The past few years has given an amazing transformation to the Sports industry especially in India. Now, Sports is not just an active space for marketing and creating branding opportunities for corporates investing in Sports, but also forging value for fanatics across the country.
India today is the landmark of revolution. Start-ups are becoming a great success. Start-ups are about interest and hard work, to attain one’s dream. Adhering to this growth, a clutch of innovative startups, riding on the growing enthusiasm for sports in the country, are forging into the increasingly fruitful sector of sports in India. Growth of a division such as sports and fitness is directly dependent on the expansion of the economy of a country. With the growing per capita income and rising awareness, Indians are increasingly harnessing lifestyles around sports and fitness. Entrepreneurs like amateur sports people are setting up new businesses, providing analytics to improve performance. In fact, there is a considerable rise in the growth of sports start-ups featuring events, merchandise, business and infrastructure in the larger context of things. Thus, there are lots of opportunities for entrepreneurs both for sports-related products and services to evolve their business.
Some of the best sports startups are listed below:
1. CIALFO Solutions
CIALFO Solutions is a technology platform digitizes all the key aspects of playing, training and competitions across different sports. CIALFO platform is aiming on three key areas: management, communication and tracking. Venkata Rachur is the founder and CEO of CIALFO founded in 2015. SwimIndia is an ideal platform for the swimming community which originated from CIALFO solutions private limited, the sports technology platform.
2. Dark Horse Sport
Dark Horse Sports came into being with a simple philosophy of making the life of an aspiring athlete easier. It strives to change people’s mindsets about sports in India and endeavors to teach young kids as well as parents that a career in sport can be as gratifying as a career in any other field. Anirudh Singh is the founder and Product Architect of Dark Horse Sport.
3. Fanatic Sports
Fanatic is a venture for fans. It aims to transform the way people in India look at sports level. Contrivance behind fanatic sports is Raghav Gupta founder and CEO of Fanatic sports.
Fanatic Sports is amongst Asia’s leading ‘Sports Ticketing & Experiential Travel’ companies that have offices in India, Singapore, Dubai, India & North America. They are the official ticketing & hospitality agents for the world’s premier sporting events.
4. Playo
Playo is an absolute sports networking app. Playo is the leading One-Stop Sports App to bring back Play in everyday lives. They empower local communities to make new play pals, organize playgroups, share information, experiences and discover sporting venues. Gauravjeet Singh is the CEO of Playo. It is a platform for sports, fitness, fun and all things recreational.
5. SAT Sports
SAT Sports provides a vibrant and energetic environment with multiple synthetic courts and player specific fitness regimen under the supervision of experienced coaches and trainers. SAT Sports Private Ltd is the brainchild of former India Davis Cup player Srinath Prahlad. They offer the whole training and development program in the country that can effectively cater to the needs of aspiring tennis professionals who are serious about achieving their goals and objectives.
6. Sporloc
It is India’s finest sporting website, which serves you to discover sports venues and can book them online. Sporloc.com was founded by Perseus Daruwala. They help the admirers with simple solutions to issues like availability of dates, identifying sports venues, payments, booking the venue and confirmation.
7. Protege sport
Protege sport was founded in 2014, by 3 entrepreneurs Pranesh Krishnamurthy, Rohit Narayan and Rahul Rane. The vision behind this startup was to provide a wearable technology product to all the sports and to the players of the sports so that their coaches and clubs can track the performance of these players, analyze and improve upon whatever is the short-coming during the on field performance. It also provides a SAAS software for management tools, accounting tools which any club or a ream can utilize all of its operations.
8. Sportz Village
Is one of the oldest startups which had a vision to provide sports education to school, corporates, and colleges. It has now tied up with over 400 schools across India. It encourages physical education, fitness, and sports from the grass rooted land across schools.
9. Spektacom
Spektacom was founded by Anil Kumble. It has prepared a 5gm AI chip which is put on a cricket bat as a sticker. The chip records all the real-time data about when a player hits a shot on the field and it processes that data. It is passed on to the stump box, processes, captures, analyzes and provides the real-time data to the coaches. The 4 analysis of data is about the quality of the shot, the power, the swing and the twist.
10. Sports Reconnect
Sports Reconnect is Mumbai’s leading sports resource provider for Clubs, Individuals, Schools and Corporates keen on taking up sports like Table tennis, Chess, Badminton, Football, Cricket, Swimming, BasketBall and Squash etc.
Their aim is to provide specialized coaching and developing skills in individuals essential for competing at the State, National and World Championship levels in different sports. They also provide skilled and experienced coaches who offer consultancy to clients that encourage consistency in playing, high performance driven & affordable surfaces.
