Uplift Labs: On the New Frontier of Virtual Training and Coaching
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
We’re on the precipice of a golden frontier of athlete training and coaching as geographical boundaries are smashed and technologies is developed that are geared towards virtual and digital training. We look at Uplift Labs, one of the key companies that is on that frontier. Uplift Labs has two core products that emerged at different times: Uplift
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Onyx: The Mission to Build the World’s Smartest At-Home Fitness Instructor
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Onyx is a fitness app that uses on-device computer vision to bring the at-home training experience to the mass market. The digital training app utilises a smartphone camera coupled with AI-powered movement tracking to count reps, correct form in real-time while providing on-demand workouts. The central experience with Onyx is personalisation. A user’s training performance
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The Fitafy Story From Founder Brendan McCormack
Monday, 12 October 2020
It might have started as a light-hearted joke but the idea of harnessing your community to help solve a problem shows what is possible in a small amount of time. Realising active people in his community were struggling to find success with the dating apps available in the market, founder Brendan McCormack took on the
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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Insights Into Global Football Content Platform FOOTYLIGHT
Friday, 11 September 2020
Frustrated with the disparate sources of news, highlights and goals, especially the grainy vision of so many goals we used to see on YouTube. A team of guys banded together to create a football platform that centralises all of the content that they were looking, thus FOOTYLIGHT was born. The digital platform aggregates news, live
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In Conversation with ECAL’s Patrick Barrett
Wednesday, 09 September 2020
Calendar communications and marketing platform ECAL has had a fresh injection of capital and has signposted their intention to maintain their global ambitions with key senior appointments. The company’s technology has been widely used by hundreds of clients in major sporting leagues and federations. Key to their solution is the ability to deliver hyper personalised
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In Conversation with NETFIT Netball’s Sarah Wall
Friday, 26 June 2020
Combining netball and gym classes, NETFIT Netball is a dual digital and physical program designed to get girls and young women active. Featuring workout videos, fitness plans, coaching drills and wellbeing tips delivered in a short and sharp fashion by some of netball’s most well-known names. NETFIT’s content is delivered via its broadcast network for
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Startupbootcamp Interview Series: IntelliCUP
Friday, 05 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 co-founder of IntelliCUP, Brian Stockdale. One of the intriguing opportunities is that once we all start going back into stadia, arenas, festivals one of the major solutions is going to
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Startupbootcamp Interview Series: BindiMaps
Thursday, 04 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 co-founder of BindiMaps, Anna Wright. The first thing that really struck me was the huge potential of BindiMaps to be deployable across so many indoor spaces. Anna Wright: “We started
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Just Football is Bringing the Digital Game to the Football Pitch
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Armed with the mantra of getting youngsters and young adults to get outside and play instead of staying indoors and playing video games, Just Football is a mobile app that brings together the physical and digital worlds. The Swedish company combines real-life and mobile gaming through their app which allows players to compete in fun,
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