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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TheMagic5: It’s About Customisation and Doing Away With ‘One Size Fits All’
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Right now, they may be known as a customised swimming goggle manufacturing company but that undersells what TheMagic5 is as a company and where they’re heading. Starting with great success in goggles for swimmers and triathletes, their commitment to offering better fit, comfort and functionality sees the company’s potential mushroom as their technology can be
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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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Treiner’s James Muir On Bringing Objectivity to Football Coaching
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
In the first part of our two-part conversation we talked to Treiner’s co-founder James Muir, we talk about how his company’s football coaching platform helps bridge the gap between players wanting to improve their football skills and connecting them with a large pipeline of coaches wanting to positively impact football in Australia. Head on over to
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Kinduct Selected as XFL’s Official Athlete Management System
Tuesday, 03 March 2020
Burgeoning football league the XFL has completed a deal with Kinduct to become the league’s official athlete management system. The league-wide partnership means all eight XFL teams will now use Kinduct’s Athlete Management System (AMS) platform to collect and consolidate data related to all players’ health, injury history and performance. Travis McDonough, CEO of Kinduct, said. “We’re ecstatic to
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Building Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Athletes with Fitmind
Wednesday, 08 January 2020
Research led by the Australian Institute of Sport has found that as many as one in three elite athletes reported significant symptoms of anxiety or depression. When compared that it affects around one in five of the wider population it is a stark reminder that the current approach to mental health needs to evolve. Knowing there
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HYPE SPIN Accelerator Taiwan Spotlight: Komodo Monitr
Monday, 25 November 2019
Our series of conversations with founders and companies going through HYPE’s Spin Accelerator in Taiwan. In this conversation we spotlight New Zealand startup Komodo Monitr. We spoke to Jack Wood, one of their co-founders. Describe your experience at the recent HYPE Bootcamp in Taiwan? Jack Wood: “The Bootcamp couldn’t have come at a better time really. In
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Biomechanix Brings 3-D Markerless Athlete Tracking into Australia
Friday, 20 September 2019
Bringing a new innovation into Australia that aims to extend our understanding and appreciation of how an athlete performs, is assessed and analysed in a competitive environment is Biomechanix. The company sells and distributes movement and analysis systems, one of which is Simi Motion Reality, a 3-D Markerless motion capture that does away with the
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Catapult Sport’s Chairman Adir Shiffman on the Elite Wearable Market, the Industry and the Problem with Data
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
One of the keenly attended sessions at August’s Sports Tech World Series in Melbourne was the fireside chat between Vumero’s CEO John Persico and Catapult Sports Chairman Adir Shiffman. The wide-ranging conversation took in his view of the elite wearable market, the wider sports tech industry and his problem with data. There was a buoyancy
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