FanIQ is raising $1.2M in seed capital to fund 24 months of disciplined execution at an annual burn of approximately $550,000. This round is designed to harden the core platform, build a highly engaged flagship community of New York Knicks fans, validate the fan intelligence and behavioral data model, and establish the foundation for scalable monetization. The operating model is intentionally lean, relying on contracted engineering, focused community acquisition, controlled infrastructure costs, and minimal overhead to maximize capital efficiency.

FanIQ launches with one of the most passionate fan bases in professional sports: the New York Knicks. Through a continuous stream of structured micropolls, the platform captures fan sentiment, tracks consensus formation, measures prediction accuracy, and reveals how opinions evolve in response to games, trades, injuries, and major news events. The result is a unique behavioral dataset that helps fans understand where they stand relative to the community while creating a real-time intelligence layer around sports fandom.

While the Knicks community serves as the initial launch market, FanIQ is being built as a white-label platform capable of powering fan intelligence communities across the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL. The model is designed to scale through partnerships with team-focused podcasts, independent sports media companies, creators, newsletters, and fan communities that already command highly engaged audiences.

Within this runway, we aim to build a community of 25,000–50,000 highly engaged fans, demonstrate recurring participation and retention, validate the value of fan sentiment and prediction data, and generate early recurring revenue through sponsorships, media partnerships, premium products, and data-driven fan engagement opportunities. This seed round is structured to move the company from product validation to monetization proof while establishing a repeatable growth engine that can be deployed across hundreds of team communities.

Our long-term vision is to become the fan intelligence layer for sports. By transforming millions of fan opinions into structured sentiment, consensus, and behavioral signals, FanIQ creates value for fans, media companies, brands, teams, and commerce platforms alike. Success with the Knicks provides a blueprint for expansion across every major sports league and positions the company to become a foundational platform within the sports ecosystem.

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