Art Chou

Art is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Stadia Ventures. Stadia invests in, mentors, and manages sports tech startups while also acting as an innovation partner for major sports brands, teams, and organizations.

As GM–North America, Art built the team and strategy to establish the first $30M+ in revenue for Rapsodo, Inc., a sports analytics company that uses computer vision and machine learning to help athletes maximize their performance.  Rapsodo technology is used to track pitched and batted balls for all 30 MLB teams and over 90% of NCAA D1 baseball programs.     Rapsodo has also tracked over 50 million golf shots through their SkyTrak, MLM, and MLM2Pro golf launch monitors .

Art’s prior positions include SVP of Product for Rawlings Sporting Goods, President of Pixl Golf, Director of Golf Club R&D at Titleist and Technical Editor for Golf Digest. He holds degrees in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University and teaches classes in Sports Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis.