AiRWA (YYAI) Stock Soars 44% on $100M Crypto Pivot – Expert Insights
Company Background and Pivot AiRWA Inc (formerly Connexa Sports) built its name in sports technology. Its flagship was the Slinger Bag – a portable, AI-enhanced tennis ball machine – and it acquired analytics firms like Gameface AI and PlaySight to create a “Watch–Play–Learn” sports-tech ecosystem ts2.tech. Under CEO Mike Ballardie, Connexa integrated AI vision systems and smart sensors to provide real-time coaching feedback (e.g. stroke analysis) to athletes ts2.tech. In Sept 2021 the company paid $24M to acquire Gameface AI, touting sports-AI market growth of ~28.7% per year ts2.tech. These moves signaled a strategy to become a connected sports-technology player.