Marquee Ventures

As one of the early investors in FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), Marquee Ventures is excited to welcome Major League Baseball (MLB) to the roster of global leagues partnering with the innovative company. Institutional-grade hedging and investing solutions based on the FutureSports Performance Indexes and league-provided data will provide much-needed risk management tools in the baseball and larger sports industries and unprecedented investment opportunities to the broader institutional and retail market. https://lnkd.in/euqeKQW4

NFL Players Inc, the players union's licensing arm, put their own money into Cloaked's last raise. "We would like to have Cloaked available to all of our guys, because they have a real need for this type of product." That's roughly 2,000 active players and 15,000+ retired ones covered by Cloaked. Pro athletes deal with leaked contracts, doxxing, and identity theft more than most people ever will. Full story here: https://lnkd.in/gEQFfhdK

Rec is scaling fast, and we're hiring across the board. We're building the AI layer for the $3T recreation industry (recreation.ai) — turning clunky, paper-based rec systems into something people actually enjoy using. Our team came from Uber (early), The Athletic, MasterClass, Google, Microsoft, Strava, Hipcamp, and Airbnb, and we're just getting started. A few roles we're especially focused on filling right now: Senior Product Manager – AI — shape how AI shows up across our consumer and enterprise product. Head of Growth Marketing — own how the world discovers Rec. Senior Deployment Strategist - Own the relationship with Rec's largest city partners Engineering Manager Platform  - As Rec scales across America, enters new markets, and processes hundreds of millions in revenue for our partners, the Platform team is what makes that possible. You'll own the foundation. Plus more open roles across Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. If you want to build something real, work with genuinely sharp people, and get people off their phones and back outside, take a look  See all open roles: https://lnkd.in/gcR-Cx2y

We are excited to welcome the (USTA) United States Tennis Association as a new investor in Rec Technologies! Rec is building the future of play and transforming how recreation providers use AI to improve their operations. Tennis and racquet sports are an essential piece of the industry.

Incredibly honoured to partner with such forward thinking, innovative organisations like the NHL. Thank you for the support! Onwards to launch!! https://lnkd.in/gqrdndVh

It's been incredibly rewarding to quietly build this community over the past few months alongside Zoe, Tyler, Chase, and Daisy. Today, we're excited to finally share it with the broader ecosystem. NXTVC is a peer network for pre-partner VCs across North America. In just two weeks, we've launched six chapters (including Chicago!) and grown to 170+ members representing nearly 20 cities. If you're a junior VC interested in becoming part of this community, we'd love to have you join us: https://lnkd.in/gD-U_4F8

Today we announced our partnership with CME Group (Nasdaq: CME), where tradable products over our indexes will launch in the coming months, pending regulatory approval. To learn more about the CME FSPI partnership, as well as trading hours, product release, index calculation and which brokerages will offer sports performance futures, please sign up here - www.cmegroup.com/fspi

Congratulations to the FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI) team on their progress to date and the positive industry sentiment after their emergence from stealth last week. The company has been working with major sports leagues, regulators, exchanges, and trading firms for several years to bring this to life. We are excited to be a small part of the journey by co-leading the company's seed round with Elysian Park Ventures. Sports is one of the largest global industries without advanced tools to hedge risk and FS is filling that need. Stay tuned for product launch announcements! CME Group Robinhood DRW Motivate Venture Capital Wedbush PCV Tanner Crouch

Sports have become an investable asset class. Now they're moving one step closer to becoming a financial market. FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI) has launched with an ambitious goal: transforming live sports statistics into rules-based financial indexes that can underpin exchange-traded products, derivatives, and other institutional investment vehicles. The company is backed by investors including CME Ventures LLC, Robinhood, Marquee Ventures, DRW, Wedbush, PCV, and Fenway Sports Group owners John and Linda Henry. The opportunity extends well beyond sports betting. Financial markets have long relied on indexes to measure performance, hedge risk, and create investable products across equities, commodities, and fixed income. FutureSports is applying that same framework to sports performance. If successful, this could create an entirely new layer of financial infrastructure around sports. One where investors, institutions, and commercial partners gain new ways to hedge exposure, manage risk, and participate in the economics of sports without owning a team or buying media rights. (Structured Retail Products) The broader trend is becoming clear. Sports are evolving from an entertainment industry into a financial asset class with increasingly sophisticated capital markets. The biggest opportunities over the next decade may not come from the games themselves. They may come from building the financial infrastructure around them. #SportsBusiness #SportsFinance #SportsTech #CapitalMarkets #SportsInvesting #Innovation #FutureSports