Sportradar acquires Us based live sports data provider Sportdata
Sportradar, one of the world’s leading suppliers of sports and betting-related solutions, is pleased to announc the acquisition of SportsData LLC, a U.S. based data provider offering real-time sports data products. Founded in 2010, SportsData is the fastest-growing sports data company in the U.S., covering over 20,000 live events across American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey, College Sports, Golf and NASCAR.
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With the investment, Sportradar enters the world’s largest sports market, with more than 30 billion dollars of annual revenues. SportsData, a valuable partner for market leading companies including Google, Bleacher Report, Facebook and Twitter, will focus on providing an expanded product portfolio to media customers and fantasy sports companies. Sportradar will complement its European product portfolio with all major U.S. sports to become a truly global supplier of sports and betting related content.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT MILESTONE - Both companies will offer their clients a combined product portfolio ranging from real-time scores and playby-play data feeds, to multi-platform hosted solutions, live odds, and virtual games. Furthermore, both companies will deepen their trusted relationships with sports federations by offering Sportradar’s fraud detection and prevention system and by entering into data distribution partnerships.
“This acquisition marks another important milestone in our endeavor to become the world’s leading global service provider for sports content and information. With its state of the art infrastructure and its focus on technology, SportsData perfectly matches our strategy of continuously investing in technology and development to provide our customers with an unrivaled product and service quality. The entry into the U.S. market will not only fulfill our customers’ demand for comprehensive international content around the clock, but also prepare Sportradar Group even better for playing a leading role in the dynamic market for sports services", said Carsten Koerl, Sportradar’s Group CEO.
THE PERFECT SUPPORT - “Sportradar’s strong position in the European sports market, their experience in growing businesses as well as their financial backing, provide SportsData the perfect support to continue to rapidly grow our company,” said Rob Phythian, CEO of SportsData. “Our shared focus on technology and scalable solutions as well as our complementary product offering, customer portfolio and geographic presence make this a perfect partnership. We strongly believe in the continued growth of the U.S. sports market, as well as globalization of both U.S. and international sports, and are convinced that SportsData can support Sportradar’s ambitious growth targets.”