While it is true that more and more of these businesses are beginning to enjoy strong competition from traditional businesses and other similar platforms, there are certain sectors, such as online booking (Playtomic) where there is the capacity to maintain a natural oligopoly due to the disruption of the idea.
Playtomic
Playtomic is the startup with the largest sports facilities booking network throughout Spain. Through the app, users can search for and book courts to play paddle tennis, tennis or football pitches.
A platform that expects to grow substantially by adding new sports to it, increasing its user base and increasing the number of affiliated clubs.
It currently has more than 650 affiliated clubs, which translates into the possibility to book more than 3,000 padel, tennis and football courts. Playtomic is the leader in the SPORTS MARKET of reserves in Spain, being the perfect link between players and sports clubs.
With a initial investment of EUR 2.5 million and more than 40 employeesis a company that is trying to transfer the technology already applied in other collaborative economy companies such as transport, hotel management or tourism, to promote sporting activity.
The project of this company is very ambitious, aiming to become the global tool to facilitate the practice of sports.
On 24 April, with the aim of growing and being able to expand the platform to other sports and roll it out to more regions, the company carried out a €6m capital increase.
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Eversports
Eversports is a Austrian company specialising in simplifying access to sports facilities in the surrounding area.
The company's main goal is to build a unique community of sportsmen and sportswomen who have the ability to share their passion around the world. It connects its members directly with sports centres, facilitating the booking of sports courts or sports courses. It also organises meetings with other athletes to promote sport.
Eversports offers the value proposition of allowing you to know where and when you can favourite from a simple, user-friendly interface.
Due to the platform's European growth, it has managed to increase its capital by €7m through two separate capital increases in the last two years.
Coachseek
Coachseek is a company that has created a platform for the organising sports coaching sessions, making invoices and taking care of payments.
As an additional feature, it allows the assessment of professionals, as well as keeping track of their activity on the platform and benchmarking tools to be able to select the most suitable coach for each characteristic.
This company has obtained a capital increase of $450,000 in order to increase the radius of action and expand it throughout the country. New Zealand.