Sportening Raises £5.3M in Seed Funding
- Sportening, a Croatian maker of a social media sports app, raised £5.3M in Seed funding
- The round was led by Sacha Dragic, Sequoia Capital Global Equities and Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital with participation from Luka Modric
- The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow in 2022 and into 2023, targeting 6 million fans on the platform by the middle of next year
- The app currently caters to football fans but plans to expand its offering to other sports, such as basketball and American football
- Headquartered in Croatia, the app has a newly opened office in San Francisco, with a London office opening in the near future
- The business currently has a team of over 50 people
