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FanCode
Indian sports streaming service

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.

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History

The company was founded in 2019 by Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan.7 Colaco previously worked with NBA India as managing director,8 while Krishnan was a former executive at sports pay-television broadcasters Sony Pictures Networks and Neo Sports.9

In May 2021, Fancode raised $50 million from its parent firm Digital sports' investment arm Dream Sports Investments (DSI). It has 3 D2C lines that are Fancode live (Sports broadcasting), Fancode Stats (Sports insights).10

FanCode acquired streaming rights for the American football league, National Football League in January 2020.11 It also received streaming rights of the season of I-League in India from Lex Sportel Vision in January 2019.121314 It also had exclusive streaming rights in India of Bundesliga.15

Programming

Football

Cricket

Racing

References

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  9. McCullagh, Kevin (21 January 2020). "FanCode acquires NFL streaming rights in India". SportBusiness.com. Archived from the original on 24 June 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023. https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/fancode-acquires-nfl-streaming-rights-in-india/ ↩

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