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Buffalo, N.Y. — CoachMePlus announced today the company has raised $600,000 in additional venture capital financing to support its continued growth. CoachMePlus provides an enterprise software platform designed to meet the needs of sport coaches, athletic trainers, front office professionals, ad strength and conditioning coaches.
This funding round comes on the heels of unprecedented growth in the CoachMePlus client base. The CoachMePlus athlete data management operating system has been gaining prominence throughout professional and collegiate athletic realms as the must-have system to track and manage the thousands of data points collected on athletes during off-season training, in-season practices and competitions. By centralizing the numerous athlete sport performance data points, the CoachMePlus operating system allows coaching staffs to quickly uncover performance trends providing predictive analysis in the evaluation of game-day readiness.
“Our applied sports science platform is gaining broad acceptance across the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, NCAA CFL and CIS, as well as the military. This incremental investment will enable further sales growth, as well as continued development of both the company’s elite sport and broader market products,” said Teo Balbach, CEO. “As CoachMePlus broadens its footprint in the athlete and wellness data tracking and management arena, technology and customer support advancements will follow.”
“Professional coaches and trainers have been persistent clients of ours for several years,” said company President and Co-founder Kevin Dawidowicz. “Their determination to be the best in their class has encouraged us to build a platform that is broad, flexible, and scalable. Every elite team understands and applies sports performance metrics differently—the strength of our platform is its ability to support many different methodologies and devices under one roof.”
The company previously raised $1 million in October of 2013.
CoachMePlus was founded in 2012 to meet the demands of an increasingly sophisticated sports science and sports performance industry, and has been transforming the management of athletic performance data ever since. A company grounded on expertise, innovation and client services, CoachMePlus is the go-to system for teams across the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, NCAA, CFL, CIS and military. CoachMePlus is headquartered in Buffalo, NY with offices in New York City. For more information visit www.coachmeplus.com.