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.

We produce original content across YouTube, Snapchat and IGTV, as well as highly engaging shortform content on Instagram and TikTok. In just four years, we’ve amassed over 50 million fans and followers and drive an average of over 1.5 billion video views each month. Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Sapphire Sport, Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Micromanagement Ventures (the family of the late David Stern), Black Capital, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, Gaingels, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, and 30+ NBA stars including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.

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.

We are Bet Max Action, a unique iGaming concept poised to disrupt the sports betting industry. We fused the best elements of the DFS format with traditional sportsbooks in a groundbreaking tournament style sports betting platform where insight, strategy, and some luck win the day! With the flexibility to offer free-to-play and paid contests, BMA looks to partner with sports brands to increase fan engagement, and existing operators jockeying for market share. Robinhood democratized the stock market by lowering barriers of entry for everyday investors. BMA is doing the same for sports betting, giving fans more bang for their buck.

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.

GSL has long-term real estate holdings in properties developed by GSL, including Planet Ice recreational facilities, multi-use arenas, hotels and shopping centres, residential mixed-use developments, and major industrial buildings. Additionally, the operational divisions of GSL include the Victoria Royals WHL hockey team, a private airplane charter business, blueberry farming, food and beverage, concert production, ticketing, ice arena operations, outdoor music festivals, and an online fantasy sports website (officepools.com).