Podcasts

Discussing the star signing of Messi to Inter Miami, the rise of the Saudi Pro League and the changing consumption habits around sports media.

In the fourth episode of this summer's Investor's View series, we welcome Anthony Bontrager, managing director of West River Group.

Yanni is joined by Nick Shaw, managing director of EMEA at Greenfly, and Keegan Pierce, managing director for the UK and Ireland at LaLiga

This week Yanni welcomes Jordan Fliegel, managing director of Techstars NYC and Techstars Sports

In this week’s Sports Loft Podcast, we explore how the Women’s World Cup has levelled in numerous ways and ask whether sport needs Netflix more than Netflix needs sport.

Our guest this week is Michael Spirito, lead investor at Sapphire Sport and part of the team responsible for deploying the firm’s recently announced $180m second fund.

Launching our new series of ‘An Investor's View’ by the Sports Loft Podcast, host Yanni Andreopoulos sits down with Antonio Cacorino, founder and CEO of APEX Capital

Having just secured a $5 million Series A investment round, Nick Pinks, CEO and founder of Covatic, joined us the Sports Loft Podcast to discuss how the business is progressing and what lies ahead.

Yanni sits down with our very own Charlie Greenwood and Andy Selby to reflect on the highlights and key themes raised at the Sports Loft Showcase 2023.

Erik Londré, CEO and co-founder of Karta, joins Yanni to discuss the founding of the company, how to best engage fans in virtual spaces and why every brand needs a presence in the metaverse.

In this episode Yanni welcomes Simon Oliveira, Daniel Kirchner and Anthony Ganjou on the podcast to discuss the evolution of athlete brands

In this episode, we take a look back at the recently concluded Cheltenham Festival, one of the biggest fixtures on the UK sports calendar.

From big events to new technologies, our panel discuss how sports teams and leagues can grow their fanbases and audiences.

For the last two years, the NFL has worked with Spalk to deliver local language streams to millions of people around the world – from Latin America to Japan.

Ben Reynolds is CEO and co-founder of Spalk, the remote commentary platform that enables sports from around the world to be localised for different audiences.

We welcome to the podcast Ari Daie, CEO and founder of Sports Loft member company FEVO, and Nathan Homer, chief commercial officer of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

In this edition of the Sports Loft Podcast, host Yanni Andreopoulos is joined by two Sports Loft member company CEOs in Daniel Kirschner, the president, CEO and founders of Greenfly, and Nick Goggans, co-founder and CEO of Pumpjack Dataworks.

Did sports organisations successfully ‘enter the metaverse’ this year? And are teams and leagues deepening their relationship with gaming? We assess the annual Sports Loft predictions

Kicking off a new series on the podcast, we brought in two of our members' CEOs, plus a bonafide industry expert, to discuss some of the key topics to have hit their in-tray this week.

We speak with Kiki Mills Johnston about the founding of Drive by DraftKings and its thesis for investment.

Nikhil heads up Elysian Park's London base, with the goal of broadening the footprint and horizons of the Los Angeles-based firm.

We chat with Ant Ganjou, co-founder of Move.ai, the newest member of the Sports Loft network

Jasmine Robinson, partner at Causeway, explains what growth stage VCs are looking for and how crucial building relationships is in the sports startup world.

“What we realised early on is that the consumer sentiment is shifting," says Deepen Parikh, Partner at Courtside Ventures and guest on this week's Sports Loft Podcast.

What are VCs looking for in founders and their teams? Where are the opportunities for investors in today's challenging market? And how can funds offer more than just money to help startups in our industry thrive? These are just some of the questions we put to Lance Dietz, partner at KB Partners, in the latest episode of the Sports Loft Podcast.

TitletownTech’s Cordero Barkley joins us to give us insight into life as sports industry investor. Leveraging support from LPs including Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers, Cordero shares how TitletownTech are navigating the early stage tech scene across sports data, media, digital health and supply chain logistics.

Yanni chats to Nick Bourne, Chief Strategy officer of ATP Media to understand how he is thinking about the ever-changing sports media landscape. Drawing also on his past experience as commercial lead at sports media disruptor Copa90 and his journey into the world of tennis as an outsider, Nick provides insight into how startups and rightsholders can spot opportunities to tell new stories to sports fans in different ways in a crowded ecosystem.

Yanni spoke to Don White, CEO at Satisfi Labs and David Garcia, Senior Vice President, Experience & Innovation at Atlanta Hawks. They discussed the approach that led the Hawks to be ranked as the #1 gameday experience in the NBA and how the data captured by Satisfi’s AI assistant is informing changes to the fan experience at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena.

