OneCourt wins Sports Technology of the Year at SBA: Tech
OneCourt wins Sports Technology of the Year at SBA: Tech
Publish Date: 2026-05-19 08:03:00
Source Domain: www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
NEW YORK — OneCourt earned two victories at SBA: Tech on Monday evening, winning Fan Experience Technology of the Year before claiming the night’s ultimate award, Sports Technology of the Year.
“I leave you guys with one thing, which is where would we all be without sports?” said OneCourt COO Antyush Bollini to the crowd during the Sports Technology of the Year acceptance speech. “It’s a huge part of all of our lives. And there’s so many people who can’t access it in the same way as us. So let’s keep doing this.”
Founded in 2021 by a quartet of Univ. of Washington students, OneCourt has steadily pushed its way into many professional sports and raised awareness about accessibility in the process. The startup’s mission has focused on including a blind and low-vision community that’s been easily overlooked in an industry that produces must-see moments.
OneCourt first connected with sports fans in venues. Its thicker, tablet-sized device can take game-tracking data and turn it into haptics. The vibrations, paired with a surface featuring the field of play’s outline, become a low-latency play-by-play experience.
For device users, OneCourt fosters gamedays where they can finally cheer along with sighted members of their fan base instead of asking what’s going on.
Within the past year alone, OneCourt wrapped up its NBA Launchpad experience, deployed around the FIFA Club World Cup (in Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Lumen Field), the NBA (with double-digit partnerships and an All-Star Weekend appearance), and the NFL (four pilots with teams and a Super Bowl activation).
OneCourt is now attempting to join fans in their home as well with a first-generation at-home unit that should be available at the end of the year.
The company joins the three other Sports Technology of the Year winners:
- 2025 – Lap of Legends, an Anheuser-Busch InBev sponsorship activation that pitted a Formula 1 driver against six virtual racers.
- 2024 – Evolv Express, the…
