WinView is a second-screen mobile platform that synchronizes with live televised sports to deliver skill-based prediction games and prizes. The WinView app syncs with television programming and commercials, rewarding sports fans who answer in-game questions while competing with friends in real time. It focuses on free mobile two-screen games across professional sports, including MLB, NBA and NFL. The company says it will use the new funds to further develop and market its skill-based mobile app across those sports. Launched in 2014, WinView is led by founder and CEO David Lockton and Executive Chairman Tom Rogers and is based in San Francisco and New York. Financially, the company previously raised $8m and has now completed a $12m Series B. WinView provides an app called WinView Games that lets users play along in real time with live televised sports to compete and win prizes. The games are produced in a live studio environment by game producers who react to what is happening on the playing field. The company operates an advertising-supported business model. Led by founder and CEO Dave Lockton, WinView intends to use the new funds to complete development and launch the WinView Games app. The company is based in San Francisco and has raised a total of $6.5M to date. WinView's core product, WinView Games, is a real-time synchronized two-screen sports app that enables fans to play skill-based, in-game competitions and proposition-style contests during live televised sports for cash rewards and prizes using a freemium model. The company plans to complete development and launch the app with the 2015 football season. WinView positions the product between fantasy sports and live in-play betting, targeting a broad spectrum of fans—citing over 180 million casual professional sports fans, 41 million fantasy players, and large in-play betting markets internationally. The service is free to play and described as legal across the U.S. and Canada. WinView highlights its intellectual property position with 18 issued and 19 pending patents related to TV-second-screen synchronization and multiplayer contests. Financially, the company has completed a $1.15 million second round of financing and previously raised $2.0 million in its first round; investors in the new round are predominantly senior executives from the consumer packaged-goods industry.

Total raised

$17M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2017