Notes:
1. Grant isn’t 49ers reporter. He reports on the 49ers.
2. Grant is known in locker room as divisive & controversy creating media member. Doesn’t do him favors.
3. Being kind gets you in w players you’re reporting on. Go figure.
4. Being on inside makes those on outside jealous 🤷♂️
Today we're officially live.
Front Office Sports just covered our launch and we’re now letting fans participate in professional athletes' careers through regulated offerings.
The sports industry has spent years monetizing fans through betting apps, prediction markets, and daily fantasy. 95-97% of sports bettors lose money. 84% of Polymarket traders are in the red. $17 billion was extracted from American consumers by sportsbooks in 2025 alone.
Agentiq is the opposite of that without a house edge and a real economic interest in the athletes you believe in.
Our roster is anchored by Justin Martinez, a 25-year-old flamethrowing closer of the Diamondbacks, Hunter Dobbins, the Cardinals up-and-coming starting pitcher and Esmerlyn Valdez, the 22-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder who has emerged as one of the most electric rookies in the MLB this season.
Backed by a $4M seed round led by https://t.co/HIDPmooRMl and a group of industry heavy hitters who own two major European football clubs.
We're just getting started.
As @FOS might say, "here we go again with another startup trying this". But this time your money goes further. We're tired of fans being left out of the sports economy and we want to change that for you.
Cat is out the bag. Front Office Sports just ran us on the front page and we’re now letting fans participate in professional athletes' careers through regulated offerings.
I remember arguing about this idea in college 10 years ago, why doesn’t this exist already? I felt like I was ahead of the curve evaluating players across all sports but struggled to monetize that knowledge.
Today it's real, the platform is live, we've closed our seed round and we've signed 5 baseball players (Justin Martinez, Hunter Dobbins, Esmerlyn Valdez and more)
We started @AgentiqSports because we want fans to be involved in sports on a deeper level than ever before. As sports valuations skyrocket and the sports economy booms, fans deserve to participate in that growth. With Agentiq, fans can purchase a unit of their favorite player's future earnings
If you're tired of the sports betting model where the house always wins and fans always lose, so are we, and this is why we’re building Agentiq Sports
Thank you to our investors, our team and all of our earliest believers for being on this journey with us; this is just the beginning!
TRENDING: Video of every Jaxon Smith-Njigba vs. Deommodore Lenoir matchup from this week’s game has gone viral.
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What do you notice…?
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Robert Saleh isn’t just helping the #49ers defense — he’s helping the Head Coach.
🗣️Saleh: “Being the head coach is lonely.”
Saleh makes it a point to check in on Kyle Shanahan during the week, especially when challenges pile up, like injuries.
Saleh: “I try not to be too invasive but just being a helping hand when he needs me. I can kind of feel when he feels like he has the world on his shoulders, where he’s got the entire organization on his back and he just kind of needs a buddy to hang out with at lunch.”
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The #49ers and QB Brock Purdy agreed to terms on a five-year, $265 million contract extension, per @TomPelissero
Purdy gets $181M in total guarantees, including $165.05M in the first three new years of a deal that runs through 2030.