Tracking data from any broadcast feed
SkillCorner is a private French company that uses AI computer vision to extract player and ball tracking from broadcast video — single-camera footage rather than installed in-venue optical systems. Its Physical and Game Intelligence datasets feed recruitment and analysis for more than 300 organisations across 180-plus competitions, founded in 2016 by Hugo Bordigoni and Charles Montmaneix.
In December 2025 it raised a $60m growth round from Silversmith Capital, its first major institutional funding, on top of strategic backing from the NBA. The capital is aimed at scaling data engineering and expanding into North American basketball and American football — a multi-sport pivot from a football-recruitment heritage.
Product, funding, and positioning
How the business actually functions
SkillCorner's strategic wedge is coverage that optical systems cannot reach — lower-division, foreign and youth football where clubs scout but no venue cameras exist. That makes it a recruitment tool first, where breadth matters more than the sub-centimetre precision of in-venue optical, and a betting or broadcast tool second.
The NBA's dual role as investor, customer and distribution channel into Launchpad teams is the template for the US expansion, with basketball and American football — not football — now the growth vector despite the company's football heritage. Taking institutional growth equity after roughly nine lean years signals a shift from founder-controlled niche tool to scale player, and likely a future exit clock. Revenue and profitability remain entirely undisclosed.
Direction in 2026
The posture is deploying the Silversmith capital to expand into North American sport while defending the football recruitment moat against optical rivals. The open questions are SkillCorner's actual revenue and whether it is genuinely profitable, the valuation the round implied, whether broadcast-tracking precision can close the gap with optical for performance use cases, and whether the US multi-sport pivot dilutes focus on football.
- Silversmith / SkillCorner $60m release (Dec 2025); FinSMEs
- SkillCorner company materials and 2025 business update
- CB Insights, PitchBook (competitors, profile)
- Note: revenue, valuation and profitability undisclosed; profitability inferred from investor language only