With participation from Physis Capital, Atrium Venture, and prominent angel investors Mahesh Bhupathi, Gaurav Kapur, and the founders of Blue Tokai and Nitro Commerce, the sports-tech platform Hudle has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding led by Sky Impact Capital.
Inflection Point Ventures led Hudle’s Pre-Series A round, which raised Rs 7 crore earlier in April of last year.
In order to increase participation in recreational sports, the money raised will be utilized to develop a new rating system, improve product features, and broaden its network of venues.
Suhail Narain, Arjun Singh Verma, and Sonam Taneja founded Hudle, a platform that links players with more than 2,000 venues in 60 Indian cities. It allows players to book and play in real time for new sports like padel, pickleball, badminton, and others. Over 150,000 games are facilitated each month, with the goal of surpassing 3 million games by the end of this fiscal year.
Easy discovery, performance tracking, and game matching are all supported by the company’s tech stack, which has seen a 2.5x increase in revenue and a more than 3.5x increase in gross transaction value in the past year.
Pickleball, padel, and badminton will be the first recreational sports to use Hudle’s GRIP (Game Rating Index for Players) scoring and ranking system, which will be introduced in August 2025.
