| Total | $1.5M |
| Seed, 10/07 | $900k |
| Seed, 1/10 | $600k |
YourSports is a social network for local sports.
Everyday, sports fans attend games, play on teams, win trophies, and coach in cities throughout the world. Except these achievements aren’t captured on the web.
YourSports is changing that by giving every fan their own “sports card”, allowing them to authentically represent their sports identity online while connecting them to the sports that matter most: their own.
The company believes at scale, these social connections represent a new communications network for sports that will change the flow of information from being broadcast-driven to people-driven (or “social”). Once the network exists, the world of media rights, sponsorships, retail, and ticket sales can be opened up for the long tail of sports. Worldwide.
After all, what’s better than reading your name in the sports-section?… YourSports is re-creating that user-experience for social, local, regional, and national sports content.
The company’s first release in Fall 2011 was an iOS app called Plays. The Plays app lets fans live tweet an entire game in under 3 seconds per play–democratizing live coverage for any game. Currently, the company has design engineered and released football for the Plays franchise. Basketball is in progress. Plays content will eventually be fused with the Frontpage newsfeed on YS, giving every game a social, live-covered, and live streamed identity on the web: http://yoursports.com/plays
The company is funded by a group of private investors from Seattle, WA.
The service launched in closed private beta on February 1st, 2012.
COMPANY HISTORY In 2006, while still a student at the University of Washington, YourSports Founder Chris McCoy was running PitchSmarter.com from his dorm room when he decided to live-stream the appearance of his hometown (Kelso, WA) baseball team in the Babe Ruth World Series in New York, so his sports-crazed community could watch online. The webcast itself wasn’t a complete success but the passion and demand from the fans in the stands was clear. YourSports was born.
Since then, the company has iterated around the edges of the sports content, local advertising, brand advertising, media rights, technology, and broadcasting industries with the goal of reverse engineering how they all work. From live streaming to distribution deals with local media to crowdfunding sports media rights and finally to social networking, the company has finally released a web service tying them all together. A service that re-engineers sports not around dates and numbers, but around relationships–or social.
Early YourSports history
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| Website | yoursports.com/plays |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | November 1, 2011 |
