sports

  • FanFood offers a concession app for sports fans

    FanFood offers a concession app for sports fans

    No matter how riveting a game is or legendary a concert might be, there’s one thing that can pull fans out of the experience: waiting in concession lines. You could be stuck waiting for a hot dog when Alex Rodriguez hits a home run or missing out on a Bruce Springsteen song for want of…

  • ShotTracker raises $5 million in seed round with Magic Johnson, David Stern

    ShotTracker raises $5 million in seed round with Magic Johnson, David Stern

    Basketball wearables startup ShotTracker has raised $5 million in its seed round, according to a press release. The fundraising round includes investments by Earvin “Magic” Johnson and former NBA Commissioner David Stern. The two basketball legends will also serve in an advisory role for the company. “ShotTracker TEAM will revolutionize the game not only because…

  • QA with Rob Hruska on Hudl’s approach to microservices

    QA with Rob Hruska on Hudl’s approach to microservices

    Rob Hruska is an Engineering Director for Hudl in Lincoln, Nebraska. He will be giving a presentation, “A Microservices Architecture that Emphasizes Rapid Development,” at this year’s Heartland Developers Conference (Sept. 7-9). SPN caught up with Hruska at Hudl’s offices in downtown Omaha. SPN: How’s Hudl doing? RH: We’re doing pretty well. We’re expanding our global reach this year…

  • MotoMetrix brings new technology to concussion detection

    MotoMetrix brings new technology to concussion detection

    Preston Badeer remembers when he was a child trading football cards of his favorite players with his brother. And it makes him angry. “There were football players that I watched with my brothers growing up that are dead already because they went insane from the effects of concussions,” said Badeer, Interim CEO, MotoMetrix. “They got…

  • Powderhook app launches in Nebraska this week

    Powderhook app launches in Nebraska this week

    Lincoln-based startup Powderhook is launching their Powderhook app in Nebraska this week. The app, which SPN covered last November, is designed to help outdoor enthusiasts spend more time outdoors. “There are few places to go to get the advice you need specifically for what you’re doing and where you are, except for the tackle shop,” said…

  • Rodeo Analytics brings new technology to the equine industry

    Rodeo Analytics brings new technology to the equine industry

    After years of observing his wife compete in barrel racing, Alex Adams grew fond of the passion and hard work behind equine culture. “She was always looking for a way to improve her performance,” said Adams, founder and CEO of Rodeo Analytics. “She couldn’t find too much that would help her besides trainers and clinics.…

  • Fantasizr makes a fantasy league for your favorite TV show

    Fantasizr makes a fantasy league for your favorite TV show

    A Los Angeles-based startup in the NMotion Accelerator is applying the fantasy sports concept to TV shows, sales teams—and just about anything else. “It’s a fantasy gaming platform that can be used for anything,” said Dan Young, co-founder of Fantasizr. “You create a game with your friends and get points based on what happens.” The current sweet…

  • Why ScoreVision could be the next Hudl

    Why ScoreVision could be the next Hudl

    The Omaha-based company gives high school and small college sports fans the Jumbotron experience. But it’s their cloud platform that’s really exciting. Veteran entrepreneurs Gordon Whitten, David Sutter, and Chad Bokowski founded ScoreVision in 2015 when they decided to tackle the problem of outdated scoreboards in high schools and colleges. “As an entrepreneur, you go where there’s an…

  • Hudl celebrates nearly 10 years of stunning growth at Topping Out ceremony

    Hudl celebrates nearly 10 years of stunning growth at Topping Out ceremony

    People walking by the construction site in Lincoln’s Haymarket on Thursday afternoon might have wondered what was going on. There were several dignitaries on hand in suits and ties. But when dozens of people sporting Hudl t-shirts arrived, there was little doubt. Just a couple of weeks shy of their 10th anniversary, sportstech company Hudl…

  • Sideline Power puts the latest sports tech in coaches’ hands

    Sideline Power puts the latest sports tech in coaches’ hands

    In 2011, Hudl purchased its primary competitor in the high school football market, DSV. Matt Starr, now the founder and CEO of Sideline Power was a sales manager at DSV at the time of the buyout. “What we did was basically what Hudl did, but Hudl took what we were doing and took it a…