Best Sports Tech Companies in Israel
The 92 best Sports Tech companies in Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Pixellot.
Israel's Sports Tech scene has quietly built real gravity: 92 companies tracked, $481M in disclosed funding, and two names doing the heavy lifting. Pixellot has pulled in $218M, WSC Sports $136M, and together they account for the bulk of that capital pool. No unicorns yet, but the concentration at the top tells you something about where the conviction is sitting. Median install growth across sports apps is running at roughly +18% YoY, and Israel's broader sports tech momentum reflects what global franchises and tech players like AWS and Microsoft are already chasing: automated production, AI highlights, fan-facing content at scale.
So what's actually moving the needle editorially right now? Coverage is flat on volume, but the stories breaking through are olympic trials, para-athlete achievements, and team selection cycles. That's the fan engagement loop tightening in real time. I'd watch how companies like WSC Sports position around those moments, because that's where viewing access and performance data converge. The Datascout data-in-sports piece captures exactly the analytical layer this sector is building toward. Active backers including Techstars and The Builders are still writing checks, which means the 92-company field here isn't done growing.
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Our analysis of 50 Sports Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Tech companies in Israel
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4sport live Real time tracking system for running and racing events | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2013 | Ilan Kelner Founder | — | — |
| 2 | AppToU Mobile app that connects sports enthusiasts | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2017 | Nissim Mazor Co-Founder & CEO | 11 patents Cloud-based remote application delivery and object‑oriented GUI interaction virtualization | — |
| 3 | AthletAR Provider of an AI & AR-based sports statistics and analytics solution | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2018 | Ori Guez Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 4 | Balleyes Social networking community for sports enthusiasts | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2018 | Shahar Kozolin Co-Founder | — | — |
| 5 | Be Talent Group Sports team management and talent development software | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | Shachar Grauman Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 6 | Champion Chatbot for football game | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | Uri Schneider Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | ChessVision At Chess Vision, we're allowing everyone to broadcast and share board games with the world! | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | Tzachi Slav Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 8 | CueFit Wearable technology solution for sports | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | Kerry Gilger Founder & CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Sports Tech companies in Israel
#1
Series D · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2013 · 207 employees$218.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-automated sports video capture, production, streaming, and analytics. The company offers solutions for producing, streaming, analyzing, and monetizing sports content. It provides camera systems, software, and platforms for various sports. The company's technology delivers video coverage of sporting events.
- Jan 2026Series D$15M
- Jan 2026Venture Debt$20M
- May 2022Series D$161M
- Jun 2020Series B$16M
#2
Series D · Israel · founded 2011 · 403 employees$136Mraised▾
Provider of an AI platform for content management, creation, and distribution. The platform enables users to create content experiences. It facilitates content personalization based on user preferences. The platform helps users to stay prepared for emerging trends.
- Feb 2022Series D$100M
- Aug 2019Series C$23M
- Sep 2016Series B$12M
- 2013Seed$1M
#3
Seed · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2022 · 6 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of NFT-based football games. The company has built a platform with a virtual football team game where players can create a team using NFT cards of real players and earn points based on their performance in real matches.
- Aug 2024Seed$1M
- May 2023Seed$300K
#4
Seed · Herzliya, Tel Aviv · founded 2019 · 21 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Wearables to monitor mental wellness. The company provides AI-enabled smart devices for users to measure the electrical activity of the brain.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$2.6M
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$5.6M
- Oct 2021Seed$4.5M
- Mar 2021Seed$1M
#5
Acquired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2018 · 60 employees$25Mraised▾
Sidelines is a provider of an online platform for betting tips and analytic information. It uses statistical models to provide prediction analysis. Also enables users to share betting opinions over the platform.
- Feb 2022Series B$25M
#6
Series D · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2011 · 58 employees$39.1Mraised▾
Provider of football news, transfer rumours, and related content. It delivers articles and information pertaining to the sport. The content is for entertainment and educational purposes. It also provides coverage from the fan's perspective.
- Oct 2015Series D$15M
- Mar 2014Series B$18M
- May 2013Series A$5.8M
- 2011Angel$300K
#7
Acquired · Kfar Saba, Central District · founded 2010 · 49 employees$26Mraised▾
PlaySight is a sports analytics system which provides real-time and after-action review with complete debriefing solutions, auto stats, bio-mechanical analysis and 3D tactical game management. It provide video automated smart court system The player's activity and motion during the entire match/training are automatically recorded, analyzed and uploaded into PlaySight.com where they can review their performance and share it with their coaches, friends and family. As of August 2015, the company provides analytics in tennis only but it plans to enter into other ball sports as well.
- Aug 2018Series C—
- Apr 2018Series C$10M
- Jun 2017Series B$11M
- May 2014Angel$3.5M
#8
Series A · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2013 · 36 employees$12Mraised▾
Developer of a video optimization platform designed to transform websites into dynamic content experiences. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and algorithms to analyze video streams directly from pre-existing online content, enabling clients to improve the way users consume content.
#9
Series A · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2017 · 37 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of video-based sports analytics solutions. The platform leverages computer-vision technology to track jersey numbers, team colours and textures, unique player movement, tactical positions, ball appearance and 3D movement, and more, to provide game insights. Its solutions are used for injury and role predictions.
- Nov 2019Series A$5M
#10
Acquired · Haifa, Haifa District · founded 2014 · 12 employees$5Mraised▾
Pico Buzz provides sports marketing solutions for fan and brand engagement. It builds a tool for collecting user-generated content across social media platforms. These tools automatically collect the content which brand followers are sharing. It is then aggregated, tagged and uploaded across brand's social media platforms for brand promotion. It also builds up user profile of the followers of the brand and recommends the necessary action for building further engagement.
- Apr 2017Seed$100K
- Feb 2017Seed$50K
- Apr 2015Seed—
- Apr 2014Seed—
#11
Acquired · Herzliya, Tel Aviv District · founded 2015 · 50 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of a content platform for boxing
- Sep 2018Seed$3M
#12
Acqui-Hired · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2013 · 9 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of the AI data platform for sports marketing solutions. Its deep learning platform identifies objects, brands, logos, faces, locations and sentiments from live sporting events in near-real-time and measures earned media and related impact on TV and social media. It uses a patent-pending technology that ingests video feeds and runs them through its proprietary identification and analysis process and provides a sports data management platform which contains all the metadata extracted from the video.
- Sep 2014Seed$2M
- Apr 2014Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Tech 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 Israel
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 9 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Tel Aviv University7
- Hadassah Medical Center1
- Apple1
- Assaf Harofeh Medical Center1
- Squat1
- Athletes1
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation1
- Transfer (computing)1
- Physical therapy1
Where sports tech is researched across Israel
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
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