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Build Your Legacy Ventures

Milwaukee, WI, United States

Overview

Build Your Legacy Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startups. The firm serves as the exclusive venture investment arm for NBA champion Giannis Antetokounmpo, aiming to leverage his brand and network. The firm manages the Build Your Legacy Fund, which targets investments in the sports and entertainment sectors, reflecting its founder's background and contacts. BYL Ventures serves as an incubator for selected companies, offering practical mentorship, operational assistance, and strategic support. Entrepreneurs participating in BYL Ventures' incubation program receive tailored growth plans, resources to enhance their market strategies, and vital connections necessary for thriving in competitive sectors.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
1

Sector focus

  • Business Development
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Incubators
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Generation Lab

    Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

    Generation Lab is a San-Francisco–based longevity science company whose flagship product, SystemAge™, quantifies biological age by analyzing primary blood data and evaluating the health of 19 physiological systems. The platform relies on hundreds of millions of human-aging data points and proprietary algorithms that achieve 99.9% diagnostic accuracy, offering clinicians and consumers actionable insights to slow or reverse organ-specific aging. Launched less than ten months ago, the company has already partnered with more than 275 clinics worldwide and amassed over 300 million data points, reflecting rapid commercial traction. Early clinical studies have shown measurable reversals of brain, reproductive, heart and immune system ages after targeted interventions, underscoring its clinical relevance. Generation Lab’s customer base includes academic medical centers, professional athletes, celebrities, and leading longevity physicians. Backed by prominent scientific advisors such as Harvard’s David Sinclair and George Church, the company aims to make proactive longevity diagnostics a global standard of care. With $15 million in total funding, Generation Lab plans to accelerate adoption of SystemAge™ and continue expanding its dataset and intervention roadmap.

  • ScorePlay

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

    ScorePlay provides an AI-driven infrastructure that enables instant tagging, organisation and multilingual distribution of sports content, automating workflows for broadcasters, sponsors, athletes and media teams. The platform focuses on reducing time-to-publish and centralising media, marketing and content operations across multiple platforms. Founded in 2021 by Victorien Tixier and Xavier Green, the team is distributed across offices in New York and Paris, with smaller representations in London and São Paulo. In four years it has become the central hub for over 200 sports organisations worldwide, including 50+ U.S. teams (NBA and NHL), 100+ European clubs and 50+ leagues and federations such as MLS and NWSL. ScorePlay reports a perfect client retention rate and has achieved 3x year-over-year growth while being profitable at the time of the Series A. The company plans to use the new funding to fuel expansion and ongoing platform innovation. ScorePlay is a New York- and Lisbon-based SaaS platform that automates the indexation, management and distribution of digital sports assets using AI for facial, logo and text recognition. The product works with video, live broadcast and photo to tag every asset automatically with relevant metadata (athletes, partners, location, stadium, match context). It provides customised automatic workflows to distribute those assets to sports organisations. Co-founded by Victorien Tixier and Xavier Green, ScorePlay has signed over 120 sports organizations in under two years, including the Swiss Football League, MotoGP (Dorna), Sacramento Kings and multiple MLS and NWSL teams. The company raised $5M in Seed funding, bringing total raised to $6.5M. ScorePlay plans to use the funds to grow its tech team, expand its New York office, and consolidate its position as the go-to media solution in sports. ScorePlay is a Lisbon-based B2B sports-tech SaaS company that provides an AI-powered media asset management platform for sports organisations. Founded in 2018 by Victorien Tixier and Xavier Green, the platform centralises, classifies and distributes photos and videos automatically, using computer vision to review and tag raw content. Assets are stored in a cloud hub with a search engine and controlled access so clubs can securely share curated libraries with players, sponsors, media and fans. The company positions itself as the first AI-powered MAM built for football clubs. ScorePlay plans to use fresh funding to target US and German markets, hire a growth manager, expand its tech team and increase marketing spend. Existing clients include Orlando Pride, SD Wave, KC Current, 1. FC Köln and Team BDS. Financially, it closed over €500,000 in the latest pre-seed tranche, bringing total pre-seed funding to over €1 million.

  • Unrivaled

    Participated · Series A · Dec 2024

    Unrivaled is a professional women's basketball league co-founded by Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier and launched in January 2025. The league features top women's basketball stars competing in a compressed full-court 3-on-3 format across six clubs. Its business model emphasizes a player-first compensation structure that includes equity stakes for participating athletes and claims the highest average salary in professional women's sports league history. Unrivaled reported rapid growth and strong unit economics in its inaugural season, which investors highlighted when leading the recent Series B. The company secured an oversubscribed Series B that values the league at $340 million and drew participation from strategic media and athlete investors. The league's second season is scheduled to tip off in January 2026 as it continues to expand its operations and fan engagement.

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