BeFootball

befootball.world ↗ ·Madrid ·Seed

BeFootball is a Madrid-based tech company that designs and develops immersive VR products for the football industry, including the VR game SuperPlayer (available free on Meta Quest) and the BeFootball Academy training platform. Founded in 2020, the company is backed by an unusual angel roster of professional footballers (Marco Asensio, Marcos Llorente, Memo Ochoa, Charly Rodríguez, among others) rather than institutional VCs, and has ~21-50 employees with offices in Madrid, Mexico and Qatar.

Founded

2020

Founders

Total funds raised

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Rounds

SectorsVirtual Reality, Sports Technology, Gaming, Metaverse Start-up MapMedia & Gaming › Consumer games & streaming

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Founders

Iker Zuasti

Founder & CEO

Juan Cantalapiedra Vaquero

Co-founder & CTO

Global models 5

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The Sandbox

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STRIVR

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VRChat

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