numberFire is an analytics framework that empowers sports consumers to make smarter decisions. Over 50 million people play fantasy sports or bet on the games, but they are lost when it comes to advice, as most of the content available is opinionated, qualitative, and non-substantive. To meet the opportunities in this market, we apply Wall Street-style quantitative analysis to the massive amounts of data that exists around sports in order to deliver best-in-breed insight and advice for our users and media partners.

We alpha-launched our product last year, where we outpredicted the experts at ESPN and Yahoo! 70% of the time. Users soon followed, and we finished the season with 30,000 users and tons of great press coverage. The company derives revenue from media sales and partnerships to companies like ESPN on the B2B side, and through freemium subscriptions to our services on the B2C side.

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numberFire added Eliot Durbin as Investor & Director. (1/1/12)

Posted 1/5/12 at 12:04pm
numberFire added Matt Robinson as Advisor.

Posted 1/5/12 at 3:50am
numberFire added Keith Goldner as Chief Statistican. (6/1/11)

Posted 7/6/11 at 3:35pm
numberFire added Sean Weinstock as Co-Founder/COO. (2/1/11)

Posted 7/6/11 at 3:35pm
numberFire added David Tisch as Advisor.

Posted 11/9/10 at 3:57pm
numberFire added Nik Bonaddio as Founder/CEO.

Posted 5/7/10 at 10:59am
numberFire received $750k in Seed funding. (1/5/12)

Posted 1/5/12 at 5:15am via techcrunch.com