Courtside Ventures
322 8th Avenue, Suite 1900, New York, 10001, United States
Overview
Courtside Ventures invest in early-stage founders that are transforming the intersection of sports, technology, and media. Built on the backs of highly specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors, Courtside Ventures look to utilize their industry networks and deep domain knowledge to bring unparalleled value to their companies. They build long-term partnerships with management, by providing ongoing strategic support across all aspects of operations.
- Total investments
- 66
- Lead investments
- 15
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Packz
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Packz operates a gamified collectibles marketplace that lets thousands of users open digital packs daily to pull rare trading cards which can be shipped to collectors or sold back instantly. In its first six months since selling its first pack, Packz reported approximately $8.1M in packs opened in the most recent month, growing 76% month-over-month, and has delivered thousands of cards. The company is a small, fully in-person team based in NYC led by founders Rahul Khatti and Balazs. Packz is scaling operations and hiring across engineering and design, offering base salaries up to $300K plus meaningful equity. Public statements emphasize rapid user and revenue growth but do not disclose profitability, historical funding rounds, or detailed financials.
- Jump
Participated · Series A · Aug 2025
Jump builds a fan-experience and operations platform designed specifically for professional sports organizations and venues. Its software combines ticketing, digital content distribution, commerce functionality, and game-day operations tools into a single offering, giving teams a streamlined way to engage fans and manage events. The company is led by founders Jordy Leiser, Marc Lore, and Alex Rodriguez, each bringing deep expertise in technology, e-commerce, and sports management. Early traction includes a newly announced partnership with the NBA/WNBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx, underscoring demand from top-tier franchises. Jump plans to use its fresh capital to expand product capabilities and pursue additional team and venue partnerships. While specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the $23 million Series A indicates strong investor confidence in its growth trajectory.
- Commons Clinic
Participated · Series B · Jun 2025
Commons Clinic operates a vertically integrated, physician-led specialty care platform that unites advanced diagnostics, personalized care pathways, and interventional procedures into a single accountable system. It launched Wholebody by Commons Clinic, a multi-specialty suite that provides comprehensive diagnostics and direct specialist treatments across musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, women’s health, metabolic, orthopedic, gastrointestinal, chronic pain, and preventive oncology care. Each Wholebody patient program includes up to three specialty consults via Commons Clinic’s national expert network and priority placement into a vetted FastPass network of primary care partners for accelerated, contiguous care. The organization emphasizes early detection, tailored prevention, and rapid intervention using technologies such as genetic testing (BRCA), coronary plaque assessment, and multi-cancer screening (Galeri) to create immediate, actionable pathways to treatment. Commons highlights its history of musculoskeletal innovation and plans to extend that playbook across cardiac, metabolic, cancer, and women’s health service lines under physician leadership. The company is based in Los Angeles and uses its vertically integrated model to reduce costs while improving specialty access and outcomes. Commons Clinic operates an integrated health system focused on spine, orthopedics, and pain management, combining physicians, branded care centers, surgical facilities and a native virtual clinic to deliver end-to-end care. Its platform converges value-based care, clinicians, ambulatory facilities and surgical centers to improve the patient experience. The company offers all-inclusive care programs for procedures including total joint replacements and spinal fusions. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, Commons Clinic raised a $19.5M Series A that brought its total funding to $33.5M. The company intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Leadership includes co-founders Nick Aubin (CEO) and Paulo da Costa (COO); the company also added new board members following the round.
- Fermat Commerce
Participated · Series B · Jun 2025
FERMÀT provides an AI-native commerce platform and proprietary commerce graph that generates personalized shopping journeys from first touch to checkout for both human and agentic shoppers. The platform includes products such as Pierre Strategize AI, Heatmaps, Funnel Visualizer, Pierre Data Explorer, and Commerce Brain to analyze behavior and generate optimized commerce experiences. Since its Series A the company reports ARR growth of more than 5x and has tripled the size of its team. Customers and partners include BISSELL, Backcountry, Unilever (Olly), Glossier, Adapt Naturals, GNC, ILIA Beauty, Tinuiti, and Common Thread Collective. The company plans to expand its agency partner program, deepen platform capabilities, scale its commerce graph and data infrastructure, and advance AI initiatives for merchandising and offer generation. FERMÀT was founded in November 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco. FERMAT offers a no-code, ML-powered platform that creates end-to-end, personalized shopping journeys from ad to sale, preserving customer context such as products liked, discounts seen, and influencers engaged. Its proprietary commerce graph and testing-and-optimization tools let brands launch, test, and optimize thousands of highly specific landing-page iterations simultaneously. The product is positioned to help retailers and ad agencies regain advertising performance lost after cookie deprecation by enabling one-to-one journeys across social, email, and SMS. Customers and partners include True Classic, Jack Archer, mindbodygreen, U Beauty, Nood, and several forward-thinking advertising agencies. mindbodygreen reported a 31% reduction in CPAs and a 29% increase in new customer acquisition within one month of using FERMAT. The company was founded in November 2021 by Rishabh Jain and Shreyas Kumar and is based in San Francisco; it has raised a $17M Series A and over $30M in total funding. Fermat Commerce is a San Francisco–based distributed commerce company that provides tooling and a network to enable brands to embed shopping experiences in influencer content. It helps brands create native, engaging shopping experiences for influencer audiences by letting brands share their products with influencers to drive sales. The platform lets brands license products based on the partner, create unique payout structures per partner, and obtain closed-loop attribution on each partner’s impressions and sales. Led by CEO Rishabh Jain, Fermat raised $12M in Seed funding. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations. The Seed round was led by Greylock and QED Investors, with participation from Courtside Ventures.
- Kabata
Participated · Seed · Jul 2024
Kabata develops AI-powered adjustable dumbbells and an immersive workout platform designed to adapt to users’ progress. The all-in-one dumbbells adjust from 5 to 60 lbs, count reps, analyze form and deliver AI coaching that can change weights as needed. The devices use patent-pending, gaming-inspired haptics that send vibrations, pulses and rumbles to signal form corrections, set completions or personal bests. A velocity-based training feature monitors rep quality to inform users when fatigue may increase injury risk. Kabata raised $5 million in a seed round to further develop its AI-powered hardware and software. The company has attracted both institutional backers and athlete investors, indicating broad early interest in its product development plans. Kabata is a Los Angeles startup developing smart dumbbells that embed proprietary weight-system technology and progression algorithms. The product pairs the hardware with a connected app that creates six-week workouts, offering self-guided and trainer-led sessions. The system collects workout data to customize and continue adapting the user experience, and the company says the hardware can coach correct form and track comprehensive workout metrics. Kabata is currently piloting the product with no specific release date. It is targeting both home users and gyms while it figures out the right pricing model. Co-founder and CEO Kareem Aly is quoted describing the offering as an innovation in a category that has seen little change since 1928.