Sober Sports

What Sober Sports does

Sober Sports is a privately held, non-profit organization headquartered in Vancouver, Canada (website: sobersports.ca). Per the firm's own short description, its mission is to provide sober sports, recreation activities, and peer-support meetings for individuals in addiction recovery. The entity does not disclose pricing, headcount, revenue model, technology stack, or distribution channels in the available source material; the source block explicitly returned only a verification/loading page with no substantive company information.

Name

Sober Sports

Website

https://sobersports.ca

Company type

Private

Short description

Sober Sports is a Vancouver-based non-profit that organizes sober sports, recreation activities, and peer-support meetings for individuals in addiction recovery, operating via sobersports.ca.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Addiction Recovery Support Services

NAICS

Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162), Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (71394)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Local Amateur Clubs & Community Sports Organizations (MPAKACAE)

Keywords

• Sober recreation programs
• Addiction recovery support
• Peer support meetings
• Recovery sports activities
• Substance abuse services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Sober Sports organizes and delivers sober sports and recreation activities along with peer-support meetings for individuals in addiction recovery. The organization operates as a non-profit community service provider based in Vancouver, Canada, blending physical recreation with recovery-oriented peer support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• YMCA of Greater Vancouver: The YMCA operates community recreation facilities, fitness programming, and youth wellness services across Greater Vancouver. It overlaps with Sober Sports on the recreation and community-wellness dimensions and has the scale and facilities that a single-program non-profit lacks.
• Alcoholics Anonymous World Services: AA is the global incumbent in peer-based recovery support, with a vastly larger meeting infrastructure and brand recognition. Sober Sports competes for the same recovery participant mindshare but appeals to those who reject traditional 12-step meeting-only formats.
• Canadian Mental Health Association — BC Division: CMHA BC is a large, established non-profit delivering mental-health and substance-use programming across British Columbia, including in Vancouver. It is an incumbent that any Vancouver-based recovery organization must compete against for participants, grants, and volunteer talent.
• CrossFit (with recovery programming): CrossFit's affiliate gym model has spawned numerous 'CrossFit Recovery' boxes and partnerships with recovery non-profits in North America. It is comparable as a broad incumbent that has built a credible bridge between fitness culture and addiction recovery — a category-positioning play similar to Sober Sports' ambition.

Emerging players

• Sober Grid: Sober Grid is an app-based peer-support and social-networking platform for people in recovery. It overlaps with Sober Sports on the peer-support dimension and represents the digital-native alternative to in-person recreation-plus-meeting programming.

Direct peers

• The Phoenix: The Phoenix is a non-profit sober active community offering free CrossFit, yoga, climbing, boxing, and other fitness programming to individuals in recovery. It is the most directly comparable peer because it operates the same 'sober sports + peer community' hybrid model that Sober Sports describes, but at multi-city national scale in the U.S.
• SMART Recovery: SMART Recovery runs science-based mutual-support meetings for people overcoming addictive behaviors, with a strong in-person meeting network. Sober Sports overlaps with SMART's in-person peer-support mission but differentiates by adding organized recreation as the engagement layer.

Regional players

• Foundry BC: Foundry is a BC-based network of integrated youth wellness centres offering mental-health, substance-use, and social-services support to young people aged 12–24. It is a relevant regional peer because it serves overlapping populations (substance use, community wellness) in the same Vancouver-area ecosystem.
• Vancouver Recovery Club: Various community-operated recovery clubs and drop-in centres exist in the Vancouver downtown eastside and broader Lower Mainland. These venues compete directly for the same in-person, activity-based recovery participant pool that Sober Sports targets.

Others

• Vancouver Coastal Health — Addiction Services: VCH is the regional health authority that funds and operates publicly funded substance-use treatment and recovery services in Vancouver. It is comparable as a key ecosystem participant and potential funder/partner rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/sobersports

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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