Menlo Park, California, and Tokyo, Japan (April XX, 2025) – Kitman Labs, the global enterprise SaaS company delivering the only fully centralized operating system for performance intelligence in elite sport, today announced a partnership with Biwako Seikei Sport College, one of Japan’s leading institutions for athletic development and education.
The university will deploy Kitman Labs’ Performance Medicine and Performance Optimization Solutions within iP: Intelligence Platform across multiple sports teams, with a particular focus on football and basketball, where its teams compete in the Kansai Student League and the Kansai Student Championship Tournament, among others.
By unifying all performance, medical, and training data into a single operating system, practitioners, coaches, and students will gain real-time access to shared intelligence—enhancing collaboration, improving communication, and enabling data-informed decision-making. The platform will also serve as a university-wide sports management system and learning tool, providing students with hands-on experience in data-driven athletic development, preparing them for professional careers in sport.
“The integration of Kitman Labs’ Intelligence Platform represents a significant step forward for our university. By centralising all performance and medical data into a single system, we can ensure that our athletes receive the highest level of care and preparation. At the same time, our students will have access to cutting-edge sports technology, equipping them with the skills and knowledge required for a career in elite sport,” said Yoshiyuki Mano, Head of School at Biwako Seikei Sport College.
Biwako Seikei Sport College becomes Kitman Labs’ second university partner in Japan, following the launch of the Intelligence Platform at Teikyo University earlier this year.
“We are honoured to partner with Biwako Seikei Sport College, a university known for its commitment to sporting excellence and innovation,” said Stephen Smith, CEO and Founder of Kitman Labs. “The implementation of the Intelligence Platform will transform the university’s existing systems into a state-of-the-art data and analytics platform—one that not only unifies all sports divisions but also empowers practitioners, coaches, and students with the insights needed to enhance student athlete health, training, and performance.”
Kitman Labs has an established track record of working with over 2000+ governing bodies, leagues and teams in 26 countries across a variety of sports, including soccer/global football, basketball, rugby, and American football. The company’s technology has been used by leagues and teams in some of the world’s most elite sports organizations and universities including the NFL, NBA, NWSL, MLS, Premier League and NCAA.
iP: Intelligence Platform represents the industry’s largest dataset of talent, performance, and medical data for all stages of the athlete lifecycle.
For more information on Kitman Labs, visit www.kitmanlabs.com.
About Kitman Labs:
Kitman Labs is the world’s leading sports science and performance intelligence company. Kitman Labs powers iP: Intelligence Platform, the advanced operating system used by the largest and most innovative leagues, teams and regulatory bodies in elite Sport and Defense. Our software solutions – Performance Medicine, Performance Optimization, Coaching & Development and League Operations – have been designed to optimize human performance; enhance overall health, wellness and longevity; reduce injury risk; and drive operational efficiencies and value. Kitman Labs is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Dublin.
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Biwako Seikei Sport:
Sports Management Division
Phone: +81 (77)-596-8446
sen@bss.ac.jp
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