Defendant

Maven Bidco Ltd.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2023
Top venue
E.D. Texas Marshall
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. Maven Bidco Limited (Companies House no. 11462078) is a UK private limited company incorporated on 12 July 2018, with its registered office at 1st Floor, 27 Soho Square, London. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Maven Debtco Limited and sits in the corporate chain above Genius Sports Group Limited; the ultimate parent is NYSE-listed Genius Sports Limited (ticker: GENI), the London-headquartered sports-data and technology group. The "Maven" entities (Topco/Midco/Bidco/Debco) were formed in 2018 when Apax Funds-backed investors acquired the business then known as Betgenius, ahead of Genius Sports' 2021 SPAC merger with dMY Technology Group.

Products / services / operations. Maven Bidco itself has no operating business — Companies House classifies it under SIC 74990 as a non-trading company, and Genius Sports' SEC filings describe it as an indirect holding subsidiary (it was also the lender under an executive loan agreement disclosed in Genius' 20-F). The group's actual operations — sports data collection and distribution, odds and trading services, and streaming/media products such as BetVision and LiveData — are conducted by Genius Sports Group and its subsidiaries.

Patent-litigation posture. Maven Bidco is not a patent assertion entity and holds no asserted patent portfolio. In the one tracked case it appears as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), named alongside Genius Sports entities because it is a holding company in the defendant group's ownership chain. The case was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, a venue commonly used by patent plaintiffs.

Notable case. The sole tracked matter is SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd. et al. (filed 5 October 2023, E.D. Tex.). SportsCastr alleged infringement of its video-streaming patents by Genius Sports' live-streaming and betting-integration products and named Maven Bidco and other group holding companies as co-defendants. The case reflects a plaintiff asserting patents against the operating group's streaming technology rather than any claim specific to Maven Bidco's own (non-existent) operations.

Size context. For scale, the Genius Sports group reported roughly US$669 million revenue in FY2025 with about 2,700 employees (per GlobalData/WSJ); Maven Bidco's own filings show it as a micro-entity with no trading activity and no standalone revenue.

SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd. et al.

pending
Docket:
2:23-cv-00471-JRG
Filed:
2023-10-05

SportsCastr alleges infringement by Genius Sports' live-streaming product with betting-data ("Multibet") transmitted over WebSockets. The case was consolidated for pretrial purposes with No. 2:23-cv-00472, which was designated the lead case.