ClutchPoints is a sports media company owned by ClutchPoints, Inc. It was founded by Nish Patel in 2015 and began as a part of the Startup UCLA program. ClutchPoints covers the

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, and

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Corporate affairs and business model

Nish Patel has been ClutchPoints’

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

since he founded the company. Willy He serves as Director of Growth, Dillon Reagan serves as Director of Operations. The company generates revenue through advertising and sales.

History

ClutchPoints was founded by Nish Patel in 2015. As a college sophomore at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

in 2012, Patel first built a Facebook page called ''NBA Memes'' that focused on memes on the NBA. Patel then created various NBA team-specific social media pages. After building up an audience of close to 5 million, Patel began looking for help to grow the company. Patel eventually started Bruin Entrepreneurs, and through StartUp UCLA’s summer accelerator program, he was able to find investors interested in helping him start a company. The app includes the same written content on the website as well as individual game streams with tweets, analysis, play-by-play, and highlights in one feed. In April 2017, ClutchPoints raised $500,000 in

seed money Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' su ...

with

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, ActOne Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures contributing. In February 2018, Baron Davis invested in ClutchPoints. In February 2020, ClutchPoints agreed to a podcasting content partnership with Blue Wire focused on two podcasts, ''Battle for LA'' and ''Establish the Pass''. In July 2020, ClutchPoints released a web series on

Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...

's 2010 NBA championship, ''The Final Ring'', which featured interviews from

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players such as

Derek Fisher Derek Lamar Fisher (born August 9, 1974) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. Fisher played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 18 seasons, spending the majority of his career with the Los ...

Pau Gasol Pau Gasol Sáez (, ; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish former professional basketball player. He was a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. Gasol won two NBA champion ...

, and

Metta Sandiford-Artest Metta Sandiford-Artest (born Ronald William Artest Jr.; November 13, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He was known as Ron Artest before legally changing his name to Metta World Peace in 2011 and later to Metta Sandifor ...

, among others. In March 2021, ClutchPoints invested in and partnered with Players Media Group's subsidiary, PlayersTV, to co-produce original programming through the PlayersTV media network owned by athletes such as Chris Paul,

Damian Lillard Damian Lamonte Ollie Lillard Sr. (born July 15, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats and earned ...

, and

Kyrie Irving Kyrie Andrew Irving (; lkt, Ȟéla, italic=no, ; born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected b ...

. In July 2021, ClutchPoints announced a partnership with GameOn Technology to develop a

Messenger ''MESSENGER'' was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geoche ...

chat application focused on delivering NBA content. In December 2022, ClutchPoints announced a partnership with the National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) to develop content on retired players across the ABA, the NBA, and the WNBA.

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External links

Official Site
American sport websites Internet properties established in 2015 Companies based in Los Angeles