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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

LeagueApps Passes $1b in Event Revenue, Takes 4%

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Brian Liffback. He's a CEO and co-founder of League App. He's also a member of the board of directors.

0:05.7

Previously, he was part of the founding team at Sports Fight and held various business development roles at CBS Sports, College Sports Television, and the official College Sports Network. He's a board member of the NYC Chapter of Positive Coaching Alliance and is involved in various other sports nonprofits. Brian, you ready to take us to the top?

0:26.4

Yep. Thanks for having me, Nathan. All right. So league apps, you help folks organize youth sports.

0:28.4

How are you doing during a pandemic?

0:35.5

The right question to ask, our business dropped precipitously over a few days in March,

0:39.7

and we had no idea what was to happen. much as we scenario plan the idea of a pandemic coming along and wiping out these sports all across the country

0:45.7

uh was something we had we could have never planned for a one of our investors mentioned what you do

0:51.3

is basically illegal uh in april as we're going back and trying to plan

0:55.4

what our future will look like. Thankfully and luckily, and we are a mission-driven company,

1:02.7

we source sports come back and return to play across communities all over the country,

1:06.9

happen in the spring and the summer and even into the fall. Right now, the demand from

1:13.4

parents and families to have their kids play sports, even as school was uncertain, was pretty

1:20.7

strong throughout the country. So now as there's another kind of restriction in local and state governments around what is allowed.

1:30.4

It's affecting youth sports, but hopefully come spring, people can play in safe, comfortable

1:36.9

environments and get all the joys and benefits of sports.

1:39.6

So you're a pure SaaS company, correct?

1:42.2

Yes.

1:42.7

And you mentioned investors.

1:44.5

So let's start there.

1:45.3

How much have you raised to date?

1:47.2

Yeah, we don't disclose the amount we raised, but we took a more traditional VC Series A round in 2015 and I have to continue to work with those investors.

1:55.5

And when did you launch the company?

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