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Tour Golf League specializes in transforming golf courses into nighttime venues. It manufactures and supplies course lighting equipment, along with specialized night golf supplies and player accessories, ensuring safe and thrilling golf experiences under the stars.

FanWord is a sports technology company that specializes in storytelling content and software tailored for athletic organizations. The company provides tools designed to enhance athlete branding and storytelling, enabling schools, collectives, sponsors, and athletes to effectively share their unique narratives. By fostering deeper connections, FanWord empowers athletes to build and monetize their personal brands while facilitating collaboration with their supporters. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to strengthen the relationships within the athletic community and promote impactful storytelling across the sports landscape.

A secure, user-friendly communication platform designed for sports teams and security personnel. It replaces traditional headsets with a simple app that works with any Bluetooth or wired headset, offering encrypted channels, minimal setup, and ultra-high-resolution audio at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems.

Ecsell Sports helps athletic and club directors coach their coaches through athlete surveys, development, and connection.

A biodegradable acne- and odor-fighting face and body wipe designed for teenage athletes to fit into their busy, on-the-go schedules.

Haven Athletics is a designer and supplier of duffle bags specifically tailored for fitness enthusiasts. The company has developed a trademarked organizational system that promotes effective storage within its bags, enabling users to maintain focus and clarity during their workouts. By facilitating proper organization, Haven Athletics' products allow individuals to concentrate their mental and physical resources on achieving their fitness goals and enhancing their overall performance.

Haven Athletics is a designer and supplier of duffle bags specifically tailored for fitness enthusiasts. The company has developed a trademarked organizational system that promotes effective storage within its bags, enabling users to maintain focus and clarity during their workouts. By facilitating proper organization, Haven Athletics' products allow individuals to concentrate their mental and physical resources on achieving their fitness goals and enhancing their overall performance.

PlugSports provides tools to help college athletic programs find athletes who have been overlooked in the traditional recruiting process. Athletes on Plug can expose their greatness while being recruited without any financial barriers.

NeuroTrainer is a company that focuses on enhancing cognitive skills to improve performance in various domains, including sports, business, and everyday life. By integrating neuroscience with virtual reality, NeuroTrainer provides specialized training modules and a comprehensive cognitive assessment system designed to optimize mental acuity. Its innovative software guides users through exercises that promote brain growth and facilitate injury management, helping professional athletes and high-performance individuals unlock their mental potential. The company's approach has gained recognition from NCAA coaches, the Department of Defense, and wellness experts in corporate settings. With recent seed funding, NeuroTrainer is positioned for significant expansion in athletic training, corporate wellness, and digital health markets.

SheMate is a platform that connects women in sports with the youth sports industry, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. The company operates a virtual wellness and mentoring platform designed to help women navigate their future decisions intentionally and strategically. It provides a space for female athletes to thrive by sharing their stories and experiences with high school students. Through customized, empowering messages from positive female role models, SheMate enables these students to benefit from motivation and encouragement, fostering a supportive community for both athletes and youth.

Opendorse is a technology company focused on the athlete endorsement industry, providing an open endorsement platform that enables athletes to understand, build, and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) value. The platform, utilized by over 100,000 athletes, helps manage endorsement opportunities and facilitates social media campaigns by connecting athletes with brands and sponsors. Opendorse operates under a SaaS-enabled Marketplace model, where sports organizations, including teams and athletic departments, pay annual subscription fees to manage endorsements, while brands and supporters pay transaction fees for booking athlete endorsements. The company collaborates with prominent organizations such as the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, NFL Players Association, and over 100 NCAA athletic departments. Founded in 2012 by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun, Opendorse is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has established itself as the largest provider of technology in the NIL space.

Squad Genius, Inc. is a company based in Sacramento, California, that specializes in developing a team management application tailored for volunteer youth sports coaches. Founded in 2017, the application aims to simplify the management of youth sports teams by providing tools for effective communication, scheduling, and financial transactions. Key features of the application include the ability to track team member availability for events, request, track, and collect payments, and facilitate communication among team members and coaches. The platform also allows users to message coaches directly and share photos, thereby enhancing the overall team experience and alleviating the complexities often associated with managing youth sports teams.

Opendorse is a technology company focused on the athlete endorsement industry, providing an open endorsement platform that enables athletes to understand, build, and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) value. The platform, utilized by over 100,000 athletes, helps manage endorsement opportunities and facilitates social media campaigns by connecting athletes with brands and sponsors. Opendorse operates under a SaaS-enabled Marketplace model, where sports organizations, including teams and athletic departments, pay annual subscription fees to manage endorsements, while brands and supporters pay transaction fees for booking athlete endorsements. The company collaborates with prominent organizations such as the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, NFL Players Association, and over 100 NCAA athletic departments. Founded in 2012 by Adi Kunalic, Blake Lawrence, and Timothy Braun, Opendorse is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has established itself as the largest provider of technology in the NIL space.

Spectator Sports, Inc., established in March 2014 and headquartered in Oklahoma, U.S., specializes in streamlining booster club membership processes and facilitating online donations through its proprietary tool. Additionally, the company offers a mobile application designed to provide fans and players with swift access to local sports statistics.

Commissioner is a platform to track and communicate player skill development. Using Commissioner’s mobile platform, coaches evaluate players on the field during or after training sessions and matches, to provide real-time feedback to players and keep parents informed about their athlete’s development. We are producing better athletes in more engaged communities.

GamePlan Technologies and it flagship platform GP SIFT, has been providing video editing systems to higher education institutions since 2002. As a rapidly growing provider of innovative digital video analysis and archiving software, the company invests over $1 million annually in research and development. GP SIFT is a modular Software Asset Management Solution that captures, categorizes, distributes, modifies, archives and creates a search engine of the digital assets it can connect to or import. In the sports spectrum, where GamePlan initially began its platform development, the company provides state of the art digital video and data analysis solutions, service and support programs for high schools to professional sports organizations.