You starting 5 for October, 2025.

Hey,

Hope you’re doing well. 🙂

Recently, I observed a couple of interesting products, money flow, and decided to make a shot recap to keep you informed. Some of them you might know, some of them might be quite new.

If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to me on Linkedin anytime. ✌️

Let’s go! 🔥

Jabbr.ai - revolutionizing fighting sports with cutting-edge analytics and insights. Their platform offers unparalleled transparency, empowering athletes, coaches, and fans with real-time data and analytics to unlock performance breakthroughs and enhance the fight experience.

One week ago they raised $5M in a seed round for further expansion and growth. (Source)

Before we jump to another product, I want to cover a story behind it, and actually, how I found them for the first time.

May 20, 2023

One of my favorite boxers, Vasiliy Lomachenko stepping into the ring against Devin Haney for the Undisputed Lightweight Champion. Second chance for the Ukrainian boxer.

12 rounds fight, I’m confident 100% that he won.

He lost.

We can speculate a lot on how to score boxing, but one of the main questions stayed open; scoring is not as obvious as it can be.

After that fight, I was wondering if somebody already has a solution to solve this kind of issue?

June, 2023.

I’m opening YouTube and starting to search: computer vision for boxing (or something like that), and I stopped on one video.

Yes, that’s exactly what JABBR is doing. After some research, I realized how big this problem is in combat sports and why the team is actually trying to solve it. I’m pretty sure that a bright future is ahead of them, as it can impact the whole industry significantly.

So, if you just read for the first time, time to follow their journey. 🙂

Kotcha - is a next-gen running app co-built with Eliud Kipchoge and the NNRunning Team. Kipchoge’s training secrets, adapted to you.

They announced its €3.5m pre-seed round to bring world-class running coaching to everyone, powered by AI.

What does it mean for the running industry?

Another player on the market. The running industry 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲.

Sharp design and from the first touch seems like a solid product. I’m very excited about how they’re gonna position themselves against apps like Runna, which has conquered the market and won the market in the last 2 years.

I haven’t tried the whole app by myself, but I will start to use it to test what it is capable of in terms of training, planning, and adaptation.

Anyway, for me, this case is very interesting to observe from a marketing and product perspective. 🙂

KULG - collects training & recovery data with personal feedback, uncovers individual patterns and long-term trends, and turns fragmented data into personalised training insights. KULG empowers runners in understanding their training in the long term, helping them balance load and recovery, train consistently for years and reach their goals healthy, closing the insight gap.

About 4 weeks ago they raised €100k that helps scale engineering and AI team, roll out new features and mobile apps, and expand to new markets, bringing personal, science-backed guidance to runners worldwide.

I talked about this topic several times, how companies are emerging with data and shifting into the new space with the help of AI. They are not here because they want to provide AI training plans, but are actually using your data and provide more insights or educate you on how to use your personal data for better recovery and performance. This is very similar to something that is doing VEKTA for the cycling world.

FANstrike - sports capital markets. On-chain platform where athletes, clubs, and sports creators can:

• Launch their own creator currencies

• Run token-gated activations and perks

• Add on-chain prediction features

• Build liquid, always-on communities

If you remember FANtium, it’s another movement in the direction of sports capital markets for athletes, clubs, and sports creators.

It took FANtium over 24 months to reach $1M in transaction volume. Our new product, FANstrike, surpassed 4.5× that in just four weeks. © Jonathan Ludwig

Absolutely insane growth, but for me, it’s just a signal that the market continues to emerge digitally.

Minimis - Flow AR allows users to see their metrics, navigate, make calls & listen to music within their sunglasses, without looking down or carrying anything else.

Currently, the product is available for preorder, but based on the industry shifting, I can see how the race in the VR Glasses market is going into a new phase.

Wrapping up ⚽️

What product are you using on a daily basis? It would be interesting to check. 🙂

Cheers,
Taras ✌️