A curated network for sports founders, investors, and operators.
Built for the Indian sports ecosystem across leagues, media, wellness, gaming, fan engagement, and fitness.
The Indian Sports Investment Network gives everyone unprecedented access to invest in sports. Investors will be able to invest with as little as ₹1 lakh.
We take a flat deal fee worth 0.1% of amount raised or ₹40,000, whichever is lower, from companies.
(Waived off for the first year of operations).
We do this only to support our workflows and support the Indian Sports Ecosystem like no one else does. All money we make is expensed out for various support functions and initiatives.
Whether you're building, investing, or advising — this network is designed to accelerate your work in Indian sports.
Raise capital, meet relevant investors, and access operators who can help you grow.
Access curated sports startup dealflow and connect with founders raising now.
Help shape the next generation of sports businesses through mentorship and introductions.
Submit your profile and investment interests.
We verify every investor before they see startup profiles. This protects founders from tyre-kickers.
You see only startups that match your thesis. No irrelevant decks, no noise. Each brief includes a summary, sector, traction snapshot, and fundraising ask — enough to decide in two minutes.
We don't just exchange email addresses. Both sides receive pre-shared context to make the first call substantive.
Get access to Demo Days showcasing 8–10 pre-approved startups basis investor consensus.
Submit your profile and company details.
Every application is reviewed manually. We assess problem clarity, traction, and defensibility. If the pitch materials need work, we don't reject — we help.
We stress-test your financial model, sharpen your deck narrative, validate unit economics, and calibrate your valuation — so you're ready before you're in front of an investor.
No mass blasts. We match you with investors based on their stated thesis. A kabaddi-tech seed founder meets kabaddi-focused seed investors. Nobody else.
Every introduction is double opt-in. The investor sees a one-paragraph brief — not your full deck, not your contact details. If they say yes, the intro happens with full context and a specific ask.
Connect with domain-specific operators and advisors from our network — former franchise heads, broadcasting executives, key vendors — who can provide services at discounted values or open doors that capital alone cannot – all for a simple flat 1% equity share.
Submit your profile: professional background and domain expertise, kind of startups you want to work with / advise, and your time commitment.
We match you where your experience is directly actionable. A production vendor meets a sports league. A broadcasting executive meets a media company negotiating content deals. Every match has to make sense for both sides.
Every engagement starts with a clear scope: Discounted Services / Advisory for a 1% non-dilutable stake vesting over 5 years.
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Indian sports investing is alive — but it's extremely concentrated, and hungry for more capital.
Every sports deal plotted across 15 months. Hover to explore.
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A curated showcase of sports startups actively raising capital. Each founder gets a 7-minute pitch followed by 3-minute live Q&A with investors. Ends with a private networking room where investors can request 1:1 introductions with founders they're interested in.
A live showcase where one recently funded startup from each of the 15 sub-themes in Indian sports tech presents its business thesis. From Athleisure & Sportswear, Fantasy Sports to Sports Leagues — each founder gets 8 minutes to explain the category opportunity, what they're building, why now, and where they see the market heading. The session doubles as a live market map: by the end, every attendee has a clear picture of the entire Indian sports investment landscape through the lens of the founders actually building in it.
A session led by veterans who've built and scaled sports businesses on tight budgets. The masterclass covers how to use the advisory-for-equity (ESOPs) model to access vendors and otherwise expensive services, cost-effective approaches to delivering high-quality sports tournaments and events, and how to maintain decent margins while the broader Indian sports capital story is still maturing. This is not theory — each speaker walks through real numbers, real trade-offs, and real frameworks they've used to keep companies alive and growing during capital-scarce periods.
An invite-only discussion exploring the explosive growth and investment opportunity in women's sports in India. The WPL's rise, growing brand interest in women athletes, the sponsorship gap between men's and women's leagues, and where the early capital is flowing.
When padel and pickleball arrived in India, the response wasn't tentative — it was instant. Courts, clubs, leagues, and communities materialised in months, not years. This roundtable digs into what that adoption velocity signals: Indians aren't just watching more sport, they're playing it, across a widening set of disciplines. Investors and operators unpack why new sports scale so fast here, what infrastructure and community layers get built first, and how to spot the next category before the courts go up.
A curated showcase of sports startups actively raising capital. Each founder gets a 7-minute pitch followed by 3-minute live Q&A with investors. Ends with a private networking room where investors can request 1:1 introductions with founders they're interested in.
The first partial and full exits in Indian sports are here, and the routes back are multiplying: acquisition by franchises, strategic media buys (the Dream Sports–Cricbuzz model), category roll-ups, and secondary sales. Panellists build a shared map of how returns are starting to materialise — so investors can underwrite the category with confidence.
The US spreads capital across 5+ major leagues, Saudi Arabia's PIF is deploying billions, and European football sits on a mature VC ecosystem. India is now building its own version of this and global funds are beginning to look. This session covers what's already working here, what's transferable, and why international sports capital is increasingly turning toward India.
Indian sports has crossed a threshold: seed activity is thriving and the growth-stage layer is now forming behind it. This session brings a seed-stage sports investor together with a growth-stage fund manager to map how the $2M–$5M cheque is starting to appear, which companies are graduating first, and what it takes to be in the cohort that scales through the funnel.
A growing number of generalist VCs are building their sports thesis and the numbers are why: a ₹18,864 Cr economy, a 655-million-strong fan base, and multiple investable sub-themes. This roundtable puts investors in a room with the data and the operators, to unpack what's giving them conviction and where the next allocations are heading.
Whether you're building or investing — we'd love to have you.