Podplay

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Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Insight
Venue tech requires vertical integration of hardware and software
“Part of the secret here is like, can you get rid of the friction? And in order to get rid of that friction, you need to do the club management sort of reservation management and the video capture. So hardware and software. So most of the rest of the market, yo…”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 10:22 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026 positive
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Borden: 90% of Podplay tech team worked on Equinox or Nike apps
“About 90% of our tech team has ties to those two, two projects. So our hiring strategy has been to kind of go pick off all the best engineers, product managers, and designers that Ilya worked with in, in the past and kind of reassembled them as a dream team.”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 12:00 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Borden: Podplay approaches $3M contracted ARR across over 200 locations
“We are kind of approaching three million in, in contracted ARR. We have a little over 200 locations signed up on the platform.”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 13:49 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026
Insight
Founders should choose white-box buildouts over prime locations to launch faster
“You would prefer a slightly lesser location that if you can get kind of that white box that doesn't have a lot of structural work and you can put less money into it and get open faster than getting that kind of prime location if you have to do a bunch of work …”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 23:30 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Borden: Podplay manages over 2,000 sports courts across its venues
“Average is, is trending up closer to 10 per, per location, and so I think we're over 2000 quarts now.”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 14:28 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Borden: Podplay grew contracted ARR between 100% and 200% year-over-year
“Triple digits. So, you know, we'll put it, peg it between a 102 hundred. Yes, more than a hundred percent. Less than 200%.”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 15:14 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
Feb 18, 2026
Disclosure
Podplay spun out and raised an $8M Series A in 2025
“We spun out pod play as a standalone entity in August of this year, which was a prelude to raising a series A for standalone pod play which we did in October. So eight million dollars series A round led by frontier growth.”
Ben Borden Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 15:50 He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
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