FieldLevel, Inc. is a private social network for sports recruiting where coaches help their athletes find the best opportunities to play in college.
There are few times in the life of an athlete that are as exciting and important as finding the right team to play for in college. Memories of those times are still fresh in the minds for many of us here at FieldLevel.
The recruiting process can be challenging and sometimes overwhelming for someone going through it for the first time. We set out to fix the problems in recruiting that prevent so many athletes from finding the right colleges and colleges from finding the right athletes for their teams.
The early days of FieldLevel were spent working closely with Junior College coaches, whose primary roles are to help their athletes play at the next level.
We learned that when these coaches were actively engaged in the recruiting process by working with and advocating for their athletes, they were able to effectively help them get recruited by 4-year colleges. This experience shaped our solution; the best way to improve recruiting is to involve the athletes' coaches.
When coaches and athletes are provided tools for collaborating, and coaches at all levels have an easy way to connect and privately discuss athletes, relationships are formed and athletes are able to get discovered by the right college programs.
At FieldLevel, we're fortunate to get to celebrate tens of thousands of recruiting success stories. Our mission is to make it possible for all athletes and their coaches to celebrate the major accomplishment of committing to the right colleges.
Used in over 78 countries, FieldLevel has helped create over 4,000,000 connections between coaches in 10 sports and has helped over 38,000 athletes commit to college since 2013.
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History
2008: Receives "Best Undergraduate Business Plan" Award from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California
2008: Raises seed capital funding from Reid Dennis, founder of Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
2009: Hired as the primary software provider for all athletic recruiting and NCAA compliance by the University of Southern California.
2012: Launches the private network in baseball expanding into football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer.
2014: Recognized as one of the "Top 100 Startups in Los Angeles"
2015: Launches women's volleyball, its first female sport.
2017: Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in Sports.
2017: Raises Series A financing from Elysian Park Ventures, the Los Angeles Dodgers venture capital arm, and Steve Kaplan, owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies and Swansea City AFC of the English Premier League.
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Awards
2008: "Best Undergraduate Business Plan" from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California
2012: Named "Best in Show" at the American Baseball Coaches Association Convention
2014: Recognized as one of the "Top 40 Startups in Santa Monica"
2014: Recognized as one of the "Top 100 Startups in Los Angeles"
2015: Selected to the inaugural Los Angeles Dodgers Accelerator Program
2015: Named a Trusted Resource - Positive Coaching Alliance
2017: Fast Company Most Innovative Companies in Sports
References
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