Brian Kopp

Partner at Ryan Sports Ventures & GM - InSite Analytics at Riddell

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Board Member
Jan 2026
Building an interactive visual platform to evolve how we watch live sports and entertainment.
Board Member
Mar 2019
LeagueSpot is an all-inclusive solution for league and tournament formation, and competition management designed to accommodate experts and entry-level organizers alike, as well as casual or commercial use. If you need more help getting started, LeagueSpot also offers expert design and implementation consulting services to build your customized esports program.
Board Member
Mar 2019
FanFood is a contactless ordering and delivery platform for live events serving sports stadiums, entertainment venues, and hospitality locations — including restaurants, hotels, and drive-in theaters.
Board Member
Jun 2018
At KYMIRA®, we are redefining the boundaries of wearable technology to optimise human performance, accelerate recovery, and enhance wellbeing. Founded in 2013 by injured athlete and biochemist Tim Brownstone, KYMIRA was born from a NASA-inspired vision: harnessing infrared light to stimulate cellular regeneration and healing. Our patented infrared textiles are backed by 10 peer-reviewed clinical studies and used globally by elite athletes, defence units, medical professionals, and wellness seekers. Whether its performance wear for Premier League clubs, recovery solutions for NHS Trusts, or sleepwear for everyday wellness, KYMIRA delivers innovation with impact. We operate across: Professional Sport – enhancing performance, recovery, and injury prevention. Medical & Healthcare – supporting rehabilitation, diagnostics, and chronic condition management. Defence & Tactical – enabling physiological resilience and recovery in extreme environments. Wellness & Lifestyle – improving sleep, circulation, and everyday vitality. We sell our infrared performance, recovery, sleep and leisurewear, via B2B partnerships, channel distribution, and direct-to-consumer through our global e-commerce platform. KYMIRA reinvests its proceeds into next-generation, innovative human-centred research, working with trusted institutions including the UK & European Space Agencies, Innovate UK, and leading worldwide universities. With 6 patents, 3 trademarks, and multiple trade secrets to our name. Current focuses include ongoing infrared research, and cutting-edge nano and microelectic production techniques for e-textiles, for diagnostic and monitoring across a range of health conditions including movement, rehabilitation, cardiac, and foetal. Our mission: to be at the forefront of human-centred innovation, regenerating health and unlocking human potential.
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2017
At Track160, we believe that every football coach and player deserves to have access to the same high-quality data solutions currently available only to the few elite clubs. That is why we developed a fully automated FIFA EPTS certified football data analytics platform designed for clubs, leagues, schools, and academies at any level. Using optical tracking technology that automatically identifies the location of multiple joints in a players body and tracks 3D pose and motion, we provide players and coaches with highly accurate data, video, and events in one product suite. The all-in-one solution leverages Computer Vision and proprietary Deep Learning techniques and therefore requires no initial expertise or complex installation. Track160 - elite standard data analytics in a simple to use, affordable solution for all levels of the game.
early stageSpectator Sports
Board Member
Jan 2009
With the vision of empowering sports organisations to maximise fan affinity and commercialisation, the Sportz Group has more than two decades’ worth of operational domain expertise. With more than 700+ ‘players’ on its team (and growing!), the company works with customers across 40 sports worldwide with an in-depth focus on cricket, football, basketball, kabaddi, and several other global sports. Through the years, the Sportz Group has gained an immense reputation for its state-of-the-art offerings backed by live data feeds, a full-service FanXP platform that powers websites and mobile applications, fantasy games, social media innovations, content initiatives and most recently, the launch of its fanalytics offerings.
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2026
Board Member
Jan 2026
Building an interactive visual platform to evolve how we watch live sports and entertainment.
2022
Partner
May 2022
Ryan Sports Ventures is the sports investment arm of the Chicago-based Ryan family. For over thirty years, the Ryan family has built a broad sports portfolio including interests in the Chicago Bears, Penske Corporation, and several leading sports technology funds. Ryan Sports was formed to expand the family’s investments in sports technologies, properties, and media. The Ryan Sports team is comprised of seasoned operators, technologists, and brand builders with over sixty years of experience in sports. We invest behind exceptional leaders in businesses with large addressable markets where our team can add differentiated value to assist founders to reach the next level of growth.
Advisor
Apr 2022
We provide investment banking advisory services to emerging companies in the sports technology and human performance industries. Securities-related services are provided by Full Court Capital Securities LLC. Any third-party posts linked to this profile should not be considered to represent the views of Full Court Capital LLC or Full Court Capital Securities LLC.
2021
Head of Partnerships
May 2021
P3 was founded in 2006 by Dr. Marcus Elliott, a Harvard trained physician, with the expressed goal of bringing a more data-driven approach to understanding athlete movement and development. P3 is the first performance facility to utilize advanced sports science technology to assess and train professional athletes. P3’s staff consists of biomechanists, strength coaches, physical therapists and data scientists who have all trained in applied fields at the nations finest institutions. This innovative team operates at the intersection of sports science, athletic performance and data analytics and has a proven track record of creating and delivering highly-effective, individualized performance solutions to the worlds best athletes. Our mission is to innovate and provide leading-edge sports science services to our clients that create the performance solutions necessary to maximize organizational success and improve individual athlete development.
2020
Mentor
Aug 2020
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
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