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| - Jordan Fliegel (born 1986) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, focused on the sports industry. Fliegel is currently Managing Director of the Techstars Sports Accelerator, which he launched in 2019. Techstars Sports invests $120,000 per company in 10 startups annually, and provides mentorship, office space and hands-on support. The accelerator has 30 portfolio companies, including Ergatta, which raised $30M at a $200M valuation in 2021. (en)
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| - Jordan Fliegel (born 1986) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, focused on the sports industry. Fliegel is currently Managing Director of the Techstars Sports Accelerator, which he launched in 2019. Techstars Sports invests $120,000 per company in 10 startups annually, and provides mentorship, office space and hands-on support. The accelerator has 30 portfolio companies, including Ergatta, which raised $30M at a $200M valuation in 2021. Fliegel is an investor in over 150 startups as co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders First, and is on the Advisory Board of several high-growth startups, including Fight Camp and Botkeeper Fliegel was previously co-CEO of Draft.com ("DRAFT"), a venture-backed fantasy sports company headquartered in NYC. In 2017, he sold DRAFT for $48M to Paddy Power Betfair. Fliegel was Founder and CEO of CoachUp.com, the leading sports coaching platform with over 25,000 coaches, backed by $15M in venture-capital and headquartered in Boston. NBA MVP Stephen Curry is Fliegel's partner and the lead spokesman at CoachUp. Fliegel is currently Chairman of CoachUp, and led the company's last internal $1.5M round of funding. Fliegel was also Chairman of Athletes of Valor, a venture-backed social impact company [1], which was bought by CoachUp in 2018. Fliegel writes and lecturers on entrepreneurship, investing, and leadership [2], and is the author of two books, "Coaching Up!" (Wiley & Sons, 2016) [3] and "Reaching Another Level." Fliegel and his companies were named Inc “30 under 30”, Forbes "30 under 30", BBJ “40 under 40”, and Finalist for Ernst & Young “New England Entrepreneur of the Year”. Fliegel is a former professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem, and former professional basketball team co-owner of the ANBL 4X Champion New Zealand Breakers. (en)
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