Snapp Emerges with $4.6M to Build the World’s Most Intelligent Sports AI for Teams & Fans

Snapp, a startup building the most intelligent sports AI, today announced $4.6M in funding from a16z Speedrun, Dorm Room Fund, Gold House Ventures, House Fund, and Valia Ventures. Snapp has an enterprise platform to help professional sports teams make better decisions, along with consumer apps that have more than 20,000 users.

Sports AI Dilemma: Hours of Research and Inaccurate AI

While general AI has advanced rapidly, standard consumer chatbots remain surprisingly unreliable for sports, where game context and market odds shift by the second. Built on static training data and lagging web scrapers, mainstream models frequently deliver stale statistics and outdated injury news with total confidence. This dilemma forces both sports professionals & fans to spend hours every week toggling through a maze of separate articles, data platforms, fantasy tools, and stat trackers just to verify basic facts and make informed decisions.

Snapp’s Solution: The Intelligence Layer for Front Offices and Fans

Snapp solves sports data fragmentation by building the industry’s most intelligent, real-time sports AI, engineered to empower both professional sports organizations and everyday consumers. Powered by 30+ live feeds and billions of data points, Snapp grounds every query, projection, and tactical decision in sub-second factual truth. Whether equipping front offices and analytics teams with automated telemetry analysis and scouting intelligence, or giving fans instant roster optimization and sharp market pricing, Snapp eliminates hours of manual data wrangling through a unified, pro-grade reasoning engine.

Snapp’s Key Feartures:

• Unified AI Reasoning: Intelligence across 100+ global sports leagues, capable of processing multi-variable tactical questions against live in-game metrics, and historical benchmarks.
• Institutional-Grade Market Intelligence: Connects directly to 30+ sportsbooks and prediction markets (including Kalshi and Polymarket) to spot mispriced lines, arbitrage opportunities, and sharp consensus pricing before the market adjusts.
  
  
• Enterprise-Grade Scouting & Telemetry: I ngests elite analytics feeds to automatically generate opponent scouting dossiers, and tactical breakdowns for front offices and analysts.
  
  
• Whole-Board Fantasy Optimization: Syncs directly with ESPN, Yahoo Sports, and Sleeper to analyze league-wide rosters, schedule dynamics, and waiver-wire trends, identifying high-value stashes and moves that actively counter opponent strategies.
  
  
• Custom Predictive Modeling: Enables analysts and power users to build, backtest, and automate proprietary predictive algorithms using Snapp’s live data pipelines, or follow verified models with transparent win rates and ROI records.
  
  
• Automated Workflow Briefings (“Set-It-and-Forget-It”): Schedule recurring daily game plans, line movements, injury alerts, and waiver summaries delivered straight to your team or personal inbox/SMS at scheduled intervals.
  
  

“Winning should be fun. Getting an edge shouldn’t feel like work,” said Shawn Tsao, cofounder of Snapp. “Our AI does the research and connects the dots, using live sports data to help you make smarter calls on your fantasy lineup and bets. You get to focus on enjoying the game.”

Founded by Serial Entrepreneurs with $100M+ in Value Created

Snapp was founded by a seasoned team with a record of scaling high-growth consumer platforms. Shawn Tsao (CEO) previously co-founded Caviar, a major food delivery platform, which he scaled from inception through its acquisition by Square, and subsequently DoorDash. Min Park (COO & CFO) is a former tech banker and angel investor and Michelin restaurateur who owned and operated dozens of Bay Area eateries. Rounding out the executive team are Andrew Tamura (CTO) and Alex Marshall (Chief AI Officer), who bring several decades of experience leading high growth tech teams.

How Snapp compares to consumer AI:

• #1 Ranked Across Major Leagues: outperforms every major frontier model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI for sports questions across the NFL, NBA, MLB, and 9 other leagues.
  
  
• 44% Better Sports Intelligence: compared Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
• 2.8x Better Data Analysis: than frontier models on complex sports analytics and data processing.
  
  
• Up to 3.2x Faster Accurate Answers: enabling better betting and fantasy outcomes.

“AI models are great at answering static questions, but sports move in real time. Snapp is building the dedicated data and reasoning infrastructure necessary to make conversational AI actually work for sports fans,” explained Josh Lu, General Manager of a16z Speedrun. “Shawn, Min, and the team have the exact operational and marketplace background required to build the central operating system for sports, and we’re thrilled to back them through Speedrun.”

The funding round also included Jason Wang and Andy Zhang (Caviar founders), Prakash Janakiraman (founder and CTO of Nextdoor), Jeff Wang (CEO of Windsurf / Cognition), Bling Capital, Danny Conway, Bridge Ventures, Great Oaks, Operator Stack, Entrepreneur VC, and 20 other funds and angels.

Snapp is live on iOS and Android. Download & learn more today: https://www.trysnapp.ai/.

About Snapp

Snapp is the premier AI-powered sports intelligence platform that unifies real-time analytics, fantasy league management, and prediction market insights into a single mobile app. Connected to 30 live data pipelines across 100+ sports, the app seamlessly integrates with platforms like ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper, Kalshi, and Polymarket to give fans a real-time, actionable edge. The company is backed by a16z Speedrun, Dorm Room Fund, House Fund, Valia Ventures, and Gold House Ventures. Learn more or download the app at https://www.trysnapp.ai/.

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