[February 05, 2016] |
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NFL, TechCrunch, and Stanford Graduate School of Business Announce Finalists for 1st & Future Competition
The NFL, TechCrunch, and Stanford Graduate School of Business today
announced the finalists for 1st
and Future, a startup competition focused on the future of sport
for fans and athletes.
The "pitch-off" style event hosted by TechCrunch will take place at
Stanford Graduate School of Business in Stanford, CA (News - Alert) on Saturday,
February 6 from 8:30 - 12:00pm pacific time. Finalists competing in the
three separate categories include:
The Future Stadium:
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HYP3R: HYP3R is a location-based engagement platform. We make
it easy for businesses to engage influential customers at specific
locations on a personal level, in real-time. Leveraging the social
media breadcrumbs that people leave at locations, HYP3R mines them in
real-time, enabling engagements that can surprise and delight
consumers.
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ReplyBuy: ReplyBuy turns simple conversations into seamless
transactions. Their solution enables professional teams, universities
and venues across the country to connect in real-time with their fans
via mobile and execute a purchase with a quick "reply" text message.
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Paranoid Fan: Paranoid Fan is a social mapping app where fans
can pin, share, and discover the best kept secrets on GameDay - like
where to park, find tickets, food, beer, or even your friends in a
crowd of people.
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Sidestep: Sidestep is a mobile platform that allows fans to
browse and buy live event merchandise before, during, and after a show
for both pickup and delivery. Through the fan app and third party
integrations, Sidestep has unlocked incremental revenue, captured
critical fan data, all while enhancing the fan experience.
Bringing Home The Game:
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LiveLike: LiveLike uses Virtual Reality to bring you and your
friends together in a sports viewing experience that's as easy as
turning on your TV and as thrilling as going to the stadium.
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Fanmode: Fanmode is making the world a stadium for fans.
While a team can see and feel the support of the fans at the game, the
millions outside are not represented. With its proprietary
communications platform and smart device applications, Fanmode solves
this problem and makes global real-time fan participation possible.
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FirstV1sion: First person live broadcasting for
sports like American football, basketball, ice hockey, soccer and many
more. FirstV1sion's JerseyCam enables broadcasters to offer the best
action from the player's angle in real-time, making them feel the
action closer than ever.
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Maestro: Maestro provides engaging video experiences
that drive user action, sponsor & transactional revenue, and robust
data collection forbusiness-minded broadcasters. Customers layer
Maestro over platforms like YouTube (News - Alert)/Twitch to amplify viewership while
maximizing return on investment within their own properties.
Tomorrow's Athlete:
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Heddoko: Heddoko™ provides a solution made of
smart compression shirts and pants that track the movement of the body
joints using textile embedded sensors. The e-garment transmits live
data to its users by capturing the full body movements and modeling it
in 3D, allowing to improve their performance and alleviate the risk of
injury.
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DimeTime (developed by RADD3): DimeTime is an advanced,
virtual reality-based football training system featuring real NFL
formations, route concepts, and real NFL player speeds and movements.
A player can walk around a football formation as if the player is on
an actual field, and use voice commands to call and audible plays just
like in reality.
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Telemetry Sports: Telemetry Sports builds technology
solutions that improve team performance and decision-making across the
sports industry. Using machine learning and other analytical methods,
the Telemetry Sports platform will change the way organizations
develop their game day strategy, scout every team, and evaluate every
player in the NFL.
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Kenzen: Kenzen delivers real-time health insights
using patented biosensors, sweat analysis and predictive analytics.
Our mission is to predict and preempt injury and health complications.
In The Future Stadium category judges will select as the winner
the startup with the product most likely to be implemented and have the
biggest impact on the experience of attendees at live, stadium sports
events. Judges include: Kevin Compton (Co-Founder of
Radar Partners), Mary Meeker (Partner, Kleiner Perkins
Caulfield Byers), Mike Rothenberg (Founder and CEO,
Rothenberg Ventures), Geoff Yang (Co-Founder, Redpoint).
In the Bringing Home The Game category judges will select as the
winner the startup with the product most likely to see wide consumer
adoption and alter in some fundamental way the enjoyment of live sports
broadcasts in the home. Judges include: Beth Comstock (Vice
Chair, GE), Bill Gurley (General Partner, Benchmark Capital),
Lowell McAdam (Chairman and CEO, Verizon (News - Alert) Communications), Jed
York (CEO of 49ers).
In the Tomorrow's Athlete category judges will select as the
winner the startup with the product that would have biggest impact on
athletes' training, performance, and safety during practice and games.
Judges include: Mitchel Berger, MD (Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF; member of NFL's Head, Neck and
Spine Committee), Jim Breyer (Founder and CEO, Breyer
Capital), Dhani Jones (Former NFL Linebacker, Chairman,
Qey Capital Partners, & Co-Founder of Action Streamer), Mark
Parker (CEO, Nike), Condoleezza Rice (American
political scientist and diplomat).
Winning startups from each category will receive $50,000 from the NFL's
Strategic Investment Fund, tickets to Super Bowl 50 and an invitation to
visit league headquarters where they will have the opportunity to meet
with top NFL executives.
While judges deliberate on winners of all three categories, youth
entrepreneurs from BUILD.org
will present their insights into the importance of developing an
entrepreneurial mindset for success in the 21st Century.
BUILD is a national nonprofit that uses entrepreneurship-based,
experiential learning to ignite the potential of youth in
under-resourced communities and equip them for high school, college and
career success.
1st and Future will be streaming live on TechCrunch.com
and on the TechCrunch App for Apple (News - Alert) TV. For more information about 1st
and Future please see here.
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contact one of the media representatives listed below.
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