Our co-founders bring deep software engineering and betting-market experience. Dick and Ryan bring sports media leadership to refine the products and scale partnerships. Most importantly, we are all huge sports fans at heart.
Tejas is a Duke University graduate and previously worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he focused on building large-scale AI tools, including LLM integrations. A lifelong sports fan (Chargers and Padres) and skilled bettor, Tejas brings AI-driven product thinking to Blitz, helping make our natural language engine both fast and intuitive.
Devon is a Duke University graduate and former Software Engineer at Amazon. A sharp and analytical sports bettor and Jets and Warriors fan, Devon brings deep expertise in statistical modeling and the betting industry. His background powers the robust engine behind Blitz, ensuring users get fast and accurate answers to even the most complex sports questions.
Dick has spent decades building category-defining sports and digital media businesses at ESPN, Disney, and NASCAR, and as founding CEO of Funny or Die and Sportico. As Executive Chairman he scales partnerships across media and broadcast and helps embed Blitz into live production and distribution workflows.
Ryan advises Blitz on integrating our tools into live MLB production workflows. He played outfield for the Colorado Rockies from 2005 through 2011, including the 2007 NL pennant team, and now broadcasts for Rockies.TV, Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, and MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM. He co-founded Future Legends Sports Complex in Windsor, Colorado.
Blitz was founded by professional sports bettors who lived the pain firsthand. To validate whether a trend actually hit historically, they were spending hours on manual research and coding, cross-referencing results across multiple data sources.
Every insight took hours of manual research and coding. There was no way to scale it, one question at a time.
So they built Blitz: a purpose-built sports data infrastructure with an agentic AI layer on top. An engine that can understand any sports or betting question in natural language, validate results against historical data, and deliver verified answers instantly.
Advanced sports data keeps exploding, but most of it never surfaces in a form you can query, trust, or ship on air in real time. Our mission is to close that gap so teams can get what they need from the full stack when it matters.