Strategic Partnership & Acquisition
The Infrastructure Behind
the World’s Biggest Event
HWC 2026 Club is not a fan website. It is the only independently built, AI-optimized, transactional fan experience platform for FIFA World Cup 2026 in Houston — and the operating system for every mega-event that follows.
The Opportunity
7 matches · 500,000 visitors
purchasing FIFA tickets
spend per trip · 12 days
2026 — same playbook, 16x
The Platform
We Operate Where On Location Doesn’t
On Location (TKO Group Holdings) is the official exclusive hospitality provider inside FIFA stadiums. They sell ticket-inclusive packages to premium fans already in seats.
We own what happens before the match, after the match, on off-days, and in the city. Food tours, watch parties, day trips, cultural immersion, wellness, nightlife — curated, booked, and delivered through structured pass products with live Stripe commerce.
On Location has no city-level experience product. Curated Houston fills that exact white space — and every international fan who books with us represents a first-party data profile that On Location, Fever, GetYourGuide, and every FIFA sponsor cannot access anywhere else.
This is not a local business. This is a platform.
The same operating system — pass tiers, AEO content, WhatsApp community mechanics, Stripe commerce, fan data architecture — deploys to Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, and all 16 host cities in weeks, not months.
The Data Asset
First-Party International Traveler Data.
The Most Valuable Uncaptured Segment in Sports.
Every transaction on this platform creates a first-party profile: name, country of origin, team affiliation, hotel location, spend patterns, dietary preferences, activity preferences. 500,000 visitors from 212 countries — captured at the point of purchase.
Compare: Airbnb Experiences. GetYourGuide (75,000 experiences, $2B valuation). Fever ($724M revenue, $1.956B valuation). None have a World Cup–specific, sports-tourism–optimized data layer. This platform does.
The AI Moat
When a Fan From Germany Asks ChatGPT
“What Do I Do in Houston?” — We Are the Answer.
ChatGPT processes 700 million weekly queries. Google AI Overviews appear in 50% of all US searches. When those engines are asked about World Cup fan experiences in Houston, every current source being cited is editorial — no commerce, no conversion, no data capture.
HWC 2026 Club is the only transactional platform optimized for AI citation. Fans read the AI answer, see structured experience data — price, booking link, pass tier — and convert without ever visiting a search results page.
The window is closing. AI models are being trained now on what sources to cite. A platform that owns the citation in Houston owns it for the duration of the event — and displacing that authority takes competitors 12–18 months of content to challenge.
The same AEO infrastructure deploys across all 16 host cities.
First mover in Houston → Dallas → Miami → Los Angeles → Seattle. One platform owns the AI answer for World Cup fan experiences in every city. That is the content moat that Fever, GetYourGuide, and On Location cannot build before June 14.
The Pipeline
Houston Is Match One.
This Infrastructure Runs for a Decade.
Conservative model: capturing 1–2% of economic activity as platform revenue across all 16 World Cup 2026 cities = $100–300M from this tournament alone. At 5–7x revenue, that is the $2B conversation.
Comparable Exits
The Market Has Already Priced This Space.
| Company | Event / Acquirer | Price / Valuation | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Location | Endeavor acquisition (2020) | $660M | ~5–7x est. |
| On Location + IMG + PBR | TKO Group Holdings (2025) | $3.25B | Portfolio |
| Legends Global | Sixth Street Partners (2021) | $1.35B | ~1.35x on $1B rev |
| Fever | Last private round (2023) | $1.956B | 2.7x on $724M rev |
| GetYourGuide | Last funding round (2023) | $2B | 2–3x revenue |
| Sports services deals | Total M&A market 2024 | $31.64B | 4x vs 2023 |
Platform businesses in sports/travel experiences trade at 2–7x revenue. A PE roll-up thesis (Houston → all 16 WC cities + 2028 Olympics + 2030 WC) justifies 8–12x EBITDA or 5–8x revenue at exit to a strategic.
Ideal Partners
This Call Is For You If…
You own the inside of every FIFA stadium. We own the outside. Together you have the complete premium fan experience from arrival to final whistle — and the first-party data to match. The white space in your portfolio has a name.
You’re the largest local experience platforms on earth — and you have zero World Cup–specific product, zero sports-tourism data layer, zero Houston presence. The acquisition closes a gap your competitors will exploit in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
The roll-up thesis is written. Buy Houston. Deploy to Dallas, Miami, LA, Seattle by August 2026. Own the 2028 LA Olympics platform before a single competitor knows what you’re building. Sports services deals hit $31.64B in 2024 — 4x year over year.
The Netherlands is Houston’s #1 trading partner. Germany is #6. The World Cup is not a tourist event — it’s the global business community of Houston’s most important economic relationships walking through our city for three weeks. Be in the room.
85 Days to the First Match.
The window for first-mover positioning closes when the tournament starts. Strategic conversations that begin now shape where this platform goes after June 14.
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