Sports infrastructure was built for an
audience that no longer exists.
But that still wasn't enough.
Sports fans don't want to just watch anymore.
So fans turned to gambling instead.
And things spiraled out of control
quicker than expected.
The market didn't prove
demand for gambling.
It proved demand
for participation.
You have millions of fans watching at home and no ubiquitous behavior for what they could be doing.
The next billion-dollar tech company won't be built on gambling.
It will be built on participation.
Not a betting app.
Not a prediction market.
The first participation layer for live sports.
JUMBO turns every game into a live, playable surface — where fans play in real time, compete against the crowd, and earn rewards for being right. powered by PlayJumbo’s proprietary AI engine
Chase everything in a betting app without the financial risk.
So how does it work?
Fan sees a post from Puka Nacua on X: "I'm watching the world cup game tonight. I'll see you on @playjumbo."
The fan downloads the app, logs in and is dropped into the USA vs Bosnia World Cup Game.
During commercials and game breaks, the fan plays a series of minigames and competes against other fans at home watching the same event.
The fan sees on the leaderboard that he's done well enough to redeem his jumbo points for a cash prize and collects other sponsored giveaways.
Play Jumbo exists to transform the viewer experience.
While Prediction Markets and betting apps focus on generating questions, Play Jumbo focuses on detecting moments and letting fans participate in real time.
The new medium for
advertising to fans.
JUMBO transforms every live sporting event into a continuous series of fun, familiar, and instantly rewarding interactions.
A market hiding
in plain sight.
The Attention Economy is ending.
The Participation Economy is beginning.
Live sports are becoming more valuable, not less.
- Live sports remain one of the few experiences people consistently watch in real time.
- Media rights continue to reach record highs.
- Advertisers pay premium CPMs because live audiences are increasingly scarce.
THE MOMENT IS NOW.
Sports betting has normalized sports gaming, creating new habits for states hungry for revenue.
Fans are already multi-tasking. JUMBO captures that attention instead of losing it to TikTok.
Sports content up 40% and Viewership down -15%. These app experiences have become bigger than the game itself.
Jumbo's path to $1B
- • Purely Advertising Revenue
- • Advertising Revenue Improves
- • Live Events
- • Invites from Teams & Leagues
- • Advertising and Sponsorships
- • Fan Engagement Data sold to Partners
- • Jumbo is played live at every professional and D1 sporting event
- —The PlayJumbo app sits as a "first screen" app for millions of sports fans nationwide.
Users first, revenue follows quickly
$400K raised on a $5M pre-money valuation.
With world-class angel investors.
We don’t know the size of our next round. We’re focused on real users first — because users, not slides, set the next valuation.
The Goal: Users first. Valuation follows.
Executing on four priorities.
Build a world-class engineering team to complete the participation engine, game creation tools, AI-powered admin platform, and scalable infrastructure.
Refine the fan experience, ship a polished iOS product, iterate quickly from beta feedback, and create the foundation for long-term engagement.
Producing content, understanding what works, learning from every interaction and refining our strategy with dozens of AI agents helping us build the foundation of our Fan Intelligence brain.
Secure launch partners, sponsor-backed rewards, and prove that brands want to participate alongside fans—not interrupt them.
Three possible outcomes over the next 24 months.
- • Successful football launch
- • 100K+ registered users
- • Strong retention during live games
- • Initial advertising partnerships
- • Repeatable playbook for every major sport
- • 500K+ registered users
- • National advertising partners
- • Creator and influencer integrations
- • Millions of predictions answered
- • First meaningful sponsorship revenue
- • Millions of sports fans playing every week
- • Every major sporting event becomes interactive
- • Brands launch campaigns inside live games
- • Broadcasters and leagues integrate Jumbo experiences
- • Largest dataset ever built around fan anticipation
Everyone has a prediction market. Why wouldn't they just build a Jumbo experience?
Because they can't afford to untie their business model from gambling. Jumbo becomes the destination for every fan to participate.
Our moat isn't prediction markets—it's real time participation. Every game makes Jumbo smarter, creating the world's largest dataset on fan anticipation.
Jumbo is the future of sports fandom.
*Our team plans, with the help of our AI-engine, to onboard tens of thousands of users into the platform and have PlayJumbo users participating at every D1 football and NFL event during our beta launch.
Jumbo is where millions of fans will play in real time to play, compete and participate with sports like never before.