Hudl Funding, Investors & Competitors

Suning Sports is the sports arm of Chinese retail and property conglomerate Suning Holdings Group, headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu, and incorporated as Jiangsu Suning Sports Industry Co., a joint venture of Suning Holdings, which owned 90% at the end of 2016, and Suning Appliance Group. It built a business spanning sports media, over-the-top streaming, sports retail and youth training. Its digital platform PP Sports bought Chinese broadcast rights to major football competitions, including the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Chinese Super League and, from 2018-19, exclusive television and online rights to the Bundesliga for five seasons, along with AFC competitions and WWE, earning revenue from subscriptions and advertising. It opened its first flagship fan store in Nanjing in 2017, planning 152 stores by 2020, and developed grassroots training programmes. Through its Hong Kong subsidiary Suning Sports International, it sits above Great Horizon, the vehicle through which Suning bought a majority stake in Inter Milan in 2016, and the group also owned Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning. In July 2018 Suning Sports raised a $600 million Series A led by Goldman Sachs and Alibaba, with Evergrande, Yunfeng Capital, SenseTime, CCB International and others, valuing it at about $2.6 billion. Under financial strain, Suning halted operations at its Chinese football clubs, including champions Jiangsu, in February 2021.

Pixellot is a Petah Tikva, Israel-headquartered sports technology company founded in 2014 that automates video production for amateur and youth leagues. Its AI cameras track games across soccer, basketball, and more, generating live streams, highlights, and stats. Deployed in over 2,000 venues worldwide, partners include ESPN, Bayern Munich, and US high schools, streaming thousands of events monthly.

Constellation Software is an acquirer, manager, and developer of vertical market software, or VMS, businesses globally. VMS differentiates from horizontal software in that it provides mission critical solutions within a specific industry for customers in a particular market. Constellation operates through a decentralized model in which each business operates as its own independent entity. Managers of individual businesses are incentivized to optimize their business for returns on invested capital and revenue growth. Excess cash generated by the individual businesses is repatriated to portfolio managers who focus on allocating as much capital as possible on new acquisitions. As of 2025, Constellation consisted of over 1,000 individual businesses and 64,000 employees.

ElevenLabs is a London and Warsaw-headquartered AI company providing voice synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and generation tools. Its platform supports text-to-speech in over 29 languages, developer APIs for voice agents, and enterprise solutions for content localization. Features include instant voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional tone preservation, and audio editing capabilities used by creators and businesses worldwide.

Tyler Technologies provides a full suite of software solutions and services that address the needs of cities, counties, schools, courts and other local government entities. The company’s three core products are Munis, which is the core ERP system, Odyssey, which is the court management system, or CMS, and payments. The company also provides a variety of add-on modules and offers outsourced property tax assessment services.

Topicus com Inc is engaged in the development, installation, and customization of vertical market software and the provision of related professional services and support for customers across several diverse markets, mainly in Europe. Its revenue consists mainly of software license fees, maintenance and other recurring fees, professional service fees, and hardware sales. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from its business in the Netherlands, and the rest from other markets.

Reify Health is a Boston-headquartered provider of cloud-based software for clinical trial operations. Its StudyTeam platform streamlines patient recruitment, site activation, and enrollment tracking for sponsors, CROs, and research sites. The system integrates with electronic health records and delivers real-time dashboards, used in trials across oncology, rare diseases, and neurology.

VIPKid is a Beijing-headquartered edtech company connecting children primarily in China with North American teachers for live online English immersion classes. Its platform supports one-on-one sessions using interactive whiteboards and curriculum aligned to international standards. Founded in 2013, VIPKid previously scaled to serve students across Asia before pivoting amid regulatory changes.

Synthesia is an AI video generation platform headquartered in London, United Kingdom, converting text to videos with avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. Users create training and marketing content via browser templates, serving enterprises like BBC and Accenture for scalable video production.

Articulate is a provider of e-learning software including Rise 360 and Storyline 360 for creating interactive online training courses. Headquartered in New York, the company was founded in 2002 and supports content authoring with features for quizzes, simulations, and mobile-responsive designs used by organizations across industries.

ApplyBoard is a Kitchener-headquartered technology platform that connects international students with recruitment partners and 1,500 educational institutions across Canada, the UK, US, Australia, and Ireland. The company simplifies study abroad processes from application discovery to enrollment for over 800,000 students annually. Recognized in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 for Canada in 2023—its fifth consecutive year—it employs more than 1,200 staff in 30 countries including Gurugram, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. ApplyBoard's tools handle visa support, document management, and partner matching.

growV delivers educational services leveraging learning technology for enhanced student outcomes.

StackAdapt is a Toronto-headquartered programmatic advertising DSP handling native, display, video, CTV, audio, DOOH, and in-game formats via self-serve interface. Ranked number one on G2 for six years through 2023, it processes billions of impressions daily using ML for audience targeting across 30+ countries. Advertisers access premium inventory from publishers like The New York Times and Paramount with transparent bidding analytics.

Founded in 1981, Blackbaud provides software solutions designed to serve the "social good" community, including nonprofits, foundations, corporations, educational institutions, healthcare institutions, and individual change agents. Through M&A and organic product development efforts, the company has also moved into related areas outside core fundraising, notably into K-12 schools. The firm enables more than $100 billion in donations annually across a customer base in excess of 40,000 customers in over 100 countries.

Create Music Group is a Los Angeles-headquartered music technology company providing digital distribution, publishing, sync licensing, rights management, A&R, marketing, and recording services to independent artists. Notable clients include Marshmello, 6ix9ine, and Tory Lanez. The company also runs Flighthouse, a TikTok brand with 28 million followers engaging youth audiences.

Santa Clara-headquartered Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video management platform that uses AI for optimization, transformation, and delivery. The company supports digital asset management for brands with features like auto-tagging, face detection, and dynamic media manipulation. Cloudinary serves clients such as Procter & Gamble, Under Armour, and Walmart Labs from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. Founded in 2012, it processes billions of visual assets monthly.

Cosm is a technology, media, and entertainment company delivering immersive venue experiences. It designs colossal LED screens exceeding 100 feet in width for live sports broadcasts, concerts, and events. Venues feature proprietary display engines, audio systems, and content platforms. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Cosm operates locations in New York and plans expansions in Atlanta and Dallas.