Sports highlights platform Rematch said it has raised $3.5M to accelerate its international expansion.
Rematch — which allows users to rewind action filmed through its app — is based in France. The platform launched in Europe in 2017 and launched its U.S. business led by CEO Hanna Howard in 2024.
Over 1B “fully organic” views worldwide
$1.2M in annual revenue
Partnerships include LOVB, Nike, Spokane Hoopfest
Rematch said it will also use the new round to strengthen its AI and product teams; the company said it is working on “developing scalable technologies that enhance video creation, content identification, automated editing, personalization and distribution across sports communities.”
I just wanted to call out how Rematch positioned itself with the announcement, because it goes well beyond its unique rewind tech.
The press release defined the company as a “community-powered media infrastructure for grassroots sports,” with a mention of how there is “an enormous volume of untapped and unstructured content” among hundreds of millions of athletes worldwide.
And investor Thierry Daupin — who is also Rematch’s global chief revenue and partner officer and the chairman of Rematch U.S. — said on LinkedIn that "we are proving that grassroots sport is not a small market. It is one of the largest untapped media ecosystems in the world."
Rematch is embracing being a media company — something a lot of other big players in the industry are not. Obviously adoption and scale are the hard parts, but it will be interesting to see if platforms that take the media approach like Rematch have a leg up in tapping into those markets.
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