Sports Loft Podcast
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Sports Loft Podcast
On the Sports Loft Podcast, we talk to the innovators shaping the future of the sports industry. Our guests include tech pioneers building groundbreaking companies, leading executives from the world’s biggest teams and leagues, and investors driving advancements in sports, media and entertainment.
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From Threads to WhatsApp: How sports organisations are making the most of Meta’s platforms.
Will Pithers, Strategic Partner Manager for sports at Meta, joins Andy and Charlie on the Sports Loft podcast. Having previously work at City Football...
Scoreplay: Centralising Sports Media in the Age of AI
In the latest Sports Loft podcast, Andy and Charlie are joined by Victorien Tixier, CEO of Scoreplay. Fresh off the announcement of their $13m Series...
From Highlights to Creators: How the sports industry is innovating on YouTube
Jonny Keogh, UK&I Sports Lead at YouTube joins Andy and Charlie on the Sports Loft podcast. Having previously worked at Sky, Jonny now helps major rig...
The ICC: Innovating at the Cricket World Cup.
Finn Bradshaw, Head of Digital at the ICC, joins Andy and Charlie on the Sports Loft podcast. Having worked previously with Cricket Australia and in t...
VRTL: Scaling in person fan experiences to a global audience
Courtney Jeffries is CEO of virtual events platform, VRTL. She describes herself as a “recovering Sports Exec” having worked at the Raiders, Pac-12, M...
Trajektory – a holistic view of sports sponsorship
With Yanni away in Hawai'i (working on the IRONMAN World Championship, rather than competing in it) Charlie took the reins of the podcast this week, w...
ADvantage VC: Investing in early-stage tech companies
In this episode of the Sports Loft Podcast, hosts Yanni Andreopoulos and Andy Selby are joined by Sam Schmelzer, Partner and COO of ADvantage VC, to d...
AudioShake: using AI to take control of audio content
This week, Yanni and Andy chat with Suzanne Kirkland about how the company uses AI to separate audio into its “stems” or component parts, giving organ...
OpusClip: using AI to turn your content into viral shorts
In this week’s episode of the Sports Loft Podcast, Yanni and Charlie sit down with Shubh Jagani, head of enterprise solutions at OpusClip, the AI star...
OneCourt: using touch to help blind fans engage with sport
On this episode of the Sports Loft Podcast, hosts Yanni and Charlie sit down with Antyush Bollini, COO and co-founder of OneCourt, a groundbreaking co...
The power of vertical video: Insights from Storyteller’s founder
In this episode, the Charlie and Yanni chat with Bob Thomson, the founder of Storyteller, a company that enables brands to integrate vertical video st...
Building the tools for immersive sports experiences
In this episode, Yanni and Charlie chat with Kamal Mistry, CEO of Arcturus, a company specialising in volumetric video – which allows for the capture...
Connecting with fans using data
This week Yanni and Charlie sit down with Vince Ircandia, CEO and founder of Stellar Algo, a company transforming how sports organisations understand...
Twelve Labs: Bringing human-like understanding to video
In this episode, Yanni and Charlie chat with Maninder Saini, head of growth at Twelve Labs, a company that uses multimodal AI to bring human-like unde...
Scrum Ventures: Innovate, collaborate, accelerate
This week’s guest on the Sports Loft Podcast is Michael Proman, managing director of Scrum Ventures – a seed stage investment platform that counts lar...
The Sports Loft Summit – part two
On Wednesday May 8th, we held the Sports Loft Showcase 2024, where we featured twelve incredible tech companies that we believe the industry needs to...
The Sports Loft Summit – part one
On Wednesday May 8th, we held the Sports Loft Showcase 2024, where we featured twelve incredible tech companies that we believe the industry needs to...
London Marathon Events: The tech behind the record-breaking event
“The 26.2 miles of London streets from Blackheath to the Mall are, in my opinion, the most incredible experience on the planet,” says Charles Juba, gr...
Professional Triathletes Organisation: Using tech to take triathlon mainstream
This week Yanni and co-host Charlie chat with Sam Renouf, CEO of the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO). Sam joined the organisation in 2019...
