Here Are 10 Web3 Sports Companies To Watch Out For

The Crypto market is nose-diving.

NFTs are taking a hit.

Skeptics are laughing at the metaverse.

But trust me, web3 isn’t going anywhere. Innovation is still moving forward despite it looking like everything is crashing.

At the end of the day, builders build no matter what the market looks like and that’s what we’re seeing throughout the web3 landscape.

Here are 10 sports companies you should keep your eyes on as we move into the next phase of the internet.

1.    StatusPRO: a sports technology and gaming company that uses real-time player data to create authentic extended reality experiences. It was co-founded by former football players Troy Jones and Andrew Hawkins and has raised over $5 million to date.

2.   HEIR App: an NFT platform that allows athletes and other culture creators to grow, improve, and deepen their relationships with their fans. It is a Solana-based app that was launched by Michael Jordan and his son Jeffrey Jordan.

3.   Sorare: a fantasy game of football, where players buy, sell, trade, and manage a virtual team with digital player cards. It is Ethereum-based and was developed in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort.

4.   Candy Digital: a next-generation digital collectible company offering digital assets for fans and collectors. Along with Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, Candy Digital was launched in May 2021 by Mike Novogratz, founder, and CEO, Galaxy Digital, and Gary Vaynerchuk, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor, all titans of their respective industries who bring unique expertise and skillsets for scaling businesses within the digitally native world.

5.   Autograph: a platform that allows famous athletes and celebrities to develop their NFT collections of real-life experiences to engage with fans. The company was launched by legendary NFL QB Tom Brady.

6.   DapperLabs: a consumer-focused flow blockchain product made for fun and games and supports digital collectibles. Roham Gharegozlou, the Co-Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, has already developed one of the most noteworthy blockchain-based companies by creating an NFT game called Cryptokitties in 2017 to now running NFT projects with some of the biggest brands in the world such as the NFL and NBA.

7.   LootMogul: an athlete-led sports metaverse web3 platform that uses blockchain games, and meta stores for brands and players. LootMogul’s founder and CEO is Raj Rajkotia, was formerly head of information technology at Warner Bros. Games.

8.   JRZY: a digital hub for athletes to own their brand and connect with the broader athletic community. JRZY was launched in 2020 by co-founders Issa Hall and Madison Savarese.

9.   Calaxy: the open social marketplace designed & built by Creators for Creators. It was co-founded by tech entrepreneur Solo Ceesay and NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie, and has raised over $26 million to date.

10.      GameOn: partners with the world’s biggest sports, media, and entertainment companies to launch brand-building, money-making NFT games. CEO Matt Bailey has extensive experience working in sports over the years.

Bonus: DPC: is the NFT digital player card for all sports. They’re focused on providing athletes of all sports the opportunity to “Own their Moment.” Founded by Daniel Pardo.

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Some of the biggest companies in the world came out of the internet going from web1 to web2.

It won’t be any different in a web3 ecosystem.

There will definitely be losers. A lot of them.

But there will be winners.

And these winners will win big over the next 10–20 years.