The technology vanguard of the Indian sports technology sector is shifting as Amit Sharma, the long-standing chief technology officer of Mumbai-headquartered fantasy sports unicorn Dream Sports, announced his departure after a decade-long tenure to launch his own artificial intelligence startup.
Sharma, who joined the company in 2016 when it was a lean team of 45 employees, oversaw the scaling of the platform into the world’s largest fantasy sports hub with over 150 million users.
The outgoing executive announced his move on a professional networking site, signaling a transition into a stealth startup that will focus heavily on artificial intelligence applications.
During his ten-year stint, Sharma was instrumental in expanding the engineering department from 20 developers to a robust team of 600 technology experts based entirely in Mumbai.
He engineered the backend architecture capable of handling extreme concurrency, which frequently crossed 300 million server requests per minute during major cricket tournaments.
Beyond infrastructure maintenance, Sharma co-founded Dream Play, a sports-focused media asset, and orchestrated deep tech integration involving machine learning to hyper-personalize the digital experiences of Indian gaming consumers.
The move marks another prominent executive transition within the Indian technology landscape as senior leadership increasingly leaves established unicorns to ride the current artificial intelligence wave.
While Sharma has kept specific product details under wraps, his next venture joins a growing segment of early-stage software companies aiming to commercialize generative algorithms and predictive modeling.
Sharma credited the operational growth to team chemistry and expressed gratitude to core company leadership for the runway to experiment across evolving sub-sectors like web3 and big data architecture.
Dream Sports, famously known as the parent entity of the flagship fantasy cricket application Dream11, holds a dominant position in the Indian consumer internet space with an estimated valuation of 8 billion dollars.
The enterprise has historically raised 942 million dollars from marquee international investment firms including Tiger Global Management, DST Global, and Kalaari Capital to expand its multi-brand footprint across ticketing, sports experiential travel, and early-stage venture capital investments.
The conglomerate competes directly with deep-pocketed regional alternatives including Mobile Premier League and Games24x7 in the highly contested skill-gaming market.