MLS Innovation Lab: Nurturing tech to grow the league
Football in the US is growing – fast. But Major League Soccer has a long way to go to catch up with the likes of the NBA, MLB and, of course, the behe...
The evolution of sports sponsorship
This week’s episode delves into the intersection of sports, technology and sponsorship with industry experts Jason Saiban, a partner at Charles Russel...
Monterosa: powering fan engagement for sports' leading rightsholders
In this episode, Yanni and Charlie talk to Tom McDonnell, CEO at Monterosa, the platform that is helping teams and leagues wrestle the fan engagement...
Monarch Collective: going all in on women's sports
In this episode of our 'Investor's View' series, Yanni and Charlie chat with returning guest Jasmine Robinson. Formerly of Causeway, Jasmine is now co...
Levellr: building communities of superfans in sports
Join hosts Yanni Andreopoulos and Charlie Greenwood in conversation with Tom Gayner, CEO and co-founder of Levellr, the platform connecting the world'...
Reviewing our trend predictions and looking ahead to 2024
In the words of host Yanni Andreopoulos, this week on the podcast we gathered “the greatest minds Sports Loft has to offer” (oh dear!) to discuss our...
Ryan Sports Ventures: investing in people that change the game
This week Yanni and Charlie welcome Paul Hourigan onto the podcast to get his view on the world of sports, media and entertainment investment. Paul is...
BMW, Karta and marketing in the metaverse
This week's podcast features Yanni and Andy taking a deep dive into the world of gaming with Pia Schörner, head of digital content creation & BMW Meta...
RX3 Growth Partners: consumer investment alongside athletes
In this month's Investor's View episode, Yanni sits down with Andrew Costa, partner at RX3 Growth Partners, a consumer growth equity firm co-founded b...
The role of machine learning in sports, and how to build an AI startup
This week we’re discussing the intersection of sports, media and artificial intelligence. Join our host Yanni and founder Charlie, as they sit down wi...
WISE Ventures: supporting the evolution of next-gen businesses
In the latest episode of the Sports Loft Podcast, Yanni is joined by Konrad von Moltke, principal of New York-based investment group, WISE Ventures.
How star signing drive fandom, and is short-form content king?
This week on the podcast, Yanni is joined by a trio of industry experts, including Kristen Rodgers, the sports and media partnerships lead at Tagboard...
West River Group: investing in the global innovation economy
In the fourth episode of this summer's Investor's View series, we welcome Anthony Bontrager, managing director of West River Group.
Anthony's 25...
The new social media landscape, and the evolution of pre-season tours
This week Yanni is joined by Nick Shaw, managing director of EMEA at Greenfly, and Keegan Pierce, managing director for the UK and Ireland at La Liga,...
Techstars: accelerating startups across sports and tech
This week Yanni welcomes Jordan Fliegel, managing director of Techstars NYC and Techstars Sports.
Over the course of the conversation, Jordan de...
The Women’s World Cup, and the ‘Netflixication’ of sport
In this week’s Sports Loft Podcast, we explore the broadcast and sponsorship landscape surrounding the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, NWSL and Super Lea...
Where Sapphire Sport will invest its second fund
Our most recent episode of ‘An Investor’s View’ features Michael Spirito, a founding partner and lead investor of Sapphire Sport, the $300m venture fi...
Apex Capital: investing with the world’s best athletes
In our new series of ‘An Investor’s View’ podcasts, host Yanni Andreopoulos sits down with Antonio Cacorino, founder and CEO of Apex Capital. In this...
How Covatic’s privacy-first approach to advertising can disrupt sport
Join Yanni as he chats with Nick Pinks, CEO and founder of Covatic, the Sports Loft member company that's revolutionising advertising through its priv...
Our takeaways from the Sports Loft Showcase 2023
In this week's Sports Loft Podcast, Yanni sits down with our very own Charlie Greenwood, CEO and founder of Sports Loft, plus Andy Selby, our head of...
Making brands playable with Sports Loft’s newest member
“For us, every conversation starts with who are you trying to reach?” These are the words of Erik Londré, CEO and co-founder of Karta – the ‘metaverse...