Sports Tech HQ attracts companies from around the world to join its collective, positioning them at the forefront of an industry projected to reach $100B by 2030.

Fans

Our Collective of sports tech companies is revolutionizing how fans experience and engage with sports. Through cutting-edge technologies, they’re creating immersive fan experiences, broadcast integrations, and innovative platforms that deepen the connection between fans and their favorite teams and athletes. From virtual reality experiences to data-driven insights, our Collective is shaping the future of sports fandom.

Athletes

Empowering athletes is at the heart of the Sports Tech industry, offering tools and services to enhance performance, recovery, and career development. From advanced training technologies to end-to-end analytics, our Collective is helping athletes reach their full potential.

Teams

Embracing innovation is paramount for both teams and their leagues. Our collective offers solutions to optimize team operations, improve fan engagement, and optimize revenue. From innovative ticketing systems to advanced analytics platforms, technology is allowing teams to stay ahead of the curve, deliver exceptional experiences for their fans and drive significant revenue growth.

  • Edge Sound Research
    Edge Sound Research

    Edge Sound Research's Embodied sound™ technology turns ordinary objects into high-fidelity sound objects that you can hear and feel, setting the stage for a future where you can experience any moment as your favorite athlete, musician, game character, and more through sound.

  • Telemetry Sports
    Telemetry Sports

    Telemetry Sports™ provides cutting-edge sports data technology to over 45 NFL and NCAA teams. Their solutions empower sports organizations to make informed decisions around practice planning, performance evaluation, recruitment, and overall game preparation.

  • RootNote
    RootNote

    Rootnote saves brands and content creators hours of valuable time every week by aggregating and activating metrics from their favorite apps, tools, and platforms — all in one place. RootNote’s unique structure integrates with any data source, allowing users to easily access the platform and share crucial metrics and unified insights to anyone and everyone, from marketing, content, and data departments to talent, brands, and agencies.

  • Ganance
    Ganance

    The Ganance Heir is a revolutionary module that transforms your regular watch into a smartwatch, granting it features and functionalities commonly found in top-tier smartwatches, all without compromising the original aesthetics of your watch.

Attend

Attend (formerly Season Share) is a customizable ticketing technology platform that helps sports teams, entertainment organizations, and world-class venues make the thrill of live entertainment more accessible to the next generation of fans. Attend captures the essence of connection, bringing people, moments, and memories together under one platform, moving the live events category forward for the next generation of fans. Attend’s suite of student, last-minute, seat upgrade, subscription, flex plan, credit-based premium, and suite solutions drive younger audiences to venues, boosting both revenue and attendance. Attend has delivered over $100M in ticket inventory for the biggest venues in North America, including multiple MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, MLS, and NCAA teams.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Aaron Holland
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Beastcoast

Beastcoast is a professional esports team that organizes games and tournaments, and represents some of the world’s top video game competitors. The organization was founded in 2017 by Brian Anderson and Grant Zinn, and is based in New York, NY.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Brian Anderson & Grant Zinn
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BodyPro

BodyPro is a sports tech platform developed by former professional athletes, coaches, and trainers to bridge the gap between physical and mental training. BodyPro provides personalized training plans, monitoring tools, and mental health resources, empowering coaches and athletes to optimize performance and well-being.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Alex Prober and Guy Levy
Challonge

Challonge is a competition management technology that helps organizers streamline registration, progression, and record-keeping. Founded in 2009, Challonge offers more than 25 competition types as both a web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform and as an API that can be integrated into websites, games, bots, and other software applications.

Details

  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): David Cornelius & Matt McIntyre
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CK2 Technologies

CK2 Technologies is revolutionizing security protocols in stadiums, schools, hospitals, and beyond. Their cutting-edge solutions ensure seamless entry without compromising safety, utilizing innovative techniques to detect weapons with unparalleled efficiency.

