The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers | TechCrunch

Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel founded an independent baseball team called the Oakland Ballers .

Freedman is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits under his belt.

The Oakland B's will be the third professional sports team to leave Oakland in the last five years .

The founders are faced with a new problem: How do you get thousands of lifelong A's fans to care about a glorified minor league team that plays in a renovated Little League park?.

The Oakland Ballers have raised over $1.235 million in an oversubscribed fan-driven funding round.

The Ballers recently partnered with Fan Controlled Sports , an app that allows fans to make real-time decisions about the game like they’re the manager.

Freedman has always wanted to build companies that make the world better.

Freedman is showing fans that they don't have to live by the whims of billionaire sports team owners.

His focus on his mission comes from spending most of his life in Oakland .

Freedman: “I’m generally a tech-forward thinker and think that there’s a lot tech can learn from Oakland .”.