Champions Round offers short-form "micro fantasy sports" games that can be played daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly, removing the need for season-long commitments. The app supports free and buy-in game options across multiple modes (Daily Dozen, Boost Ball, Big Board, Spicy Slips, 7 Stakes and Sunday’s Best) and currently focuses on the NFL, NBA and esports. It emphasizes creator-driven engagement and is building a Creator Rooms feature to let content creators host games, monetize audiences, and earn via engagement, sign-ups, cosmetic sales, revenue share and ad revenue. The company says it recently turned profitable, averaged 28% month-over-month growth in 2022, and has an average user age of 22 with over 10,000 downloads to date. Champions Round launched publicly in September 2021, is available worldwide on iOS and Android, and plans expansion to many more leagues by 2024. Champions Round operates a mobile fantasy sports platform offering NFL and NBA games through its app, with shorter multi-week game modes and a winner-takes-all format. Users can join public leagues or create private leagues and play for free or pay $2, $5 or $10 per entry. Founders Carter Russ and Chase Payne met in May 2018 and partnered to launch Champions Round; the app was updated the week of the article. The company reports that 58% of users are ages 13–24 and 28% are ages 25–34, but it did not disclose total participant counts. Champions Round has grown to 10 employees (up from five earlier this year) and plans to hire more engineers to improve the app. It has formed marketing partnerships with athletes including Baron Davis and a co-branding deal with YnG DnA, and it hopes to offer traditional sports betting in coming years while taking a cautious approach to NIL partnerships. Champions Round is a Los Angeles-based startup that operates a fantasy sports app focused on specific sports events. The app centers on events such as playoffs and the NFL draft and runs on both iOS and Android. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Carter Russ. In January 2021 Champions Round disclosed it had raised $1M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Quest Venture Partners and was announced during the holidays. No revenue, user metrics, or detailed future plans were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2023