Catapult
Wearable GPS tracking and athlete analytics for 4,600+ elite teams worldwide.
About
Catapult is the Melbourne-born sports analytics company founded in 2006 from a research partnership between the Australian Institute of Sport and the Cooperative Research Centres, built to measure athlete performance ahead of the Athens Olympics. It listed on the ASX in 2014 and now reports more than 4,600 elite teams as clients across 128 countries and 40 sports, with CEO Will Lopes saying nearly every NFL team uses the platform.
The core is GPS wearable tracking (distance, training load, acceleration, heart rate) fed into analytics and athlete-management software for performance optimization, injury-risk reduction, and return-to-play decisions. Catapult has expanded through acquisitions: SBG Sports Software (video analytics), Perch (AI 3D-camera weight-room tracking from MIT), and Impect (soccer scouting data). The company is enterprise-sales led and quote-priced, aimed at professional and collegiate performance staff rather than casual users.
What it can do
- GPS wearable athlete tracking
- Training load and fatigue monitoring
- Video-synced performance analysis
- Injury-risk and return-to-play workflows
- Sport-specific algorithm library
Setup
Contact Catapult sales for a demo; hardware is provisioned with the analytics platform.
Prerequisites
Enterprise engagement with Catapult; hardware + software subscription.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 4,600+ elite teams across 128 countries and 40 sports (provider-claimed); ASX-listed since 2014; Founded 2006 from Australian Institute of Sport / Cooperative Research Centres partnership; Acquisitions: SBG Sports Software (video), Perch (MIT AI weight-room tracking), Impect ($91M soccer scouting data). Manual review: enterprise-sales led; wearables category inventor, not a consumer product. License: Proprietary hardware + SaaS; enterprise quote-based pricing..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 10.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · 4,600+ elite teams across 128 countries and 40 sports (provider-claimed); ASX-listed since 2014
- · Founded 2006 from Australian Institute of Sport / Cooperative Research Centres partnership
- · Acquisitions: SBG Sports Software (video), Perch (MIT AI weight-room tracking), Impect ($91M soccer scouting data)
- · manual review: enterprise-sales led; wearables category inventor, not a consumer product
Sources
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