High-School Sports Social Network Takkle Gets First Round Funding
Takkle, an NYC-based online social network for high school sports, has received an undisclosed amount of first round venture funding…Investors include WMG Investments, the investment arm of Wasserman Media Group, Greycroft Partners, IJ Smith Enterprises, and Jack Schneider, Managing Director at Allen & Company.
The site/service allows high-school sports teams and players/coaches to create player and team profiles, upload videos and photos, track and view statistics, check out opponents before games, and discover athlete talent. Some more info in the release here.
Disclaimer: Greycroft is also an investor in our parent company ContentNext Media.
I think this is the same $1.12M of a $5M Series A round from Greycroft that was on the venture wires in August – strange how they'd announce it as "undisclosed" if the amount is already known. More coverage from back then:
http://mashable.com/2006/08/16/takkle-social-network-for-high-school-sports/
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2006/08/takkle_high_sch.html