About
Stewarding a new era of institutional athletics.
Stevera exists to give universities a coordinated, trustworthy system for managing athlete financial activity — so compliance, finance, legal, and athletics leadership can operate from one shared, auditable record instead of reconstructing it after the fact.
Why Stevera
The name draws on two ideas: vera, truth and trust, and era, the new era of institutional athletics now that universities sit directly inside the athlete payment flow. Stevera is built to be a steward of that responsibility — a system institutions can trust to document, coordinate, and stand behind.
Why this requires a coordinated system
Institutional revenue sharing put universities directly in the flow of athlete-related payments for the first time. That responsibility touches compliance, finance, legal, athletics, and payment execution at once — and most institutions are managing it with spreadsheets, email, and disconnected tools that were never built for financial operations at this scale or with this much scrutiny. Stevera exists because that coordination problem needs a real system, not another point solution.
How we work with universities
Universities engage Stevera the way they engage any operating vendor: a demonstration, an evaluation against institutional priorities, and a deployment scoped with athletics, compliance, finance, and legal. Stevera OS is a product built to be adopted, not a prototype built together with each customer.
Operating principles
- 01State plainly what universities and conferences can rely on today, and never represent a future plan as a current capability.
- 02Keep the university as the decision-maker. Stevera coordinates; it does not decide, custody funds, or replace legal and compliance judgment.
- 03Respect data boundaries by role, by default — not as an afterthought.
- 04Build for audit and evidence from the start, so a record can be reviewed, not reconstructed.
Founders
Eric Diggs
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Hightower
Co-Founder, President and Chief Product Officer