We are joined by the Chief Marketing Officers of FEVO and Greenfly, Betty Tran and Tom Kuhr respectively. They discuss why a brand is important to achieve scale, how their brands are constantly evolving and how building a brand plays into fundraising conversations.

In the latest Sports Loft podcast, we are joined by Michael Bucklin, Vice President of Digital Content at Fox Sports and Tagboard’s President Nathan Peterson, as they discuss innovation in the sports broadcast.

In this podcast, we are joined by Slate’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Horton and Tagboard’s President Nathan Peterson. They discuss what they have learnt from building tech products for the sports and media industry, the importance of the people in the product building process and how their products have evolved from their earliest iterations.

Nick Goggans, CEO of Pumpjack Dataworks and Nick Pinks, CEO of Covatic join the Sports Loft Podcast to discuss how they are approaching the challenge of growing internationally and the importance of understanding the cultural differences in the sports and media industry between US, Europe & Asia.

We are joined by F1 Miami Grand Prix’s Josh Young, and FEVO’s Colin Casey. They discuss how teams and events are leveraging technology in the ticketing process, the importance of the gameday experience and whether you’ve got your pricing wrong if you sold every ticket.

We are joined by KIN Partners' MD and founder, Simon Oliveira and Greenfly’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Kirschner. They discuss how athletes can build their brands, whether it is reasonable to expect them to be role models and how both teams and players can benefit from an athlete’s increased profile.

We spoke to Andrew Hall, CEO & co-founder of BALLN and Colin Casey, EVP & GM for Partner Development at FEVO, about one of the biggest priorities for the founder of any high-growth tech company; finding product market fit.

We are joined by Satisfi Co-founder and CEO Donny White and Slate Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer Will Brooke. They share their first-hand experiences of hiring at a startup and what they have learnt about the best ways to build teams for their respective companies.

Tagboard's President Nathan Peterson joins us to talk about Tagboard’s growth as social media has become critical to the production landscape and how Tagboard has become a fully fledged production platform behind some of the biggest names in news, sports and entertainment.

How is the value sports teams get from social media changing? What role does social media play for teams and how has this changed? We talk to Slate's Eric Stark and Minnesota Timberwolves’ Director of Digital Content Shahbaz Khan about the importance of social media in sport.

What does personalisation mean for sport? How important is it to get optimal engagement? We talk to Alexandra Wilis of Wimbledon and Nick Pinks of Covatic about the growing role of personalisation in sport in order to build audiences and manage their experiences.

Technology is changing sports broadcasting. We discuss how with two leaders who are shaping innovation in that area - World Rugby's Ronan Donagher and Ben Reynolds, CEO of Spalk.

How are athletes becoming such great content creators? How are leagues and rights holders helping them to do this? We talk to social content tool Greenfly's CEO Daniel Kirschner and SailGP's CMO Tim Godfrey about how they're doing this.

Pumpjack's CEO and Co-Founder Nick Goggans joins us on the Sports Loft podcast to discuss the founding of the company, why data is valuable for sports teams and how they are helping the industry to glean more value from it.

Slate's COO and Co-Founder Eric Starc joins us on the Sports Loft podcast where he discusses the company's founding, his experience at NFL and about the growing role social media plays in connecting sports teams with their fans.

Satisfi Labs' CEO Donny White and KNVB's Head of Knowledge Development and Innovation Giel Kirkels, join us on the Sports Loft podcast for a discussion about the future of the fan experience.

Andrew Hall, CEO of Formalytics joins us on the Sports Loft podcast to talk about how the company came to solving the problem of knowing whether you are getting better at football or not...

CEO and Co-Founder Ben Reynolds joins us on the Sports Loft podcast to discuss how the company was formed, what the company does to support broadcasting and commentary and about how covid accelerated growth.

Satisfi Labs CEO Donny White joins us to discuss what the company does, how it was founded and lastly how Satisfi use AI to fuel search across sports venues.

CEO Covatic Nick Pinks discusses how the company was formed, how COVID has changed people's media consumption habits and how their product can help broadcasters create personalised content.

Greenfly's CEO and Co-Founder Daniel Kirschner talks us through Greenfly and how many of the world's leading sports teams are using the service to engage fans and athletes.

Fevo's Co-Founder Ari Daie talks us through how FEVO came about, what it does and FEVO's vision for how they could significantly improve the experience of buying tickets and attending a game.