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.

Bally’s Interactive is a leading provider of technology services focused on the US sports betting and casino gaming spaces. Our parent company, Bally's Corporation (NYSE: BALY), is a leading U.S. omnichannel provider of land-based gaming and interactive entertainment. To pursue its ambitious industry goals, Bally's has created two distinct operating divisions: "Bally's Casinos," which includes physical gaming and entertainment properties, and "Bally's Interactive," comprised of sports betting software and services company Bet.Works, fantasy sports app Monkey Knife Fight, global B2B free-to-play game provider SportCaller, and even Gamesys. The company is estimated by major Wall Street analysts to grow to $12 billion by 2025 and reach $50 billion at maturity. We provide a start-up feel with the security of being backed up by a multi-billion dollar, cash positive company. Moreover, we offer lots of PTO, great benefits, cool perks, and competitive salaries in a fun industry.

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

The Week In Fantasy™ (Twif) is an innovative platform dedicated to helping fantasy football managers of all skill levels make better, more informed decisions by marrying qualitative insights from the fantasy analyst ecosystem and traditional quantitative data analytics. Scouring the internet, listening to hours of podcasts, and stitching together stats for roster decisions, while balancing work, family, and life, just isn't feasible for most people. Our AI powered platform fixes that by synthesizing the content and analytics universe into clear, roster-specific insights that help managers make winning decisions while saving hundreds of hours of research time.

an online platform that utilizes the power of the community to make team sports (currently soccer) accessible and enjoyable for our users.

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.