101 Top Sports Startups and Companies in Canada

August 7, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based Sports companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Sports industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Canada Sports Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Engine Media

Engine Media

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Engine Media focuses on accelerating new, live, immersive esports, and interactive gaming experiences.

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TheScore creates mobile-first sports experiences through real-time news, scores, fantasy information, and alerts.

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OverActive Media Group

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OverActive Media Group is an integrated global esports and entertainment organization focused on multiple esports titles.

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Sportlogiq

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Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions.

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Award Pool

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Award Gamers with Engaging Challenges

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FansUnite

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FansUnite is a sports prediction platform specializes in crowdsourcing sports picks to develop predictive models and data analytics.

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Quarter4

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An AI company that generates over 2M sporting predictions daily. Key B2B customers are Media, Leagues, SportsBooks and Daily Fantasy

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Victory Square

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Victory Square creates, funds, and executes on ideas in sports, health, and entertainment.

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OwnersBox

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OwnersBox is an innovative sports-tech company disrupting the way consumers play Fantasy Sports. ‍

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Stadium Live

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The digital world for Gen Z sports & eSports fans to create and play together.

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Kinetyx Sciences Inc.

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Transforming people’s lives through data driven performance that begins from the ground up. #kinetyxtech #remainmoved

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The GIST

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The GIST is a media company that provides sports content, experiences, and community for women.

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Chronogolf

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Connect golfers to their favorite courses, and vice versa.

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Stoko design

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Stoko is a developer of orthopaedic braces designed to provide joint support directly integrated into athletic apparel.

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TritonWear

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TritonWear redefines athlete limits with a wearable and app that actually guides consistently better training.

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ICEBERG

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ICEBERG is an IT company that provides enhanced sports analytics.

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Brizi

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Brizi lets anyone tap into nearby cameras to capture group memories at iconic places.

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PLAYR.gg

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PLAYR.gg is a technology platform that enables brands & content creators to grow their audiences and generate first-party customer data.

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PUSH

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We build exceptional sport technology solutions that help athletes perform at their best.

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IntelliSports

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IntelliSports is a Montreal based sports technology company.

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RYU Apparel

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RYU Apparel specializes in developing men’s and women’s performance apparel for the athletic minded consumer.

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BATL (batlgrounds.com)

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The world’s original and largest urban axe throwing organization with with over 200,000 annual visitors and 325 employees.

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Breaking Data Corp

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Breaking Data is a technology provider of semantic search, machine learning and natural language processing.

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WTFast

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WTFast patented technology aims to provide the fastest and most secure network on the Internet with our Gamers Private Network (GPN).

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Athletigen

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Delivering world-class DNA analysis techology to optimize performance in elite athletes and develop precision products

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Beam.gg

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Beam.gg is an online community management software for the esports and gaming space.

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Rosterbot

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RosterBot is the smartest, most flexible Team Management Service in the world. Our mission is to help you live better thru team sport.

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Rogers Communications

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Rogers Communications is a communications and media company that specializes in telecommunications and internet.

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Swarmio Media

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Ubique Networks is an innovative technology company delivering a network intelligence and optimization platform

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Battlefy

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Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.

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Stathletes

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Stathletes is a Canadian company.

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Biba Ventures

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Biba Ventures is a Computer Games company located in Vancouver.

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TeamKraft

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Networking sports app – where recreational athletes team up & get rewarded to play the sports they love.

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GameSquare Esports

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GameSquare is an international esports company.

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Pro Angler

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Pro Angler Fishing App brings GPS hot spots, pro reports, regulations, weather and tide data, fish ID, and more.

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Shnarped

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Shnarped builds sports media applications for athletes and fans to connect and create simple video highlights.

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VIKTRE

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VIKTRE (“vik’tr’ee”) is a content publishing platform and private network for pro, Olympic and National Team Athletes.

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Domio

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Revolutionary audio for your sports helmet!

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Esports Tickets

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Esports Tickets is a free-to-use event platform for gaming and esports events, and esports tickets.

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Amuka Esports

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Amuka Esports creates localized esports hubs in cities across North America.

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20/20 Armor

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20/20 Armor makes an electronic chestguard for martial arts that removes the guessing from scoring.

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Stepscan Technologies

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Stepscan Technologies is a Footprint Tracking and Gait Profiling

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Hearshot

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Hearshot develops wearable technology solutions that enable its users to communicate and interact with the environment around them.

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Versus Reward

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Play along with your favourite sports, compete and win! Versus rewards you for being a great sports fan!

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Fit Factory Fitness

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Fit Factory is a personal training and boot camp fitness service in Toronto, Ontario.

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Play It Interactive

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Play-it is capturing the imagination of mobile users in emerging markets.

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Athlete Era Technologies

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A software platform for delivering mobile-based training and support to grassroots coaches

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Avrij Analytics

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Avrij Analytics is a Fredericton-based analytics technology startup.

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Mazu Family

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Social media is fundamentally broken. Mazu is the mobile solution. Social Media made safe, inspiring, inclusive and fun for families.

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Bloxo

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Bloxo creates an entire marketplace for organizers to host activities, we are currently mastering pickup sports!

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Mirage VR

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Bringing imagination into reality with a full-body tracking virtual reality experience.

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International Gaming League

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International Gaming League is an online gaming league that acts as a middle ground for professional cyber athletes.

