KOCHI: With the tenth season of Indian Premier League now in full swing, were you ever stuck in a different city cheering your home team with no one to support you? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find strangers who have similar sports interests as yours? Enter Rooter.
Launched in September 2016 by two sports enthusiasts, Piyush, Founder and CEO, and Soham Sinha, Co-founder and CPO, Rooter is the first social fan-engagement platform in the world where one can connect with people having similar interests across the world.
It is not just an engagement platform, but also completes the sports fan experience with detailed scores, commentary, and other features.
When asked about the growth of the app, Piyush says, “We are seeing an unprecedented growth in the app’s user base. Many users spend at least fifteen minutes on our app everyday. That is a goldmine in the current market.”
Rooter’s aim is to connect you to fans having similar sport interests around your workplace and home. And to numerous other sports fans around the world.
So what are you waiting for? Make predictions during a live match, connect with other fans, root for your team, and do much more. Get cracking now!
Entertaining Drive
What: A sports app that connects you to fans having similar interests across the world
Features: Passion score - know how passionate you are for sports
Connect - with sports fans
Talk - chat with fans individually or in a group
Live match prediction - Get rewarded for each prediction that comes true
Compete - win prizes everyday
Trivia - play pre-match quizzes for all live matches
Virtual coins - Play games, accumulate coins and redeem them for Paytm, Amazon vouchers
Team size: 17
Funds received: Rs 2.5 crore; open to funding for last stage of seed round
Investors: Actor Boman Irani, Intex Technologies, and others
User base: ~150K downloads across Android and iOS devices
Sports available on app: Cricket, Football, Basketball, Tennis
Future additions: F1 (End of this month) MotoGP (June 2017)
Available on:
Google Play, App Store
Website: www.rooter.io