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  • Location: Westfield, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Kurtis Arbuckle
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Code19 Racing

Code19 Racing is the world’s first professional autonomous racing team, embarking on the groundbreaking journey of extreme autonomous racing. With a foundation rooted in innovation and a team comprised of military veterans, Code19 Racing proudly represents the United States on the global stage.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Lawrence Walter
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Conquer

The Conquer app allows you to create and join local games and connect with other athletes who share your passion for sports. Whether you’re into soccer, basketball, football, volleyball, pickleball, fitness, or futsal, Conquer has you covered.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Louis Long, Tanner Luke, & Matthew Lee
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Cracked Racquets

Cracked Racquets is a global leader in remote tennis broadcasting with the mission of democratizing sports coverage by delivering high-quality, affordable broadcasting to every level of sport – youth sports, collegiate athletics, and the pros. By leveraging our innovative broadcast software and emerging AI-powered tools, sports communities of all sizes that have traditionally been underserved have access to professional-grade coverage. Our team at Cracked Racquets is committed to empowering fanatical audiences by making each sports community more connected, inclusive, and engaging.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Dalton Thieneman
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Dallara AK E-Sports

Dallara-AK Esports is a joint venture between Italian race car manufacturer Dallara and Italian gaming PC manufacturer AK Informatica to develop advanced sim racing technologies. AK Esports is Italy’s premier company specializing in the organization and management of top-tier Esports competitions worldwide. Originally established in 2004 as an IT company, AK quickly emerged as a prominent player in the hardware sector, solidifying its reputation for excellence. AK has continued to achieve remarkable success, securing international recognition through strategic partnerships with industry giants such as SRO Motorsports Group, Dallara, and various automotive brands. With a proven track record of delivering exceptional events and fostering meaningful partnerships, AK is committed to driving the Esports industry forward.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis
  • Founder(s): Alessio Cicolari
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DaVinci Wearables

DaVinci Wearables is a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athletes. For CEO and Founder Christy Fernandez Cull, the mission is deeply personal: In addition to being a longtime technologist, she’s an athlete and a mom.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, IN
  • Founder(s): Christy Fernandez-Cull
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EatWatchPlay

The EatWatchPlay app is a free app that allows users to play sports prediction games and earn tokens that can be redeemed for cash back and prizes. The app also offers a daily streak contest where users can win cash for making a certain number of correct picks in a row.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Rory Billing
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Edge Sound Research

Edge Sound Research uses vibration to create sound, automatically isolating audio objects in real-time to enable personalized and embodied experiences for diverse audiences, whether in a live entertainment venue or a virtual environment. Embodied sound™ turns ordinary objects into high-fidelity sound objects that you can hear and feel, setting the stage for a future where you can experience any moment as your favorite athlete, musician, game character, and more through sound.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis, IN
  • Founder(s): Ethan Castro & Valtteri Salomaki
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Ekkobar

Ekkobar is the DNA behind Social Decision Intelligence™, a revolutionary platform for understanding social media beyond mere statistics, enabling brands to act on decisions with unprecedented confidence and clarity.  By leveraging revolutionary AI, Ekkobar transforms the largest data set in the world, social media, into clear, data-driven answers for brands to win at the bottom line, mitigate risk, vet and safeguard reputations, shape narratives, and increase profitability.  Trusted by industry leaders and selected by Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech as one of ten worldwide companies for its 2025 program, Ekkobar’s self-serve solutions are essential to navigating a world where perception is everything—fragile, fleeting, and often beyond control.  Protect your legacy and grow your dynasty with Ekkobar.

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  • Founder(s): Rhys Ryan & Amber Dodson
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EmpwrU

EmpwrU is a platform that empowers college and amateur athletes to monetize their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) through partnerships with brands. It provides a mobile app that connects athletes with potential sponsors and facilitates NIL deals.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Alicia Leming
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Fanbase

Fanbase was founded in 2021 to give sports organizations outside the top 1% a scalable, cost-effective platform to drive sales and engage fans. Their research showed fans felt overlooked, with clubs relying on siloed data and generic communication. Fanbase changes that.

