Who We Are

We’re a diverse team dedicated to making awesome sports games & content!

Our Mission & Careers

Our mission at Champions Round is to elevate fandom with friends through hyper-casual sports games, sports media, content and community. We exist to bring fans closer together with those that matter most via the world’s greatest unifier: Sports!

Interested in working with us? Check available jobs here.

Our People

Carter Russ

Co-Founder & CEO

Chase Payne

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

Jason Gold

Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer

Angel Pang

Chief Design Officer

Jessica Chan

Chief of Staff

Administration

Hannah Hembree

Executive Assistant to CEO

Mike Spitz

Finance

Content & Marketing

Steph Smalls

Head of Content & Community

Kyle Hornacek

Digital Marketing Lead

Matthew Minnis

Content Creator

Engineering

Fatih Ozkul

Senior iOS Engineer

Blake Brandon

iOS Engineer

Roman Kharchenko

iOS Engineer

Leonardo Armelin

Android Lead + iOS Engineer

Felipe Vieira

Android + iOS Engineer

Dhruv Gupta

Android Engineer

Rodolfo Lemes

Head of Backend Engineering

Rafael Costa

Junior Backend Engineering

Leonichel Guimarães

Lead Data Scientist

Lucas Bazzo

Quality Assurance

Marcela Barbosa

Quality Assurance

Design & UI/UX

Lucy Kent

Senior Product Designer

Emily Liao

Junior Designer

Noah Strause

Design Intern

Our Partners

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Champions Round in the News

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A group of investors has poured $7 million into Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw-based fantasy gaming startup Champions Round for its series A funding round."
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Steve Cohen's Point72 Ventures co-led Champions Round's $7 million Series A"
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Champions Round raises $7M for free-to-play fantasy sports games"
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Fantasy sports app Champions Round raises $7M to build new content creator feature."
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Mets Owner Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures Co-Leads $7 Million Series A Round In Fantasy Startup Champions Round."
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Champions Round, A Fantasy Sports Platform Targeting Young Consumers, Raises $3 Million In Seed Funding."
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Champions Round and its hyper-casual sports games have gained so much popularity with Gen-Z fans that the application has risen to #6 in the app store - garnering an audience with a voracious appetite for quick-hit sports games."
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It's a first of its kind parlay game mode that runs alongside a live show airing at 12 pm EST on YouTube and Twitter. During the show Champions Round unveils the 12 props for the day pertaining to sporting events later that night."
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Champions Round is pioneering Micro Fantasy Sports, a new vertical that breaks fantasy sports seasons into 4-6 week rounds, creating greater replayability amongst groups of friends to engage with sports all year long.
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Its fantasy leagues aren't tied to leagues' entire seasons; instead, they're chunked, usually into periods of three to four weeks, and sometimes around just a single, multi-day event like the NFL draft."
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The Champions Round app offers this new game mode dedicated exclusively to the 2020 NFL Draft."
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