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§ Private Profile · Dublin, Dublin D4, IE
Output Sports is a technology company.
Output Sports delivers an integrated platform for comprehensive athletic testing, training, and programming. Its core offering features a portable sensor system designed to accurately measure and track over 200 exercises, encompassing various metrics such as strength, power, jumps, and movement. This technology provides objective data for velocity-based training and overall performance analysis, streamlining the process for sports professionals.
The company was co-founded in 2018 by Dr. Martin O'Reilly, Dr. Darragh Whelan, Julian Eberle, and Professor Brian Caulfield. Emerging as a spin-out from University College Dublin’s School of Public Health, Physiotherapy, and Sports Science, their foundational insight centered on creating a scientifically validated, lab-grade motion sensor capable of capturing extensive athletic data efficiently in diverse environments. Their academic background provided the expertise to bridge research and practical application.
Output Sports primarily serves strength coaches, rehabilitation specialists, and athletic organizations, including prominent collegiate sports programs. The company’s vision is to enhance athletic development and optimize training efficacy through accessible, precise data collection and analysis. It empowers professionals with actionable insights to inform training decisions and ultimately improve athlete performance.
Output Sports has raised $9.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Output Sports has raised $9.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Output Sports is a sports technology company that provides an all-in-one platform for testing, training, and tracking athlete performance using a single wearable sensor. It serves strength and conditioning coaches, sport scientists, rehab professionals, and organizations across professional sports, colleges, high schools, and performance facilities, solving the problem of fragmented tools by delivering data-driven insights on strength, power, movement, velocity-based training (VBT), and readiness metrics in one efficient system.[1][2][5][6] The platform enables objective measurement, real-time feedback, and programming to optimize performance, reduce injury risk, and support rehabilitation, with strong growth including $8.27M raised (latest $4.64M round four months ago), over 800 sports organizations as customers (including half of English Premier League clubs), 30 million global measurements in 2024, and usage by elite teams like New Zealand All Blacks, England's national soccer team, and Olympic medalists.[1][2][3]
Output Sports emerged as a spin-out from University College Dublin (UCD) in 2018, founded by Dr. Martin O’Reilly (CEO), Dr. Darragh Whelan, Julian Eberle, and Prof. Brian Caulfield, building on 10 years of academic research in sports science.[1][2][4] The idea stemmed from simplifying elite-level sports science for broader scalability, addressing pain points in data capture and analysis for coaches and athletes.[4][5] Early traction came from validating the single-sensor technology for metrics like VBT, reactive strength index (RSI), and mobility, leading to adoption by top teams and pivotal roles in 2024 Olympic successes, such as Ireland's Daniel Wiffen gold in swimming and China's Zheng Qinwen tennis gold.[2]
Output Sports rides the surge in sports tech for data-driven human performance, fueled by wearables and AI analytics in a $30B+ market growing with pro leagues' off-field optimization demands.[1][2][4] Timing aligns with post-pandemic emphasis on injury prevention, return-to-play protocols, and personalized training amid talent shortages, amplified by 2024 Olympic integrations and US expansion.[2] Market forces like EPL/NFL adoption (over half EPL clubs) and partnerships (e.g., Teamworks Human Performance Summit) favor its low-cost, high-versatility edge over competitors like Kitman Labs (broader suites) or BreakAway Data (data aggregation), positioning it to influence scalable sports science from elite to grassroots.[1][4]
Output Sports is poised for US market dominance and global scale, targeting 100 million assessments with deepened tech (e.g., advanced analytics) and team growth post-latest funding.[2] Trends like AI-enhanced readiness, biopsychosocial integration, and pro-am pipelines will propel it, evolving from sensor pioneer to ecosystem hub via integrations and championship impacts.[1][2][5] As sports orgs prioritize quantifiable gym competition, Output's efficiency cements its role in redefining performance edges, building on its UCD roots to empower data-backed decisions worldwide.
Output Sports has raised $9.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Output Sports's investors include Atlantic Bridge, DreamIt Ventures, Elkstone.
Output Sports has raised $9.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $5.0M Seed in January 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2025 | $5M Seed | — | Atlantic Bridge, Dreamit Ventures, Elkstone | Announced |
| Nov 1, 2023 | $3M Seed | — | Atlantic Bridge, Dreamit Ventures, Elkstone | Announced |
| Mar 1, 2020 | $1M Seed | — | Atlantic Bridge, Dreamit Ventures, Elkstone | Announced |