NYSE: RSI
Rush Street Interactive, Inc.CIK 0001793659 · Misc Amusement & Recreation
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About Rush Street Interactive, Inc.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed February 18, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Unless the context requires otherwise, each of the terms the “Company,” “Rush Street Interactive,” “RSI,” “we,” “our,” “us” and similar terms used herein refer collectively to Rush Street Interactive, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Overview
We are a leading online gaming and entertainment company that focuses primarily on online casino and online sports betting in the U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets. Our mission is to engage and delight players by delivering friendly, fun and fair betting experiences. In furtherance of this mission, we strive to create an online community for our customers where we are transparent and honest, treat our customers fairly, show them that we value their time and loyalty, and listen to feedback. We also endeavor to implement industry leading responsible gaming practices and provide our customers with a cutting-edge online gaming platform and exciting, personalized offerings that will enhance their user experience.
We provide our customers with an array of leading gaming offerings such as real-money online casino, online sports betting and retail sports betting (i.e., sports betting services provided at bricks-and-mortar locations), as well as social gaming, which involves free-to-play games that use virtual credits that users can earn or purchase (where permitted). We launched our first social gaming website in 2015 and began accepting real-money bets in the United States in 2016. Currently, we offer real-money online casino, online sports betting and/or retail sports betting in 16 U.S. states and four international markets, as outlined in the table below.
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Our real-money online casino and online sports betting offerings are generally provided under our BetRivers and PlaySugarHouse brands in the United States and Canada and under our RushBet brand in Latin America (which includes
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Mexico). We operate and/or support retail sports betting for our bricks-and-mortar partners primarily under their respective brands. Many of our social gaming offerings are marketed under our partners’ brands, although we offer social gaming under our own brands as well. Our decision about what brand or brands to use is market- and partner-specific, and is based on brand awareness, market research, marketing efficiency and applicable gaming rules and regulations.
Corporate History
We were initially incorporated as dMY Technology Group, Inc. (“dMY”), a Delaware corporation, on September 27, 2019, formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, recapitalization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses. On December 29, 2020, dMY completed a business combination pursuant to a business combination agreement dated as of July 27, 2020, as amended (the “Business Combination Agreement” and the transactions contemplated thereby, the “Business Combination”), and in connection therewith, among other things, dMY acquired Rush Street Interactive, LP (“RSILP”) and dMY changed its name to “Rush Street Interactive, Inc.”
A description of the material terms of the Business Combination and ancillary agreements entered into in connection therewith is set forth in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 5, 2021, primarily in the Introductory Note thereto and Item 1.01 therein, and the Registration Statement on Form S-1, Registration No. 333-252810, filed with the SEC on February 5, 2021, and as amended from time to time, primarily in the section titled “Business Combination”, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Our Business and Operating Models
We enter new markets by leveraging our proprietary online gaming platform and our ability to provide either a full-suite service model or a customized solution to fit a specific situation. Our business model is designed to be nimble, innovative and customer-centric. By leveraging our dynamic proprietary online gaming platform and our operational expertise, we generally aim to be “first to market” where real-money online gaming has been newly legalized and where our management determines that it is desirable to enter such market.
Our principal offerings are our real-money online casino (including online poker games in certain markets) and online sports betting products. These products can be launched under one of our existing brands or customized to be incorporated into or co-branded with a local or third-party brand. We also provide a variety of retail sports betting solutions to service land-based casino and other partners and leverage our social gaming offerings to increase customer engagement and build online databases in key markets both before and after legalization and regulation.
We currently generate revenue through two operating models: (i) business-to-consumer (“B2C”) and (ii) business-to-business (“B2B”). Through our primary operating model, B2C, we offer online casino, online sports betting and social gaming directly to end customers through our apps or websites. Our B2C operations contributed more than 99% and 98% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and we expect that it will continue to be our primary operating model into the future. We believe our B2C model is flexible, permitting us to customize our operating structure based on applicable gaming regulations, market demands and, as applicable, our partner’s operations. Through our B2B operations, we primarily offer retail sports betting services to land-based businesses such as bricks-and-mortar casinos in exchange for a monthly commission.
Often in advance of markets legalizing online gaming, we build relationships with local bricks-and-mortar casino operators and other potential partners who are looking for online gaming and sports betting partners. In most U.S. jurisdictions, applicable gaming regulations require online gaming operators that offer real-money offerings to operate under the gaming license of, or partner with, a bricks-and-mortar casino, lottery or other type of local partner such as a professional sports team. Consequently, we leverage our relationships to find high-quality, reliable partners for online gaming collaboration. Upon securing a partner for access to a specific market (if required or desirable) and before we launch operations in that market, we customize our online gaming platform to comply with the jurisdiction’s laws and regulations. Then, upon entering a new market, we employ a number of marketing strategies to obtain new customers as well as leverage our partner’s database when applicable. We continuously refine our offerings and marketing strategies based on data collected from each market.