Fanbase is a SaaS platform built for pro, semi-pro, and ambitious amateur teams. Clubs can sell digital tickets and memberships, manage content and hospitality, and automate match-day tasks, all from one portal with a branded mobile app for fans. Using Fanbase’s CRM, clubs can build detailed audiences, send targeted messages, boost revenue through cross-sell and up-sell, and access insightful reporting to keep stakeholders happy.

In the UK, Fanbase works with over 200 partner clubs. As part of their US expansion, they’ve recently partnered with the University of Pennsylvania, Atlantic 10, and the Ivy League, with more to come.

Details

  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Alasdair Crawley & Mikey Crawley
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Fishbuddy

Fishbuddy is revolutionizing sustainable fishing with technology. Their app helps recreational fishers discover the best locations and analyze and share their catches by leveraging expert fishermen, AI/AR, advanced algorithms, and satellite data. Their technology also helps the Coast Guard regulate and control fishing vessels and gear. 

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Trond Are Gjone
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Ganance

The Ganance Heir is a revolutionary module that transforms your regular watch into a smartwatch, granting it features and functionalities commonly found in top-tier smartwatches, all without compromising the original aesthetics of your watch. The device tracks health and movement data, such as steps, sleep, and notifications. It also connects to a phone via an app that allows users to monitor their activity and receive health insights.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis, IN
  • Founder(s): Alex Ocampo
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Geysersteam

GeyserSteam is a brand of steam rooms that can be used at home, either indoors or outdoors. GeyserSteam steam rooms can heat up to 120°F, but feel like 200°F, and are designed to be easy to install.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Aaron Seemann & DeAndre Harakas
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infoSentience

infoSentience is the Most advanced data analysis and communication technology on the market. InfoSentience is a technology company specializing in data analysis and reporting, utilizing advanced algorithms to process large volumes of information and generate insightful narratives with context and nuance, essentially providing automated content summaries and interpretations on demand.

Details

  • Location: Bloomington, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Steven Wasick
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Jet Sweat

JETSWEAT is the first purpose-built technology platform focused on powering digital transformations for the boutique fitness studio industry. Featuring virtual on demand video, interactive two-way livestreaming and the most robust fitness-focused feature set available, JETSWEAT empowers studio owners to go digital and transform their revenue model to scale.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Alexandra Dantzig
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MAGPIE

MAGPIE is the world’s first AI powered inventory and sales management system for collectible sellers. Designed by and for collectible dealers, we automate your inventory and sales workflows, so that you can get your inventory into the hands of the right customers faster and get back to doing what you love. We integrate with key marketplaces and point of sale systems including Shopify, Square, Ebay, and more. Less time on data entry. More time making money.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Kathryn Harrison
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MITO Materials

MITO Materials created a chemistry platform technology that is the first and only process with the power to functionalize graphene and other biomaterials – creating hybrid additives that give fiber-reinforced composites and thermoplastics lab-verified improvements in strength, durability, flexibility, and sustainability. MITO’s first product series is designed to be seamless, scalable, and adaptable, with limitless engineering applications – allowing you to incorporate graphene into existing polymer and composite production methods.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Haley Keith & Kevin Keith
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MN8 Innovative Solutions

MN8 is a leading innovator in Far-Infrared biotech, with a robust portfolio of 30+ patents and proprietary bioceramics-based technology designed to improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and accelerate muscle recovery. Backed by rigorous data, scientific validation, and a team that includes numerous PhDs and unicorn founders, MN8 is committed to pioneering transformative wellness technologies that optimize recovery, endurance, and overall quality of life.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Stephen Schweickart
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Motion Sports

Motion Sports is the premier technology platform built for modern college athletic departments. As the landscape of collegiate athletics rapidly evolves, departments face increasing challenges in managing operations, compliance, and financial processes.

Motion simplifies these complexities with an intuitive, all-in-one solution for scheduling and messaging, compliance management, and financial transactions. By streamlining daily operations, Motion empowers student-athletes and coaches to stay focused on their sport, while administrators gain the efficiency and peace of mind to plan for the future with confidence.

