Sports Loft Podcast

Sports Loft Podcast


Latest Episodes

VRTL: Scaling in person fan experiences to a global audience
November 22, 2024

Courtney Jeffries is CEO of virtual events platform, VRTL. She describes herself as a recovering Sports Exec having worked at the Raiders, Pac-12, MSG and then moving into startup life at Satisfi Labs. VRTL is used by the likes of Atlanta Falcons, ESPN,

Trajektory – a holistic view of sports sponsorship
October 24, 2024

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, welcoming Alex Kerr, CEO of Trajektory, to chat about sponsorship analytics in the sports industry. We’ve

ADvantage VC: Investing in early-stage tech companies
September 27, 2024

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 dig into early-stage investment in sports-focused technologies.  ADvantage focuses on three areas of the s

AudioShake: using
AI to take control
of audio content
September 11, 2024

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 organisations more control over their audio and video assets. In sports, that means tweaking levels or replaci

OpusClip: using AI to turn your content into viral shorts
August 28, 2024

In this weeks episode of the Sports Loft Podcast, Yanni and Charlie sit down with Shubh Jagani, head of enterprise solutions at OpusClip, the AI startup that can turn long-form videos into viral clips with just one click.Today, every organisation fro

OneCourt: using touch to help blind fans engage with sport
August 14, 2024

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 company making sports more inclusive for fans who are blind or visually impaired. OneCourt has developed a

The power of vertical video: Insights from Storyteller’s founder
July 31, 2024

In this episode, the Charlie and Yanni chat with Bob Thomson, the founder of Storyteller, a company that enables brands to integrate vertical video stories into their apps and websites.They discuss the rise of vertical video formats like Stories and Reel

Building the tools for immersive sports experiences
July 16, 2024

In this episode, Yanni and Charlie chat with Kamal Mistry, CEO of Arcturus, a company specialising in volumetric video which allows for the capture and display of three-dimensional spaces and objects.We were blown away by Arcturus' demo at the Sports L

Connecting with fans using data
July 01, 2024

This week Yanni and Charlie sit down with Vince Ircandia, CEO and founder of Stellar Algo, a company transforming how sports organisations understand and engage with their fans, using data analytics. Vince explains how Stellar Algo unifies fan data from d

Twelve Labs: Bringing human-like understanding to video
June 20, 2024

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 understanding to video content. We had Twelve Labs on stage at the Sports Loft Summit, so in this conversatio