leAD Sports Accelerator

leAD, the premier sports venture ecosystem, is inspired by Adi Dassler, the founding father of the modern sports industry. leAD works with the most promising early-stage sports tech startups from around the world, aiming to propel their growth through smart investment, premier network access, and expert mentorship. leAD consists of the leAD SPORT1 Accelerator, targeting pre-seed startups, the leAD Business Builder, focused on the gap between seed and growth, and the Series A ADvantage Sports Tech Fund.
SB

Stefan Bente

Co-Founder

BB

Brett Bivens

Investment Director

AN

Aaron Naisar

Investment Manager

SV

Sebastian Vohradnik

Investment Director

AW

Andrew White

Director

GW

George Williams

CFO

34 past transactions

Evolve Basketball App

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Evolve Basketball is a mobile application that offers personal basketball training services to its users. The application enables its users to interact with certified basketball trainers of their preference to obtain content and personal training programs and workout schedules. It features news feeds, workout calendars, nutritional plans, and basketball video galleries. It is available for iOS platforms. Evolve basketball was launched in 2015 by Devon Butler and Lafayette Julius.

Break Sports

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are on a mission to empower anyone to become an athlete. We are doing this by building and online destination for players to discover and connect with competitive and recreational sport activities through one platform.

Who Knows Wins Ltd

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Who Knows Wins is a sports betting platform allowing friends, family, and colleagues, to compete against each other in leagues, using their knowledge, skill, and luck to predict results on virtually any sporting event. Moreover, the WKW- Team is trying to take the gambling’s negative stigma away through socializing it. WKW is the place to predict, compete and win cash in the company of friends, family or even total strangers.

AgeRate

Seed Round in 2020
The AgeRate team is a diverse mix of medical doctors, engineers, and designers with a mission of redefining health to inspire improvement.
Rooter Sports Technologies Private Limited. operates a sports fan engagement platform that connects and engages fans during live matches across cricket, football, hockey, tennis, basketball, kabaddi, badminton, and Formula1. It offers free-to-play live games, and connects fans through live match chat rooms and personalized social feed. The company’s platform offers video and audio chat during live matches. It provides a fan engagement solution to sports teams, leagues, and media companies in India and internationally. The company’s platform is available on App Store and Google Play Store. Rooter Sports Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in New Delhi, Delhi.

ReadyUp

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ReadyUp is a platform for player connection and team management for gaming and esports

DIGGIN' LIMITED

Pre Seed Round in 2019
DIGGIN' LIMITED operates an online platform and mobile application for providing information about dance venues. Its application provides services, such as online registration and payment, homepage advertising, participants’ data, event management, and video reviewing. The application allows users to browse local dance rooms, rent a venue, and participate in street dance activities. It serves street dancers, dance studios, event organizers, and disc jockey. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Telegraph Bay, Hong Kong.

Valtik Foods

Seed Round in 2022
Valtik Foods develops fast-absorbing hydration mixes under the trademark TITANIUM that provides faster hydration avoiding stomach distress both for the amateur and the endurance athlete. These hydration mixes are segmented by sport category adapted to each sport’s specific needs. They also manufature energy bars with protein, energy chews and RTD protein shakes. Valtik Foods has operations in Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Valtik Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Valtik Foods develops fast-absorbing hydration mixes under the trademark TITANIUM that provides faster hydration avoiding stomach distress both for the amateur and the endurance athlete. These hydration mixes are segmented by sport category adapted to each sport’s specific needs. They also manufature energy bars with protein, energy chews and RTD protein shakes. Valtik Foods has operations in Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Wingfield GmbH

Series A in 2022
Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system and is easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.
Rooter Sports Technologies Private Limited. operates a sports fan engagement platform that connects and engages fans during live matches across cricket, football, hockey, tennis, basketball, kabaddi, badminton, and Formula1. It offers free-to-play live games, and connects fans through live match chat rooms and personalized social feed. The company’s platform offers video and audio chat during live matches. It provides a fan engagement solution to sports teams, leagues, and media companies in India and internationally. The company’s platform is available on App Store and Google Play Store. Rooter Sports Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in New Delhi, Delhi.

leagiON

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mobile solution for the most secure and convenient way for gamers to initiate a friendly one on one wager with peers. We allow gamers to challenge one another to a game, secure players’ funds, seamlessly monitor the gaming environment to determine the final score and execute settlement immediately after the game. No need to report the final score, take screenshots of the game, worry about the opponent dropping off before the game is finished. Play with confidence. We are your eyes, ears, and much more.

GGWP Academy

Pre Seed Round in 2018
GGWP Academy offers an online academy for gamers. The company’s solution teaches skills and techniques in streaming, personal branding, goal setting, social media marketing, and game psychology to its customers. GGWP Academy was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Winmill

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Winmill is a robotics company that helps athletes in hockey training. It develops training equipment for ice hockey equipped with stereo-cameras to analyze player's position, movement, and speed and is capable of passing and shooting pucks with its own intellect, enabling coaches to train hockey athletes and provide feedback about performance and progress of the players. The company is based in Riga, Latvia.

Phlex

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sports technology company focused on revolutionizing the swimming world.

UNIT 1

Pre Seed Round in 2017
UNIT 1 is an innovation company for action sports.They are riders, designers, engineers and business builders driven to create game-changing innovation through experience-based products. Soundshield, their first product, is an action sports helmet with detachable wireless headphones. It redefines music within action sports.

