YourSports has built a sports-focused social and local network that combines elements of Facebook, Quora and traditional sports media to let users follow teams, cities, athletes and media in a personalized newsfeed. The team has compiled a database of over 500,000 profiles for athletes, schools and venues spanning high school to Olympic events, and aggregates content from roughly 5,000 newspapers, blogs and Twitter accounts while distributing to over 1,000 teams. Users can sign in via login or Facebook (which auto-creates profiles), follow or mark teams as fans or foes, reply to and share content, and access a front-page newsfeed; the company has signed a handful of athletes, writers, teams and leagues as early adopters. Product roadmap includes mobile apps, geolocation features, dynamic networks that propagate content across team/school/league/geography, and future check-ins and tagging to surface local activity. The team has not settled on a formal business model yet but envisions commercial extensions such as check-in-driven local recommendations and venue trends. Financially, YourSports raised $400K in seed capital from a number of angel investors and is currently in the process of raising a Series A. YourSports operates a social networking website focused on amateur and high-school athletes, allowing users to create profile pages and upload video highlights from sporting events. The company was founded by Chris McCoy and is based in Seattle, Wash. It has raised $900,000 in funding and is staffed by an 18-person team, including former Scout.com developer Ben Joldersma and former Media Zone director Sean Sweeney. YourSports also produces a show called YourSports10 that is broadcast through its video platform. The company has assembled a Board of Advisors with industry figures such as Stu Evey, Eddie Poplawski, Peter Everett, and Karen Northup. Article commentary suggests the team, funding, and advisory roster position YourSports to compete aggressively with existing amateur-sports networks.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Oct 2012