GAIN LINE Analytics & Platinum Asset Management Crown Australasia’s Best Sporting Team for 2020
Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Platinum Asset Management (Platinum) and GAIN LINE Analytics (GAIN LINE) have crowned National Rugby League club Melbourne Storm as Australasia’s (Australia and New Zealand) Best Sporting Team (ABST) for 2020. It’s the second year in a row both Platinum and GAIN LINE have crowned the Storm as the Best Sporting Team, the Storm also took out the NRL Premiership for the second
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A New Season Begins: In Conversation with Travis McDonough, Kinduct’s CEO
Tuesday, 03 November 2020
Kinduct has exited and have done so in a significant way too, in fact the largest exit for a sports technology company in Canada. In September, the Halifax, Nova Scotia based athlete management company sold to Silicon Valley headquartered sensor technology company mCube and are moving into the next phase of their journey with a
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TeamSportz: “We Aim to Provide Sports Analytics Data for Everyone”
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
UK-based startup TeamSportz has a straight up goal that they’re on a mission to solve. They want anyone that enjoys sport and wants to improve their performance to have access to a sophisticated bit of technology without barriers. Utilising artificial intelligence, TeamSportz has developed a way to capture a person’s performance using their phone to
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Startupbootcamp Interview Series: Floteq Technologies
Wednesday, 03 June 2020
We bring you a series of interviews with the 10 companies accepted into Startupbootcamp’s Sports & EventTech cohort. In this edition we talked to the founder of Floteq Technologies, Miles Lazic. Floteq in essence is a beverage analytics company. Describe its scalability and its potential to be deployed just about anywhere. So let’s start by
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Kinduct’s Frank McKinnon on the Company’s Growth into APAC
Friday, 26 July 2019
Having achieved massive market penetration across elite and collegiate sports in North America with their industry-leading Athlete Management System, Kinduct’s international expansion has led them to establishing an on-the-ground base in Australia to boost their presence across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Leading the expansion is Frank McKinnon, Kinduct’s VP of APAC, and he told Bullpen
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Lumin Sports Aims to Give Teams a Greater Picture of Athlete Wellness and Fitness
Wednesday, 05 June 2019
Sitting at the intersection of health science and data analytics is Adelaide-based technology company Lumin Sports. While the company collect and stores numerous sources of athlete data there is an added focus on collecting health and wellness data. The company’s key is in the collection of subjective wellness and self-reported medical data through their Phila
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Understanding Cohesion in Teams: What Makes Gain Line Analytics’ Measurement of Team Performance Unique
Tuesday, 09 April 2019
With so much data centred around individuals and individual moments, the collective is quantified in on-field metrics, but it doesn’t delve into understanding what makes teams, teams within teams and collective units so successful. Sounds like an outsider view when individual athlete metrics are so woven into the fabric of sports analysis. Successful teams seem
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Hudl’s Software Solutions Opens Up a Deep Library of Awesome Talent and Content
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
The global accessibility of video in sport has given rise to coaches and athletes becoming connected through video and analysis. This appetite to infuse all levels of sport with technical and performance analysis has grown US performance technology business Hudl’s footprint around the world. The company’s full stack of video analysis solutions assists teams from
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Gameface.ai: Changing the Game in Video Analytics
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Emerging video analytics company Gameface.ai wants machines to understand sports. A radical notion when we’re used to the idea of players sitting in small rooms and theatres sifting and scrubbing through video content to plan match ups and tactics. Gameface.ai has set the mission of changing that. The company has developed video analysis powered by artificial
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