Sports and technology innovation collide as Sounders and Sportradar host hackathon in Seattle
The next great sports technology innovation might just be invented in Seattle this weekend. The Seattle Sports Tech Meetup is hosting the first-annual Seattle Sports Tech Hackathon Sept. 10-11 at Galvanize. Sportradar, a sports data company based in Switzerland with its U.S. headquarters in Minneapolis, is providing open access to its API for hackathon participants and will award a $20,000 API package to the winning team. Sportradar is a giant in the sports data industry and partners with the NFL, NHL, and NASCAR; some of the company’s clients include Turner Media, Twitter and Samsung. “Sportradar believes in the ingenuity and creativity of the startup community,”… Read More