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  • Location: Bloomington, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Jay Townsend, Nate Ebel, Anthony Leal, & Brad Wisler
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PREGAME

Headquartered in Fishers, Indiana, PREGAME is revolutionizing the athletic warmup experience by combining advanced technology with sleek, functional design. By focusing on the critical moments before the competition, PREGAME’s solutions help athletes maximize their performance and mental readiness, transforming an often-overlooked ritual into a strategic advantage. The company’s solutions are designed to engage athletes at every level—from workout enthusiasts to elite professionals—making warmups both efficient and enjoyable. By turning warmups into a ritual athletes look forward to, PREGAME inspires confidence, unlocks potential, allows self-expression, and sets the stage for peak performance.

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  • Location: Fishers, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Roy Ward
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RefReps

RefReps’ mission is to educate the next generation of great sports officials. RefReps Officiating Education System is a platform that provides turn-key officiating education courses and interactive training video packs to aid our new and veteran officials in being the most confident and accurate officials on the field, court, or mat.

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  • Location: Zionsville, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Kyle Armstrong
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RootNote

RootNote helps managers, talent agencies, esports organizations, universities, NIL collectives, professional sports franchises, brands, and all kinds of creative teams track their talent, manage their data, and tell their stories.

Details

  • Location: Indianapolis, IN
  • Founder(s): Jason Burchard, Jeremy Burchard, & Chandler Barnes
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Scout

Scout is an investing platform focusing on wealth preservation and alignment for college athletes and the billions of dollars in the new NIL era. Scout allows users to understand spending habits, tax liabilities, save, and invest all on the platform, which is paired with financial education and being paid for by their college athletic department. Scout’s focus on the current college landscape will allow it to become the neobank for the modern athlete.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Michael Haddix Jr. & Cindy Zeng
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Sogility

Founded in 2018, Sogility provides a unique way to bring the entire scope of player development under one roof via training methods and technology that provide an effective, efficient, way to improve with less wear and tear on the body. Sogility is a technology-driven soccer training center that provides an opportunity for everyone to create a more effective and engaging training environment, helping players reach their full potential.

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  • Location: Westfield, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Chris McGrath
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Spokenote

Spokenote is a video engagement and data analytics platform that transforms physical touchpoints into dynamic digital experiences by attaching personalized video content to any item via QR codes. Unlike traditional static codes, Spokenote’s dynamic QR technology allows content to be updated at any time and delivers instant notifications on first scan, providing real‑time insights into audience engagement. With a unified dashboard, users can track scans, playbacks, and engagement trends over time, name and organize videos, and optimize campaigns with data‑driven decisions. Trusted by organizations across sports, education, and enterprise, Spokenote empowers brands to create authentic, scalable, and measurable customer connections in under 30 seconds.

Details

  • Location: Fishers, Indiana
  • Founder(s): John Wechsler
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Sportable

Sportable is a London-based sports technology business that specializes in game insights and analytics and advanced ball and player tracking technology across a number of sports, including football, Australian rules football, American football and rugby. Sportable’s portable ball and player tracking technology delivers a turnkey solution for teams and leagues searching for game-winning skill and tactical insights.

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  • Location: London
  • Founder(s): Dugald Macdonald & Dr. Peter Husemeyer
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SuperQuickQuestion

SuperQuickQuestion (SQQ) is a virtual meet-and-greet platform that allows for live, one-on-one video chats between a host and a guest with a 60-second time limit. These chats can be used facilitate personalized interactions between fans and celebrities, athletes, or other public figures.

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  • Location: Zionsville, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Dave Benson
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TayCo Brace

Developed by Dr. Fred Ferlic, a renowned Orthopedic Surgeon, and one of the nation’s top athletic trainers, Mike Bean, TayCo Brace over-the-shoe ankle braces empower mobility and stability, getting you back to normal with fewer life disruptions, more functionality, and improved outcomes when compared to alternative solutions. Our ankle supports are more than a temporary solution. It’s a long-term investment in your well-being. Each brace is built to last, providing enduring support and relief, saving you time, money, and frustration in the long run.

