Fansure Inc., a sports technology company based in Silicon Valley, California that provides analytics-based solutions and insights for sports betting and media stakeholders, has announced the addition of Tom Haberstroh to its advisory team.
“As someone who is already known for his data-driven approach to covering the NBA, Haberstroh is a tremendous addition to our team” said Fansure’s Founder and CEO Vijay Shravah. “Tom has earned the utmost respect of his peers in the NBA at the league, team, and media levels. His data-driven approach to his body of work is a perfect fit for us.”
“I’m very excited to join Fansure,” said Haberstroh. “Their team does a great job of applying their technical expertise to various applications in sports and I’m excited to help them grow further.”
Haberstroh will be an official advisor for Fansure, joining other high-pedigree figures on its advisory board such as Amin Elhassan and Marcellus Wiley. He will help the team in a business development capacity.
About Fansure
Fansure is an early stage sports analytics company that specializes in player and team-level insights, focusing on providing contextually-relevant sports data and technology solutions to sports betting stakeholders. The company specializes in B2B content automation tools for media platforms (e.g., publishers, affiliates, data providers) to help optimize their top-of-funnel strategy. Existing products include player prop insights, which will be featured on Sportradar’s betting insights platform around January 2021. To learn more, visit: https://fansure.com
About Tom Haberstroh
Tom Haberstroh is an award-winning journalist who has covered the NBA for over a decade, specializing in analytics, sports science and player health. Haberstroh began his career at ESPN where he worked for 8 years as a data-driven staff writer for ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider and ESPN.com, making regular TV appearances on SportsCenter, Outside the Lines and The Jump with Rachel Nichols. In 2017, he joined Bleacher Report and B/R Mag where he won an APSE award for feature writing on the NBA. For the last two years, he served as NBC Sports’ national NBA Insider on TV and digital programming. He is the host of The Habershow NBA podcast as well as co-founder of the Count The Dings podcast network.
After six years in Miami Beach, Tom currently lives in Charlotte with his wife, two daughters and their dog Cooper. In 2017, he launched the #ALSPepperChallenge which has raised over $650,000 for ALS research in honor of his mother and is currently a committee member of I AM ALS’ committee to bring a national Lou Gehrig Day to Major League Baseball.