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Playmaker

We're building the social, infrastructure layer for players of fantasy sports games, to provide them with a centralised place where they can own their identity as a fantasy sports player and get additional enjoyment and engagement out of watching live sports alongside their friends.

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2
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Antler, Y Combinator
competitors
6
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4752

We're building the social, infrastructure layer for players of fantasy sports games, to provide them with a centralised place where they can own their identity as a fantasy sports player and get additional enjoyment and engagement out of watching live sports alongside their friends.

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Antler

antler-portfolio #1542

Smarter sports sponsorships, automated from deal creation to execution.

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High Signal interpretation

Playmaker is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
Smarter sports sponsorshipsPlaymakerfantasy sportsplayers
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Playmaker

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Twitch

match 51

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gamepla

shared extracted concept terms: player; shared product terms: player, game, watch, live; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Quell

match 45

Quell is an immersive fitness game where players get fit fighting their way through a fantasy world. Our low-cost wearable uses smart resistance bands to guide you through an exciting, effective combat workout at home. We’re Peloton meets gaming at 1/10th of the price

shared extracted concepts: players; shared product terms: re, player, fantasy, game; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

A Thinking Ape

match 45

Proudly recognized as one of CANADA'S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS for 2018! Mission: We build communities. Surrounded by mountains and water in beautiful Vancouver, BC, we are smart people who like smart people. We create mobile games with a social core that engage players and provoke us with creative new problems. We value data, informal leadership and keeping it all balanced. When we set out to make games with massive online communities, we knew that we first had to create the ideal environme

shared extracted concepts: players; shared product terms: game, social, player, out; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Arena

match 42

Arena is the go-to place for sports fans to chat and watch the best moments from live events.

shared extracted concept terms: sport; shared product terms: place, sport, watch, live

Kairos Sports Tech

match 38

A communication tool for professional sports teams, provides feedback to players and offers time savings and efficiencies to staff, admin and coaches

shared extracted concepts: players; shared product terms: sport, player

TheMonetizr

match 36

Monetizr is a marketplace enabling game developers to reward and monetize their players with physical rewards.

shared extracted concepts: players; shared product terms: player, game; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools