SportGate

History

2022: Attracting $500,000 of investments

The startup SportGate, designed to quickly search and book sports grounds, created by entrepreneur Antonio Palacios-Fernandez, attracted investments from Quonota Investments and business angels from professional sports. This became known on January 27, 2022. The funds raised are planned to be directed to the development of the consumer model for booking sports grounds in Russia and the introduction of new functions.

The total investment amounted to $500 thousand. The SportGate also expands the pool of experts in the team - Maria Lapuk entered the advisory board of the project and will oversee PR communications in the startup.

Our company invests in innovative ideas, models, products, and most importantly - in people with high growth potential who can transform society, scale in global markets and generate long-term income for portfolio companies of venture holding and interested parties. This applies to Sportgate, said Sergey Radchenko, director of Quonota Investments.

The application contains more than 500 sports grounds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad for various sports: football, volleyball, basketball, hockey, tennis, squash, surf, etc. SportGate were the first to launch the option of renting football stadiums of the World Cup through mobile software. In particular, through the application you can rent a field, half or ¼ "Kaliningrad Stadium" with a capacity of stands for 33.4 thousand people. In January 2022, negotiations are underway to sign an agreement with the Rostov Arena and Gazprom Arena stadiums.

The task of the project is to make team sports more accessible, the user will be able to easily find a team of like-minded people in another city - this is the main essence. We are aimed at large-scale development. It is important for us that the modern generation has the opportunity for socialization through various team sports, thereby increasing interest in conducting a healthy lifestyle and pastime with benefit, noted founder and CEO SportGate Antonio Palacios-Fernandez.

The service is aimed at the B2C and B2B audience: SportGate provides the opportunity for companies to rent a site on favorable terms in a convenient time slot for their employees. As part of the partnership program, more than 70 thousand employees of Bank Tinkoff have the opportunity to engage in corporate discount SportGate on sites in cities of presence.