Top 35 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Germany (August 2026)

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• Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
• XO Life — XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications.
• Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare

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• Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
• Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
• HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.

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• Upvest — Upvest is a financial technology company that provides an investment infrastructure platform enabling other businesses to offer investment products through a single API. The firm’s core product is a modular investment API that handles complex backend functions such as brokerage, settlement, custody, and compliance, allowing fintech platforms,banks, and wealth managers to embed investing features into their apps and services. This infrastructure supports a range of asset classes, including stocks, exchange‑traded funds, mutual funds, and digital assets, and can be configured to enable fractional investing, savings plans, and automated investment experiences. Upvest’s platform manages the technical and regulatory aspects of investment operations, so its clients can focus on user experience and product innovation without building extensive financial infrastructure themselves. Its solutions encompass account management, real‑time transaction processing, and portfolio services that integrate with existing digital offerings.
• Tytan Technologies — TYTAN Technologies builds autonomous interceptors engineered for the realities of modern drone warfare.
• Lookiero Outfittery Group — Check out all the roles at LOOKIERO OUTFITTERY GROUP. Get to know the team, see our offices, learn about our values, and discover the benefits of working at LOOKIERO OUTFITTERY GROUP

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• be+ — Jetzt schnell und einfach mit be+ zeitfressende Routineaufgaben reduzieren, komplexe Prozesse vereinfachen und Benefits erlebbar machen.
• PLANETICS — PLANETICS is a digital solution revolving around the marketplace that revolutionizes the sports industry, based on data insights from the B2C & B2B section in the sweat spot to develop additional digital services.

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• Arcus FM — Arcus FM is a facilities management company.
• Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
• Churchill Group — Churchill Group is a leading facilities management company. We provide soft FM services to UK businesses. From cleaning, security, guest services, and more.

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• 8sense — Hey, I'm your 8th sense. Your sensor-based posture coach for better back health, well-being, and productivity. Half fitness coach, half physiotherapist.
• Captura — Captura is harnessing the power of the ocean to heal the climate through Direct Ocean Capture technology.
• DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.

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• Cola — Productive, extensible messaging for groups and teams
• Poshtel — Poshtel is a new global chain of pop-up luxury hostels, designed to provide suites for the people, affordable for more of us and sustainable for all of us.
• Golf Post — Golf Post is the digital home for golfers

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• iCharts — Popular Magazine 2024
• Golf Post — Golf Post is the digital home for golfers

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• Averia — Averia is focused on geotechnical and environmental engineering. The company supports businesses in geotechnical engineering, hydrogeology, environmental technology.
• aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
• Pace Club — Turning ambitious hobbyists into visible athletes. Welcome to pace club!

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• Hypnetic — Hypnetic is a developer of technology for energy optimization that is used to provide industrial energy storage systems. They use a unique combination of established high-pressure hydraulic and pneumatic components. Their hypnetic energy storage system is completed by their intelligent management system. They provide industry with self-consumptionoptimization, peak load capping, balancing power, and flicker compensation energy storage solutions.
• Wingfield — Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system andis easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.
• Cruisewatch — Cruisewatch helps you finding your perfect cruise at the best price. Use our price prediction and get informed as soon as prices change.

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• Qorelo — Qorelo helps enterprise SAP teams accelerate S/4HANA migration, automate fit-gap analysis, map SAP scope, generate documentation, and guide continuous improvement after go-live.
• ComplyDo — Agentic compliance software that makes GRC teams 10x more efficient. Already trusted by global leaders and the largest EU enterprises. What it does: - Extracts requirements from any file - Maps them to controls and policies - Shows gaps and monitors changes - Advises on maturity and next steps
• Hyground — Sovereign AI SRE agent that resolves incidents, runs operations on a schedule, and stays inside your perimeter. Built for European compliance.

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• Rebike Mobility — Rebike Mobility purchases new E-Bikes from tier 1 manufacturers and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, and Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers subscription, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike.com. Rebike Mobility also purchases used stock of E-Bikes and sell themfully refurbished to consumer.
• SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.

