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FanCode

Indian sports streaming service

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FanCode is an Indian over-the-top sports streaming platform and e-commerce company. It was founded in 2019 by Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan. It is part of the Dream Sports group. It offers interactive live streaming, sports fan merchandise, fantasy sports statistics and analytics, interactive live match scores, live commentary, expert opinions and news to its users on its website and application. In May 2024, FanCode crossed 100 million user base.

01History

The company was founded in 2019 by Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan. Colaco previously worked with NBA India as managing director, while Krishnan was a former executive at sports pay-television broadcasters Sony Pictures Networks and Neo Sports.

In May 2021, Fancode raised $50 million from its parent firm Digital sports' investment arm Dream Sports Investments (DSI). It has three D2C lines that are Fancode live (Sports broadcasting), Fancode Stats (Sports insights).

FanCode acquired streaming rights for the American football league, National Football League in January 2020. It also received streaming rights of the season of I-League in India from Lex Sportel Vision in January 2019. It also had exclusive streaming rights in India of Bundesliga.

02Notable programming

Football

Cricket

Padel

  • Hexagon Cup

Fencing

Racing

Tennis

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