Wingfield GmbH

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system and is easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.

AgeRate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
The AgeRate team is a diverse mix of medical doctors, engineers, and designers with a mission of redefining health to inspire improvement.

fitto Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2017
fitto Inc. develops personalized nutrition solutions that optimize the intake of dietary and sports nutrition supplements. It offers a smart bottle that tracks nutrient and water intake and reports it to the Fitto mobile app, where the data undergoes wisdom-assessment and prompts the optimization of the white label trackable dietary pods that helps users to monitor their intake as well as helps in business intelligence and sales growth for supplement brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

ATLAS

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Atlas makes endurance sports such as triathlon, marathons, cycling and other outdoor races much more accessible and engaging to the average spectator. In the longer term, Atlas aims to become the go-to platform and race solution server provider for all types of endurance races globally. The Atlas social networking platform fosters a global endurance sports community which increases adoption for endurance racing worldwide.
Rooter Sports Technologies Private Limited. operates a sports fan engagement platform that connects and engages fans during live matches across cricket, football, hockey, tennis, basketball, kabaddi, badminton, and Formula1. It offers free-to-play live games, and connects fans through live match chat rooms and personalized social feed. The company’s platform offers video and audio chat during live matches. It provides a fan engagement solution to sports teams, leagues, and media companies in India and internationally. The company’s platform is available on App Store and Google Play Store. Rooter Sports Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in New Delhi, Delhi.

The Movement Athlete

Pre Seed Round in 2017
The Movement Athlete is a skill-based fitness training application. It is a platform and technology making learning bodyweight and movement disciplines like calisthenics, gymnastic, acrobatics and circus skills easy and safe for everyone. We also run a blog about bodyweight training https://bodyweighttrainingarena.com/

PITZ

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pitz, Inc. provides a gaming application for amateur football players. It helps clients to become man of the match, answer press conferences, do line-ups, give pre match and post-match quotes, and get rankings and personal ratings. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California with an additional location in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Prophet

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Solving the price and liquidity issues riddled with the sportsbook model today.

Champions Round

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Champions Round, Inc. develops a gaming application for football and Esports games. Its application enables users to play fantasy leagues games and tournaments, answer live questions, earn points, learn the game, and win cash. The company’s application is available on App Store. Champions Round, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

SkillYoga UG

Convertible Note in 2020
SkillYoga UG provides online yoga classes and sessions. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

KinoTek

Pre Seed Round in 2021
KinoTek combines portable motion capture and machine learning in an intuitive, 3D interface deployable on the field of play. It is an innovative software utilizing Virtual Reality and Motion Capture Technology to change the way human movement analysis is approached and applied. They are taking complex biomechanics data and simplifying the information to provide a simple visual representation. Their software is proven to increase the retention of skills, decrease the chance of injury, and improve overall athletic output. KinoTek is governed by a sense of identity and commitment to the state of Maine and its communities, a passion for learning and growing with new information and technology, and an obligation to do things that matter them, to its users, and to anyone else that they can impact on their journey. The company was founded by Justin Hafner, David Holomakoff, and Patrick Breeding in 2018 and is based in Portland, Maine.

Break the Love

Seed Round in 2020
Break the Love unlocks access to recreational tennis and racquet sports. It is a mission-driven marketplace where people can discover and book group based tennis activities on public and private courts while creating new revenue streams for independent providers such as coaches, former athletes, and current athletes supporting them to do what they do best which is helping them play the sport of a lifetime and have fun doing it. By unlocking access through group based training and simplifying the learning, training, and competing experience for players, Break the Love is democratizing and enhancing the experience of playing sports, inspiring more people to get outside, connect with their communities, and channel their inner athlete.

Buzzbike

Venture Round in 2020
Buzzbike is launching a tech-driven cycle scheme for London, creating a new sponsorship platform for brands.

20/20 Armor

Seed Round in 2018
20/20 Armor makes an electronic chestguard that brings the street fighter video game to life. This technology gamifies martial arts, making it fun and engaging through its multiple built-in game modes, which teach the fundamentals of sparring such as timing, power, and speed. It is used to make training fun and helps club owners significantly increase their bottom line by attracting and retaining students. The founders are club owners and National Team members themselves, with decades of experience. 20/20 Armor aims to be the standard training system for all striking martial arts and the official scoring system for the Olympics, with the ultimate vision of making Taekwondo a new professional sport.

Venuzle

Seed Round in 2017
Venuzle GmbH provides an online market platform to search and book sports venues, sports courses, and to find a sports partner. Venuzle GmbH under its brand name "The Venuzle Sports Manager" offers an enterprise management solution for municipalities, local councils, clubs and schools. The company provides its services in Graaz,Voarau, Lebring, Vienna, and Gmunden, Austria. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Graz, Austria.

20/20 Armor

Venture Round in 2019
20/20 Armor makes an electronic chestguard that brings the street fighter video game to life. This technology gamifies martial arts, making it fun and engaging through its multiple built-in game modes, which teach the fundamentals of sparring such as timing, power, and speed. It is used to make training fun and helps club owners significantly increase their bottom line by attracting and retaining students. The founders are club owners and National Team members themselves, with decades of experience. 20/20 Armor aims to be the standard training system for all striking martial arts and the official scoring system for the Olympics, with the ultimate vision of making Taekwondo a new professional sport.

SkillYoga UG

Seed Round in 2019
SkillYoga UG provides online yoga classes and sessions. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.