100 to just 32 standard ones, helping to reduce costs and operational expenses. It can allow broadcasters and fans to explore new ways to control their viewing experience using photorealistic 3D reconstruction technology. For example, if fans want to track only the player with the ball, they can do so. They can also freeze the action to see different angles of a foul or critical moment. The system also measures player biomechanics and generates statistics for teams and leagues using a proprietary set of sensors, similar to those in self-driving cars that capture the scene with depth. The company also establishes first biomechanics basketball shooting lab
14
Shot Quality
Country: USA | Funding: $3.2M
ShotQuality is to dispel the luck of the game and deliver the expected results based on the accuracy of each shot’s quality.
15
SIQ Basketball
Country: USA | Funding: $3M
SIQ Basketball is a Los Angeles, CA-based creator of a smart basketball approved by the International Basketball Federation for game play.
16
Shoot360
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Shoot 360 combines science and technology with actual coaching for an immersive experience designed to accelerate training.
17
GRIND Basketball
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2M
GRIND built an ecosystem of interactive sports equipment - starting with the first portable basketball shooting machine.
18
DribbleUp
Country: USA | Funding: $520K
DribbleUp is a platform that tracks and analyzes the client's performance in basketball and soccer.
19
Ballin AI
Country: USA | Funding: $500K
Ballin is a sports technology solution that delivers AI-powered scouting tools to coaches and players.
20
Orb Innovations
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.
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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