KingMakers Valuation, Funding & Investors

LiveScore Group is a British sports media and betting group based in London whose brands include LiveScore, the real-time football and sports scores service, and the sportsbooks LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet. The LiveScore app and website deliver live scores, news, statistics and free-to-air live streams to millions of users worldwide, and the group uses that consumer traffic to acquire customers for its betting brands. It earns revenue from advertising and media partnerships on LiveScore and, above all, from sports betting and gaming through LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet; annual revenue was about £100 million in 2022. The group grew rapidly in the three years to 2022 under chief executive Sam Sadi. In September 2022 Swiss media group Ringier made a £50 million strategic investment that valued the business at £500 million. The partnership, run through Ringier Sports Media Group, focused on expanding LiveScore in Central and Eastern Europe, where Ringier owns Sportal Media Group and Digital Ventures in Bulgaria, Gazeta Sporturilor in Romania and Sportal.rs in Serbia.

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.

Sportradar is a Swiss sports technology company headquartered in St. Gallen that supplies sports data, content and related services to bookmakers, media companies and sports organizations. Through its Betradar brand it provides bookmakers with sports data, odds suggestions, managed trading services and streaming, and it also sells integrity services that monitor betting markets for match-fixing, audiovisual distribution, OTT streaming and digital advertising services. Its partners include the NFL, NBA, NHL, NASCAR and the International Tennis Federation, and its customers include hundreds of bookmakers and state lotteries such as Veikkaus, Svenska Spel and Norsk Tipping. It earns subscription and revenue-share income, and reported revenue of 1.29 billion euros and net income of 100 million euros for 2025, with about 3,900 employees in 29 offices across 20 countries. The business began in 2001 in Trondheim, Norway, as Market Monitor AS, founded by Petter Fornæss and Tore Steinkjer to extract betting odds from online bookmakers, with Carsten Koerl, now group chief executive, buying 51%. EQT invested in 2012, and Michael Jordan and Mark Cuban came in through a Revolution-led investment in 2015. Sportradar listed on Nasdaq (SRAD) on 14 September 2021 at a valuation of about $8 billion.

OneFootball is a German football media and technology company headquartered in Berlin, operating as OneFootball GmbH. It was founded in Bochum in 2008 by Lucas von Cranach, who in 2009 launched the iLiga app that was later renamed and merged under the OneFootball brand. Its free app and website combine live scores, statistics, news and video from more than 200 leagues in multiple languages, produced by a Berlin newsroom, and the company also streams matches directly through the app, starting in 2019 with La Liga in the UK via Eleven Sports and 2. Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal games in Germany via Sky. OneFootball makes money mainly from advertising and brand partnerships, together with OTT streaming, publishing and services for clubs, leagues, federations and players; it says more than 200 million fans use the platform each month. In 2020 it acquired the video platform Dugout, bringing its founding clubs, including Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Manchester City, PSG and Real Madrid, in as shareholders. In April 2022 it raised €300 million in a Series D led by Liberty City Ventures with Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs to expand into Web3, then cut its workforce to about 240 after the crypto downturn; Patrick Fischer became chief executive in 2023.

OneTeam Partners is an American sports licensing, athlete marketing, media and investment company that commercializes the group name, image and likeness rights of professional and college athletes. It was launched in November 2019 as a joint venture between the NFL Players Association, the MLB Players Association and RedBird Capital Partners, which seeded it with a $125 million investment for a 40% stake. OneTeam negotiates group licensing deals for video games, trading cards, apparel and other consumer products, sells sponsorship and athlete marketing programmes to brands, and produces original and branded content and live events. It describes itself as the commercial engine behind twelve players associations and tens of thousands of professional and college athletes, including the players of the NFL, MLB, MLS, WNBA, NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. In September 2022 HPS Investment Partners, Atlantic Park and Morgan Stanley Tactical Value bought RedBird's stake. In 2025 an FBI probe of OneTeam extended from the MLBPA to the NFLPA. In April 2026 it launched EnOne Ventures with EnTrust Global to back companies across the sports ecosystem, and the NWSL Players Association became an equity partner. Sean Sansiveri is chief executive.

Better Collective AS is a developer of educational platforms within the iGaming industry. The company's segment includes Publishing, Paid Media and Esports. It generates maximum revenue from the Publishing segment. The publishing business segment includes revenue from Collective's proprietary online platforms and media partnerships, where online traffic comes either directly or through organic search results.