To attract, engage, retain and/or reactivate customers, we offer a loyalty program that rewards customers in exciting, fair and transparent ways. We recognize and reward customer loyalty by, among other things, ensuring that there are exciting benefits at every level. Every online gaming customer is automatically enrolled in our iRush Rewards Loyalty
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Program, where they earn tier points, loyalty points, and bonus store points with every completed bet. Our tiered system, including gold, platinum, and black levels, is designed to ensure that players receive consistent and valuable rewards. Tier levels remain in place for up to 12 months, providing stability and continued benefits. Bonus store points can be redeemed to unlock bonus incentives and exclusive proprietary bonus games, offering additional opportunities to win prizes and bonus dollars. Customers may also “bank” certain awarded bonuses in our proprietary “bonus bank”, which they can draw from whenever they wish under our 1x wager playthrough requirement, meaning that they need only place one bet with the bonus dollars before cashing out any winnings. Based on research and customer feedback, we attempt to address customer concerns about the general lack of transparency in the industry around awarding, redeeming and tracking bonuses by enabling customers to easily track their loyalty and bonus progressions and giving them control over when and how to redeem their rewards.
We strive to be the first online operator to launch in most new markets (or launch on the first day possible), and we have been successful in doing so in many markets such as Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Peru (the first fully licensed operator to launch) and Ontario, Canada. However, we have also achieved success when we were not the first to enter a market. For example, we entered the New Jersey online casino market approximately three years after that market opened and there were already numerous competitors in the market at that time. Less than three years after beginning operations in New Jersey, we were the fourth largest online casino brand in New Jersey based on revenue, out of 19 total operators in the market at that time, according to the Eilers & Krejcik Gaming (“EKG”) United States Online Casino Tracker for April 2019.
We believe our success in New Jersey is also noteworthy because we compete with many other companies that have affiliated land-based casinos there. Neither us nor RSG, an affiliated land-based casino operator, operate a bricks-and-mortar casino in New Jersey. Thus, we believe our performance in New Jersey demonstrates that we can be successful in entering competitive markets even without the benefit of an affiliated bricks-and-mortar casino presence.
Competitive Strengths
As we continue to expand in existing and new jurisdictions, we believe we are well-positioned to maintain and build upon our accomplishments by virtue of our competitive strengths:
Proprietary Online Gaming Platform. Owning a proprietary online gaming platform has allowed us to innovate quickly and introduce unique, user-friendly features. We believe these features have helped increase conversion rates from registrations to first-time depositors, improve customer engagement and retention, and increase customer spending. Further, we can update our online gaming platform at a rate that we believe is among the fastest in the industry. As the online gaming industry develops, our online gaming platform should help us better cater to the evolving needs of our current and potential customers and partners. In the long run, we anticipate that our online gaming platform will lead to reduced costs and improved revenue per customer based on our focus on developing differentiated features and functions.
Unique and Diversified Product Offering. We prioritize customizing our offerings, bonusing our customers effectively and optimizing our platform. For example, we have developed some of our own online casino games, which are higher margin for us than those licensed from third parties. We have also developed and incorporated numerous proprietary bonusing features such as our slot tournaments, jackpot systems, collection games, and our proprietary squares game and PropPacks, a sports player card game, both of which appeal to casino and sports betting customers alike. Our omni-channel platform provides broad functionality, such as: location-based decisioning; unified conditional bonusing; gamified award scenarios, such as bingo, jackpot systems, collection games, squares, PropPacks and slot tournaments; customer dashboards (online and at retail); promotional games; real-time awards and promotion management; sophisticated reporting; responsible gaming features improved betting interfaces such as prop central; and same game parlay merchandising, among others.
Market Access and Speed to Market. We currently operate online casino and/or online or retail sports betting in 20 jurisdictions, including 16 states (Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia) and four international markets (Colombia, Ontario, Canada, Mexico and Peru) with an aggregate population of over 360 million people. We have a proven ability to quickly enter markets as they are regulated. To that end, we have secured potential market access to other markets, subject to certain legislative and/or regulatory developments or approvals, including Texas, which that state alone has a population of approximately 32 million people.
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Flexible Business Model. We believe we are well positioned to serve new jurisdictions regardless of the form of their regulations, if any. Our flexible business model enables us to function as a B2C operator or a B2B supplier or joint venturer, depending on market conditions, applicable laws and regulations, and the needs of our partners. This flexibility should allow us to have a core advantage in securing market access and help us address the largest potential total addressable market (“TAM”). For example, the Delaware Lottery selected us in 2023, pursuant to a competitive process, to be its sole operator of online gaming and online sports wagering in the state of Delaware. Our commercial relationship with the Delaware Lottery requires a flexible business model where we not only work closely with the Delaware Lottery but also with the three racinos in the State of Delaware, including with respect to branding and marketing.
