Rochester Razorsharks

What Rochester Razorsharks does

Rochester Razorsharks is a professional basketball team based in Rochester, New York, operating as a privately held, for-profit franchise with an employee count of 11-50. The organization maintains an active web presence at razorsharks.com, which functions as its primary digital touchpoint for fans, sponsors, and prospective partners.

The franchise operates within the typical economics of a small-market professional basketball organization. While revenue mechanics (ticketing, sponsorship, merchandise, concessions, broadcast rights) are not publicly disclosed, the headcount and single-market footprint are consistent with a minor or semi-professional league operator rather than a top-tier NBA franchise. No operational details such as arena arrangements, league affiliation, roster size, season schedule, ownership structure, or sponsorship portfolio are documented in the available data.

Note on data quality: a portion of the aggregated input material is associated with "The SEV Group, LLC," a Chicago-based investment management firm that holds a portfolio brand named "Razor." That entity is treated as an unrelated, incorrectly linked data record and is not used as primary source material for this analysis, because the firmographic identification of Rochester Razorsharks as a professional basketball team is treated as the defining first-party descriptor.

Name

Rochester Razorsharks

Legal name

The Sev Group, LLC

Website

https://razorsharks.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rochester Razorsharks is a private, for-profit professional basketball team based in Rochester, New York, operating with 11-50 employees and maintaining a primary web presence at razorsharks.com to serve local fans and sponsors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rochester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Rochester Razorsharks operates a professional basketball franchise based in Rochester, New York. The team competes in scheduled league games, sells game tickets to fans, and offers in-arena entertainment, concessions, and team-branded merchandise as part of its live sports offering.

Product overview

The SEV Group is an investment management company that operates as a multi-brand portfolio. The company provides innovative, creative, and sustainable investment solutions across multiple partner brands including hugs, new_u, aasc, belknap, elmwood, razor, flixpress, and gibsons. The portfolio brands appear to represent diverse business investments united under the SEV Group's investment umbrella.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SEV Group: Investment management group providing innovative, creative and sustainable investment solutions to help portfolio companies grow

Products and services

• Rochester Razorsharks Game Tickets Live admission to regular-season and home-schedule Rochester Razorsharks professional basketball games, sold to individual fans and groups in the Rochester, NY market.
• Team Merchandise Rochester Razorsharks-branded apparel and merchandise sold to fans and the local community.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• HugsminorOthersHugs is one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company. The nature of the brand and its relationship to the SEV Group investment portfolio is listed on the Our Partners and Brands section of the SEV Group website.
• New UminorOthersNew U is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, featured in the Our Partners and Brands section on the company website.
• AASCminorOthersAASC is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, featured alongside other brands in the Our Partners and Brands section.
• BelknapminorOthersBelknap is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, displayed in the Our Partners and Brands section of the website.
• ElmwoodminorOthersElmwood is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, shown in the Our Partners and Brands section of the company website.
• RazorminorOthersRazor is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, appearing alongside other brands in the Our Partners and Brands section. The Razor logo is displayed as one of the SEV Group's brand investments.
• FlixpressminorOthersFlixpress is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, featured in the Our Partners and Brands section of the SEV Group website.
• GibsonsminorOthersGibsons is listed as one of the portfolio brands under The SEV Group investment management company, shown in the Our Partners and Brands section alongside other SEV Group portfolio companies.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Motor City Cruise: NBA G League team serving as a comparable professional basketball franchise with similar operational scale, arena rental economics, and sponsorship-driven revenue mix, though backed by a stronger league affiliation.
• Salt Lake City Stars: NBA G League affiliate operating a professional basketball franchise within a more established developmental league; comparable as a professional basketball business with similar ticketed game product and arena economics.
• Texas Legends: NBA G League franchise operating a single professional basketball team with similar staffing scale and ticketed-event revenue model; comparable on operational unit economics though with greater league stability.
• Sioux Falls Skyforce: Long-tenured NBA G League team that operates a professional basketball franchise in a mid-sized market, providing a useful comparable for Razorsharks on long-term minor league basketball viability and revenue diversification patterns.

Emerging players

• The Basketball League (TBL): Independent professional basketball league hosting multiple franchise teams in smaller US markets; comparable as a potential league peer offering an alternative developmental structure to the Rochester Razorsharks' basketball operations.

Direct peers

• Scarborough Shooting Stars: Professional basketball franchise operating in a parallel Canadian league (CEBL), serving as a directly comparable minor/development professional basketball team with similar revenue mix of tickets, sponsorship, and merchandise.
• Halifax Hurricanes: Professional basketball team competing in the same NBL Canada ecosystem historically aligned with the Rochester Razorsharks' Premier Basketball League/NBL play, with comparable minor league economics, regional fanbase model, and seasonal game schedule.

Regional players

• Rochester Amerks: Professional minor league sports team (AHL hockey) sharing the Rochester, NY market with the Razorsharks; competes for the same local sponsorship, corporate hospitality, and regional sports-media spend.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rocrazorsharks
• Facebookfacebook.com/rochesterrazorsharks
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rochester-razorsharks

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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