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Blast Athletics (corporate: Blast Athletics, LLC; legacy brand: SportsBeat.com) is a cloud-based SaaS platform, headquartered in Orange, California, that provides online fundraising, team management, and communication tools to amateur sports organizations—primarily high school, youth, club, and college programs in the United States. The product is delivered through a web dashboard and native iOS and Android apps (Google Play and Apple App Store), and integrates with Arbiter for game scheduling, iCal for calendar sync, and Hudl for video highlights. Core features include automated text and email donation outreach, contact quality verification, Call-a-Thon and Text-a-Thon personal outreach, digital gameday programs, donor engagement content, on-demand team stores, and direct uniform/gear sales through partner brands (Starter, Dynamic, Legends, Ridge, Perfect Game). Supporting modules include a schoolwide dashboard for athletic departments, Recruiting Showcases for athlete portfolios, a Coach Fund donation layer, and a Band Networks sub-brand for marching bands.

The platform operates on a freemium, product-led model with a nationwide field-sales overlay. Core team management tools (website, app, messaging, calendar, roster, photo/video) are free; monetization comes from transaction fees on donations (teams retain 82% of initial and 90% of recurring donations), commissions on team store purchases (teams receive up to 20% back), a 5% retention on business ad sales, and gross margin on gear and uniform sales. Customer acquisition combines self-serve web and app-store signups with bottom-up network effects from existing school and team referrals, supplemented by a direct field-sales team of Blast Reps recruiting at the school and athletic-department level. Since 2015 the platform has served 3,500+ teams, schools, and organizations and supported over $80 million in cumulative team fundraising as of the latest available period. The company is privately held with no disclosed external funding beyond a $400,000 round in October 2013, and operates as a single LLC under California jurisdiction.

Name

SportsBeat.com

Legal name

Blast Athletics, LLC

Website

https://SportsBeat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Blast Athletics (SportsBeat.com) is a free, cloud-based SaaS and mobile platform that helps amateur sports teams—primarily high school, youth, club, and college programs—fundraise, communicate, and manage operations, monetizing via transaction fees on donations and commissions on team store and gear sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Team Management Software

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events (7113), Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Sporting & Athletic Goods, Nec (3949)

akta.pro primary industry

Sports Fundraising & Development Services (Foundations, NIL Collectives Support) (MPAKAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth & Scholastic Sports Organizations (K–12, AAU, Club Leagues) (MPAKACAF), Team & School Athletic Uniforms Retail (CRAMACAJ), Interscholastic Athletics (Varsity/JV Teams) (EDAJAJAA)

Keywords

• Sports team fundraising
• Team management software
• Donor engagement platform
• Athletic program solutions
• Team communication app

Headquarters

HQ city

Newport Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Fundraising Transaction Fees: Blast takes a percentage of funds raised through its online fundraising platform. Teams receive 82% of initial donations and 90% of monthly recurring donations. The remainder covers platform operations, payment processing, and Blast's margin.
2. Team Store Commissions: On-demand merchandise stores where Blast earns commission on sales. Teams receive up to 20% back on sales made through their team store. Blast handles all logistics, shipping direct to purchasers with no inventory required.
3. Business Ad Sales: Teams sell digital ad space to local businesses. Ads display in weekly donor updates, gameday programs, messages, and calendar event reminders. Blast provides analytics (views, clicks, unique recipients) to advertisers. Teams receive 95% of ad sales.
4. Gear/Uniform Sales: Blast partners with brands (Starter, Dynamic, Legends, Ridge, Perfect Game) to provide team uniforms and player packs. Revenue generated through product sales with quick turnaround times.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Blast Athletics is a cloud-based SaaS platform that provides sports teams, schools, and youth organizations with free tools for team management, communication, scheduling, and roster handling. The platform monetizes by processing online fundraisers (taking a share of donations), powering on-demand team merchandise stores (earning commission on sales), enabling local business digital ad sales, and selling team uniforms and player packs through partner brands.

