MUMBAI, August 1, 2022: SportVot, is a sports tech startup that caters to all the needs of the sports community at the grassroots level. India has a pool of young sports talent and the number of people interested in sports is increasing by the day. The number of professional/ semi-professional sports matches played in an annual year is more than a 100k+ and more than 10 million emerging athletes are associated with these sports tournaments! But, the sad truth is out of these 100k+sports tournaments, hardly 1- 2 % of matches were streamed online for the viewers to engage and invest in the grassroots sports and the most important reason being the lack of awareness , inhibitions with using technology and expensive setup for streaming. Making an impact with changing the perception of people towards grassroots sports, SportVot raised its seed capital funding lead by Ankur Capital, Capital A, SucSeed Ventures and Marwah Sports.
SportVot came in as a solution to eliminate all these factors, as it brought a technology that provided premium streaming features at an extremely pocket-friendly rate and with their mobile streaming and remote production setup, they made sure that this facility is accessible and applicable for all! The firm initially made the sports community understand the benefits of streaming LIVE sports online and then empowered them with clinical features such data analysis and player profiling. They brought into the spotlight the talent from the nooks and corners of the country and gave them a platform to connect with a larger audience and engage with the sports community across the country.
SportVot extensively worked on exploring the domestic sports such as kabaddi , volleyball and made sure that these sports got the deserved attention! So much so that , registrering and streaming matches on SportVot has become a habit for the kabaddi community across India. SportVot is at a stage where it is becoming synonymous with grassroots level sports.
Advancing further in their mission to revolutionise the local sports ecosystem, SportVot is coming up with a franchise-based Kabaddi tournament, the Maha Mumbai Kabaddi League. The league is designed in coherence with the firm vision of empowering sports talent from across the country as it gives an opportunity to athletes from all age groups to show their skills and learn and grow in a professional environment.
The journey of SportVot has been filled with challenges, the most prominent being the pandemic which affected all the industries unabashedly , but without withering away from its goal, the firm with this fundraising is aiming to explore newer geographies and develop an advance technology that enables every athlete and sports associations with efficient scouting and tracking process.
Sidhhant Agarwal, Founder,SportVot expressed , “ The latest fundraise will help us scale our product and technology as we discover the next generation of sports talent across India.”
Rema Subramanian, Managing Partner Ankur Capital said, “Sportvot enables young sportspersons to showcase their talent and be discovered, leading to penetration of sports into the masses and making India a leading sports nation.”
It is a great sign for India to have such young entrepreneurs coming up with tech-based solutions that are becoming the key to the holistic development of the nation.
