AthleteIQ Ventures
AthleteIQ Ventures aiqvc.com
FUND I ESTABLISHED 2026 THE FILM ROOM →
Sports Technology Fund · Pre-Seed & Seed · U.S.

Backing the technology behind
human performance.

AthleteIQ Ventures invests in early-stage companies building the future of human performance, sports infrastructure, and sports commerce. We believe elite athletes and teams serve as the proving ground for technologies that later scale into mainstream consumer and enterprise markets.

Through direct access to athletes, leagues, operators, and performance environments, AthleteIQ helps founders validate, refine, and accelerate category-defining products earlier than traditional investors.

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Adrian Phillips
Founder & General Partner
  • UDFA
    Texas · 2014
  • 10
    NFL Seasons
  • Pro Bowl
    Selection
  • All-Pro
    AP First Team
TEXAS CHARGERS PATRIOTS
The Operator

Performance, lived.

Adrian Phillips is an investor who spent ten years in the NFL. He went undrafted out of Texas in 2014. The math on undrafted rookies making a roster is unforgiving. The math on a 10-year career is worse. Adrian played ten anyway, earning All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors with the Chargers and Patriots.

His career got built one rep at a time, on self-belief and an unrelenting desire to do the work others wouldn't.

The work he does as an investor draws on the same instincts that built his football career. He looks at early-stage companies with the same level of preparation, pattern recognition, and willingness to back his own read against the consensus.

The bar is the same one he set as an undrafted free agent who walked off the field an All-Pro: outwork, outlast, and deliver.

AthleteIQ is the institutional version of that work. A focused, network-driven sports tech fund built around an edge most VCs cannot replicate. We activate a decade of relationships across locker rooms, training facilities, front offices, agencies, and brand partners to back founders the rest of the market hasn't found yet.