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Ignite Startups: Building SportsVisio and the Future of AI Sports Tech with Jason Syversen | Ep211

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Jason Syversen is the founder & CEO of SportsVisio and a former DARPA program manager turned repeat entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He went from hacking Wi-Fi cameras for Special Forces demos to running nine-figure government R&D portfolios—then into startups and sports, with a mission to democratize analytics for everyday athletes.

With deep roots in cyber/defense and a chip-on-the-shoulder upbringing, Jason brings a builder’s pragmatism to AI: recruit elite researchers, solve occlusion-heavy, real-world computer-vision problems, and ship products that work in messy gyms—not just pristine arenas. He’s hardware-agnostic (your phone is the camera), plays the long game on technical moats, and believes unit economics beat hype every time.

In this episode, he talks about the moment a rec-league stat dispute sparked SportsVisio, why leagues (not lone parents) are the right customer, how they turned thousands of labeled games into a compounding advantage, and where this all leads—AI scoreboards, “robo-ref” assist, and near-real-time highlights.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

00:01 From DARPA to the Driveway

03:10 Growing Up with Grit

06:45 Hacking for the Pentagon

11:36 The Spark: A Rec-League Argument

13:34 Building an AI Sports Platform

15:34 The Timing Advantage

18:40 Go-to-Market That Works

20:38 Cameras, Courts, and Chaos

22:20 Scaling Beyond Basketball

24:00 The A-Team Behind the Tech

26:18 The Hardest Problem in Vision

31:26 Learning from Thousands of Games

34:40 The Future: AI Scoreboards and Robo-Refs

37:10 Speed, Cost, and Scale

40:05 Lessons from Building Deep Tech Startups

45:15 What’s Next for SportsVisio

47:40 Closing Reflections

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ga6v0YUsHotLhjap67uu5

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ignite-conversations-on-startups-venture-capital-tech/id1709248824

Follow Jason Syversen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsyversen/

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Content provided by Brian Bell. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Brian Bell or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Jason Syversen is the founder & CEO of SportsVisio and a former DARPA program manager turned repeat entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He went from hacking Wi-Fi cameras for Special Forces demos to running nine-figure government R&D portfolios—then into startups and sports, with a mission to democratize analytics for everyday athletes.

With deep roots in cyber/defense and a chip-on-the-shoulder upbringing, Jason brings a builder’s pragmatism to AI: recruit elite researchers, solve occlusion-heavy, real-world computer-vision problems, and ship products that work in messy gyms—not just pristine arenas. He’s hardware-agnostic (your phone is the camera), plays the long game on technical moats, and believes unit economics beat hype every time.

In this episode, he talks about the moment a rec-league stat dispute sparked SportsVisio, why leagues (not lone parents) are the right customer, how they turned thousands of labeled games into a compounding advantage, and where this all leads—AI scoreboards, “robo-ref” assist, and near-real-time highlights.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

00:01 From DARPA to the Driveway

03:10 Growing Up with Grit

06:45 Hacking for the Pentagon

11:36 The Spark: A Rec-League Argument

13:34 Building an AI Sports Platform

15:34 The Timing Advantage

18:40 Go-to-Market That Works

20:38 Cameras, Courts, and Chaos

22:20 Scaling Beyond Basketball

24:00 The A-Team Behind the Tech

26:18 The Hardest Problem in Vision

31:26 Learning from Thousands of Games

34:40 The Future: AI Scoreboards and Robo-Refs

37:10 Speed, Cost, and Scale

40:05 Lessons from Building Deep Tech Startups

45:15 What’s Next for SportsVisio

47:40 Closing Reflections

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ga6v0YUsHotLhjap67uu5

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ignite-conversations-on-startups-venture-capital-tech/id1709248824

Follow Jason Syversen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsyversen/

Follow Jason Syversen on X: https://x.com/jsyversen

Follow Brian on X: https://x.com/brianrbell

Follow Brian on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bblinkedin/

Visit Our Website: https://www.teamignite.ventures

Subscribe to Our Newsletter: https://insights.teamignite.ventures/

👂🎧 Watch, listen, and follow on your favorite platform: https://tr.ee/S2ayrbx_fL

🙏 Join the conversation on your favorite social network: https://linktr.ee/theignitepodcast

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