Top 23 Sports Social Network Startups

September 16, 2024 | By Paul Schäfer

These startups create apps and online communities where athletes, fans, and hobbyists can find partners, teammates, compete, interact, share their experiences, and find others with similar interests.
1
Country: Australia | Funding: $6M
Basketball Forever is the leading ball community on social, bringing the best of hoops to your feed.
2
Zwift
Country: USA | Funding: $619.5M
Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
3
Strava
Country: USA | Funding: $151.9M
Strava is an online network that connects the global community of athletes.
4
Playtomic
Country: Spain | Funding: €67.3M
Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players.
5
LinksDAO
Country: USA | Funding: $4M
LinksDAO is a global community of tens of thousands of golf and leisure clubs redefining what it means to be a modern golf and leisure club.
6
CeleBreak
Country: Spain | Funding: €2M
CeleBreak is an app that makes it possible for you to play in our cities whenever and wherever you want! #playfootballeveryday
7
Hudle
Country: India | Funding: ₹149M
Hudle is a sports & fitness discovery & booking platform with 300+ sports venues and sports events/tournaments available for booking.
8
Easycancha
Country: Chile | Funding: $1.1M
easycancha delivers a booking and management system (SaaS) for venues and a Marketplace multi-venue and multi-sport for amateur athletes.
9
Futbol Connect
Country: USA | Funding: $360K
Futbol/Soccer Network for players, coaches and fans . . . the Future of Sports Recruiting
10
Gosavex
Country: UK
The financial platform which manages a budget and helps to get better returns from the savings
Editor: Paul Schäfer
Paul is a sport journalist for more than 11 years. He specializes in writing match previews across several leagues and competitions around the world, and his insightful tips have amassed a total readership in excess of 5.2 million till date. He graduated from the Universität Hamburg (Institute of Human Movement Science). He is a huge fan of Bayern Munich. In his free time, Paul enjoys playing tennis and padel with his collegues. You can contact Paul at paulschafer(at)sportstartups(dot)com