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• Paraty Tech — Paraty Tech we are specialists in the development and implementation of technology and online marketing services for the tourism and hospitality sector.They offer complete solutions to make an increase in direct sales a reality. They guarantee an increase in bookings on your official website with innovative tools, ensuring you develop all youronline potential.
• Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
• Groupe Senef — Groupe Senef is a digital software provider that serves service industries like home care, cleaning, hospitality, and many others.

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• socialhub — Boost your social media success with SocialHub. Manage channels, schedule posts & get meaningful analytics. Try it out now!
• TalentRocket — Talent Rocket is a job search engine that enables its users to find jobs with a suitable work environment for them. Job seekers can select their preferred company culture, follow their favorite companies, and start career conversations with employers. Talent Rocket was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
• Goodly Innovations — Goodly Innovations is the leading regulated industry-focused global Pharma 4.0 provider for extended reality shop floor guidance. From cleanrooms to secondary packaging areas, labs and more, Goodly can help improve Pharma and BioPharma clients efficiency, OEE, quality, training and more

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• Altavo — Altavo operates as a medical device startup. Altavo harness the power of machine learning and state-of-the-art sensor technology to improve the lives of people who have lost their voice.
• Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
• Influnate — Influnate is a tool that allows you to send and receive money via social media. Influnate enables users in social networks to “send and receive money easily, securely and quickly”. This can be done with a comment, a link, or via the Influnate web application. “Redirects to paid websites are a thing of the past,” said the startup.

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• AUDAVIS — AUDAVIS is developing the most innovative approach that will revolutionize auditing. With data-driven full automation by AUDAVIS and a new AI-based approach, every financial statement becomes a breeze with unprecedented efficiency.
• Ewigbyte — Glass storage engineered for continuance in a volatile digital world.
• traplinked — Digitale Fallensysteme - Endlich wissen, was los ist! Mit den traplinked Sensormodulen JERRY und TOM erhalten Sie in Echtzeit ein digitales Abbild Ihrer Kontrollpunkte.

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• RepScan — RepScan is an eliminate the negative that the Internet says about you. Rapid negative reputation detection and removal technology.
• Kimera Technologies — Kimera develops software solutions to understand visual content, extract its useful data and transform it into accessible information.
• Lookiero Outfittery Group — Check out all the roles at LOOKIERO OUTFITTERY GROUP. Get to know the team, see our offices, learn about our values, and discover the benefits of working at LOOKIERO OUTFITTERY GROUP

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• Mighty Pea — Mighty Pea is a pea milk producer, which uses yellow split peas in the creation of its beverages.
• SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
• Lyre's Spirit Co — Many years in the making, Lyre’s exquisite range of lovingly crafted alcohol-free, classic spirits was borne from a quest to make the impossible possible. To provide an alternative to those who don’t wish to imbibe alcohol, but still wish to enjoy the mirth, merriment and social intercourse of an evening soiree or shindig. But this is not justany alternative. Every Lyre’s spirit looks, tastes and sashays around the palate just like the original. And yet, the absence of giggle juice enables revellers to remain clear-headed, of good cheer and in fine fettle to pursue whatever tickles their fancy the following day. Lyre’s – the finest range of non-alcoholic classic spirits the world has ever seen.

