ScorePlay, an AI-powered platform innovating sports activities media administration, has secured €12.5 million in a Sequence A funding spherical with the intention to gasoline the corporate’s enlargement and help ongoing platform innovation.
The funding was led by Harry Stebbings’ 20VC, with participation from Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, APEX Capital, and a number of other high-profile strategic buyers, together with NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo’s BYL Ventures, former Components 1 world champion Nico Rosberg, footballer Alex Morgan’s Trybe Ventures, FIBA (the Worldwide Basketball Federation), and different athletes comparable to Pat Cummins, Edouard Mendy, Aïssa Mandi, and Ciryl Gane through LORi6 Ventures.
Began by a French founding group, the Scoreplay group is right this moment distributed between workplaces in New York and Paris, and with smaller representations in London and São Paulo.
Harry Stebbings, founding father of 20VC, highlighted the shift within the sports activities business: “Each sports activities organisation will turn out to be a media firm, in consequence each athlete should leverage media to construct an engaged fan base. ScorePlay is the very best answer sports activities organisations must step into that future, bringing collectively their media, advertising and marketing and content material groups – in addition to sponsors, athletes and followers.”
Based in 2021 by Victorien Tixier and Xavier Inexperienced, ScorePlay was developed in response to the rising demand for real-time, streamlined content material distribution within the sports activities business.
As leagues, groups, and federations face mounting stress to ship media throughout a number of platforms, the corporate’s AI-driven infrastructure allows instantaneous tagging, organisation, and multilingual distribution of content material. With an emphasis on automation, ScorePlay simplifies content material workflows for broadcasters, sponsors, and athletes alike, guaranteeing quicker and extra environment friendly media operations.
In simply 4 years, the platform has already turn out to be the central hub for over 200 sports activities organisations worldwide, together with 50+ U.S. groups throughout the NBA and NHL, over 100 European golf equipment from the Premier League, LaLiga, and Bundesliga, and 50+ leagues and federations, comparable to MLS, NWSL, and worldwide governing our bodies in basketball, volleyball, and snowboarding. Since its launch, ScorePlay has maintained a “good consumer retention price“, underlining its worth within the sports activities business.
“ScorePlay’s development and impression over the previous yr have been exceptional, and we have been blown away by the reception to the platform on the inaugural Athlos in September,” stated Alexis Ohanian, founding father of Seven Seven Six. “They’re setting a brand new commonplace for the business and this was apparent within the founding days of Angel Metropolis FC, which is why we invested then and each spherical since.”
Approaching the heels of 3x year-over-year development and worthwhile on the time of funding, ScorePlay’s €12.5 million Sequence A will gasoline the corporate’s enlargement and help ongoing platform innovation. With €19.3 million in complete funding, and backing from business leaders and top-tier athletes, ScorePlay is poised to guide the following period of sports activities media administration.
