Centre Court Capital

How to approach them

• The site has no application form, intake window or deadline. Use the contact note form or the contact inbox on its own domain and say plainly what you are building.
• The contact page says anything from raising to wanting the team in the room reaches the whole team, so one clear message is enough.

Check you are in scope

• The fund says it invests from Seed through Series B in sports, fitness and wellness, and eSports and gaming in India.
• It says it looks for real traction or a clear line to it, so lead with what you have shown rather than the size of the market.

What to expect

• The fund says it keeps the team small and that you work directly with the person who backed you.
• It says it knows which metrics predict success in sport and gaming, so expect questions framed the way an operator would ask them rather than basics about your category.
• Read the Why We Invested articles on its Stories page first. They show what the team valued in companies it backed.

Useful to know

• Roles on its careers page are offered and managed by the portfolio companies, not by the fund.

Centre Court Capital is a venture capital fund based in Mumbai that backs founders building in sports, fitness and wellness, and eSports and gaming in India. It describes its aim as developing an ecosystem for India where sports and gaming flourish. The fund is run by Centre Court Capital Investment Managers Private Limited, which its regulatory page lists as registered with SEBI as a Category II alternative investment fund manager, together with Centre Court Capital Fund Managers IFSC LLP, an entity authorised by IFSCA at GIFT City in Gujarat.

Stage and sectors

The fund says it invests from Seed through Series B in companies building the infrastructure, tools, platforms and experiences for India's sports and gaming economy. Its portfolio is grouped under sports technology, fitness and wellness, and gaming and interactive media. Named companies include Michezo, Quidich, Quintar, Stupa Sports Analytics, PlayReplay, PlayBlue, FanCraze, Rocapine, Airoclip, Felicity Games and Spill Games. They range from sports infrastructure and broadcast technology to racquet-sport analytics, sports retail, wellness apps and games.

What it says it looks for

The fund says it backs founders who build like athletes: people who know their space better than the investors do, spend as if the money were their own, and show real traction or a clear line to it. It says every partner has built, operated or competed inside these industries, so it evaluates a company the way an operator would. It also says it keeps the fund small on purpose, so a founder works directly with the team member who understood the business and wrote the cheque.

Beyond the cheque

Centre Court Capital says it has direct lines to the leagues, franchises, federations, publishers and broadcasters that decide whether a sports or gaming company can scale, and that it can help when a business needs a pilot with a league, a conversation with a broadcaster or a distribution deal with a publisher.

How to reach them

The site publishes no application form, intake window or deadline, and no cohort programme. Its contact page invites anyone building in sport, fitness or gaming to get in touch, whether raising, hiring, writing or just talking shop, through a short note form and a contact inbox on its own domain. The stated office is in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. The team page lists the General Partner, a Partner, a Senior Principal, a Vice President and an analyst, plus finance and administration staff. The fund also publishes Why We Invested articles on its Stories page, which show how it explains a decision on a company, and a careers page that lists roles at its portfolio companies, which hire for themselves.