Top Fantasy Sports Startups in 2026

DraftKings is a sports oriented skill gaming company based in Boston, MA. Our core products are currently in the short-format Fantasy Sports space: DraftKings.com, the leading Daily Fantasy Sports for Cash site, and Fantasy Sports for Coins, a top rated fantasy sports app with versions for the iPhone, Android and Facebook Canvas.

Sorare is at the intersection of sports, gaming, and NFT collectibles. Through tradable digital cards, Sorare is designing a collective fantasy sports experience where you can manage your favorite players, hone your passion to earn prizes, and be part of a thriving community. Anyone, anywhere, can connect with the game on Sorare. The company’s mission is to build “the game within the game” and to give fans, players and clubs the platform to celebrate, share, and own your game. Founded in 2018, Sorare has seen tremendous growth. The platform has a card sales volume of over $400M since January 2021 (up from $8M in sales in 2020) and now has exclusive partnerships with over 250 football (soccer) clubs, the MLB & MLBPA, and the NBA & NBPA. Sorare is trusted by a world-class team of investors including Softbank, Benchmark, Accel Partners, athletes such as Serena Williams and Kylian Mbappé, and key tech investors such as Alexis Ohania - all who believe in the future of integrating NFTs with Gameplay.

Kero builds real-time sports betting technology for sportsbook operators around the world. Our engine ingests live play-by-play sports data and produces continuously updating in-game betting markets, including micro bets, contextual markets, and player-driven props. In simple terms: we price the next meaningful moment in a game, whether that is the next pitch, shot, drive, field goal, possession, or player outcome. We operate at the intersection of sports, probability, trading, machine learning, and product. The hard part is not just building models; it is building models that work in real time, on messy sports data, under commercial and risk constraints, and that can be shipped into live betting products. We are a lean, distributed team serving a global market. Kero is an ideal place for people who love sports, think critically, take ownership, and want to help build the next generation of live betting experiences.

Fliff is the #1 social sportsbook and is positioned to be the "minor leagues for sports betting" with its free-to-play full service sportsbook. The sportsbook also has a sweepstakes mode which allows users to play with a separate currency to win real prizes in 42 states. Fliff is designed for the novice bettor and casual sports fan with a simplified and gamified UX that gives them the opportunity to play risk-free.

Fully automated micro-markets, odds origination, and risk management.

Vettor is building a live fantasy sports marketplace where fans can buy, sell and trade player performance like stocks. Traditional fantasy sports largely become passive once a lineup or entry is submitted. Vettor is designed to make the experience active throughout the game. Player-stat markets have live prices that move with performance, giving users the ability to buy, hold or sell positions before settlement. We’re solving three core problems in fantasy sports: static gameplay, slow engagement cycles and limited flexibility once an entry is placed. Vettor combines the familiarity of fantasy sports with the mechanics of a trading platform to create a more dynamic, repeatable experience. The product is currently pre-launch and in development, with an initial focus on building a production-ready platform, live sports data integrations, trading and settlement systems, payments and scalable architecture across multiple sports and markets.

Cricketpedia is owned and operated by Elysium Labs, which runs newsbytesapp.com, an AI-driven digital media platform. Cricketpedia is Fantasy Cricket meets AI. Its proprietary tool helps users select a winning XI for each match, based on the performance of a player across hundreds of parameters. The platform’s search engine helps fans find out amazing, yet unknown stats by just typing in their queries.

Here's a clean Wellfound About Us: KingPool is the social network for sports fans in the real world. Our core product — KingMap — is a live, crowd-sourced map that shows sports fans where their friends are watching, which venues are electric, and what the gameday atmosphere looks like across their city in real time. We're solving the problem every sports fan faces every week: where is everyone watching, and is it worth going? We're building in three compounding stages. Phase 1 is social discovery — KingMap, live venue intelligence, and the social graph that connects fans around shared gameday rituals. Phase 2 adds real-money gaming — sweepstakes pools, DFS contests, and peer-to-peer predictions layered directly on top of the social platform. Phase 3 is a CFTC-regulated prediction exchange — the same destination Novig raised $75M at $500M to reach, but with a social platform and proprietary real-world fan data asset they'll never have. We're pre-seed, pre-launch, and building fast. If you want to work on a product that sits at the intersection of social, gaming, and the live sports experience — and you want to build it from the ground up — this is the right place.

Fantasy sports experiences are flat. We're adding a thrilling new dimension that gives players a role beyond just picking a team.

Dynarii is a skill-based stock market gaming platform where players compete using real stocks. Pick'Em contests, 1v1 PvP battles, real performance, real winners. We're building the intersection of fantasy sports and the stock market — a pure competition platform that makes the market the playing field. Problem We're Solving: The stock market is one of the most compelling competitive arenas in the world — but nobody's built a good game around it. Trading apps are too complex and too risky for most people to engage with. Finance education platforms are boring. Fantasy sports platforms ignore the market entirely. Dynarii closes that gap. We give players a way to compete using their market knowledge without any of the financial risk — skill-based, social, and built for competition from the ground up.