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Third Class of Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator Secures 25 Business Deals with Consortium Partners
Startups spent six months participating in newly expanded custom curriculum in collaboration with a prestigious roster of sports partners, including the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nStartups spent six months participating in newly expanded custom curriculum in collaboration with a prestigious roster of sports partners, including the Premier League, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, and WWE, to enhance their technologies and explore business opportunities\n\n\nFounders will showcase their innovations during a startup spotlight event today at the Sports Business Journal DRIVE conference in St. Louis\n\n\n PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nComcast today announced that the 10 companies chosen for the third class of the Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator, powered by Boomtown, have secured 25 pilots, partnerships, and commercial deals while participating in the customized program.\n\n\nOver the past six months, the 10 companies collaborated with experts from Comcast, NBCUniversal, Sky, and Boomtown, along with SportsTech’s advisors, including NBC Sports, NBC Sports Next, Sky Sports, Comcast Spectacor, and GOLF, as well as Premier League, NASCAR, WWE, and PGA TOUR, and three US Olympic sports organizations – U.S. Ski & Snowboard, USA Swimming, and USA Cycling – to hone and advance their readiness for commercial success.\n\n\nDuring the Startup Spotlight event – taking place at the SBJ DRIVE conference in St. Louis today – these founders will continue to showcase the product-market fit of their technologies and discuss how some of the leading sports organizations are now applying these solutions to solve critical business challenges.\n\n\n“Each startup team selected was enterprise-ready and given unique access to decision-makers from some of the top sports brands in the world,” said Jenna Kurath, Vice President, Startup Partnerships and Head of Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech. “The relationships formed working one-on-one with sports leaders are invaluable and our founders took every opportunity to test and refine their technologies to deliver business value. Seeing our founders use their learnings from the program to gain deep customer insights to scale their businesses and find sustainable product fit in the market has been exciting. We are proud of what these entrepreneurs will continue to accomplish as we bring fans closer to the sports moments that matter.”\n\n\nThis year’s cohort has also benefited from a series of unique excursions and working retreats structured around SportsTech partner events:\n\n\n\nThe program...