It’s no secret that concussions are a massive issue in the American football world, and have been for a while. The majority of football players have been subjected to such egregious amounts of head trauma that they will likely never fully recover from the damage inflicted on their brains. Actions such as the creation of […]
Charlie Batch, former NFL quarterback, has kept ties in his hometown by co-founding the Pittsburgh-based sports medicine technology company, Impellia, along with Richard Walker, an attorney and marketing executive and Dave Morin, health care technology entrepreneur and international speaker on health care technology. Impellia has signed three different technologies from the University of Pittsburgh to […]
Earlier this month we covered the $1.55 million seed funding that Athletigen Technologies Inc. received to continue to build its sports-based DNA testing and analysis program. Athletigen has now officially partnered with Altis to help provide genetic information and feedback for the Olympic level Track & Field training center in Phoenix, Arizona. The future of sports […]
New technology from startup ventures is transforming the sports industry. The mission of this series will be to introduce startup companies in the sports technology space to a broader audience and allow Founders of promising new ventures to tell their story. Company: BioMetrix LLC CEO: Ivonna Dumanyan Headquarters: Durham, North Carolina Elevator pitch? BioMetrix is uniquely […]
New Zealand elite wearable technology company VX Sport is making its way over to NCAA Soccer. Similar tracking technology has been denied access in the past by college teams due to high costs. But now VX Sport has entered the US market at a third of the cost of previous systems. Access to this high-end pro-sport wearable […]
