OneCourt

We’re thrilled to announce the close of our $475,000 pre-seed financing! Backed by industry leaders, BLV community members, and professional athletes, this funding empowers us to design and launch our first product, grow our in-stadium presence, and expand our community impact. We kicked off the round in May following the Flywheel Investment Conference, where we secured our first investment from the Flywheel Fund. Jose Oglesby, owner of the AppleSox and member of the fund, followed on with an additional investment. Mentors and investors including Brenden Bixler and Andreas Pafitis also signaled their early support. Anu and Satya Nadella invested in August, bringing a depth of leadership, technological vision, and shared commitment to accessibility. Satya’s leadership as Chairman and CEO of Microsoft inspires our team, and we’re eager to continue learning from his example. In September, investors from Oregon Sports Angels (OSA), joined and led the round. Their concrete values, passion for sports, and industry expertise aligned with us from the start. A special thanks to Caleb Ginsberg for championing our team and mission. Milessa Lowrie and Jed Lowrie invested alongside OSA, representing the world of professional athletics. We closed the round with Chris Evans, Andrea Joseph, and Sandeep Singhal of Seattle’s Alliance of Angels, and Peter Tomozawa, minority owner and former president of Business Operations at the Seattle Sounders. Their mentorship has had an immediate impact! The outpouring of support from our investors has multiplied our velocity and strengthened our team. We are honored to steward these investments and energized to earn the next year of progress! Congratulations to Jerred M., Antyush Bollini, and Simon Dey, and each member of our team for their imprint on the fundraising process. We are also grateful for the steadfast support of our counsel Jonathan Shallow. Follow us or join our newsletter to stay up to date on our progress! https://www.onecourt.io/

Investing in a new era for sports fans with visual disabilities, we're proud to welcome OneCourt as the newest OSA portfolio company. OneCourt is the world’s first tactile broadcast. They transform gameplay into trackable vibrations, so fans with visual disabilities can watch the game with their fingertips. Read more about this game-changing technology: https://lnkd.in/gNqjymR #portfolio #angelinvesting #sportsangels #sportstech #visualdisabilities

OneCourt is a device designed to help blind or visually impaired sports spectators follow along to games in real time by touch through a tactile device. Please fill out the survey at the link so OneCourt has data to show Cleveland sports teams the visually impaired community is interested in live sports experiences! https://lnkd.in/evx8PPi6

?? Join Us at the Seattle VisionWalk! ?? This Saturday, OneCourt is excited to be part of the Foundation Fighting Blindness' Seattle VisionWalk! This fundraising event brings together community members from across the region to connect, learn more about available resources, and raise funds for retinal disease research. We'll be hosting a booth with live demos of our tactile sports broadcast, designed to make live sports more accessible to fans with Blindness or Low Vision. Swing by to chat with our team and try out our device firsthand (including our basketball, football, and baseball demos). Whether you're a community member, supporter, or just curious, we'd love to show you how we're changing the game! ?? Date: Saturday, September 28th ?? Location: Magnuson Park Picnic Shelter 3 - Seattle, WA ??Time: Registration at 9am, Walk begins at 10am ???Website: https://lnkd.in/gNqbJiV5 See you there! ?? #VisionWalk #OneCourt #AccessibleSports #InclusionThroughInnovation

In May, I had the privilege of speaking at the Sports Loft Summit in London. As follow up, I recently sat down with sports industry gurus Charlie Greenwood and Yanni Andreopoulos to dive deeper into the OneCourt journey and our recent work with T-Mobile and Major League Baseball (MLB). Also, special thanks to Daniel Smith and Andy Selby at Sports Loft for all their efforts in putting this together. Listen to the episode using the link below!

We are thrilled to share another major milestone for OneCourt! We collaborated with Major League Baseball (MLB) and T-Mobile on a commercial that aired during Home Run Derby on ESPN. During All Star Week, fans experienced baseball through OneCourt's device. Thank you to MLB, T-Mobile, and our fans for making this all possible. This achievement marks a significant step forward in our mission to enhance the fan experience through innovative technology. The fans' excitement and enhanced understanding of the game reaffirm our commitment to transforming the way we engage with live sports. We are currently planning activations in the MLB, NBA and NFL for the current and upcoming seasons, and are eager to launch into the NHL soon. To learn more about bringing OneCourt to your team, reach out to?[email protected]! #Innovation #SportsTech #MLB #OneCourt #FanExperience #AllStarGame Video Description: Fans with visual disabilities use their hands to folllow the game on the OneCourt device in the stadium. The laptop-sized device features a tactile graphic of a baseball diamond and strike zone. Vibrations move underneath to represent the gameplay. Then, Ricardo, fan and OneCourt user, is sitting in a dimly lit room with a baseball field in the background as he describes his experience with OneCourt. He’s wearing a white Texas Rangers jersey. Julio Rodriguez is shown making a diving catch in the outfield. Then, Laurel, fan and OneCourt user, sits in a dimly lit room with a baseball field in the background as she describes her experience with OneCourt. She’s wearing a blue Texas Rangers shirt and black hat. Jerred Mace, OneCourt CEO, speaks while sitting in a dimly lit room with a baseball field in the background. He’s wearing brown glasses and a blue Texas Rangers Jersey. Fans cheer and move their fingers along the surface of the OneCourt device as they follow a Corey Seager hit. Magenta screen with white text saying, "Swing into the Future" is shown as the closing card of the commercial.

Our 5G Hub partner, OneCourt, was down at All-Star Week showing off their 5G powered haptic display that lets visually disabled fans follow the game with their fingertips! Check out the video by T-Mobile For Business that features OneCourt!

?? #MLBAllStarWeek is elevating the fan experience with our #5G Advanced Network Solutions (ANS). Our CMO Mo Katibeh shows the tech behind the scenes. 5G high-speed cameras, a drone cam, and POV fan cams showed fans dramatic, immersive footage—like a close-up of the impact of the bat on the ball—during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby. And visually impaired fans can now follow the game with their fingertips, thanks to groundbreaking 5G haptic devices from OneCourt in partnership with T-Mobile Tech Experience. ?? 5G is transforming the way fans experience spectator sports. Our 5G ANS can help your business reimagine the customer experience, too. #TFBxMLB

?? Scenes from an impromptu pitch session + demo yesterday with OneCourt! OneCourt's Haptic Display transforms gameplay into trackable vibrations, so fans with visual disabilities can watch the game with their fingertips. #angelinvesting #sportsangels #sportstech

Testing at T-Mobile Park! Using T-Mobile’s 5G network, OneCourt is testing their baseball haptic display, which will bring the game to fans with visual disabilities like never before. #5G #5GHub #Innovation?#Technology #TMobile?