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TAPQUAD

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Apps and Game Development Studio

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Parados Cerebral Solutions

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PCS develops data collection hardware devices to complement its advanced analytics platform for concussion epidemic in sports.

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Pro Draft League

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Fantasy Sports for Real Money

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Fantasy Feud

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Fantasy Feud allows users to play daily fantasy sports and offers fantasy sports contests, and daily and weekly leagues.

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Presagia Sports

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Presagia develops web-based athlete health management software solutions.

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PlayCity App

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PlayCity creates a more active and connected world by using technology to bring people together offline.

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Fatsack Outdoors

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Fatsack Outdoors is a developer of a mobile fishing application used to improve the angler’s fishing skills and increase productivity.

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ONESET

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The Vine for fitness. Share workout ideas through 15 second videos

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Interpodia Technology

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Interpodia Technology is a sports registration software development company.

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Sports IQ Analytics

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Sports IQ uses advanced AI and machine learning techniques to provide cutting edge software solutions for the online sports gambling.

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Sodraft

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Sodraft is a fantasy sports social drafting platform driven by a serpentine draft simulator.

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Action 500

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Action 500 provides indoor karting, paintball and laser center in Canada.

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Steamsharp Technology

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Steamsharp is a sports analytics company that provides an automated API for all-play oddsmaking data.

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Kick Sport

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Kick Sport offers judo, karate, taekwondo, and kids’ martial arts equipment online to customers worldwide.

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GmeSide

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A sports media app connecting users to venues airing demand generated sporting events from all leagues as well as Olympic style sports

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HeadCheck Health

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) concussion testing & compliance monitoring solution that works for any sports organization or clinic.

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BuckitLife

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BuckitLife, is an online hub for bucket list adventures near you. Find, compare, share, and buy!

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Impakt Protective

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Head impact sensors and software

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Playmaker

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Playmaker is a digital sports media company that lives at the intersection of sports, gambling, media and technology.

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Race Roster

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Race Roster is an online registration and event marketing platform working primarily in the endurance sports industry.

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Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)

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Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) is a Canadian consumers’ cooperative, which sells outdoor recreation gear and clothing.

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Toronto Sun

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Toronto Sun is an English-language tabloid newspaper that features the latest local and international news.

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Ramos Family Office

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The Ramos Family Office is Roberto Ramos Casas’ personal holding group. Roberto is a Mexican national with lifelong expertise and investments in logistics and customs brokerage in Mexico, the United States, Asia and Europe. The family office is co-headquartered in Mexico City and Montreal.

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Elevation Outdoors

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Elevation’s mission is to enhance the lives of underprivileged youth via participation in specially designed outdoor sports programs.

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Tradable Bits

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Know Your Fans, Market Smarter. Tradable Bits is the leading fan-based marketing platform for music and sports.

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Propel

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A learn-to-swim marketplace connecting clients, instructors, and places for them to have lessons.

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FootyStats

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FootyStats provides Stats and Analytics for Soccer

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Comic Reply

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Comic Reply is an online contest platform that enables their fans to create ‘fan art.’

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HockeyTech

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HockeyTech provides hockey-related technologies, analytics, digital and information services.

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Play The Future

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Play The Future is a unique new prediction gaming platform.

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PMML

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PMML provides investors access to the growing esports market through its diversified holding structure.

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Pointstreak Sports Technologies

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Pointstreak Sports Technologies Inc. is a provider of innovative sports technology solutions designed to help streamline a sports

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NGTronix Industries

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Their mission is to develop cutting edge biomedical sensors that enhance fitness, athletics and healthcare.

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Insights.gg

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Collaboration and Esports Coaching Platform Designed for Gamers

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OpenSports

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OpenSports enables sports and recreation organizers to build amazing groups

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Sideline Sports Ehf

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Sideline Sports Ehf is the essential coaching platform focusing on the key elements of Planning, Analysis and Communication.

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Golf Town Canada

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Since their founding in 1999, Golf Town has grown to become one of the world’s largest golf superstore.

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InitLive Inc.

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InitLive is a revolutionary staff & volunteer scheduling tool for events, programs and CSR.

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Eon Media

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Empowers content providers and sponsors with accurate ROI data for sponsorship “EVERY LOGO EVERY TIME”.

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Scorched Ice

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Scorched Ice develops a sensor and wireless module for hockey skates which enables real time diagnostics of the player.

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Cadee

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Cadee enables users to build their own golf profile and share golf activities, stats, and favorite courses with other Cadee users.

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Bonaire Dreams

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We are a Canadian couple who have purchased a lot in the Hato area on the beautiful island of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean.

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Rival.ai

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Rival-ai is an Esports company that provides industry standard scouting reports for teams & the betting community through the use of AI

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PlayLine

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Daily Fantasy Sports company founded by UFC Champion Michael Bisping.

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Instant Autographs Inc.

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Instant Autographs is a digital asset platform for celebrities & fans to engage.

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TradeFan

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TradeFan is the fantasy sports stock market that enables users to participate in sports leagues and draft players.

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Fan.si

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Fan.si is a platform allowing fans to support artists and artists to deeply engage with fans.

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FanSaves

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FanSaves is a digital platform that gives fans discounts & deals from affiliated brands of organizations, teams, schools and more!

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Javelin Sports

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Marketplace connecting sport players with sport organizations

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