Courtside Ventures

Courtside Ventures is a New York-based venture firm focused on the intersection of sports, media, gaming, fitness, and emerging consumer technology. The firm has invested in fitness platforms, athlete-focused consumer brands, and adjacent tech-enabled wellness companies, but it is not a traditional healthcare investor and does not invest in clinical software, medical devices, biotech, or regulated digital therapeutics. For healthcare AI founders, the relevant fit is narrow but specific: if you are building consumer-facing fitness AI, performance and recovery technology, sports-medicine adjacent applications, or wellness products where the purchase decision is consumer rather than payer or provider, Courtside is one of the more thesis-aligned funds in its category. Founders building anything that requires payer contracts, clinical evidence, FDA pathways, or hospital systems sales should look elsewhere. Typical check sizes at Courtside are $500K to $3M at seed and Series A, with the firm capable of leading rounds and bringing meaningful sports, media, and athlete-network value. Entry path is through warm referral from a portfolio company or athlete-investor in the firm’s network, or LinkedIn outreach to the partners with a sharp positioning around the consumer wellness or sports-tech thesis rather than a generic healthcare framing. Founders should be ready to discuss brand, distribution, athlete or creator partnerships, and consumer engagement metrics rather than clinical outcomes. If your healthcare AI product cannot credibly position as consumer fitness or sports performance, do not pursue Courtside; the brand-fit is binary and a generic healthcare pitch will be filtered quickly.