Prematch extends financing round

The start-up has developed a platform for amateur footballers and has now raised a total of 1.7 million euros. Gorillas co-founder Jörg Kattner is one of the investors.

The Cologne-based soccer start-up Prematch has expanded its business angel financing round to 1.7 million euros. The investors include unicorn founders Ralf Reichert (ESL) and Jörg Kattner (Gorillas), as well as leading gaming consultants, according to the start-up.

Fiete Grünter, Lukas Röhle and Niklas Brackmann founded Prematch 2021. The start-up sees itself as a platform for soccer below the professional level. Its app combines components from social networks and soccer platforms. It wants to enable active footballers to follow themselves, friends and teammates. Fans of amateur clubs should also be able to receive more information about their soccer club.

"A new generation of footballers and fans is currently growing up. The commercialization of professional football is having an impact. We see that 'real soccer' will rapidly gain in importance as a result of this trend and advancing digitalization," explains the founding team.

So far, the start-up has only tested its app with the Rhineland and Middle Rhine soccer associations. According to Prematch, one in three amateur footballers there already use the app. The start-up wants to expand throughout Germany at the start of the new soccer season. The founders also want to use the money raised to further develop their platform and expand their team.