Product overview

Blast Athletics is an all-in-one ecosystem platform built around fundraising as its core foundation. The platform operates as a unified system connecting four primary pillars: (1) Online Fundraiser with automated text/email outreach and call-a-thon capabilities; (2) Team Management including messaging, roster management, and schoolwide dashboards; (3) Donor Experience providing exclusive content sharing and weekly updates to supporters; and (4) Team Gear offering on-demand stores, uniforms, and player packs. Supporting modules include Digital Gameday Program for sponsor ad sales, Coach Fund for coach-specific donations, Recruiting Showcases for athlete portfolios, and Band Networks for marching band organizations. Teams that fundraise gain free access to core communication and management tools, with the platform monetizing through team stores and fundraising transaction fees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Blast Team Gear: E-commerce platform for team merchandise and uniforms
• CoachFund

Products and services

• Online Fundraiser Automated text and email fundraising platform for sports teams that enables donor outreach, call-a-thons, and business ad sales to raise money for team operations.
• Team Messaging Text, email, and app notification system for instant team-wide communication, automated reminders, and calendar event alerts for coaches, players, and parents.
• Team Management Centralized hub for managing rosters, uniform sizes, player profiles, year-to-year transfers, and team logistics for sports programs.
• Donor Experience Exclusive content sharing platform that enables teams to send donors weekly updates, game highlights, photos, and personal messages to build donor engagement and retention.
• Team Stores (Team Gear) On-demand merchandise store with 365-day availability, no minimum orders, no inventory, ships direct to purchaser, and gives teams up to 20% revenue back on every sale.
• Uniforms and Player Packs Customized team uniforms and player gear offered through partner brands (Starter, Dynamic, Legends, Ridge, Perfect Game) with quick turnaround times.
• Team Coverage Real-time sports coverage platform for posting videos, photos, scores, stats, articles, and MVPs directly from games and events via smartphone or desktop.
• Band Networks Specialized version of the Blast platform for marching bands, with custom groups (Color Guard, Jazz, Percussion), network scheduling, and band-specific fundraising.

Quantifiable outcome

• Centennial Football grew fundraising 453% over 7 years—from $25K to $107K
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ArbitercoreTechnology or IntegrationArbiter is a scheduling platform for high school sports. Blast's integration with Arbiter enables automatic sync of game calendars into Blast, allowing schools to manage schedules, communications, donor updates, and parent alerts from a single platform. Schools using Arbiter can sign up for Blast and automatically have their schedules populated.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PlayMetrics: Youth sports league and club management platform with registration, scheduling, and communication — adjacent competitor in the youth/scholastic sports management space.
• TeamSnap: Team management, scheduling, and communication platform for youth, club, and high school sports — serves the same SMB/coach buyer with overlapping free-tier team-communication features.
• SquadLocker: Custom team apparel, fundraising, and online team stores for schools and youth sports — overlaps directly with Blast's team-store and uniform revenue streams.
• Booster (givebooster.com): Online fundraising and team-store platform for K-12 and youth sports programs; competes head-to-head with Blast in school athletic fundraising and custom gear sales.
• GameChanger: Live scoring, team management, and communication app for amateur sports teams and families — serves the same youth/high school sports buyer with adjacent coverage content features that overlap with Blast's Team Coverage product.
• Snap! Mobile: Digital fundraising and payment platform for schools, teams, and boosters — competes with Blast in K-12 sports fundraising transactions and school-wide deployment.
• Snap! Raise: Digital fundraising platform purpose-built for high school and youth sports teams using text/email outreach — directly competes with Blast on the same customer base with a similar transaction-fee monetization model.

Emerging players

• Hudl (FinalForms): Sports video/analytics platform that has expanded into athletic administration and registration via FinalForms — an emerging well-capitalized player in the same high school sports ecosystem Blast serves.

Broad incumbents

• SportsEngine (NBC Sports): Comprehensive youth and amateur sports platform offering registration, scheduling, communication, and websites — owned by NBC Sports, giving it materially greater scale and capital than Blast.

Others

• Arbiter Sports: Industry-standard high school sports scheduling and payment platform that Blast integrates with via the Arbiter Partnership — a strategic channel partner but also a potential adjacent competitor in school athletic administration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/MySportsBeat
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCLGnzcXxqE76zqTayFfyqLQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/MySportsBeat
• Instagraminstagram.com/blastathletics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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