Top Sports Startups in 2026

A live event’s better because of the people by your side. You see the same things. You feel the same feels. You walk out changed for the better. And that’s why SeatGeek makes it easy to score sweet deals on tickets to more events than we can count.

Culdesac Tempe — the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S. — will be home to over 1,000 people. We’ve pulled out the parking lots to make room for acres of greenspace, friendly courtyards, and shops right at your doorstep. We’re bringing together services like ridesharing, bikes, scooters, and same-day grocery delivery, so zero private cars means zero hassle. Plus, an on-site light rail stop makes it a breeze to get downtown for work.

- The first commission-free, high-frequency sports betting exchange, building the "Nasdaq of sports betting" - Recently closed a $6m seed round from YC, Lux, Soma, Paul Graham, Joe Montana, Innospark, the founders of Dropbox and Instacart, among many others - Looking for quant traders and researchers, SWEs, marketing, BD, operations, and product roles to work out of our NY office - Salaries at the top of benchmarks, with significant equity ownership and generous benefits - Founders are recent Harvard grads with quant experience at Jane Street and BoA and years of experience as sharp sports bettors - $300B annually bet on sports in the US and the size of the market is rapidly growing given the number of states legalizing sports betting - Currently the only way to bet is with retail sportsbooks which have egregious margins, discriminatory and inefficient practices, and a stale betting experience - Novig is a sports betting exchange that guarantees users the best lines by allowing them to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable

WHOOP is the performance optimization system that helps elite athletes and teams win. WHOOP provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. The system is currently being used by professional and collegiate athletes, Olympians, and the United States military. At WHOOP our mission is to create a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

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.

Founded in 2009, TeamSnap has taken the organization of youth, recreational, and competitive sports into the 21st century. 25+ million coaches, administrators, players, and parents use TeamSnap’s web and smartphone apps to sign up, schedule, communicate and coordinate everything for the team, the club, and the season. Explore the TeamSnap blog for more information: blog.teamsnap.com.

fuboTV. The most sports for the least money. fuboTV carries over 40,000 live events: MLB, EPL, NFL, NBA, NHL and other high profile sporting events. fuboTV is available on Roku, Samsung TV, Kindle fire, iPad & Android tablets. Xbox and phone apps will be available in January.

Sleeper's mission is to connect people over sports. We believe the most important aspect of sports is its ability to bring friends and communities together. We do this via multi-player games like fantasy leagues, with messaging at the core of the experience. We're hiring and would love to meet you!

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.

As the super-platform for non-professional football in Europe, we bring pro-level experiences (news, data, gamification) to the mega community of +190mn football fanatics in the non-pro ecosystem.