Company:StatMuse
 StatMuse logo | |
Type of site | Sports statistics |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Website | statmuse |
StatMuse Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2014. The company maintains its own eponymous website where it hosts a database of sports statistics.
History
Friends Adam Elmore and Eli Dawson founded the company in 2014.[1][2] In email correspondence to the Springfield News-Leader, Elmore detailed that he and Dawson, fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA), were compelled to create StatMuse after they realized there was not a place online they could search "lebron james most points" [sic] and quickly get a result "showing his highest scoring games."[3] As a startup, the company's goal was to utilize a type of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP) for sports.[1]
In 2015, the company was part of the second group of startups accepted into the Disney Accelerator program.[4] The company ultimately received the backing of The Walt Disney Company, Techstars, Allen & Company, the NFL Players Association, Greycroft and NBA Commissioner David Stern.[5] As part of their partnership with Disney, StatMuse signed a content deal with ESPN (owned by Disney) to provide stats content on social media and television during the 2015–16 NBA season.[6]
Initially, the company only had stats available for the NBA, but eventually expanded to provide stats for the other major North American sports leagues.[1] The company's initial demographic was players of fantasy sports, but eventually expanded to target general sports fans as well.[1] StatMuse offers responses to user queries in the voices of sports-related public figures.[2] Dawson shared with VentureBeat that StatMuse brings people in and record them saying different words and phrases.[2] These celebrity voices were made accessible through Google's Google Assistant service, Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant, and Amazon's Echo devices.[7]
The company launched its phone app in September 2017.[5] Through the app, users can query StatMuse's sports statistics database using their own natural language.[8] Upon the launch of the phone app, Fitz Tepper of TechCrunch wrote that: "The technology isn't perfect – some of the pauses between words are a bit awkward – making it clear that some phrases is being stitched together on the fly. But this is the exception, and on the whole most responses sound pretty good."[8] StatMuse plug-ins for Slack and Facebook Messenger were also made, providing text-based sports stats.[7] In 2019, StatMuse received investment from the Google Assistant Investment program.[7]
The service launched a premium option dubbed StatMuse+ in May 2023, offering options that had previously been included for free, such as unlimited searches and full results in data tables.[citation needed] The premium version also included early access to new features and a personalized searched history, as well as not having ads.[9] It was met with mixed feedback.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Green, Will (June 15, 2016). "Meet the Startup That Wants You to See Sports Stats in a Whole New Way". Fortune. https://fortune.com/2016/06/15/startup-sports-stats/. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Colaner, Seth (November 14, 2019). "StatMuse combined its NLP stack with Matthew Berry's fantasy football predictions". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/ai/statmuse-combined-its-nlp-stack-with-matthew-berrys-fantasy-football-predictions/. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
- ↑ Gounley, Thomas (July 10, 2015). "Sports stats startup with local ties selected for Disney accelerator". Springfield News-Leader. https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/business/2015/07/10/sports-stats-startup-local-ties-selected-disney-accelerator/29963871/. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ↑ Tepper, Fitz (July 9, 2015). "Disney's Startup Accelerator Enters Its Sophomore Year With A New Batch Of Companies". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/disneys-startup-accelerator-enters-its-sophomore-year-with-a-new-batch-of-companies/. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fitzpatrick, John (September 7, 2017). "NFLPA Announces Strategic Investment and Partnership with StatMuse". NFLPA. https://nflpa.com/partners/posts/nflpa-announces-strategic-investment-and-partnership-with-statmuse. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (January 27, 2016). "StatMuse Picks Up $10M For Its AI-Based, Graphic Search Engine For Sports Statistics". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/statmuse-picks-up-10m-for-its-ai-based-graphic-search-engine-for-sports-statistics/. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Bastone, Nick (February 14, 2019). "Google invested in a startup with tech that uses the voices of NFL players to answer questions on Google Home devices". Business Insider. Insider Inc.. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-assistant-invests-statmuse-celebrity-athlete-voices-2019-2. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tepper, Fitz (September 7, 2017). "StatMuse lets you ask a sports question and hear a response from an NFL star". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/statmuse-lets-you-ask-a-sports-question-and-hear-a-response-from-an-nfl-star/. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
- ↑ "Sign Up For StatMuse+" (in en). StatMuse. https://www.statmuse.com/signup.
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