A year before the club starts play, the LOVB San Francisco ownership group is expanding with notable names from soccer icon Julie Foudy to Warriors coach Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n
LOVB announced the expansion club late last year with a women-led group<\/a> that included Rebel Girls CEO Jes Wolfe, Olympic volleyball medalist Kelsey Robinson Cook and Bay FC co-founders Leslie Osborne, Brandi Chastain and Danielle Slaton.<\/p>\n The club\u2019s announcement includes the addition of more than two dozen new owners, including ESPN journalist Holly Rowe and Fever G Lexie Hull. Kerr\u2019s investment comes along with his family, including daughter Maddy Kerr Hyde, a former UC Berkeley volleyball player.<\/p>\n LOVB declined to share financial details on the deal, but multiple sources told SBJ<\/a>\u2018s Chris Smith that the league has been seeking $20M or more for expansion teams. With a business that spans youth clubs to its pro league, LOVB has proven appealing to investors. <\/p>\n Alexis Ohanian\u2019s Seven Seven Six, David Blitzer\u2019s Bolt Ventures and the owners of the Spurs and Texans have recently bought ownership stakes in LOVB pro clubs.<\/p>\n The newest owners in S.F. span sports, business, culture and media. <\/p>\n Other new members of the ownership group include:<\/p>\n YK Kim, former professional volleyball player and three-time Olympian \u00a0Chelsea Poppens, former professional basketball player \u00a0Rachel Springate and Assia Grazioli Venier of Muse Capital\/ Muse Sport\u00a0Christina Miller, creative and business executive \u00a0Glenn Cole, founder of 72andSunny and Jennifer Cole, education leaderEvin Shutt; global CEO of 72andSunnyLynn Jurich, founder and CEO of The Female Longevity InstituteLeah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit and managing director of Precedent.vc<\/a>Hillary Murphy of the Mirnahill FoundationLeslie Witt, tech executiveCourtney Diesel O\u2019Donnell, tech and social impact leaderHuckleberry \u201cHuck\u201d Holz, MD, investor and eye surgeonCindy Mock, design executive and Patrick Mock, entertainment & hospitality executiveNeha Jogani Narang, tech & innovation executive\u00a0Arlene Villanueva Unverzagt and Aaron Unverzagt, marketing & tech entrepreneursDave Russell, portfolio manager\u00a0Alan Razzaghi and Winnie Tong, food entrepreneurs\u00a0\u00a0Mike Su, entrepreneur\u00a0Kristen Gambetta, sports marketing executive\u00a0Kim Rubey, women\u2019s empowerment advocate and women\u2019s sports investor\u00a0Magdalena \u201cMags\u201d Kala, sports executiveKatie Markov, technology and innovation executive, founderSamantha Hoag, tech operator and investor<\/p>\n LOVB San Francisco will begin play in January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year before the club starts play, the LOVB San Francisco ownership group is expanding with notable names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2454,129,101,103,102,104,106,105,2468,8859],"class_list":{"0":"post-248456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-volleyball","17":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}