Description
Courtside Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund specializing in Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. The firm partners with founders building companies in areas such as sports content, sports betting and regulation, personalized wellness, collectibles marketplaces, and gaming infrastructure and monetization platforms. Courtside targets the next generation of consumers who are shifting increased share of wallet and time toward these spaces, and invests both domestically and internationally, with roughly 20% of its active investments based outside the USA.
The firm manages over $200M in AUM across 3 funds, has made 80+ active investments with a combined enterprise value exceeding $9B, and has seen 9 portfolio companies acquired or go public. Portfolio companies have collectively raised over $1.5B, and 28% of Courtside's investments are in underrepresented founders. Clients/partners are typically early-stage startup founders in the sports, lifestyle, and gaming industries.