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• Lissi — We provide software for organisations to interact with EUDI-Wallets #eIDAS 2.0
• Nordex — Nordex is a management holding company with its headquarters in Rostock. The domicile of the board and administration is Hamburg. Nordex SE's task is to control and coordinate the activities of the two 100 per cent subsidiaries Nordex Energy GmbH and Nordex Energy B.V.Under the brand name Nordex and Acciona Windpower they offer powerful windturbines for nearly all geographical regions across the globe.With the serially-produced multi-megawatt wind turbines of Generation Gamma Nordex N90/2500, N100/2500 and N117/2400, Nordex is able to offer high-efficiency wind turbines for onshore use. Since 2013, Nordex offers the Delta Generation with the N100/3300, the N117/3000, and the N131/3000 for strong, medium and light wind sites. The turbines of the brand AW from Acciona Windpower have operated successfully in a variety of climates and markets across the globe. From initial designs in 1999 to a complete product line today, ranging from 1.5 MW to 3 MW with multiple rotor and tower combinations, they have a robust experience base reflected in growth of sales and product evolutions that are proven in the marketplace. As developers and manufacturers of wind turbines, they concentrate on their core competencies. In addition to the overall technical design, their know-how also lies in the development of rotor blades with a length of more than 64 metres and in the integrated electrical and control technology for wind turbines.These are the driving factors behind the development of more efficient and thus, more economical machines in order to reduce the cost of energy – which is to the advantage of the environment and of their customers.
• Development Bank of Kazakhstan — The Bank’ mission is to promote sustainable development of the national economy.

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• VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
• SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
• Complix — Complix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of Alphabodiesâ„¢, a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that offer significant advantages over existing protein based therapies. Alphabodiesâ„¢ bind with high affinity to a wide range of disease targets and are particularly suited to address certain targets that aredifficult to reach with antibodies or other types of protein scaffolds. Due to their unique stability and versatility Alphabodiesâ„¢ can be delivered via alternative non-injectable routes of administration, unlike most therapeutic proteins.

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• Yazen — Yazen is a digital healthcare provider that offers tailored weight loss programs, combining medical treatments with lifestyle coaching. The platform connects users with a team of experts, including doctors, dietitians, and personal trainers, to create individualized weight management plans.
• WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
• norahealth.ai — Leading 3D motion-tracking API that powers digital MSK, health & wellness applications. Automatize motion assessments and track the adherence of your members with our extensive exercise library.

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• navabi — navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labelsvia worldwide express delivery.The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
• ZooRoyal — ZooRoyal is an online platform that offers accessories and supplies for pet dogs, cats, reptiles, horses, fish, and more. Its operations are based in Würselen, Germany.
• rankingCoach — rankingCoach offers a complete digital marketing app for small businesses and a variety of resellable digital marketing solutions including SEO, local marketing, brand watch, Google Ads, and social media marketing. rankingCoach app creates a tailored digital marketing strategy based on the individual requirements of each business. This marketingplan is supported by easy to follow step-by-step video tutorials and specialized tools for each key digital marketing approach, including AI-generated Google Ads; keyword finding and tracking tools for SEO, as well as newsfeeds for review and brand monitoring.These award-winning products from rankingCoach are available in 32 countries and 14 languages, directly as well as from numerous well-known hosting companies, TELCOs, online publishers, website builders, CMSs, and businesses in the MarTech sector.

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• enna — enna is the window to the digital world for people who have problems using smartphones or tablets
• Mellow Boards — Mellow Boards designs and manufactures electric drive system that could fit on skateboards. Unlike all other offers on the market, within minutes Mellow can pimp your favorite board into a high-quality e-board with a top speed of 40km/h ( 25mph).The product was launch in Kickstarter and reached a funding of more than 100 thousand Euros.Founded in 2015, Mellow is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• Reactive Robotics — Reactive Robotics was founded as a GmbH in Munich, Germany, in April 2015. Their team has a combined 12 years of rehabilitation robotics research, vast startup experience and a large clinical network to bring this device to life. They are proud to feature an excellent array of supporters that provide advice on every level required for thesuccessful start-up of a medical technology company. Confirmed advisors provide access to patients, support them in engineering, on legal issues and when dealing with the details of registering a medical device with the authorities.

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• IOTIS — IOTIS offers a simple-to-use stand-alone consumer IoT product to improve players while having a highly gamified emotional training experience based on real-time feedback. It motivates players to be more active again in the real world by leveraging technology playfully.
• Hydro Guard — HydroGuard is a new innovative gadget to stop flooding in the future. HydroGuard was founded in 2013 by James Browne, Hannes Floto and Robin Harris. The idea was hatched by Floto in response to his frustration at the lack of effective and affordable residential solutions on the market, in the UK and abroad. The resulting device uses innovativedesign and technology to bring an affordable, adjustable and easy to use product which can bring increased peace of mind to all those with homes at risk of flooding in the future.

