

#Trickster pitch series#
Brag House, an esports social platform for college gamers: $5 million Series A round (24 pages).Compliable, a tech company helping with the sports-gambling licensing process: $3.6 million seed round (4 pages).Curastory, a video-making startup for sports creators: $2 million seed round (27 pages).BeyondPlay, a mobile gaming and online-gambling app: $1.7 million (90-second video).Kero Sports, a startup that powers free-to-play games in sports apps: $1 million seed round (6 key pages).Read the pitch decks that helped 10 sports-focused startups raise millions of dollars: They broke down the pitch decks they used to secure millions of dollars in funding. Insider talked with a handful of sports startup founders who've pitched their startups to investors about their process. This has opened the opportunity for startups to build marketplaces or creator tools to help student-athlete creators. Student-athletes have since become one of the most engaging influencer groups, earning anywhere from a few hundred dollars to six figures from brand deals. In college sports, student-athletes are finally allowed to profit from their name, image, and likeness, after a 2021 rule change. And more opportunities for growth are expected in the next decade ahead as sports gambling expands into more states such as California. That's down from the previous year but more than the year before. Venture capital poured $334.5 million into the early-stage sports betting and gambling space last year, despite the current macroeconomic struggles, according to PitchBook. It's opened up a new market not only for sportsbooks like DraftKings, but for the ancillary businesses that support betting - be it platform providers, data companies, media partners, geolocation and compliance suppliers, or others. The expansion of legal sports betting in the US ushered in one of the biggest transformations. The sports industry has exploded in recent years as technology and consumer habits change. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
