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Sleeper

Fantasy sports app

Sleeper logo
21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Gaming
  • eSports
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
  • Sports
Beresford Park, San Mateo, CA

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Company mission

To connect people over sports.

Top investors

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Our take

The popularity of being able to create fantasy teams and enjoy watching sports virtually has taken socialising around sports to a virtual level. In fact, the fantasy sports market size is expected to reach $48.6 billion by 2027. Sleeper was initially an app on which users discussed fantasy sports, but in 2017, it began hosting free fantasy football leagues, competing with sites like Yahoo. Integrating social media and sports, the company is now known to be one of the best DFS communities to hang out on.

A recent funding round means Sleeper can make plans to expand the game offerings on its platform and build a new feature called Wallet that will enable users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform. There has been consistent growth for the platform since founding and it has successfully attracted a loyal user base.

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Benefits

  • Team outing every quarter and company retreat once a year
  • Company-sponsored fantasy leagues with real prizes
  • 401k and health insurance
  • Regular virtual game-time with the team with company-sponsored snacks
  • Unlimited Vacations

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Sep 2021

$40m

SERIES C

May 2020

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $67.3m

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Leadership

Nan Wang

(CEO)

After studying went on to become a Senior Analyst at Fidelity Investments, Representative for China Investment Corporation and Private Equity Investor at Neuberger Berman.

Henry Leung

(Co-founder)

Worked as an Android Developer at Vevo, Senior iOS Developer at Dwell Media and Lead Mobile Engineer at Whil Concepts.

Ken Wang

(Co-founder)

Previously worked as a NET Web Engineer at Genex/O’Grady Meyers, Senior C# Engineer at Decore-ative Specialties and UI Engineering Tech Lead (TV/Console Platform) at Vevo.

Weixi Yen

(Co-founder)

Worked as a Software Engineer at Kabam and then went on to work through several roles at Storm8, most recently as an Engineering Manager.

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