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SwingVision provides an AI-powered mobile application for racket sports, offering real-time automated scoring, statistical analysis, and line-calling. Utilizing a smartphone camera, the platform delivers professional shot tracking, video analysis, and live streaming. This technology transforms standard video into an analytical tool, making advanced performance insights available without hardware.
Founded in 2019 by Swupnil Sahai and Richard Hsu, SwingVision blends their shared passion for tennis and technology. Sahai, a Columbia Ph.D. and former Tesla Autopilot engineer, alongside computer vision expert Hsu, identified the potential of mobile AI. They sought to democratize advanced sports analytics by leveraging smartphone processing power.
SwingVision targets racket sports players and coaches, from amateurs to professionals, to enhance their game with data-driven insights. The product delivers accessible, detailed performance analysis directly from mobile devices. Its vision is to make professional-grade metrics and officiating tools available, empowering players to understand, track, and improve via mobile technology.
SwingVision has raised $8.6M across 3 funding rounds.
SwingVision has raised $8.6M in total across 3 funding rounds.
SwingVision is a Silicon Valley-based sports technology company that builds a mobile AI app delivering professional-grade performance insights, automated stats, video highlights, and officiating tools for racket sports like tennis and pickleball, using just a single iPhone, iPad, or compatible device.[1][2][3][6] It serves everyday athletes, aspiring players, coaches, college programs, and teams by solving the problem of inaccessible advanced analytics—previously limited to pros with expensive hardware—through on-device AI that tracks shots, ball trajectories, speeds, depths, accuracy, and makes real-time line calls without internet or specialized equipment.[1][3][5] The app has achieved strong growth momentum, with a growing subscriber base, endorsements from pros like Andy Roddick and James Blake, partnerships with Tennis Australia, LTA, ITA, and Sony, features in Apple's 2021 iPad keynote, and a $2M funding round, while expanding from tennis to pickleball.[1][4][5][7]
SwingVision was co-founded in 2019 by AI and computer vision experts Swupnil Sahai (CEO) and Richard Hsu (CTO), who share a passion for tennis.[1][3] Sahai's idea emerged around 2016 during his PhD, when he built an Apple Watch app for manual tennis swing tracking and scoring; his later work at Tesla on Autopilot revealed how car-tracking computer vision could apply to tennis shots, especially with iPhone hardware capable of real-time processing.[2] The duo bootstrapped from this, evolving the Watch app into a full iOS platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch) that automates analysis via device cameras or uploads from GoPros/Android, gaining early traction through tech refinements and high-profile backing from former ATP pros and sports bodies.[1][2][4][5]
SwingVision rides the wave of AI democratization in sports tech, leveraging mobile hardware advances (e.g., iPhone cameras/AI chips) to bring broadcast-level analytics and officiating to amateur/casual play, timing perfectly with racket sports' post-pandemic boom—tennis participation up, pickleball exploding as America's fastest-growing sport.[1][3][6] Market forces like falling AI compute costs, on-device processing privacy, and demand for fairer officiating (eliminating manual line calls' disputes) favor its model, while hardware-dependent competitors lag in portability.[1][3][5] It influences the ecosystem by partnering with governing bodies (ITA, Tennis Australia, LTA) to modernize college/pro-am events, enabling data-driven coaching and streaming, and paving the way for AI in non-elite sports.[5]
SwingVision is poised to dominate racket sports AI with expansions into pickleball, team/coaching tools, and potential full electronic line calling approval for competitions, fueled by its funding and partnerships.[5][6][7] Trends like wearable integration, multi-sport AI scaling, and youth/college adoption will accelerate growth, evolving it from app to platform influencing how millions train and compete. This mobile-first pioneer, born from Tesla smarts applied to everyday courts, exemplifies how AI unlocks pro experiences for all—transforming "just a game" into data-powered mastery.[1][3]
SwingVision has raised $8.6M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Series A in October 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2023 | $6M Series A | Authentic Ventures | 20VC, Patrick DE Picciotto, EFounders, Innovation Works, Notable Capital, Point Nine Capital, Seven Seven SIX, Stellar Capital, Thirty Five Ventures, Brandon Kerns, Cory Levy, Devaris Brown, Gregory Waldorf, Mario Götze, Nick Caldwell, Nicolas Julia, Omri Dahan, Robin Sabban, Thibaud Elziere, Alison Riske, Glenn Solomon, Lindsay Davenport, Rohan Bopanna, Youcef ES Skouri, Sony, Techstars, Tennis Australia, Wildcard Ventures | Announced |
| Jun 1, 2021 | $2M Seed | — | Alsop Louie Partners, Amino Capital, CP Ventures, M12, Triatomic Capital, Tsvc Capital, Wildcard Ventures, Connor Doherty, Eric Bielke, Eros Resmini, Jonathan Shipman, Kevin LIN, NAT Goldhaber, SUE XU | Announced |
| Apr 1, 2020 | $600K Seed | — | Amino Capital, M12, Marathon Venture Capital, Matrix, Neotribe Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Tsvc Capital, Wildcard Ventures, Woodside Financial Group, Eric Bielke, Georgios Papadopoulos, Jonathan Siegel, SUE XU | Announced |
SwingVision has raised $8.6M in total across 3 funding rounds.
SwingVision's investors include Authentic Ventures, 20VC, Patrick de Picciotto, eFounders, Innovation Works, Notable Capital, Point Nine Capital, Seven Seven Six, Stellar Capital, Thirty Five Ventures, Brandon Kerns, Cory Levy.
