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Overtime

Youth-focused sports network

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501-1000 employees
  • B2C
  • Content
  • Social Media
  • Sports
  • Video
  • Community
  • eCommerce
Dumbo, NY

Company mission

To build disruptive new sports leagues aimed globally at the next generation of sports fans and athletes.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

41% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Gen Z prefers short-form highlights content to full sports league matches, and tight NBA licensing restrictions mean that independent content platforms can’t trim matches to cater to this younger audience. Overtime saw this problem and turned it into a market opportunity.

It has built a short-form content empire around unlicensed amateur sports leagues, with a focus on basketball. It has a substantial multi-platform presence across social media, featuring reality-TV-style dispatches and shows focused on up-and-coming players with strong viral potential.

The brand now has over 100M followers, most of them Gen Z or younger Millennials, and its videos rack up well over 3B views each month. This brings in substantial ad revenue for Overtime, supplemented with merchandise sales. It has also recently ventured into the NFT space with its partnership with Magic Eden.

The company has also launched its own youth basketball league and pulled in high-profile backers including Jeff Bezos, Drake, and Kevin Durant, which is remarkable progress for the still relatively young company. With a comfortable and unchallenged position in this niche, Overtime looks set to continue building out a leading platform.

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Freddie

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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2022

$100m

SERIES D

Apr 2021

$80m

SERIES C

Total funding: $240.7m

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Leadership

Worked in Music Business Development at BMG and Virgin USA, and served as CEO at social game company omgpop. Also worked in Senior roles at Zynga and worked at William Morris Endeavor as Head of Digital. Current an Adjunct Professor at NYU.

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