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  • Location: South Bend, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Gavin Ferlic & Mike Bean
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Telemetry Sports

Telemetry Sports™ provides cutting-edge sports data technology to over 45 NFL and NCAA teams. Their solutions empower organizations to make informed decisions and achieve success on the field.

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  • Location: Noblesville, IN
  • Founder(s): Jeremy Hochstedler, Paul Gagnon, Kellen Hurst
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Terminus Technologies

Terminus Technologies is developing computer vision-based systems and software for determining and analyzing vehicle positioning. The tracking technology has various applications including Motorsport, Road Safety, and eSports.

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  • Location: Indianapolis
  • Founder(s): Alexander Johnson, Joshua Ward, & Matous Kundrik
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Tracking Football

Tracking Football is an advanced scouting platform supplying and verifying athletic data on thousands of football players. Our service independently rates athleticism of prospects nationwide assisting NFL scouting departments, over 100 FBS college programs, and collegiate all-star games, including the East-West Shrine Bowl and CGS Gridiron Showcase.

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  • Location: Carmel, IN
  • Founder(s): Mark Branstad
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Unbox

Unbox the Universe is a startup that uses blockchain technology to create reward systems and tools for community engagement and value distribution. Unbox’s mission is to make every transaction true to its purpose, and to create a universe where trust is the foundation and transparency is a practice. Unbox provides you with the tools to create Smart Tokens that connect and combine the physical and digital worlds.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Erik Saelens
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Upper Hand

Upper Hand is the leading provider of full-suite sports management software that enables businesses to achieve more while doing less. UpperHand gives owners and staff a competitive edge by automating business operations with an innovative software platform.

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  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Founder(s): Kevin MacCauley
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Vertikal X

Vertikal X is a digital marketplace that brings together athletes and brands to be seen and find sponsorships. Our proprietary “VTX Score” algorithm utilizes AI and ML technologies to analyze and rank athletes based on their athletic and social media performance data. This provides brands with a curated list of verified athletes for sponsorship consideration. By connecting athletes with brands, Vertikal X helps athletes advance their careers and achieve their goals.

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  • Location: Indianapolis
  • Founder(s): José Carlos (Charlie) Sarmiento & Daniel Castaneda
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Vital View Technologies

Vital View Technologies is a Medical IoT company developing break-through sensor based connected solutions that produces new actionable insights to solve real-world challenges. Their CHF monitoring platform features a proprietary non-contact, noninvasive at-home medical monitor that tracks total body fluid change over time. This provides early, actionable data to clinicians inform patient care plans and prevent costly hospitalizations.

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  • Location: South Bend, IN
  • Founder(s): Tom Pratt and Ray Fraser
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VOW

VOW is revolutionizing the Experience Economy. VOW’s vertical SaaS platform enables sports, media, entertainment, and corporate events professionals to streamline the management of live events by eliminating the chaos of juggling decades-old fragmented tools and inefficient workflows. VOW unifies seating, ticketing, communications, and stakeholder interactions into one intelligent system—saving pros 33% in operational costs while transforming how guests, attendees, and fans discover, plan, and experience live events at scale. Since its launch, VOW’s B2B2C solution has been trusted by major brands including PFL-MMA, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and GLAAD Media, engaging over 4,500 corporate groups and sponsors, and 45,000 guests at premier venues like HULU, Hard Rock, Rockefeller Center, The Anthem and more. Soon, VOW’s AI-powered frameworks will give event heroes a digital event team on command and guests a personalized assistant on-demand.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Jennifer Brisman
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Wiistream

Wiistream is a software company that provides customizable streaming platforms for sports organizations. The company’s goal is to make streaming more accessible, and to help sports organizations engage with their fans and increase revenue.

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  • Location: Indiana
  • Founder(s): Patrick Magee & Fionn Herlihy
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