Radar · Sports Services in New Jersey
Best Sports Services Companies in New Jersey, United States
The 33 best Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Majors Challenge.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
33companies tracked
$730Kdisclosed funding
0unicorns
3have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · SPORTS SERVICES × NEW JERSEY
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.
50companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2017median founding year
Ranked: Best Sports Services companies in New Jersey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Majors Challenge Provider of sports services | $480K | 56 mo ago | Seed | Dan Pitluk Founder | 2006 | WordPress Block EditorWordPress Site EditorWordPress+15 | — |
| 2 | 98Strong Sports marketing platform | $250K | 51 mo ago | Seed | Nick Bunn Co-Founder | 2021 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+30 | — |
| 3 | Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Provider of sports services | — | 53 mo ago | Seed | David Blitzer Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+18 | — |
| 4 | Glen Ridge Country Club Provider of hospitality and sports event management services | — | 131 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1894 | Kentico CMSYouTubeVideoJS+15 | — |
| 5 | 42 growth strategies 42 Growth Strategies is a media agency that provides branding, advertising, business coaching, content… | — | — | — | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | appliedgolf Provider of golf course management & operation services | — | — | Acquired | Dave Wasenda Founder | 2006 | — | — |
| 7 | Armor Crack Repair Provider of a proven long-term crack repair system for asphalt tennis courts using a knitted fabric that… | — | — | Acquired | Dan Clapp Founder | 1992 | — | — |
| 8 | Ashbrookgolfcourse Operator of a golf course and associated facilities | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2009 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+28 | — |
Top 4 Sports Services companies in New Jersey
#1
Seed · Princeton, New Jersey · founded 2021 · 9 employees$250Kraised▾
Seed · Princeton, New Jersey · founded 2021 · 9 employees
Sports marketing platform. It helps with NIL development for athletes, agencies, and brands. It facilitates content creation. social media handling, and surveys.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 8.3% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Talent Manager
Funding rounds
- Aug 2022Seed$250K
Founders & team
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAngularCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflare
#2
Seed · Randolph, New Jersey · founded 2006 · 3 employees$480Kraised▾
Seed · Randolph, New Jersey · founded 2006 · 3 employees
Developer of golf pools league platform designed to give complete control over running customers' fantasy golf pools the way they want. The company's platform offers to create a league, choose the players, follow the action, and view the winners, enabling gamers to focus on picking the winning team.
Funding rounds
- Feb 2022Seed$480K
Founders & team
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle PayGoogle Tag Manager
#3
Seed · Camden, New Jersey · founded 2017 · 1500 employees—raised▾
Seed · Camden, New Jersey · founded 2017 · 1500 employees
Provider of sports services
Funding rounds
- Jun 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Investors
Arctos Sports Partners
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailComplianzCore-Js
#4
Funding Raised · Glen Ridge, New Jersey · founded 1894 · 42 employees—raised▾
Funding Raised · Glen Ridge, New Jersey · founded 1894 · 42 employees
Provider of hospitality and sports event management services
Tech stack
AosBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsFont Awesome
Funding & investor landscape
$730Ktotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
2disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Notable founders
Nick Bunn
Co-Founder · 98Strong
Andrew Mavis
Co-Founder & CEO · 98Strong
Dan Pitluk
Founder · Majors Challenge
David Blitzer
Co-Founder · Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 2,551,357 docs
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
RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States
How research on Sports Technology is moving in the United States
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 197 United States-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
201520202025
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 50% → 47% across 2015–2025.
top research entities
- East Tennessee State University9
- Harvard University5
- Lindenwood University4
- Texas A&M University4
- Boston Children's Hospital4
leading researchers
Ai Ishida · Michael H. Stone · Samuel Onimisi Dawodu · Shedrack Onwusinkwue · Femi Osasona · Akoh Atadoga · Bernard W. Downs · Samudra Prosad Banik
▲
Breakthroughs18 · 9%
▼ 11%→6% share
▼0.5× share momentum2 median citations33% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (11%→6% of field), led by Analytics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Analytics7
- Human–computer interaction4
- Data science3
- Biomechanics3
- Usability3
Landmark Sports Analytics · 54 cites
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Advancements76 · 39%
▼ 53%→42% share
▼0.8× share momentum1 median citations57% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are cooling (53%→42% of field), led by Athletes.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Athletes4→13
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation1→7
- Physical therapy2→6
- Analytics3→6
- Football2→4
Newly emergingKey (lock) 0→5
Landmark Photobiomodulation in human muscle tissue: an advantage in sports performance? · 152 cites
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Concerns42 · 21%
▲ 21%→23% share
▲1.1× share momentum4 median citations60% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (21%→23% of field), led by Athletes.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Athletes3→10
- Sports medicine2→4
Landmark The Placebo and Nocebo effect on sports performance: A systematic review · 147 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States
Where sports tech is researched across United States
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.
Boston9 · +0.07
New York6 · +0.28
Los Angeles6 · +0.20
PATENT SIGNAL · United States
Who's filing sports tech patents in the United States
United States sports tech patent filing is steady — 59 filings from 29 assignees (2016–2025), led by Stats, TRUE FORM, Cipher Genetics; annual filings 5→5.
59 filings29 assigneespeak 11/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Stats17
- TRUE FORM11
- Cipher Genetics7
- Gamechanger Analytics6
- AR & NS Invest6
- Lucey Patrick6
- WEI Xinyu6
- SHA LONG6
Common questions
How many Sports Services companies are there in New Jersey, United States?
Radar tracks 33 indexable Sports Services companies headquartered in New Jersey, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States?
The Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States on this list have raised a combined $730K in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Sports Services company in New Jersey, United States?
Majors Challenge is the highest-funded Sports Services company in New Jersey, United States, with $480K in disclosed equity funding.
How many Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States are funded?
2 of the 33 Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Sports Services unicorns are there in New Jersey, United States?
None of the Sports Services companies in New Jersey, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New Jersey, United States Sports Services companies?
The most active investors in New Jersey, United States Sports Services companies on this list include Ames Watson, Arctos Sports Partners, P4G Capital Management.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
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.