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• IOTIS — IOTIS offers a simple-to-use stand-alone consumer IoT product to improve players while having a highly gamified emotional training experience based on real-time feedback. It motivates players to be more active again in the real world by leveraging technology playfully.
• eCovery GmbH — eCovery is the perfect symbiosis of innovative sensor technology, a digital application and profound medical expertise.
• Wingfield — Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system andis easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.

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• XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
• 8sense — Hey, I'm your 8th sense. Your sensor-based posture coach for better back health, well-being, and productivity. Half fitness coach, half physiotherapist.

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• Wonderz — Wonderz GmbH was founded in February 2017 with the mission to democratize digital content distribution. Won­derz enables cre­ators to dis­trib­ute con­tent direct­ly to con­sumers. Its white-label software platform, WunderBox runs on Android, Amazon Fire, iOS and tvOS and is monetized with an innovative performance-based SAAS model. Wonderz isled by an interdisciplinary team of proven entrepreneurs and is trusted by industry leaders such as Warner Bros. Discovery and Carlsen Publishing (a part of Bonnier Media), and is backed by top-tier VCs and family offices.
• sofatutor — The online learning platform sofatutor.com illustrates and visualizes all school material in 1,060 videos. Interactive practical exercises for each video, worksheets to print out, and the daily live help with experts guarantee an all-round service.
• Campaign — High-quality modern furniture built to last a lifetime. Our sectionals, sofa, loveseat & chair are designed with clean lines, a steel frame & durable fabric.

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• PLANETICS — PLANETICS is a digital solution revolving around the marketplace that revolutionizes the sports industry, based on data insights from the B2C & B2B section in the sweat spot to develop additional digital services.

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• Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
• enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
• OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

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• Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
• UpsellGuru — UpsellGuru is the most exciting way to offer upgrades and increase hotel revenue. Highest upsell conversion for hotels worldwide.
• All About Accuracy — Sub-1mm accuracy and <1ms latency RF localization for physical AI. Train robots with ground-truth motion data cameras and GPS can't reach.

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• Naked Root — Naked Root generates technology that makes it simple to grow plants.
• IFO Corporation — A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
• Uptime Industries — Head of Hardware at JetBrains. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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• PLANETICS — PLANETICS is a digital solution revolving around the marketplace that revolutionizes the sports industry, based on data insights from the B2C & B2B section in the sweat spot to develop additional digital services.

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• IOTIS — IOTIS offers a simple-to-use stand-alone consumer IoT product to improve players while having a highly gamified emotional training experience based on real-time feedback. It motivates players to be more active again in the real world by leveraging technology playfully.
• Hypnetic — Hypnetic is a developer of technology for energy optimization that is used to provide industrial energy storage systems. They use a unique combination of established high-pressure hydraulic and pneumatic components. Their hypnetic energy storage system is completed by their intelligent management system. They provide industry with self-consumptionoptimization, peak load capping, balancing power, and flicker compensation energy storage solutions.
• Osteolabs — To detect osteoporosis early, osteolabs uses trace elements in the human body as biomarkers. Some urine is enough to say for sure if you have bone loss or not. With this worldwide unique test, you can detect osteoporosis earlier than on an X-ray.

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• Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a marketing agency that offers corporate communications, in-house media, and productions for gaming and esports.
• Mister Spex — Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
• Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment &#10148;&#11088; over 150 premium brands for your sport &#10148;10% KELLER Premium-discount*&#10024; &#10148;Free shipping from 150 &euro;&#9989;

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• Coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.
• Coachwhisperer — Coachwhisperer: The live communication system for sports. We take training to the next level and help coaches and athletes reach their true potential.
• Founders League — The Founders League is the platform for start-ups.