Looking to build the link between sport and entrepreneurship and encourage opportunities for greater collaboration and research across various areas, RMIT University has partnered with the AFL’s Essendon Football Club.
Focusing on short form video content from athletes, and helping athletes monetise it with partner brands, is Australian startup 20Four.
Media group Southern Cross Austereo, whose properties include the Hit and Triple M radio networks and the Southern Cross television stations across regional Australia, has invested $5 million in telco startup OVO Mobile.
Catapult Sports has announced the acquisition of SportsMed Elite and Baseline, two digital sportstech products from SMG Technologies, for $3.9 million.
Port Adelaide is working with the state government to host an Investment Attraction Forum, selecting five businesses to pitch to 25 Chinese investors.
LeverEdge Sports is looking to help NRL teams make sense of the mountains of performance data they collect and use it to make decisions around players.
To help the average joe get their thoughts heard is Auckland’s Spalk, allowing aspiring sports commentators to broadcast their insights play by play.
Launched in 2003 with a print diary detailing all the important sporting fixtures of the year, Sportsyear has now developed an online platform to help fans better plan their watching.
Jaro is an online platform helping sporting teams and leagues manage their work, from creating and running league-wide events to managing individual player performances and welfare.
Spotless Group and Startupbootcamp have launched Hack at the G, an IoT and datatech hackathon at the MCG later this month.
The Brisbane Heat has today released Heat VR, a virtual reality app and ‘brand’ in conjunction with partner CUA. The app will look to give fans a behind the scenes experience.
Forget the stereotype of the old guy down at the TAB – thanks to the very fact that mentions of sports betting platforms are quite literally inescapable during any given sports broadcast, whether it be through ads or updates on odds from broadcasters at half time, the market is increasingly attracting younger customers who demand innovative solutions. The latest is Betswaps, an Adelaide platform allowing people to buy and sell their tips.
While the paper-based tipping system has worked well for decades, Melbourne startup Tipping Cartel thinks it can be done better, and is doing so by putting it online.
Two Australian entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to combine fantasy sports with betting and launched Moneyball, a platform that lets fans can put their coaching skills to the test by playing fantasy football for money.
Like all good startup stories, Stylerunner started from a kitchen table and an internet connection, the initial set up was a little more than most ecommerce sites, with the Stevanja sisters deciding to back their gut instincts from the start paying a premium of around $2000 to secure the domain stylerunner.com – it was a strategic desicion that has paid off.
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