What Sport eXperience does

Sport eXperience is an early-stage sports accelerator headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, founded in 2015. It operates with a small team of 1-10 employees and maintains an English-language web presence at sportexperience.org, suggesting a focus on sports-related startups or ventures in the Dutch Brainport region — an area historically associated with sports technology and high-tech innovation. As an accelerator, the company's functional role is to support early-stage sports businesses through programming, mentoring, and ecosystem access, though specific program mechanics, cohort details, and portfolio composition are not disclosed in the available source material.

No information is available on Sport eXperience's product features, underlying technology platform, pricing or fee structure, customer segments, funding history, or revenue model. The firmographic record contains no management team, no listed partners, no named portfolio companies, no awards, and no disclosed strategic transactions. One source block associated with the record pertains to an unrelated Indonesian online-gambling platform and provides no material information about Sport eXperience itself.

The combination of a multi-year operating history (2015–present), very small headcount (1-10), and absence of disclosed funding or revenue suggests the entity operates as a lean, possibly grant- or sponsor-supported accelerator rather than a venture-backed scale-up. The lack of disclosures limits any further business-model or competitive-positioning conclusions beyond the basic accelerator positioning in Eindhoven.

Name

Sport eXperience

Website

https://sportexperience.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sport eXperience is an early-stage sports accelerator based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, founded in 2015. Operating with 1-10 employees, it supports sports-related startups through programming based in the Eindhoven Brainport innovation region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Accelerator Services

NAICS

Other Spectator Sports (711219)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Sports Event Promotion & Tournament Operations (MPAKAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Athlete & Talent Representation (Agents, Managers) (MPAKAKAA)

Keywords

• Sports accelerator
• Sports startup incubation
• Sports innovation support
• Athlete entrepreneurship
• Sports business development

Headquarters

HQ city

Eindhoven

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Sport eXperience is an early-stage sports accelerator based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The organization supports sports-related startups and entrepreneurs with acceleration services, helping develop sports business concepts from early stage toward market readiness.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sports Startup Acceleration Program An early-stage accelerator program for sports-related startups and entrepreneurs, providing support to develop and commercialize sports business concepts. Targeted at founders and teams building ventures in the sports industry.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Emerging players

• 27 Ventures: Sportstech-focused fund and platform supporting early-stage sports startups. Comparable as a sports-vertical capital and support provider, with a similar focus on the sports innovation ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Courtside Ventures: US-based early-stage venture fund focused on sports, esports, and consumer health/wellness. Overlaps with Sport eXperience as a sports-focused capital provider, but operates as a fund rather than an accelerator program.
• Play Ventures: Helsinki-based early-stage VC focused on the gaming, sports, and interactive entertainment sectors. Comparable in sports-vertical specialization and European footprint to Sport eXperience.
• Elysian Park Ventures: Venture firm backed by the LA Dodgers ownership group, investing across sports, media, and consumer technology. Comparable as a sports-specialized capital provider serving similar founder/customer profiles.

Direct peers

• leAD Sports: Berlin-based sports-tech accelerator and venture fund that runs structured programs for early-stage sports startups. Directly comparable to Sport eXperience in business model (cohort-based accelerator) and target market (sports innovation).
• HYPE Sports Innovation: Global sports-tech accelerator running programs for startups across sports, esports, and fitness. Comparable as a specialist sports accelerator targeting early-stage founders with corporate and VC partnerships.

Others

• SportsTechX: Berlin-based research, networking, and community platform for the global sports-tech industry. Adjacent rather than competitive — provides intelligence, events, and community that sport accelerators and founders consume.

Regional players

• Global Sports Innovation Center (GSIC): Microsoft-powered sports innovation hub based in Madrid, supporting sports startups and corporate partners. Comparable as a European sports-innovation platform, though positioned as a hub/community rather than a pure accelerator.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights2 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SporteXper
• Facebookfacebook.com/sportexperiencenl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sportexperience

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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