Jordan Fliegel

Jordan Fliegel is CEO of Acquisition Lab, the leading community, platform and investment fund (backed by 130+ investors) in the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) industry, that has helped 500+ Acquisition Entrepreneurs acquire SMBs across the United States. He serves on several Board of Directors including Oyster Enterprises II Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: OYSEU), a $253M SPAC, and is a proud member of the Entrepreneurs Council at the Center for American Entrepreneurship.

Before Acquisition Lab, Fliegel ran eight accelerators from 2019-2024 via Techstars Sports and Techstars NYC, and made 200+ investments since 2013 via his angel fund, Founders First.

Before Techstars, Fliegel was co-CEO of Draft.com, a venture-backed fantasy sports company headquartered in New York. In 2017, he sold DRAFT to Paddy Power Betfair for $48 million. Draft won every Fantasy Sports Trade Association award, including “Fantasy Sports Business of The Year,” “Best Games App,” “Best Draft Room,” and “Best Daily Fantasy Sports Game.”

Before Draft, Fliegel was founder and CEO (now Chairman) of CoachUp, America’s leader in sports coaching, with more than 3,000 active coaches conducting lessons every month across the country. Headquartered in Boston and backed by $14 million in venture capital from firms like General Catalyst and Founder Collective, CoachUp was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies four times and Andreesen Horowitz Top 100 Marketplaces three times. NBA MVP Stephen Curry is Fliegel’s partner and lead spokesman at CoachUp.

Fliegel writes and lecturers on entrepreneurship, investing, and leadership and is the author of “Coaching Up!” (Wiley, 2016, with a foreword by NBA Champion Shane Battier). Fliegel and his co-founders have been named Sports Business Journal “Power Player,” Inc “30 under 30,” Forbes “30 under 30,” BBJ “40 under 40” and a finalist for Ernst & Young “New England Entrepreneur of the Year.” Fliegel earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Government from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University, and played professional basketball in Europe before his business career.