Zone7 Raises $2.5M
Zone7 , the San Francisco-based startup using data and analytics to identify the potential of athlete injury, has raised $2.5m led by Resolute Ventures, with participation from UpWest, Amicus Capital, Dave Pell, PLG Ventures, as well as current and former professional athletes.
Founded in 2017 and led by Tal Brown and Eyal Eliakim, Zone7’s platform connects automatically to medical and athlete performance data, without requiring any new hardware or data entry for the team. The “proprietary AI” then creates a customized pattern recognition model for each athlete on the team to identify injury risk and enable coaches to provide training and game intervention strategies resulting in significantly reduced injury rates. Zone7’s platform has logged more than 5m hours of athlete performance, and is already being used by teams in the MLB, La Liga, Champions League, MLS, collegiate athletic departments and Olympic teams. To date, Zone7 has achieved a 95 % accuracy rate and 75% reduction.
“Getting injured is one of the worst experiences for any athlete. The technology behind Zone7 is extremely impressive and has the potential to change the landscape of sports forever.” – Kristaps Porzingis.
“Injuries in professional sports cost billions annually, but in the era of big data it doesn’t have to be that way. Professional sports franchises have massive amounts of untapped health and performance data that, when unlocked by AI, can become one of a team’s most valuable assets. By better understanding every athlete’s breaking points and implementing personalized intervention plans to prevent injuries before they occur, teams no longer have to accept injuries as an inevitability.” – Cofounder and CEO of Zone7, Tal Brown.
“Professional sports is, for the most part, slow to embrace medical and performance data, and as such, this has historically been a difficult target market to break into. Tal and Eyal have built a compelling product that is making teams stand up and take notice. It’s literally a game changer. The fact that Zone7 is the first company to show injuries can be avoided by using artificial intelligence, makes us extremely excited to partner with the Zone7 team.” – General partner at Resolute Ventures, Raanan Bar-Cohen.
