Where is FanDuel located? Given how the brand is stitched into Sunday NFL broadcasts, it would be reasonable to guess somewhere near a stadium, or maybe a casino floor. The real answer is a Manhattan office tower — and the company’s actual origin story starts even further from a sportsbook than that, in a startup house in Scotland.
The Edinburgh Start, the New York Finish
FanDuel did not begin as a betting company at all. In 2009, Nigel Eccles, Lesley Eccles, Tom Griffiths, Rob Jones, and Chris Stafford founded Hubdub, a news-prediction site, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When that idea did not take off, the team pivoted into daily fantasy sports and relaunched as FanDuel. The company grew almost entirely on the strength of the US fantasy market that followed, and over the next decade and a half its operational center of gravity shifted fully to the United States — specifically to New York City, years before a regulated sportsbook was part of the business at all.
Current headquarters: 300 Park Avenue South, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10010. A second address, 1 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor, appears specifically on FanDuel Inc.’s privacy policy and legal notices — two addresses for two different kinds of correspondence, both in Manhattan.
The Entity Behind the App
FanDuel Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on July 13, 2016, which is the standard move for US companies seeking predictable corporate law regardless of where they actually operate. As of July 31, 2025, that entity became a wholly owned subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc after Flutter closed a deal to buy out Boyd Gaming’s remaining 5% stake — ending a more complex ownership split that, at different points, also included Fox Corporation. Flutter itself trades on both the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange and owns a portfolio of gambling brands including Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Betting & Gaming, and PokerStars.
Three answers to one question: headquarters is 300 Park Avenue South, New York, NY. Operating entity is FanDuel Inc., a Delaware corporation. Parent company is Flutter Entertainment plc, a UK/Ireland-rooted public group, 100% owner since July 2025.
Why State Licenses Point Somewhere Else Entirely
None of those three answers is the name a state gaming regulator actually licenses, because most states that allow online sports betting require the operator to partner with an existing land-based casino or racetrack for market access rather than license a purely digital company on its own. FanDuel runs its New Jersey sportsbook through a partnership with Meadowlands Racetrack, its Pennsylvania license through Valley Forge Casino, and its Michigan license through MotorCity Casino in Detroit. In West Virginia, FanDuel switched market access partners in September 2025, moving from The Greenbrier to Delaware North. The FanDuel product looks the same in every state; the licensed local partner underneath it does not.
How This Differs From a Simple Subsidiary Model
Some national operators license each state through their own wholly owned, state-specific subsidiary. FanDuel’s structure leans more on outside partnerships with existing gaming venues, reflecting how a number of states wrote their sports betting laws specifically to route new online licenses through brick-and-mortar casinos and racetracks already operating there. A reader trying to figure out “who actually runs FanDuel in my state” will often find a racetrack or regional casino’s name in the license filing, not FanDuel Inc. directly — and that is normal, not a red flag.
The Short Version
FanDuel is headquartered at 300 Park Avenue South in Manhattan, run by FanDuel Inc., a Delaware corporation wholly owned by Flutter Entertainment plc since July 2025 — a long way, corporately speaking, from its 2009 start as an Edinburgh news-prediction site. State by state, the actual licensed partner is usually a local casino or racetrack, not the New York office itself. 21+ where legal.