Todd Deacon

Todd Deacon is a General Partner at Wildcard Ventures and a Managing Director at Techstars, where he leads global sports technology investments for the firm's dedicated venture capital fund. In his leadership capacity at Techstars, he helps direct an institutional investment strategy that executes approximately 500 new seed-stage transactions annually across the global market. Beyond his primary venture capital mandates, Deacon sits on the official commission for the Suncorp Super Netball League, where he also actively advocates for structural equality in professional athletics. He frequently collaborates with prominent sports organizations and industry figures, including Tennis Australia and innovation executive Machar Reid, to identify and evaluate emerging athletic technologies. Deacon maintains a specialized professional focus on funding and scaling early-stage sports technology startup companies while simultaneously advancing equitable commercial opportunities throughout the broader international sports ecosystem.