Every team knows a season can turn on one injury. Miami-based OnSport AI is building software to see that injury coming.
The company has raised a pre-seed round to expand its injury-risk detection. It is aiming at professional and college sports first, and then the military.
Reading Movement Before It Breaks
OnSport AI makes patent-pending software that analyzes athlete movement in real time and after games. It looks for biomechanics patterns tied to higher injury risk.
The platform blends computer vision, biomechanics and cognitive modeling. The aim is to catch patterns the human eye misses.
Its users are coaches, sports medicine staff, performance teams and executives. Each group gets data on the physical load placed on athletes.
That framing matters. Teams make availability and training decisions daily, often on instinct and incomplete information.
Injury data reaches beyond the training room. Contracts, rosters and playing time all depend on who is healthy.
A tool that improves those calls can justify its price quickly.
CEO and co-founder Brett Burman knows the cost of guessing. “Nothing derails a season like injuries, and it’s terrifying to make decisions without the right data,” he said.
Burman spent years in basketball, including at the NCAA and NBA levels. He says he would have made better decisions with this kind of platform.
The company says it has agreements with organizations across the NBA, NCAA, international basketball and professional soccer. It is also working toward league-wide enterprise deals tied to digital media and fan engagement.
From the Court to the Field
The more notable move is the military. OnSport AI is adapting its technology for service member health, physical readiness and performance monitoring.
The logic is simple. Movement analysis built for elite athletes can also help people in physically demanding jobs.
The military work focuses on movement-related risks during training and operations. Co-founder Ahmad Ishaq leads from a background in military innovation.
Service members face heavy loads and long days. Spotting a movement problem early could keep people on duty and out of the clinic.
The company frames this as readiness, the same word teams use for availability.
“The same insights that help protect a professional athlete can help protect any worker, whether in the military or the labor sector,” Ishaq said.
That pitch places OnSport AI inside a growing Miami story. MAIN has tracked Miami’s rise as a defense tech hub.
It also covered how Miami defense startup Space-Eyes bought a Navy contractor.
OnSport AI is a different kind of defense-adjacent company. It starts from human performance, not hardware or satellites.
The Team and the Money
The company is headquartered in Miami and keeps a second office in Orange County, California. Burman and Ishaq founded it together.
Burman previously served as general manager of the London Lions and has worked across the NBA G League. Ishaq co-founded StatusPRO, an NFL-licensed virtual reality company.
Adam Petway, Ph.D., a founding member, leads biomechanics research. He was lead biomechanist for the Washington Wizards and the Philadelphia 76ers.
The funding will pay for product development and engineering. It will also go toward biomechanics hires, partnerships across sports and defense-related markets, and stronger machine learning.
The release does not name the investors. Ishaq thanked them for backing a team with domain expertise and experience scaling technology companies.
Pre-seed rounds are early bets. Most of the proof still lies ahead.
The round fits a pattern MAIN has followed in Miami funding. Early checks are going to companies with a clear buyer and a specific problem.
Injury prevention has both. Teams lose games and money when stars sit out.
The test now is evidence. OnSport AI must show that its risk flags change decisions and cut injuries.
If it does, the Miami startup has a market well beyond the arena.
Sources: 1. Pulse 2.0: OnSport AI Raises Pre-Seed Funding To Expand Real-Time Injury Risk Detection For Sports And Military 2. MAIN: Inside Miami’s Rise as a Defense Tech Hub 3. MAIN: Miami Defense Startup Space-Eyes Buys Navy Contractor