Le Sports is a Chinese sports media and internet company, known as LeSports and in Chinese as Leshi Tiyu, that was the sports arm of Beijing-based internet group LeEco. Established in 2014 as Letv Sports Culture Develop Ltd., it built a sports ecosystem combining online streaming of sports content, event operations, smart hardware and sports services. It held streaming rights including Premier League rights for Hong Kong, and became title sponsor of Beijing's Wukesong Culture and Sports Center in 2016. It earned revenue from paid memberships and advertising around its content, and planned consumer products including betting, lotteries, ticketing, e-commerce and gaming, along with devices such as the Le Super Bike. It first raised RMB 800 million in a Series A round at a RMB 2.8 billion valuation. In April 2016 it completed a RMB 8 billion (about $1.2 billion) Series B round at a RMB 21.5 billion valuation, then the largest raise by an internet sports company, with investors including HNA Capital and Caissa Touristic. Lei Zhenjian was its founder and chief executive; parent Le.com held a 10.34% stake.

Playtomic is a Spanish sports-technology company based in Madrid that runs a booking app and community platform for padel, tennis and pickleball players and clubs. Players use the app to find and book courts, create private or public matches, join nearby games and track results, with a player-level estimation system matching them with opponents of similar ability. Clubs use its Playtomic Manager software to run bookings, memberships and operations, and coaches and academies use Playtomic Coach and Academy tools. By March 2025 the platform had 6,000 registered clubs and 1.5 million monthly active users worldwide, and Playtomic reported gross revenue of €240 million in 2024 and net revenue of €23 million, forecasting €350 million and €31 million for 2025; it had more than 200 employees. It earns commission on court bookings and matches paid through the app and charges clubs for its management software. Playtomic was co-founded by chief executive Félix Ruiz with Pedro Clavería and Pablo Carro. It raised €56 million in 2021 and, in March 2025, a €65 million round made up of €55 million of equity and €10 million of Banco Santander debt, with about a third earmarked for US expansion from Miami; in 2022 it bought a Finnish competitor.

Listed Indian technology company, formerly Colab Cloud Platforms. It offers IT and data services and is moving into sports, esports and sports technology, including athlete management and a planned sports e-commerce marketplace. New Delhi based, small revenue base.

Dream Sports is a Mumbai-headquartered sports technology company operating brands like Dream11 for fantasy sports, FanCode for live streaming, DreamX for technology services, DreamSetGo for experiences, and DreamPay for payments. Founded in 2008, the firm expands fan engagement through content, commerce, events, and merchandising in cricket, football, and other sports across India.

Dapper Labs is a Vancouver-based consumer technology company and self-described venture studio that builds digital collectibles, games and finance products on the Flow blockchain, which it created. Its best-known product is NBA Top Shot, a marketplace for officially licensed NBA video highlights sold as digital collectibles, which has more than 1.6 million collectors and over US$1.2 billion in cumulative sales. Other products include NFL ALL DAY, Disney Pinnacle, a digital pin collecting and trading app featuring Star Wars, Pixar and Disney characters, CryptoKitties, the 2017 blockchain game from which the company grew, Peak Money, an automated-yield and prize-linked savings app, and the virtual influencer studio Miquela. Dapper Labs earns revenue mainly from primary sales of digital collectibles and fees on marketplace trades, working with sports leagues, players' associations and entertainment brands as licensors. The company was spun out of the design studio Axiom Zen in 2018 under chief executive Roham Gharegozlou. It has raised more than US$600 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, GV, Samsung NEXT, Coatue, BOND and GIC, and its September 2021 round valued it at US$7.6 billion.

Dream11 is a Mumbai-headquartered fantasy sports platform on which users build virtual teams of real players in cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball and other sports and score points from those players' real-match performances. It was founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth and is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, whose other businesses include the sports streaming and content app FanCode and DreamSetGo. The platform earned most of its revenue from paid contests and grew from 1 million registered users in 2014 to a claimed 200 million by October 2023. Revenue rose from Rs 224.6 crore in FY2018 to Rs 6,384 crore in FY2023, when it reported a profit of Rs 188 crore, and the company has held the Indian cricket team jersey sponsorship. Backers including Kalaari Capital, Think Investments, Multiples, Tencent, Steadview Capital, Tiger Global, TPG, ChrysCapital, TCV, D1 Capital, Falcon Edge, DST Global and RedBird Capital valued Dream Sports at $8 billion in November 2021. In August 2025, after India's Parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, Dream11 paused all paid contests, which had accounted for more than 90% of its revenue.

Gentoo Media Inc is an affiliate connecting operators and players in the online gambling and sports betting industry, offering an array of iGaming affiliate solutions, such as paid marketing expertise and quality traffic through its prominent industry sites. The Group operates in two segments, which is Publishing; and Paid Media. It derives maximum revenue from Publishing segment. The publishing segment generates revenue by creating content monetized through ads, subscriptions, or sponsorships. It attracts audiences organically via Search Engine Optimization (SEO), social media, and direct traffic, earning from programmatic ads, direct brand deals, or paywalls.