SwingVision, a San Mateo, CA-based company on a mission to democratize the professional sports experience for athletes of all levels, raised $6M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Authentic Ventures, alongside Lindsay Davenport, Alison Riske and Rohan Bopanna, Youssef Es-skouri of Dropbox, and Glenn Solomon of GGV Capital. They joined existing investors, including Andy Roddick and James Blake, Techstars, Sony Innovation Fund, Wildcard Ventures, Tennis Australia, Albert Lee of MyFitnessPal, Jason Liu of Strava, Jordan Mendell of DraftKings, and James Musk of Tesla.
The company intends to use the funds to build tournament-grade officiating and remote coaching capabilities into the platform, and to expand beyond tennis into pickleball and padel.
Founded in 2019 by Swupnil Sahai and Richard Hsu, SwingVision leverages AI to deliver automated stats, highlights, and officiating from video captured from players’ iPhone or iPad. Using its patent-pending object-tracking AI, SwingVision automatically tracks the ball trajectory in 3D using just the users’ device to generate pro-quality stats, highlights, and line calling. In addition to individual athletes of all levels, the system is used by more than 100 D1 college tennis teams across the U.S. – including Harvard University, Stanford University, Texas Christian University, University of Florida and Yale University.
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19/10/2023