Large TAM with International Opportunity. Because of our international real-money online gaming and betting operations in Colombia, Mexico and Peru as well as our flexible business model as described directly above, we believe our TAM is larger than most North America-only operators. We believe this experience will help us enter other Latin American markets and beyond.
Broad Demographic Appeal of our Brands & Products. Our brands, offerings and marketing strategies appeal to both female and male customers, as evidenced by an approximately 51-49 female/male split in our active North American online casino-only customers during calendar year 2025. We believe that while many sports-centric brands appeal more to male customers, our brands and offerings (especially our slot machine game play experience) appeal strongly to female customers – an important demographic for high-value offerings such as online slot machine games.
Compelling Unit Economics. Based on our performance to date, including in some of the most competitive North American markets in terms of the number of online gaming operators, we believe that we can achieve customer lifetime value levels that are among the highest in the industry. We measure lifetime value as total net revenue generated over a customer’s lifetime with us. As demonstrated in the chart below, the average lifetime value of our North American customer cohorts shortly after inception (2017) generally trends higher as the cohorts mature, with our oldest player cohorts having an average lifetime value of approximately $5,100. This is particularly true for customer cohorts in jurisdictions where both our online casino and our online sports betting offers are available. In addition, as we continue to grow and expand into new jurisdictions, we also expect to continue to leverage our scale to obtain preferred pricing from various vendors.
Average Lifetime Value for All U.S. and Ontario Cohorts Since 2017
Source: RSI management estimates based on the average long-term value of all cohorts since 2017 presented in monthly increments, as measured from the month of first deposit. A cohort represents all U.S. and Ontario-based first-time depositors in a particular month.
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Seasoned Executive Team. Our executive team has significant global gaming experience, including with online market leaders such as WMS Industries (now Scientific Games), the Kindred Group and Gaming Partners International Corporation. Our Chief Executive Officer Richard Schwartz, Chief Operating Officer Mattias Stetz, Chief Strategy Officer Rob Picard, Chief Technology Officer Shubham Tyagi and Chief Marketing Officer Brian Sapp all had online gaming, social gaming and/or sports-related experience prior to joining RSI, which we believe has been instrumental in helping capture U.S. market share. Our Executive Chairman Neil Bluhm has a proven track record of developing world-class land-based casinos and has developed numerous successful real estate projects.
Social Gaming Platform. We offer social gaming on the same proprietary online gaming platform as our real-money offerings, which allows us to build user databases in jurisdictions where we do not yet offer real-money gaming. Having both of these products on the same platform allows us to invest in markets before real-money gaming has launched. We believe our social gaming offering strengthens brand awareness and engagement from existing customers, helps to acquire new customers and drives increased visitation to our partners’ bricks-and-mortar properties.
Growth Strategies
As we continue to invest in our core competitive advantages and improve the customer experience, we believe we will remain well positioned to continue to grow our business with a focus on long-term profitability. We have established several key areas of strategic focus that will guide the way we consider our future growth:
Access new geographies. With our experience in regulated gaming jurisdictions in the Americas, we are prepared to enter new online casino and/or sports betting markets once management has determined it is desirable to do so. For example, we expect to enter the regulated online casino and sport betting market in Alberta, Canada once that market goes live. Whether we enter a new jurisdiction as an online operator marketing directly to end users or on behalf of our land-based partner (B2C), as a platform provider to a third-party (B2B), or any permutation of the foregoing, our goal is to be ready to enter desirable jurisdictions when we believe conditions enable us to earn a strong return on our invested capital.
Continue to invest in our offerings and our platform. We have developed a set of competencies that we believe position us at the forefront of the evolving online casino and sports betting industry. We will continue iterating on our core user experiences while reinforcing the data-driven marketing and technological infrastructure that allows us to continue to scale our offerings. We plan to continue to invest in our customers and our offerings, such as the introduction of our online poker offering, which we currently offer in four U.S. states, as we remain driven to keep customers engaged while expanding the capabilities of our platform that will enable us to rapidly reach new jurisdictions and attract new customers.
Continue to invest in personnel. We have been and plan to continue to grow our operational, technology and corporate services teams to broaden product development capabilities, innovation and efficiency, reduce reliance on third parties and scale platforms and digital user capabilities.
Strategic Transactions. On a targeted basis, we will seek out strategic transactions such as acquisitions and partnerships that enable us to accelerate our technology plans, obtain exclusive content, expand our customer reach or add efficiencies that potentially bring third-party costs in-house.
Seasonality
Our sports betting operations experience seasonality based on the relative popularity of certain sporting events. Although sporting events occur throughout the year, our sports betting business may experience seasonality based on the relative popularity of certain sports at different times of the year. See “