We-Sport
We-Sport is a vertical social network that connects athletes and sport professional profile. Founded in 2009 as a spin-off at Motor Science Research Center of SUISM of University of Turin. It is a network that allow to organize meetings and training sessions of several sports (there are more that 400 sports registered), to share photos and videos and to find sport facilities.
History
We-Sport was created in May 2009 in Turin by Marco Ivaldi, Marco Iacuaniello and Aurelian Vacariuc. It is permanently available in beta version from November 2009 and in normal version from July 2011. In June 2012 We-Sport has been included in the dossier for candidature of Turin 2015 as European Capital of Sport and it also available on the City of Turin website. From November 2013 is available an app for Android devices. We-Sport has been financed by Parmalat through the project Milk&Smile in 2010, in the 2013 and in the 2014 through a project of sport advices.
We-Sport has won several awards and it has also analyzed by studies of social network analysis.
Awards
- 3rd place adward "ASI IL GIOCO DEL LOTTO – Sport&Cultura" (September 2014)
- Adward winner “Etica e Sport” at 3rd edition “Rinaldo Bontempi e Maurizio Laudi” (December 2012)
- Finalist project at Italian Ventures forum (November, 2011)
- Finalist project at Faber Meeting 2011 (November, 2011)
- Award winner “Startupbusiness” at SMAU 2011 Innovation Project (October, 2011)
- Semi-finalist project at Eurecan European Venture Contest (November, 2010)
- Finalist project at Mind The Bridge Venture Camp (November, 2010)
- Winner project at Torino Internazionale (March, 2010)
- Winner project at I3P for tutoring and business plan construction (January, 2010)
- Winner project at I Realize Start-Up Hack (November, 2009)
- Winner project at the Management Game in the International Contest for Innovative Sports Management, Amsterdam (September 12–16, 2009)