The Most Innovative Football-Startup Was Crowned at the HYPE Summit Alongside the World Cup

MOSCOW, June 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- HYPE Sports Innovation, a global platform which facilitates connections and investments among the sports innovation ecosystem announces today the completion of HYPE Summit on the Future of Football held in Moscow. VEO was crowned as the most innovative startup in football at the global startup competition. The Summit started with a startup expo demonstrating technologies that are influencing all aspects of the football industry. Then, the summit featured global leaders that discussed the challenges of the football industry and the innovative solutions that are likely to shape it in the coming years. The HYPE Summit concluded with a startup competition which brought 8 startups from 7 countries in frontof a jury of 16, featuring clubs, brands and federations, to choose the winner. The HYPE Summit was held at the Marriott Grand Hotel in Moscow, symbolically, a few hours before the 2018 World Cup opening game.

Highlights from the HYPE Summit on the Future of Football, which took place in Moscow alongside the World Cup on June 14, 2018. Filmed by: Jonathan Hauerstock

HYPE Sports Innovation Summit on the Future of Football held in Moscow alongside the Russia Worldcup (Photo taken by: HYPE S.I.)

The winner VEO is a Danish startup that provides a powerful sports camera recording and automatically following the action. It's an easy and affordable solution for football to record, edit, stream and analyse matches. "Tokabot" from Israel took out 2nd place, and Spanish "Soccerdream" was chosen