Alexander Kane is the founder and CEO of Sporttrade. Sporttrade is a Philadelphia-based sports betting and trading company that has disrupted the sports betting industry with the first legal sports betting exchange.
This exchange approach is like a financial exchange, enabling customers to trade on sports outcomes by buying and selling contracts, just like trading stocks.
Alex has been featured in top industry publications including EGR and Business of Betting, and has written about the US legal landscape in Bloomberg.
In 2019, Alex secured seed and Series A funding for Sporttrade and led the Company through the 2019 Comcast NBCU Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
Prior to his work with Sporttrade, Alex founded a golf consultancy group that was innovative in its use of advanced analytics and interactive visualizations to allow golfers to assess their performance.
Alex graduated from Drexel University in 2016 where he received a degree in business administration and was a member of the Drexel golf team.