We started a movement,
all about movement.

Nex began with a simple but powerful belief: movement should be fun, and something we do every day, together. From the start, our mission has been to use technology to enable active play, getting bodies moving, laughter flowing, and families connecting in delightful new ways.

NBA Partnership

Time Magazine
Invention of the Year

Apple Design
Award Winner

Nex at the NBA Draft Combine, using HomeCourt AI on an iPad to evaluate the skills of future NBA and WNBA athletes.

Lanie Grant is a 6th grader discovered through the HomeCourt app. Now she’s a D1 starting point guard for the UNC Tarheels. Coincidence?

We receive Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company in Sports award.

Playground is named Time Magazine Invention of the Year (again) and Parents Mag Toy of the Year.

The seed for Nex is planted by connecting technology to our passion for being active together (pickup basketball!).

We made sports training more joyful and interactive with HomeCourt, an app for basketball training using AI and motion tracking on iPhone.

We partner with the NBA to bring more accessible tools, training, and confidence to aspiring athletes.

When the pandemic shuts down basketball (and everything else), we help people stay active at home.

We apply our motion tracking technology to fitness—and Active Arcade is born.

We discover active games are even better when they bring families together around the big screen TV.

Our vision is fully realized in Nex Playground, a new kind of platform built for joyful, movement-based play.

We launch Playground at Amazon, Target, Walmart, BestBuy, and Sam’s Club…and sell out for the holidays.

Playground makes moving together a joyful part of every day. And we’re just getting started!

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Our Team
Go behind the
scenes with our
CEO, David.

Want to know more about our team's vision, mission, and values? You can get it directly from our CEO, David Lee, on his blog.

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Pediatric Advisor
We take play
seriously.

Meet Dr. Emily Greenwald, our Chief Pediatric Advisor. Together, we’re making sure the evolution of Nex Playground is rooted in the very best science. Because play isn’t just recreational, it’s foundational to a child's physical, emotional and developmental well-being.

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Playground for Good
We want
everyone to play.

We started Playground for Good because we deeply believe in the transformative power of play. In an effort to bring active fun where it can do the most good, we’re donating Nex Playground to children’s hospitals, local libraries and community centers.

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