Best Sports Services Companies in China
The 46 best Sports Services companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Shankai Sports.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Services companies
$3.3b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Services companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shankai Sports Sports business platform | $45M | 104 mo ago | Series B | Olivier Glauser Co-Founder | 2010 | — | — |
| 2 | Kunlun Fight Company that promotes kickboxing events | $31M | 125 mo ago | Series B | Jiang Hua Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 3 | Qudong Journey Sports Development Provider of football training courses for kids | $18M | 110 mo ago | Deadpooled | Zhang Huabing Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 4 | Mailman Group Provider of digital sports marketing and consulting services | $18M | 108 mo ago | Acquired | Andrew Collins Founder & CEO | 1999 | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+18 | — |
| 5 | Extreme Road Provider of software solutions for multiple sports training | $8M | 59 mo ago | Series A | Wang Tianle CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | Moveclub Provider of welding equipment, repair, rental, and delivery services | $6M | 95 mo ago | Series B | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 7 | Guoyu Qianjian Operator of sports stadium | $4M | 27 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Beijing Shitong Technology Provider of advertising and video content services | $752K | 63 mo ago | Deadpooled | Xu Yiyang CEO | 2015 | — | — |
Top 12 Sports Services companies in China
#1
Seed · China$4.2Mraised▾
Operator of sports stadium
#2
Series A · Chaoyang, Beijing · founded 2017$8.4Mraised▾
Provider of software solutions for multiple sports training. It provides users with an online platform that aims to promote extreme sports and provide a community for enthusiasts to share and learn about activities such as skiing, diving, and surfing.
- Sep 2021Series A$7M
- 2019Seed$1.4M
#3
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2010 · 38 employees$45.3Mraised▾
Shankai Sports is a sports business platform. The company provides sports sponsorship, corporate hospitality, digital media, and sports business development services for Chinese sports teams and organizations.
- Dec 2017Series B$45.3M
#4
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014$30.7Mraised▾
Kunlun is a Chinese kickboxing promotion company developed by Kunsun Media. The company provides solutions for broadcasting fights on media platforms including Jiangsu television and HKSTV.
- Mar 2016Series B$30.7M
#5
Acquired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 1999 · 200 employees$18Mraised▾
Provider of digital sports marketing and consulting services. This entity assists sports organizations in building their digital presence and expanding their businesses. Services encompass audience development, content creation, and digital campaign management. They utilize proprietary technology to enhance planning, processes, and performance. The firm helps connect sports organizations with their fan bases through effective marketing and communication strategies.
- Aug 2017Series A$3M
- Jan 2017Series A$15M
#6
Deadpooled · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015$18.4Mraised▾
Provider of football training courses for kids
- 2017Series A$18.4M
#7
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015 · 30 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of welding equipment, repair, rental, and delivery services. It offers a wide selection of welding supplies and equipment. The company also provides training on proper equipment use and performs repairs on various welding tools and machinery. Delivery services include the transport of gas cylinders and other welding supplies. A network of certified resellers allows customers to conveniently access equipment.
- Aug 2018Series B—
- Jan 2018Series A—
- Oct 2017Series A$4.5M
- Oct 2016Seed$1.5M
#8
Deadpooled · Chaoyang, Beijing · founded 2015$751.8Kraised▾
Provider of advertising and video content services
- May 2021Series A—
- Nov 2019Series A—
- Sep 2017Seed—
- Jul 2016Seed$751.8K
#9
Seed · Xi An, Shaanxi Sheng · founded 2016—raised▾
Topaz (Xi'an) Sports Technology is a company that focuses on providing high protective characteristics for sports equipment. They aim to silently escort every challenge in sportsmanship.
- Nov 2023Angel—
#10
Seed · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2017—raised▾
Provide billiard game products
- Jan 2021Seed—
- Feb 2020Seed—
#11
Seed · Changping District, Beijing · founded 2015 · 2 employees—raised▾
Provider of integrated sports education solutions designed to prepare students for sports university applications. The company specializes in designing comprehensive online and offline sports education programs covering various sports areas, providing effective and reliable training and information services to prepare students looking to apply for leading domestic sports universities.
- Dec 2019Seed—
#12
Seed · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2017—raised▾
Provider of a martial arts training service. The company operates offline gymnasiums and provides users with various fighting and martial arts training courses such as boxing, jujitsu classes and physical education classes, enabling clients to efficiently improve their martial arts learning process.
- Apr 2019Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Services coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Sports Technology is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Sports Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 191 China-affiliated papers.
- Beijing Sport University14
- Capital University of Physical Education and Sports7
- Shanghai University of Sport6
- Xi'an Physical Education University6
- South China Normal University5
- Biomechanics6
- Analytics3
- Human–computer interaction3
- Computer vision3
- Wearable computer3
- Athletes2→12
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation3→8
- Training (meteorology)1→6
- Physical therapy1→4
- Quality (philosophy)1→4
- Athletes2→5
Where sports tech is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.