PiPsports, a Singapore-based provider of a sports photography application for iOS and Android, raised $200k in seed funding.
Backers included PJ Roberts, Chris Welch, founder and CEO Steven Rogers, and co-founder Lena Savitsky.
The company intends to use the funds to grow its international user base during this summer’s sporting events and tournaments, and further develop the photography app.
The PiPsports app, which has just been launched, allows sports fans to create personalized photos of live sports games, enhanced with real-time data from international sports data company OPTA, to capture their sporting memories and show support for their team. The app allows users to take photos of the sporting action, and overlay the image with one of a section of “skins”. Each skin includes live data from OPTA, such as the current score, location, team and game statistics, match/event name and team crests and logos, to create a personalized image.
The photos can be shared on Facebook or direct to the PiPsports stream.
Over 225,000 sports fans have downloaded the beta version.
FinSMEs
11/06/2014