£1.7m investment for SportTech PlayerData


PlayerData's Roy Hotrabhvanon (left) and Hayden Ball

A tech start-up aiming to change the way grassroots and professional sports teams train has raised £ 1.7 million.

The Edinburgh-based company, which develops software, analytics, gamification and wearable technology, was supported by Hiro Capital, gaming legend Ian Livingstone.

In his first year of life PlayerData has recorded more than 10,000 team meetings and 50 million meterses of athletes play in the UK at grassroots level sOccer and rRugby.

The financing is used for charging PlayerData's growth across multiple sports and international expansion.

It is AI algorithms predict injuries to players before they occur, and their tools allow coaches to replay key moments of the game and model different outcomes based on player positioning.

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Roy Hotrabhvanon, co- -founder and CEO of PlayerDatais a former international archer who narrowly missed it in the selection for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games for the Thai national team.

Hayden ball, co- -Founder and CTO, is a CompSci Firmware and cloud infrastructure expert who designed, built and implemented a distributed SaaS solution for the Edinburgh Fringe.

"Our Mission is to bring fine-grained data and insight into clubs in all team sports to help them improve their game development, improve player performance and prevent injuries"Said Hotrabhvanon.

Olympic legend Alistair Brownlee supports SportTech start-ups

"We use our platform and big data to generate biometric insights that are applicable to everyone Level - from the base to the Premier League.

"Due to the team network effect, the PlayerData The community is growing rapidly across the UK and overseas. Our ultimate goal is to implement innovative insights from groundbreaking wearables that are applicable to everyone Team in every discipline at every level.”


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