Adam Ned

The Players Company is a collective of professional athletes, investors, and entrepreneurs aimed at empowering our community to build generational wealth through education, access, media, and partnerships.

We are experienced founders, storytellers, and VC fund managers offering fundraising assistance, pitch deck creation, and expert guidance for founders.

The Players Company is a collective of professional athletes, investors, and entrepreneurs aimed at empowering our community to build generational wealth through education, access, media, and partnerships.

LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups. LvlUp is ranked among the most active venture capital firms globally (#7 worldwide, #4 in the United States, and #1 in Consumer Goods & Technology — PitchBook). Our opportunistic investment thesis backs founders wherever opportunity emerges—where the intersection of our capital, expertise, and strategic partnership ecosystem unlocks a true level up in growth, unbound by sector or stage. Beyond capital, LvlUp operates as an extended team to founders—combining hands-on growth and fundraising support with a powerful ecosystem of corporate partners to give companies an unfair advantage as they scale. We are deeply focused on unlocking synergies across our portfolio through our extended-team ecosystem, deep corporate partnerships, and a technology backbone designed to create opportunities between companies at scale. LvlUp is powered by a global team of more than 2,500 core and extended members, united by a shared mission: helping founders build enduring, category-defining companies.