Sports Impact Technologies

What Sports Impact Technologies does

Sports Impact Technologies is an Irish sports technology company developing a real-time head impact monitoring system for contact sports. The company's core product is a small wearable sensor worn behind the ear with medical-grade adhesive that detects linear g-forces and rotational acceleration, transmitting impact data via Bluetooth Low Energy to a companion mobile app for sideline alerts and a web dashboard for long-term athlete health tracking. The system is designed to be sport-agnostic — requiring no mouthguards, helmets, or custom moulds — and features sub-2-second latency, a 200m BLE range, cumulative load monitoring, peer comparison analytics, and GDPR-compliant cloud storage enabling multi-season athlete health tracking.

The company serves three primary customer segments: youth and amateur sports organizations (primary focus), professional and amateur contact sports teams and leagues across sports such as rugby, football, and American football, and academic/clinical sports researchers studying concussion mechanisms. The business model combines hardware sales of the sensor kit (sensor, team charging case, mobile app, and web dashboard) with a recurring software/SaaS component for data access, analytics, and team management, distributed through a direct B2B enterprise sales motion. As of the latest available data, the company is pre-revenue and pre-launch, operating a waitlist/early access programme ahead of a planned early 2026 market launch with stated international expansion ambitions.

Name

Sports Impact Technologies

Legal name

Sports Impact Technologies Ltd.

Website

https://sportsimpact.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sports Impact Technologies is an Irish sports tech company developing a wearable head impact monitoring system for real-time concussion detection and cumulative load tracking in contact sports. It targets youth and amateur sports organizations, contact sports teams, leagues, and academic researchers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Wearable Technology

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Sporting and Athletic Goods Manufacturing (33992)

SIC

Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829), Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845)

akta.pro primary industry

Fall Detection, Safety & Emergency Response (PERS, Smart Home Health Sensors) (HLAHACAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Shock, Vibration & Tilt Monitoring Devices (Impact Indicators, Data Loggers) (IMALAFAJ)

Keywords

• Wearable impact sensors
• Concussion detection technology
• Sports safety monitoring
• Athlete health tracking
• Head impact measurement

Headquarters

HQ city

Wicklow

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Wearable Hardware Sales: Sale of the head impact monitoring sensor device, which is worn behind the ear and designed for reuse across players on a team. Sold as part of a complete kit including the sensor, team charging case, mobile app, and web dashboard.
2. Software Platform Subscription: The ecosystem includes a mobile app for sideline alerts and a web dashboard for long-term tracking, suggesting a recurring software/SaaS component for data access, analytics, and team management.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sports Impact Technologies develops and sells a wearable head impact monitoring system consisting of a discreet sensor worn behind the ear with medical-grade adhesive, paired with a Bluetooth Low Energy ecosystem (team charging case, mobile app for sideline alerts, and web dashboard for long-term tracking). The system detects linear and rotational head impacts in real time and provides cumulative load monitoring and peer comparison analytics to enable objective, data-driven concussion and player safety management for contact sports teams, leagues, and researchers.

Product overview

Sports Impact Technologies offers a unified head impact monitoring system consisting of a wearable sensor worn behind the ear and a supporting ecosystem of mobile app and web dashboard. The wearable sensor detects linear and rotational head impacts in real-time and transmits data via Bluetooth Low Energy to the mobile app for sideline alerts and the web dashboard for long-term athlete health tracking and peer comparison analytics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sports Impact Technologies Wearable Sensor

Quantifiable outcome

• Real-time impact detection with sub-2-second latency
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• STATSports: Irish-founded GPS and inertial athlete performance tracking provider used by elite football and rugby teams globally. A broader incumbent offering athlete load monitoring rather than head-impact specific telemetry.
• Catapult Sports: Global leader in athlete monitoring (GPS, inertial, load management) for elite teams. Competes as a broader incumbent in sports wearables, with established league relationships and a much larger product portfolio than Sports Impact.
• WHOOP: Consumer and professional-grade wearable providing continuous physiological monitoring (strain, recovery, sleep). Operates in adjacent sports/athlete monitoring with established distribution and brand, but does not focus on head impact detection.

Direct peers

• Prevent Biometrics: Makers of the Vector mouthguard-based head impact monitoring system used across collegiate and professional contact sports in the US. Direct competitor in real-time impact telemetry, with a different (intraoral) form factor.
• CUE (formerly X2 Biosystems): Provides concussion and head-impact monitoring sensors and software used by professional and collegiate teams. Directly comparable in offering objective head-impact data to sports organizations, though typically deployed in helmets/mouthguards.
• Triax Technologies: Producer of the Simbex head impact monitoring sensor worn in headbands or skull caps. Now operating alongside Prevent Biometrics, it competes in the same real-time impact-data category for youth, collegiate, and professional contact sports.
• Battle Sports Science: Manufactures the Shock Doctor mouthguard with integrated impact sensor for football and other contact sports. Competes directly with Sports Impact in providing athletes with objective head-impact data, though in a mouthguard form factor.

Emerging players

• HitCheck: Mobile-based concussion screening and cognitive assessment platform used by schools and sports organizations. Adjacent in concussion management but focused on cognitive testing rather than continuous sensor-based impact monitoring.
• KinaTrax: Markerless player tracking and biomechanical analysis for professional baseball and other sports. Operates in the same athlete-safety/biomechanics space but uses video rather than wearable sensors.
• ImPACT Applications: Provider of the ImPACT and ImPACT Pediatric computerized neurocognitive concussion assessment tools, widely used in US schools and sports. Competes in concussion management but focuses on baseline/post-injury testing rather than continuous impact sensing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sports-impact-technologies
• Instagraminstagram.com/sportsimpacttech

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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