‘It’s been a wild 15 months’: Collingwood grad founded tech firm that allows fans to cheer from home – Pretty River Academy alum Elias Andersen founded HearMeCheer
[Please note: this interview with HearMeCheer founder and CEO Elias Andersen appeared in the Collingwood Connection newspaper in suburban Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Friday, June 4, 2021.] By John Edwards / Collingwood Connection / Friday, June 4, 2021 In March 2020, Elias Andersen was in Arizona pitching a product to Major League Baseball teams. He had created […]
Social Audio Startup HearMeCheer Recreates Stadium Sounds From User Voices for Wolverhampton Premier League Games
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 21, 2021 at 1:00 pm Social audio startup HearMeCheer will give Wolverhampton Wanderer fans a feeling of being back at the soccer stadium discussing the game with friends this weekend. The Premier League team and HearMeCheer are setting up official rooms on the Wolverhampton’s app or onlinefor fans to converse […]
HearMeCheer Among Finalists for 2020 SportTechie Awards
HearMeCheer, the innovative and timely audio broadcast app that collects live fan noise and streams it into live sports events and broadcasts, was named among the finalists for the 2020 SportTechie Awards. According to SportTechie, “To close out 2020, we’ve selected 50 nominees across nine categories. In a year when nothing has been close to approaching normal, each […]
Pandemic pivot: Executives start new businesses
Elias Andersen, a 20-year-old tech entrepreneur, was in Arizona pushing his ChampTrax player tracking/analytics technology to Cactus League teams when the NBA pulled the plug on its season in March. Before his four-hour return flight to Toronto landed, he’d formulated the rudiments of a business plan that was perfect during the most imperfect of times: […]