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Padel match booking firm raises £4.5m in major fund raise Sport Business Major padel match booking app Playtomic has raised €5.1m from an investment raise which will see thousands of players become shareholders. The big-money fund raise closed this month with more than 4,600 investors buying into the social padel service to the tune of £4.5m. The fund was organised through private equity market investment platform Crowdcube, [...]
Padel: 3,200 clubs built in 2024 as racket sport surges in popularity Sport Business Over 3,000 padel clubs were built in 2024, according to a report that suggests padel is further surging in popularity. Around 3,200 clubs were constructed in 2024 along with over 7,000 courts added to the global padel surplus across the last 12 months, according to the Playtomic Global Padel Report 2025. That’s one club every [...]
How Playtomic surfed – and fuelled – tidal wave of interest in padel Sport Business The platform now boasts 1.4m active users in Europe, up 40 per cent on last year.